Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party HQ

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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Jeff » Wed May 30, 2012 6:50 am

Canadian_watcher wrote:The news just reported that a second body part - a hand - was at a nearby Canada Post addressed to the CP HQ, as well.


Is that what the first reports said? Stories this morning are being cagey about the address, but deny it was addressed to CP HQ.

I don't know ... something about this story bothers me. Police are saying they have ' no clues ' in this case. Surely anyone could tell from which PO the pkg originated by simply reading the shipping form stuck to the front of any package mailed with Canada Post. The name field must have been filled in, as well, albeit probablyy with fake information. Also, the news said the secretary accepted and opened the 'blood soaked box'.. Really? And wouldn't it have smelled it's been hot, and CP is not known for its speed.


Yes, there must be at least enough clues to know where to begin looking. And why even partially open a smelly, blood-soaked package? I read that it smelled strongly enough that some employees were feeling ill.
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Canadian_watcher » Wed May 30, 2012 7:23 am

Jeff wrote:
Canadian_watcher wrote:The news just reported that a second body part - a hand - was at a nearby Canada Post addressed to the CP HQ, as well.


Is that what the first reports said? Stories this morning are being cagey about the address, but deny it was addressed to CP HQ.


That's how I remember it, but it was after 11 pm and therefore past my usual bed time, so I could be mistaken.

Jeff wrote:Yes, there must be at least enough clues to know where to begin looking. And why even partially open a smelly, blood-soaked package? I read that it smelled strongly enough that some employees were feeling ill.


hmmm. LIHOP?

EDIT: I just tracked down last night's CTV broadcast online and at 1:08 Lisa LaFlamme states "two mysterious packages addressed to the Conservative Party"

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/#clip688884
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Jeff » Wed May 30, 2012 10:40 am

Police confirmed both packages came from Montreal, but still uncertain if linked to torso.

From Twitter (@meghan_hurley, Ottawa crime reporter): "Police said they knew second package was in the mail, asked Canada Post investigators to track it down"; "The second package was not mailed to a residential address. They have to notify the "group" before they release destination.")
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby 2012 Countdown » Wed May 30, 2012 10:49 am

When the head shows up, there will be a lot of you with a foot in the mouth!

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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Canadian_watcher » Wed May 30, 2012 11:48 am

Jeff wrote:Police confirmed both packages came from Montreal, but still uncertain if linked to torso.

From Twitter (@meghan_hurley, Ottawa crime reporter): "Police said they knew second package was in the mail, asked Canada Post investigators to track it down"; "The second package was not mailed to a residential address. They have to notify the "group" before they release destination.")


I guess by now you've heard that the torso & the foot are not from the same body.
weird about the 'notify the group' thing. Why? In case they want to take delivery?
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Jeff » Wed May 30, 2012 1:16 pm

Canadian_watcher wrote:I guess by now you've heard that the torso & the foot are not from the same body.


I heard that. But now that's being contradicted. (Or is it? What could "some link" mean otherwise?)


Body parts mailed in Ottawa linked to Montreal torso

Two human body parts found in Ottawa — a left foot mailed to the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters and a left hand found at a Canada Post terminal — came from Montreal and have "some link" to the discovery of a torso in the Quebec city, police confirmed today.

There have been conflicting reports surrounding a connection with the discovery in Montreal but RCMP there now say there is "some link" between the body parts mailed to Ottawa and torso found in the Côte-des-Neiges borough.

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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Jeff » Wed May 30, 2012 2:06 pm

Via Meghan Hurley, the suspect has just been identified as Luka Rocco Magnotta.

Police are combing a "low-income" Montreal apartment unit.
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Jeff » Wed May 30, 2012 2:10 pm

Luka Magnotta is a Canadian model and bisexual pornstar who has been in the news for two separate incidents. He is known for allegedly dating serial killer Karla Homolka (which he completely denies), and for suffocating two kittens on YouTube.

Homolka is best known for killing three schoolgirls and getting out within 12 years after testifying against her husband. Magnotta claims to have never met her and has claimed to have lost both sleep and his dog over the incident.

The kitten killing video is what has really angered the internet. Animal rights websites as well as 4chan have jumped on the model. $5000 was raised as reward money to whoever could identify the man in the kitten video.


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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby barracuda » Wed May 30, 2012 2:55 pm

This thread needs some pictures...

