View larger image Luka Rocco Magnotta is shown in a photo from the website www.luka-magnotta.com. Magnotta is wanted in the shocking case of a dismembered body whose parts were mailed to different places including the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-www.luka-magnotta.com) View larger image Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is seen is this photograph provided by police in Montreal. View larger image Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is seen is this photograph provided by police in Montreal. View larger image Luka Magnotta is shown in a photo from the website www.luka-magnotta.com. Magnotta is wanted in the shocking case of a dismembered body whose parts were mailed to different places including the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-www.luka-magnotta.com) View larger image Police investigate after a severed human torso was found in Montreal on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. 
 
 MONTREAL  CAUTION: GRAPHIC CONTENT MAY DISTURB SOME READERS. 
 
 In this chain of depraved events orchestrated by a disturbed mind, it turns out that the severed human foot delivered to Tory headquarters was only the latest link. 
 
 Before that, someone repeatedly stabbed a young man with an ice pick. While both killer and victim lay naked, he dismembered the corpse and committed sexual and cannibalistic acts on it. 
 
 That same person apparently videotaped the gory scene and posted it on the Internet. The video is now being reviewed by Montreal police, who are investigating a case that has shocked the country. 
 
 A man by the name of Luka Rocco Magnotta is wanted in connection with a three-step crime: a killing, a dismemberment and a mailing of body parts to Ottawa. He is believed to be from Toronto and to have repeatedly used aliases and changed his name over the years. 
 
 His new name, Luka Rocco Magnotta, has a prolific presence in the darkest corners of the Internet. For nearly two years, it has been notorious among animal-rights activists looking for a man who tortured and killed cats and posted videos of it online. 
 
 He is also a low-budget porn actor. 
 
 His online presence is much vaster, however, than bisexual porn videos. Magnotta is listed as a model. He has been romantically linked to sex-killer Karla Homolka -- a rumour that he has vehemently repudiated and others have shrugged off. 
 
 He is an avid author of online articles. 
 
 One article written in 2009, titled "How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found," shares a six-step process for escaping and shedding one's identity. Another offers tips on how to get into the porn business. 
 
 A Facebook page belonging to a self-described model with the same name list a variety of personal heroes. They include pop star Madonna and two Russian leaders: Vladimir Putin and Joseph Stalin. 
 
 "There is such things as Monsters, Demons and Ghosts," says a quote typed onto that page. 
 
 "They live inside of us, and sometimes they win." 
 
 Police are now on the hunt for a suspect and trying to determine what demon might possibly have possessed a man to commit the acts alleged to have been committed in Montreal. 
 
 Their key target is 29-year-old Magnotta. 
 
 He has also gone by the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, among others. His multiple identities were confusing enough that even police had to issue a second press release Wednesday after originally identifying him as "Rocco Luka." 
 
 The geographic epicentre of their investigation is a grimy apartment building in Montreal's west end. 
 
 Magnotta was renting Apartment 208 in the brick mid-rise, by the bustling Decarie Expressway. Behind that building, a man's torso was found Tuesday in a locked suitcase, buried in a pile of garbage. 
 
 On the same day, a foot was found in a package opened at Conservative headquarters and a hand was found at an Ottawa postal warehouse -- the latter package addressed to the Liberal party. 
 
 The building manager told The Canadian Press that Magnotta had been living there for about four months. In the manager's words, he seemed like a nice guy. 
 
 Police in masks were combing through the blood-soaked apartment Wednesday, having zeroed in on that particular unit from which a rotten stench was drifting out, says a building resident. 
 
 The neighbour said police were showing neighbours pictures of two men -- the suspected victim and the homicide suspect. 
 
 The packages in Ottawa came from a common source. They carried parts from the same male victim, and they were both mailed from Montreal. 
 
 Police shared a few new details about the case Wednesday. 
 
 "The suspect and victim knew each other," Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters. "It isn't linked to organized crime." 
 
 It apparently took a few days for anyone to find a body part. A resident in the building described the scene in the trash-filled laneway behind the complex. 
 
 "I saw the suitcase and I was tempted to go get it," said Richard Payette, 60. "It didn't look too damaged. I said, 'Maybe I'll go down and get it.' But I changed my mind." 
 
