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Without doubt one of the more disturbing murders I've heard of. The man charged with his murder Luka Magnotta is one horrible individual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Magnotta
Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a Canadian pornographic actor and model accused of killing and dismembering Lin Jun, a Chinese international student, then mailing his severed limbs to the offices of Canadian political parties and to elementary schools in another province.
After a video allegedly depicting the murder was posted online, Magnotta fled the country, becoming the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and prompting an international manhunt. He was apprehended on June 4, 2012, in an Internet café in Berlin while reading news stories about himself.
He was previously sought by animal rights groups for allegedly making videos of himself torturing kittens and posting them online.
Murder of Lin Jun
Lin Jun (30 December 1978 – May 2012) also known as Justin Lin, was an international student from Wuhan and an undergraduate in the engineering and computer science faculty at Concordia University. He worked part-time as a convenience store clerk at Pointe-Saint-Charles. Lin had been studying in Montreal since July 2011. Lin moved into aGriffintown-area apartment with a roommate on May 1. He was last seen on May 24, 2012 and was reported missing by a friend on May 29.
At 11 AM on May 29, 2012, a package containing a left foot was delivered to the national headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada, which made headlines around the world. The package, which was opened by Jenni Byrne, director of political operations for the party, was stained with blood and had a foul smell. It was marked with a red heart symbol. At 9 PM the same day, a package containing a left hand was discovered by the Ottawa Police in a Canada Post processing facility addressed to the Liberal Party, and a decomposing torso was found in a suitcase by janitor Mike Nadeau, left in a garbage pile in the alley behind an apartment building in the Snowdon area of Montreal.
Nadeau first saw the suitcase on the 25th, but it was not picked up due to the large amount of garbage that day. After an 18-hour search of the scene, human remains, bloody clothes, different papers identifying the suspect, as well as "sharp and blunt objects" were found in the back alley. Footage from surveillance cameras inside the building showed a suspect bringing numerous garbage bags outside, and the images matched a suspect captured on video at the post office in Côte-des-Neiges.
At 11:33 PM, police searched apartment 208, which the suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta was renting. He moved in four months prior, and his rent was paid up to June 1. Blood was found on different items including the mattress, the refrigerator, the table, and the bathtub. The apartment had been mostly emptied before he left. "If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care." was written in red ink on the inside of a closet.
On May 25, 2012an 11-minute video titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick was posted on Bestgore.com depicting a naked male tied to a bed frame inside a dimly lit room being repeatedly stabbed with an ice pick and a kitchen knife, then dismembered, followed by acts of necrophilia.The perpetrator uses a knife and fork to cut off some of the flesh and gets a small dog to gnaw on the body. During the video, the 1987 New Order song "True Faith" plays in the background, and a poster for the 1942 film Casablanca is visible on the wall.Canadian authorities were able to obtain a "more extensive" version of the video and subsequently provided conflicting statements as to whether acts of cannibalismhad been performed. Materials promoting the video appeared online at least 10 days before the murder took place.
On May 26, an attorney living in the US state of Montana attempted to report the video and its contents to Toronto Police, his local Sheriff's department, and the FBI, but the report was initially dismissed by officials. After reviewing the recording of the call, Toronto police denied being offered a link in their conversation. Bestgore viewers also attempted to report the video; however, their reports were dismissed as not credible. Police later confirmed the video as authentic and "have all the reasons to believe" that the victim, an Asian male, is the same one whose body parts were sent to Ottawa.
On May 30, 2012, it was confirmed that the body parts belonged to the same individual, later identified as Lin Jun. The suspect in the case was quickly identified as Magnotta, who had by then fled. A warrant was issued by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) for his arrest, later upgraded to a Canada-wide warrant by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), launching a national manhunt. On May 31, 2012, Interpol issued a Red Notice for Magnotta at the request of Canadian authorities, and for several days before and after his arrest his name and photo were displayed prominently at the top of the homepage of the Interpol website. The Red Notice requested that Magnotta be provisionally arrested pending extradition back to Canada by any Interpol member state.
A note was found with the package sent to the Conservative Party headquarters, stating that a total of six body parts have been distributed and that the perpetrator would kill again. Notes were also included in the other three recovered packages, but police declined to disclose their contents, citing "concerns about possible copycats".
On June 5, 2012, a package containing a right foot was delivered to St. George's School and another package containing a right hand to False Creek Elementary School inVancouver. Both schools opened as normal the following morning. Montreal police took over the investigation after it was confirmed that both packages were sent from Montreal. Magnotta previously stayed in Vancouver for an unspecified period of time, and a condo was rented under one of his aliases. Bankruptcy records show that Magnotta owed $10,000 to a car leasing company in Burnaby, BC.
On June 13, the four limbs and the torso were matched to Lin Jun using DNA samples from his family. On July 1, his head was recovered at the edge of a small lake in Montreal's Angrignon Park after police received an anonymous tip.
Magnotta is set to face a preliminary hearing in March 2013.
