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A makeshift memorial for Lin Jun, murdered Chinese student, close to Concordia University pictured on June 11 in Montreal, Canada. Luka Magnotta is accused of dismembering Lin and mailing the body parts to political parties and schools.
Police found what appears to be a human head in a park in Montreal and are investigating whether it is the missing head of a Chinese student who they say was dismembered by a Canadian low-budget porn actor, an official said Sunday.
Luka Magnotta is accused of dismembering his lover Jun Lin and mailing the body parts to political parties and schools. He pleaded not guilty last month.
“It’s too early to confirm if this finding has anything to do with the (Lin) homicide,” Constable Anie Lemieux of the Montreal police told the Montreal Gazette. “We’re waiting on lab results to determine whether what we found are human remains.”
Information obtained over the course of the investigation led police to Angrignon Park, a 110-acre green space in Montreal’s Ville Emard/La Salle district. The park has several densely wooded areas and is just a few kilometres from Magnotta’s apartment in N.D.G.
A police official said Sunday it appears to be human and look like a head, according to a National Post report.
Police have been questioning Magnotta with the hope that they would find out the location of the head.
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Investigators say Magnotta, 29, posted a video online showing him having sex with the dismembered corpse. A second, unedited version of the video seen by police shows him eating parts of the body. Police say Magnotta and Lin were in a relationship.
The case became known when a package containing a severed foot was found at Canada's ruling Conservative Party headquarters on May 29. That same day, a hand was discovered at a postal facility, addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada.
Lin's torso was found in a suitcase at a garbage dump in Montreal outside Magnotta's apartment building.
The Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering his former boyfriend pleaded not guilty to all five charges against him in a courtroom in Montreal last month. NBC's Michelle Franzen reports.
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About a week later, a missing foot and hand were found mailed to two schools in Vancouver. Police said notes were included in most of the packages but declined to say what they said.
Magnotta, who fled to Europe before the body was discovered, spent a few days partying in Paris before moving on to Berlin, where he was caught last month as he read stories about himself at an Internet cafe. He did not contest his extradition from Germany and arrived in Montreal last month on a Canadian military plane.
Lin's family arrived in Montreal last month and attended a memorial service last week. Lin, 33, studied computer science student at Montreal's Concordia University.
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obsession with creating horror for attention is a psychological disorder.
When the missionary position just wassn't enough, he went to "sex with a dismembered corpse." A whole new level of sick.
Is it my eyes, or does his headstone have the year 1890? A little old for a college student, no?
My gusss is that the "headstone" is a co-opted memorial to Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who was born in 1890. Dr. Bethune worked in China at the end of his life and is considered a hero there.
He never did talk about the taste did he?
Don't know what is more scary, black and Mexican people drive by shootings or white people serial killers.
Magnotta must have snapped after seeing the price of beef at the supermarket.
The sex was OK, but he didn't care for the head.
Lol Bill choked on my cuppa with that one
his picture needs to go in the dictionary next to "Crazy SoB"
I like you , lets snack.
Tasty article... Now, I've had sex with a women that I thought was dead... didn't care for it!
Torture is in order here to get all the info the cops need than one quick .22 behind the ear and plow the SOB under in the closest landfill. Case closed!
In peaceful Canada?!?...heads will roll the day that happens.
Sick and twisted. On another note, who actually proof reads these articles? Do spell check and grammar check not work on their computers?
That's Middle School Journalism for you! They get what they pay for!
Lin studied computer science students?
What kind of career is that going to get him?
Again, editing and proofreading are not required elements in journalism school anymore.
I'm glad the matter has finally come to a head!
They will do this guy in fast in Prision. They are scared of people like this. So good bye you sick puppy. Canada had a dismemberment of a young man on a Bus a few years back. I don't think I'll be going there anywheres soon.
Is it just me, or does the victim strangely resemble Long Duk Dong without glasses...?
Is this liberal enough for everyone? Is this the tip of what our society is coming to? If it feels good do it society. I have always wondered, what do all of the piercings suggest? I am no psychiatric genius, but when we take the mystery out of sex and teach it to our children in our grade schools and show it on the big screen, well!! Just saying!!
yes everyone is going to start killing, dismembering and eating their partners because we teach sex ed in school. You're an idiot!! just saying
a---rand, can you say "Prude"? I knew you could. What a moron you are. Piercings are certainly the sign of a sick mind, aren't they? Teaching our children not to fear sex and understand sex is just disgusting, isn't it? No wonder we are so much more depraved than other western societies that are much more open about sex than we are.
Stop fearing sex and treating it like it's something nasty and to be hidden and kept secret.
"Investigators say Magnotta, 29, posted a video online showing him having sex with the dismembered corpse. A second, unedited version of the video seen by police shows him eating parts of the body."
This has crazy homosexual white man written all over it!
I think we could pretty much leave it at simply NUTZ, er, crazy. He certainly has "laid" a strong foundation for not guilty by reason of mental defect, regardless of race, gender or even religion.
He's certainly crazy. The homosexual part is irrelevant.
Extradite him to China. Quick trial, bullet to the back of the head, then invoice the cost of the bullet to his family, because you just know a person can't get that screwed up all on his own, the family have to have helped.
A Jeffrey Dalmer fan. Prison will be like a candy store for this psycho.
"Killed by a low budget porn actor". That's what I want on my tombstone.
PEOPLE... PEOPLE...
Let's not "lose our heads" over this. Relax, keep a "Cool Head" when commenting on this case, and please remember, you are Americans. "Hold your Head High" on July 4th....
Seems like FISTicuffs would've been more his speed
Canadian Detectives are not sure if it is a head???? "A police official said Sunday it appears to be human and look like a head..." Call Monk, Mannix, Joe Friday, Inspector Clouseau, NCIS, Ja JA Binks, anybody.... Please, I think they need some help. BUT, they DO know he was killed by a low budget porn actor.. apparently well-known to police.
Disgusting! The unthinkable horrors that poor victim must have endured... :(