Gay pornstar Luka Rocco Magnotta (inset)
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Before Wednesday, very few people would have recognized the name Luka Rocco Magnotta.
It wasn't being uttered at dinner tables, or splashed across the front pages of newspapers, and it certainly didn't conjure horrible images of bloody crime scenes or dismembered body parts.
Despite this, however, the man behind that name had found a modicum of Internet fame over the past several years; although perhaps not the kind he was hoping for.
Luka Rocco Magnotta's digital footprints, some allegedly left by the 29-year-old himself and others created by a select group of people from all over the globe who have long believed him to be dangerous, are ubiquitous, often bizarre and sometimes disturbing.
A quick Google search of "Luka Rocco Magnotta" turns up links to chat rooms, Facebook pages, pornographic imagery, YouTube videos, a personal web-site and even an (unverified @Luka_Magnotta) Twitter account - all connected to the man who seems to have taken on multiple personas and names as he struggled to build a career as a gay porn star and then became the subject of an international campaign to have him thrown in jail.
A group of people who have spent over a year using Face-book to attempt to track him down and hand him over to police named Magnotta "the kitten vacuumer."
Animal rights activists around the world mobilized beginning in 2010 to identify him after a video surfaced allegedly showing Magnotta placing two kittens in a plastic bag and then vacuuming the air out, suffocating the animals. Two more videos, also depicting the torture and killing of cats, have also been linked to Magnotta. At one point, a $5,000 reward was offered to bring him to justice.
On Wednesday, as Magnotta's digital legacy became the subject of intense scrutiny, the administrators of a Facebook group dubbed "Find the Kitten Vacuumer for Great Justice" released a statement.
"We are patiently waiting for more information on the case and have faith in the Montreal police," it reads. "Members of this group have spent over a year searching for this individual ... Information gathered by group members was passed onto the authorities in Canada, and we were informed that they were actively working on locating the person seen in the videos hurting animals."
The administrators said they would not be commenting further while the investigation is ongoing.
The exhaustive online efforts to locate Magnotta may have fuelled some of his own alleged Internet writings, in which he defends his reputation and complains about "cyber stalking" and "media propaganda."
"I do not feel the necessity to address the specific accusations made in the posts since they are so far from my character that responding to them will give them more credibility than they will ever hold," reads a post on his website Luka-Magnotta.net.
The square-jawed but some-what effeminate Magnotta, who often appears semi-nude or nude in online photos, has also claimed that others were impersonating him on the Internet, and that "hoax websites are created using my image and name, posing as me to seem more believable in respect to the type of audience these website have."
In an article on another site purporting to be an interview with Magnotta, the self-styled male model is described as "a James Dean lover and had cosmetic surgery to look like his idol." The piece claims he had to change his appearance and was nervous to answer his door and phone. Yet another bizarre article, allegedly written by Magnotta himself, describes a six-step process for vanishing and shedding one's former identity.
Magnotta has repeatedly complained online about "lies" linking him romantically to infamous schoolgirl killer Karla Hom-olka, who was released without conditions in 2005. On Wednesday, Montreal police said that the two had indeed dated.
A post on Magnotta's personal Facebook page, meanwhile, reads simply: "Monsters, Demons and Ghosts, they live in-side of us and they are real, and sometimes they win."
mmuise@ montrealgazette.com
Allison Hanes and the ottawa citizen contributed to this report
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
UPDATE: Chinese student Lin Jun, 33, falls prey to body-parts killer Luka Rocco Magnotta
Victim: Lin Jun, 33, was a Chinese student who had moved to Montreal to study. He dated Magnotta.
Sick: An image from a gruesome video of the killing, which has been
blurred by MailOnline, shows the victim
Man hunt: Police are searching for Canadian porn star Luka Magnotta, left, after he allegedly hacked a man to death and posted his body parts to Canadian offices. The victim has been identified as Jun Lin, right
Montreal police on Friday identified Lin Jun, a 33-year-old Chinese student at Montreal's Concordia University, as the victim of suspected body-parts killer Luka Rocco Magnotta, now on Interpol's wanted-persons list.
Lin, who was born in Wuhan, capital of the central China's Hubei Province, arrived in Montreal last July to begin his studies. A missing person's report posted on the Montreal Chinese consulate- general's Chinese-language website said friends and family had lost contact with Lin on May 24 -- around the same time police believe Magnotta killed a man inside his second-floor apartment in west-end Montreal.
A headless, limbless torso was discovered in a suitcase not far from the rundown apartment building on Tuesday, the same day parts of the same body (a hand and a foot) were mailed to two of Canada' s major political parties in Ottawa.
Montreal police said Lin knew Magnotta, and there are reports the two men dated.
Magnotta, a 29-year-old, Toronto-born onetime gay model, escort, stripper and porn actor, faces charges of first-degree murder and committing an indignity to human remains.