 The grisly discovery was made later, by someone else living nearby. 
 
 Police were milling about the second-floor apartment Wednesday, where there were still traces of blood and, reportedly, still some body parts stored. Payette said the door of Apartment 208 was left open for part of the day, and the smell of rotten meat was drifting out into the hallway. 
 
 The building manager said Magnotta had lived there for four months but hadn't been seen around in a while. He said there were never any complaints about noise in the unit, and that Magnotta passed a credit test to rent there. 
 
 "He seemed like a nice guy," said the manager, Eric Schorer. 
 
 Police said Magnotta has no criminal record. 
 
 What isn't clear is why body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including a foot received at the offices of the Conservative party and a hand found at a Canada Post warehouse. 
 
 Finding him might not be easy. 
 
 "When making the decision to disappear, it is very important to understand that this is not a process that can be successfully accomplished overnight," said the online disappearance tips, penned under Magnotta's name. 
 
 "For best results under normal circumstances, a minimum of four months is really necessary to successfully carry out the heroic actions necessary to leave your old life behind. 
 
 "This is certainly not an undertaking to be entered into lightly." ||||| Vic Toews, Public Safety Minister, and Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, have denounced the discovery of a severed hand at an Ottawa mail depot and delivery of foot to Tory headquarters. 
 
 Jason Kenney and Vic Toews Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS Vic Toews, Public Safety Minister, and Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, have denounced the discovery of a severed hand at an Ottawa mail depot and delivery of foot to Tory headquarters. 
 
 A police officer removes a package containg a human foot from the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday. 
 
 Body parts found Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS A police officer removes a package containg a human foot from the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday. 
 
 Police have named Magnotta a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party. 
 
 Luka Magnotta THE CANADIAN PRESS Police have named Magnotta a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party. 
 
 Police have named Magnotta a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party. 
 
 Luka Magnotta SUBMITTED IMAGE Police have named Magnotta a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party. 
 
 Andrew Chung 
 
 Quebec Bureau 
 
 
 
 WARNING: THIS REPORT CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS 
 
 MONTREAL—What began as a case of a severed foot sent to Canada’s ruling party headquarters has spiralled into an astonishing murder case involving a self-professed porn actor with links to Karla Homolka who’s accused of killing and dismembering a man in a Montreal apartment. 
 
 Police have launched a Canada-wide manhunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, a Toronto native who appears in several dubious places on the Internet. He’s accused, among other things, of torturing and killing kittens and being romantically linked to notorious sex killer Homolka, though in a 2007 newspaper report he denied this last allegation. 
 
 The police hunt follows the discovery Tuesday of a headless torso inside a brown suitcase next to a pile of rubbish at a dingy Montreal apartment building. Police say a foot and hand mailed to Ottawa belonged to the body. 
 
 Late Wednesday, CTV News was reporting there was a note in the box containing the severed foot sent to the Conservative headquarters. The note reportedly said it was the first of six body parts, and it indicated the killer would kill again, according to CTV. 
 
 In another shocking twist, a grotesque video has emerged on the Internet that appears to show a man stabbing a naked and bound victim dozens of times with an ice pick, defiling the corpse and cutting off the head and limbs. 
 
 Montreal police said they are investigating the video, which sources say appears to be authentic. 
 
 Though the actual Montreal crime scene appears similar to the one shown in the murder video, police have not confirmed that the video does indeed show the murder of the man whose body parts were mailed to Ottawa. 
 
 However, a police source said, “Everything looks like this is the person we’re talking about.” 
 
 More: Second body part discovered in Ottawa after severed foot sent to Conservative party headquarters 
 
 The sources added there is a “very strong possibility” that the man whose body parts were sent to Ottawa is an Asian male who was reported missing by family members several days ago. 
 
 “The suspect and victim knew each other,” Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière confirmed. He didn’t identify the victim. 
 
 A source said the victim apparently attended the suspect’s apartment willingly. 
 
 “I’ve been doing this job for close to 30 years now and I’ve never seen and never heard of something like this,” Lafrenière said. “It’s like watching a very bad movie. 
 
 “It’s important to stay sensitive to these things. Some people might say ‘this happens’ in society. I don’t think so. It’s something very shocking.” 
 