Luka Magnotta:

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Karla Homolka:

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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Canadian_watcher » Wed May 30, 2012 3:56 pm

Does anyone edit anything anymore? This is very imprecise, imo:

Montreal police linked between the hand and foot to a severed torso discovered Tuesday morning in a pile of garbage by a janitor working in the Côte-des-Neiges area.
(G&M, today)

So, Magnotta is a suspect in one homicide then? Is he also the sender?

I note that the internet is nicely tied into this... they'll leverage the kitten outrage no doubt, even if this kid didn't do either crime he's going to be "guilty" from here on out, I'll bet. And our freedoms online will likely suffer further.
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Jeff » Wed May 30, 2012 4:00 pm

Reports now say police recovered a video of the killing and dismemberment. Also, the hand was reportedly addressed to the Liberal Party. Number of parts still missing.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/st ... alive.html
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby sunny » Wed May 30, 2012 4:17 pm

barracuda wrote:This thread needs some pictures...

Luka Magnotta:

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Karla Homolka:

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Same person.
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Canadian_watcher » Wed May 30, 2012 6:04 pm

sunny wrote:
Same person.


Karla is much older now, I doubt she could pull off that youthful transsexual look at this point.
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby barracuda » Wed May 30, 2012 10:17 pm

The scene inside Apartment 208 bears the marks of gruesome violence. A stain spreads across the double mattress and a crumpled pink sheet atop it is streaked in dried blood.

The studio apartment, located in a boxy, brick building overlooking an expressway in Montreal, became the focus of a police investigation into what has emerged as a sordid and bizarre crime that has ricocheted to federal political party offices in Ottawa.
The second-floor apartment was the home of Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, the leading suspect in a murder and dismemberment case that began after a man’s torso was found stuffed in a locked suitcase in Montreal.

Police say Mr. Magnotta, a model and adult-film actor, is believed to be from Toronto and repeatedly used aliases and changed his name over the years. He was Eric Clinton Kirk Newman until he changed his name in 2006.

He is wanted in connection with the delivery of a human left foot to the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters.

A packaged hand, intercepted by Ottawa police, was also addressed to be delivered to Liberal Party offices, a source said.

Montreal police believe that the macabre murder and dismemberment was captured on video and posted on a website that specialized in gore, gaining widening circulation as the extent of the crime became public Wednesday.

“It is a video of the murder,” a Montreal police official confirmed to The Globe.

Police warn that not all of the murder victim, a male, has been recovered but refuse to say whether they believe more pieces of his body are still in Canada Post’s mail system.

“We are still missing a few parts of the puzzle in terms of body parts, so yes, this is a special crime scene,” Montreal police spokesman Commander Ian Lafrenière said.

The Montreal police confirmed that the torso found in Montreal is likely from the same body as the hand and the foot that were mailed to political parties in Ottawa, although an official DNA match is still in the works.

“We have all the reasons to believe that it is linked to our homicide,” Cdr. Lafrenière said.

The Conservative Party, meanwhile, offered more details on the grisly unpacking of a foot in their offices Tuesday, revealing that Stephen Harper’s campaign manager, Jenni Byrne, witnessed the opening of the bloody parcel.

The incident left Tory staffers traumatized.

“The package was brought to Ms. Byrne because it looked suspicious,” Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said. “It was opened, Ms. Byrne examined it, saw the blood and smelled the odour and made the decision to call police.”

He added: “It was such a horrible odour I'm sure many of us will not forget it.”

Tory sources said that package, which bore the drawing of a red heart, was addressed to the Conservative Party rather than a particular person.

Montreal police said the murder was not a random act, as the suspect and his victim knew one another. Cdr. Lafrenière did not want to go into details about allegations that Mr. Magnotta was captured killing kittens on a video that circulated on the Internet.

“We’ve heard about it, but we don’t have confirmation. Our main priority is to find our suspect,” Cdr. Lafrenière said.

Mr. Magnotta is also reported to have dated notorious sex killer Karla Homolka.

The video shows someone repeatedly stabbing a young man, then dismembering the corpse and committing cannibalistic acts on it.

And the Montreal police official said what the force found in Mr. Magnotta’s apartment was horrific.

“For most of the officers who have been there all night long, this is the type of crime scene that they have never seen in their lives, in their career.”


More at link, but it's brutal.
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Re: Human foot in suspicious package at Conservative Party H

Postby Jeff » Wed May 30, 2012 10:33 pm

barracuda wrote:More at link, but it's brutal.



The video was titled "1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick" and was posted to a website called "Best Gore" on May 25. More info here, but it's even more brutal. The video received 257 comments, like, "what's with the shitty music?"
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