The Chinese consulate-general in Montreal issued a French- language statement Friday condemning the murderer who committed a "horrible and hateful crime using exceptionally cruel methods with extremely harmful effects," while extending its deepest condolences and sympathy to Lin's family as it is trying to bring his relatives to Montreal.
The Chinese consulate also reiterated what police have said about the case not involving organized crime targeting a particular ethnic group, but still called on Chinese citizens and students in Montreal to be vigilant.
Police believe a 10-minute online "1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick" video featuring the New Order song "True Faith" used in the 2000 horror film, American Psycho, and posted on the Edmonton-based "Best Gore" website on May 25, showing a man using an ice pick to kill what appears to be an Asian man and later dismembering, sexually defiling and seemingly cannibalizing the body constitutes videotaped evidence of the grisly murder.
Montreal police said Magnotta flew out of Montreal on May 26 and is believed to be in France. However, Montreal police warned the slender and boyish-looking suspect, who changed his name from Eric Clinton Newman and also goes by the name of Vladimir Romanov, could have disguised himself as a woman and be wearing a wig -- an accessory his Montreal neighbors had often seen him don.
Meanwhile, Britain's tabloid, The Sun, referred on Friday to encounters its reporters had with the "baby-faced weirdo" last December after the newspaper ran a story about online footage of kittens being suffocated and fed to a python. Magnotta, who has been linked to the videotaped acts of animal cruelty, showed up unannounced at The Sun's London offices to deny he was responsible.
Soon afterward, the newspaper received an email believed to be from Magnotta, which read "next time you hear from me it will be in a movie I am producing, that will have some humans in it, not just pussys [sic]," with a smiley face attached. "Once you kill, and taste blood, its [sic] impossible to stop."
The Sun said it contacted Scotland Yard about the python-eating- kitten video and the email message, but were told by London police that the case was "outside their jurisdiction."
On Thursday, Interpol issued a Red Notice for Magnotta, whom Montreal police have described as 1.78 meters in height, weighing 61 kg, with black hair and blue eyes, which has been circulated in Arabic, English, French and Spanish to its 190 member countries.
In 2005, Magnotta was convicted of fraud in Canada. On Friday, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper reported that he was also previously accused, under his birth name of Eric Clinton Newman, of stealing 17,000 Canadian dollars (about 16,400 U.S. dollars) from a woman and sexually assaulting her.
SOURCE: Xinhua
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UPDATE: Luka Rocco Magnotta’s arrest caught on camera in Berlin
This image taken from CCTV obtained by Associated Press video shows Luka Rocco Magnotta, 2nd left, being removed by police from the Internet cafe in the district of Neukoelln in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 4, 2012.
Fittingly, the arrest of Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian accused in the horrific Montreal murder and decapitation of a Chinese student, which he allegedly filmed and posted online, was caught by surveillance cameras in Berlin.
Magnotta, the man dubbed “Canadian Psycho,” surrendered meekly to Berlin police saying, “You got me,” after spending over an hour in an Internet café reading about himself Monday afternoon local time.
The surveillance footage from inside the Internet café, obtained by The Associated Press, show Magnotta strolling casually into the café at about noon local time in jeans, a green hoodie and wearing sunglasses.
Unlike footage taken only days before in airport security where he had dark, medium-length hair, he was sporting a short, blonde haircut.
In the video, he speaks shortly to the Internet café’s desk person, before walking to his assigned computer, where witnesses would see him reading news coverage about himself.
People and journalists gather outside of the Internet Cafe in the Neukoeln district of Berlin, on June 4, 2012 where Luka Rocco Magnotta dubbed the "Canadian Psycho," who is suspected of killing and filming the dismemberment his boyfriend, a Chinese student, was arrested earlier by German police.
About an hour and a half later, seven Berlin police officers — acting on a tip for a café employee — walk into the shop calmly.
Minutes later, three officers walk Magnotta out of the café, his arms handcuffed behind his back.
“He tried to give a false name. When he realized that he couldn’t escape the situation, he said, ‘You’ve got me,’” Berlin police told the National Post.
See the video of the arrest below:
Ort/Location: http://goo.gl/tyMIv -- Internet-Café-Mitarbeiter Kadir Anlayisli erkannte den Mann: http://www.focus.de/panorama/videos/porno-killer-in-berlin-neukoelln-ueberfue...
Die Polizei nimmt den mutmaßlichen Mörder von Montréal fest.
http://www.interpol.int/Wanted-Persons/(wanted_id)/2012-310468
Die Polizei nimmt den mutmaßlichen Mörder von Montréal fest.
http://www.interpol.int/Wanted-Persons/(wanted_id)/2012-310468
Read more HERE
Watch the MURDER VIDEO HERE
Click HERE for CNN news report
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