 The macabre discovery on Tuesday of a severed foot, delivered to the downtown Ottawa headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada, set alight confusion and concern on Parliament Hill and made international headlines. 
 
 Hours later, Ottawa police confirmed a hand had been found in a package at a Canada Post processing facility. It had apparently been addressed to the Liberal party headquarters. 
 
 On Wednesday, the situation escalated as Montreal police said they believed the body parts belonged to the same victim. They asked for the public’s help in finding Magnotta. 
 
 The suitcase was reportedly sitting in the rubbish pile since last Friday. The video was posted online on May 25. 
 
 Videos from the Toronto Star. 
 
 Police spent much of Tuesday combing through the grimy second-floor studio apartment where the torso was found. Its windows look on to a major Montreal expressway. 
 
 A poster from the 1942 film Casablanca is visible from outside. The poster can also be seen in photos posted on the Internet appearing to feature Magnotta. 
 
 Neighbours had reported a strong foul odour emanating from the studio. Inside, the bed sheets and mattress were soaked with blood. 
 
 “There was blood all over the bed,” said building manager Eric Schorer, 59. 
 
 There was also a pool of what appeared to be blood on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Traces were found too in the freezer. 
 
 Inside the closet, a message scribbled in red ink reads: “If you don’t like the reflection, don’t look in the mirror. I don’t care.” 
 
 Magnotta arrived in Montreal and rented the furnished apartment about four months ago for $490 a month, Schorer said. His rent was paid up to June 1. 
 
 “He came from Toronto and wanted to start a job as a caregiver and to be closer to his child,” Schorer recalled. 
 
 According to Schorer and other neighbours, Magnotta kept to himself, slept late into the day, going out in the late afternoon, perhaps to work. 
 
 Neighbour Derek Mackinnon, 56, said Magnotta spoke to no other neighbours except himself, “maybe because I was gay too.” 
 
 “He’s probably one of the coldest people you’ve ever met in your life,” Mackinnon said. 
 
 Mackinnon, a former actor who starred in the 1980 horror film Terror Train, said Magnotta asked him how to make the transition from porn into legitimate acting. “He said his porn career was over.” 
 
 He said he saw Magnotta bring home a male five nights ago, an unusual sight because he never previously saw the young man with anyone. He saw Magnotta leave the building the next morning wearing a red wig. “I thought, ‘What is going on with that?’ ” 
 
 Mackinnon then began to cry, as he revealed that Magnotta had asked him to come to his apartment to see him, also five days ago. 
 
 “I wonder,” he whispered, “if that could have been me.” 
 
 The suspect legally changed his name in 2006. His birth name is Eric Clinton Newman. Police said he also goes by the pseudonym Vladimir Romanov. 
 
 An online profile pegs him as a bisexual porn actor. He has been targeted as a cat torturer and killer by animal rights activists, who have posted horrific videos to support their accusations. In one, a cat is placed in a plastic bag and the air is sucked out with a vacuum. 
 
 The suspect’s Facebook page lists a variety of heroes, from Madonna to Joseph Stalin. 
 
 “There is such things as Monsters, Demons and Ghosts,” says a quote typed onto that page. “They live inside of us, and sometimes they win.” 
 
 He also appears in an online blog posting about necrophilia. And a piece under Magnotta’s name posted in 2009 is titled, “How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found.” 
 
 “When making the decision to disappear, it is very important to understand that this is not a process that can be successfully accomplished overnight,” the article explains. 
 
 Two top Conservative ministers denounced the posting of the body parts as a “criminal” act. 
 
 “Bizarre and completely horrifying,” said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, saying it was clearly a “completely disgusting criminal act.” 
 
 Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said the package, when it arrived at headquarters on Tuesday, was brought to Jenni Byrne, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the campaign manager in the 2011 election, “because it looked suspicious.” 
 
 “It was opened. Ms. Byrne examined it, saw the blood and smelled the odour and made the decision to call police.” 
 
 Delorey said that “staff are very upset and disturbed by what happened yesterday.” 
 
 With files from Tonda MacCharles and Allan Woods 
 
 ALSO FROM THE STAR: 
 
 Who is Luka Rocco Magnotta? 
 