I've had to delink the to the wikipedia articles because otherwise I get this 'server error' message.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Magnotta
Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a Canadian pornographic actor and model accused of killing and dismembering Lin Jun, a Chinese international student, then mailing his severed limbs to the offices of Canadian political parties and to elementary schools in another province.
After a video allegedly depicting the murder was posted online, Magnotta fled the country, becoming the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and prompting an international manhunt. He was apprehended on June 4, 2012, in an Internet café in Berlin while reading news stories about himself.
He was previously sought by animal rights groups for allegedly making videos of himself torturing kittens and posting them online.
Murder of Lin Jun
Lin Jun (30 December 1978 – May 2012) also known as Justin Lin, was an international student from Wuhan and an undergraduate in the engineering and computer science faculty at Concordia University. He worked part-time as a convenience store clerk at Pointe-Saint-Charles. Lin had been studying in Montreal since July 2011. Lin moved into aGriffintown-area apartment with a roommate on May 1. He was last seen on May 24, 2012 and was reported missing by a friend on May 29.
At 11 AM on May 29, 2012, a package containing a left foot was delivered to the national headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada, which made headlines around the world. The package, which was opened by Jenni Byrne, director of political operations for the party, was stained with blood and had a foul smell. It was marked with a red heart symbol. At 9 PM the same day, a package containing a left hand was discovered by the Ottawa Police in a Canada Post processing facility addressed to the Liberal Party, and a decomposing torso was found in a suitcase by janitor Mike Nadeau, left in a garbage pile in the alley behind an apartment building in the Snowdon area of Montreal.
Nadeau first saw the suitcase on the 25th, but it was not picked up due to the large amount of garbage that day. After an 18-hour search of the scene, human remains, bloody clothes, different papers identifying the suspect, as well as "sharp and blunt objects" were found in the back alley. Footage from surveillance cameras inside the building showed a suspect bringing numerous garbage bags outside, and the images matched a suspect captured on video at the post office in Côte-des-Neiges.
At 11:33 PM, police searched apartment 208, which the suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta was renting. He moved in four months prior, and his rent was paid up to June 1. Blood was found on different items including the mattress, the refrigerator, the table, and the bathtub. The apartment had been mostly emptied before he left. "If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care." was written in red ink on the inside of a closet.
On May 25, 2012an 11-minute video titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick was posted on Bestgore.com depicting a naked male tied to a bed frame inside a dimly lit room being repeatedly stabbed with an ice pick and a kitchen knife, then dismembered, followed by acts of necrophilia.The perpetrator uses a knife and fork to cut off some of the flesh and gets a small dog to gnaw on the body. During the video, the 1987 New Order song "True Faith" plays in the background, and a poster for the 1942 film Casablanca is visible on the wall.Canadian authorities were able to obtain a "more extensive" version of the video and subsequently provided conflicting statements as to whether acts of cannibalismhad been performed. Materials promoting the video appeared online at least 10 days before the murder took place.
On May 26, an attorney living in the US state of Montana attempted to report the video and its contents to Toronto Police, his local Sheriff's department, and the FBI, but the report was initially dismissed by officials. After reviewing the recording of the call, Toronto police denied being offered a link in their conversation. Bestgore viewers also attempted to report the video; however, their reports were dismissed as not credible. Police later confirmed the video as authentic and "have all the reasons to believe" that the victim, an Asian male, is the same one whose body parts were sent to Ottawa.
On May 30, 2012, it was confirmed that the body parts belonged to the same individual, later identified as Lin Jun. The suspect in the case was quickly identified as Magnotta, who had by then fled. A warrant was issued by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) for his arrest, later upgraded to a Canada-wide warrant by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), launching a national manhunt. On May 31, 2012, Interpol issued a Red Notice for Magnotta at the request of Canadian authorities, and for several days before and after his arrest his name and photo were displayed prominently at the top of the homepage of the Interpol website. The Red Notice requested that Magnotta be provisionally arrested pending extradition back to Canada by any Interpol member state.
A note was found with the package sent to the Conservative Party headquarters, stating that a total of six body parts have been distributed and that the perpetrator would kill again. Notes were also included in the other three recovered packages, but police declined to disclose their contents, citing "concerns about possible copycats".
On June 5, 2012, a package containing a right foot was delivered to St. George's School and another package containing a right hand to False Creek Elementary School inVancouver. Both schools opened as normal the following morning. Montreal police took over the investigation after it was confirmed that both packages were sent from Montreal. Magnotta previously stayed in Vancouver for an unspecified period of time, and a condo was rented under one of his aliases. Bankruptcy records show that Magnotta owed $10,000 to a car leasing company in Burnaby, BC.
On June 13, the four limbs and the torso were matched to Lin Jun using DNA samples from his family. On July 1, his head was recovered at the edge of a small lake in Montreal's Angrignon Park after police received an anonymous tip.
Magnotta is set to face a preliminary hearing in March 2013.
I've had to delink the to the wikipedia articles because otherwise I get this 'server error' message.