 Body parts sent to Conservative party headquarters ||||| Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested in Berlin Monday after a four-day international manhunt that spanned three countries. 
 
 The 29-year-old Canadian wanted over a horrific Montreal ice pick murder and decapitation of a Chinese student that he allegedly filmed and posted to the Internet, was arrested in or near an Internet cafe, Berlin police said. 
 
 Montreal police confirmed they are aware of the reports that Magnotta was arrested, but said they are still in the process of contacting their Berlin counterparts. 
 
 The arrest comes after French authorities said they were investigating a tip that Magnotta travelled from Paris to Berlin via bus on the weekend. 
 
 “Somebody recognized him and (then) all the police recognized him,” Berlin police spokesperson Stefan Redlich told CP24 Monday. 
 
 Redlich said police were called in by a civilian who spotted Magnotta and he was arrested after police asked for his identification at about 2:00 p.m. local time in Berlin. 
 
 Reuters is reporting it was an employee of the cafe, Kadir Anlayisli, that recognized Magnotta. The cafe is on Karl Marx Strasse, a busy shopping street filled with Turkish and Lebanese shops and cafes in the Neukoelln district of Berlin. 
 
 German television quoted the owner of the cafe saying Magnotta was surfing the Internet for about an hour before his arrest. 
 
 Redlich said Magnotta has been taken into custody without incident and will go in front of a judge Tuesday. 
 
 Canadian officials are expected to start the extradition process for Magnotta in the near future. 
 
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 BODY PARTS MYSTERY TIMELINE Tuesday 10 a.m. A janitor discovers a human torso in a suitcase in Montreal in the city’s Snowdon district 11:15 a.m. A receptionist at the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters receives a package via Canada Post, and opens it partially before calling police 11:20 a.m. Ottawa police respond to a call from the party headquarters about a suspicious package stained with blood 2:40 p.m. Police confirm there is a human foot inside the package 5:30 p.m. Police emerge from the Conservative party headquarters carrying a yellow plastic bag with the package inside 9:30 p.m. Ottawa police confirm they found a second body part — a hand — inside a package at the Ottawa Postal Terminal, where mail is processed. Wednesday 10 a.m. Police confirm both packages containing the body parts originated in Montreal 12 p.m. Montreal police say the torso, foot and hand all belong to the same person; say suspect and victim know each other 2:30 p.m. Montreal police announce they are looking for suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta Thursday Magnotta is added to Interpol’s most wanted list Saturday Paris hotel manager tells the Montreal Gazette his neighbour confirmed to police that Magnotta had a drink at his bar two days earlier Monday 10:45 a.m. Berlin police confirm Magnotta arrested near an Internet cafe after being spotted by a civilian 
 
 Earlier Monday, an employee from bus company Eurolines told AFP that police had visited a station in the Parisian suburb of Bagnolet, where investigators believe Magnotta was staying late last week. 
 
 Magnotta, whom overseas media have begun referring to as “Canadian Psycho,” has been at the centre of an international manhunt for the murder and dismemberment of a Chinese student in Montreal last month. 
 
 French police said the 29-year-old, originally from Ontario, was seen as recently as Friday. French reports said police found pornographic magazines and air sickness bags from the airplane he took from Montreal to Paris in his hotel room. 
 
 Another published report in France quoted a bar manager saying Magnotta spent two nights in his bar, looking “very nervous” and left one night with a man with an “impressive physique.” 
 
 Police believe Magnotta escaped to France on May 26. 
 
 Interpol has issued an alert for Magnotta, who was born Eric Clinton Newman and has also gone by the name Vladimir Romanov, along with countless Internet usernames. 
 
 On Sunday, Interpol posted pictures of Magnotta going through airport security. In the two photos, the slight man has dark hair and is wearing a black Mickey Mouse T-shirt. The airport was not identified in the photos. 
 
 Jun Lin, 33, a student at Montreal’s Concordia university was slain on the night of May 24. His torso was found in Montreal and some of his body parts were mailed to political party offices in Ottawa. 
 
 A video of the murder, which police believe to be authentic, which posted shortly thereafter. 
 
 Magnotta, who claimed to be a male model and gay porn star despite little evidence he did either professionally, has a long digital trail of attempts to become Internet famous. 
 
 He claimed to be bullied by people who started a rumour he dated the infamous Karla Homolka, which led to some mainstream media attention in 2007, although it appears he may have been behind the rumours himself. 
 
 Animal activists have also pegged Magnotta to be behind a kitten torturing video. 
 
 Since his link to the disturbing murder in Montreal, a portrait of a troubled young man has been drawn from many sources, including his own family. 
 
 One anonymous relative — who had known Magnotta from childhood — told a reporter with the local Peterborough Examiner that Magnotta was “a ticking time bomb.” 
 
 “He’s a nut job. I did not trust him,” she told the newspaper. “Eric is the type of individual, I think he’s mentally ill. He has delusions of grandeur. He concocts stories that he tends to believe and they in turn become fact in his mind.” 
 
 In his mid-20s, he was charged with fraud and sexual assault, although that charge was dropped. He plead guilty to fraud and received a nine-month conditional sentence. 
 
 
 
 Like the National Post on Facebook ||||| (CNN) -- The search continued Thursday for a gay porn actor suspected of dismembering his acquaintance, posting the video of the incident online and mailing the severed limbs to different locations in Ottawa, including to a political party's headquarters, according to a source with direct knowledge of the investigation. 
 
 Authorities are searching for Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, who they allege is responsible for a human torso discovered in Montreal, thought to be linked to a human hand and foot that were separately mailed from Montreal to Ottawa. 
 
 Magnotta, also known as Eric Clinton Newman, is a Montreal resident who allegedly knew the victim, identified only as a white male, Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafreniere told reporters Wednesday. 
 
 The suspect has no criminal background, and his image and information related to him were later recovered from a "very graphic" website, Lafreniere said. 
 
 The source later confirmed that at least one of the websites examined by authorities was a pornographic site. 
 
 It's possible the body parts all came from the same dismembered victim, Lafreniere said, but police are still awaiting the results of forensic testing for confirmation. 
 
 "The two parts of the body that were found in Ottawa ... we've got all the reasons to believe that it's linked to our homicide," he added, referring to the human torso found in Montreal. 
 
 Authorities said they are asking the public for help in locating Magnotta, after a "coast-to-coast" warrant was issued for his arrest. Police say they plan to charge him with murder once he's apprehended. 
 
 Lafreniere said authorities have also found other body parts, potentially from the same attack, which is believed to have been committed in Montreal. It would be the 11th homicide there this year. 
 
 "It wasn't a random attack," Lafreniere said. "They knew each other." 
 
 Lafreniere added that Magnotta had been "involved in some stuff on the Web, that's for sure," though he would not elaborate. 
 
 The human foot was sent to the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters in Ottawa, prompting a hazardous materials team to investigate. The officers who responded noticed what appeared to be bloodstains on the box, police said. 
 
 Ottawa police Sgt. Steve Hodgson told reporters outside the office that the package had been addressed to the Conservative Party. Staffers had begun to open the package before calling police, he said. 
 
 The hand was intercepted by workers at a Montreal postal terminal. 
 
 Ottawa's major-crimes unit is checking with other police departments for similar cases and looking back through missing-persons files for any clues, according to Constable Marc Soucy, an Ottawa police spokesman. 
 
 "We're going to look at every avenue," he said. 
 
 In Montreal, the human torso was found behind an apartment building, authorities said. 
 
 CNN's Jake Carpenter, Paula Newton and Matt Smith contributed to this report.
– Toronto police have a suspect in a gruesome case in which body parts were mailed to at least two places, reports the local Star. The suspect is 29-year-old Luka Rocco Magnotta, described by CP24 of Toronto as a low-budget porn actor who has reportedly posted a wide range of disturbing videos, including the torture of cats. So far, three body parts believed to be from the same male victim have been discovered: a torso in a suitcase behind a Montreal building where Magnotta lived; a foot mailed to Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa; and a hand at a postal warehouse, also in Ottawa. The hand was reportedly addressed to Canada's Liberal Party, according to the CBC. Police aren't saying much about the case, other than that Magnotta and the victim knew each other. CP24 notes that among the Internet articles written by Magnotta is one titled "How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found." Most news reports, including this one from CNN, are citing sources saying that Magnotta videotaped the dismemberment and posted it online.