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Sun reporter Alex West met Luka Magnotta six months ago and is still shaken
Magnotta’s disturbed, disturbing, disgusting... looking in his eyes left me shaken
Reporter on encounter with 'killer'I MET Luka Magnotta six months ago — and I’m still feeling shaken by the encounter.
He was without doubt one of the most disturbed and disturbing individuals I have ever encountered.
I was asked to try to find him after his name came up in connection with a story about a vile video posted on the internet in which a kitten was fed to a python.
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But behind the denials it seemed he was getting some sort of bizarre pleasure out of the attention. I suspected that pleasure was sexual.
After interviewing Magnotta we waited outside to see if we could quiz him again.
We were surprised when the police then turned up. We asked them if they were investigating the cat killings. But we were told to mind our own business.
Magnotta was escorted off the premises by two plain-clothed cops and the hotel manager.
He was put into the back of a mini-cab and was driven off. That was the last we saw of him.
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We contacted the Met’s Press Bureau media office to tell them what we had been investigating.
I was shocked and confused when we were later told that the police had only gone to the hotel to help evict Magnotta — not to question him at all.
Two days later an email was sent to The Sun’s offices.
It described how the killer planned to move on from killing animals to human victims.
And I was chilled to realise it referred to me. The email described in lurid, horrifying detail the disgusting things he wanted to do to me — acts of the darkest sexual and violent nature.
The words are too vile to repeat. I can still recall my revulsion when I read these crazed threats.
The twisted author used the name of Moors murders victim John Kilbride as an email address. But I suspected it came from Magnotta.
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The sender, who described himself as a “genius”, signed off by saying: “You know, the fun part of all this is watching millions of people get angry and frustrated because they can’t catch me.
“It’s fun watching people work so hard gathering all the evidence, then not being able to name me or catch me.
“You see, I always win. I always hold the trump card and I will continue to make more movies.
“London is wonderful because all the people are so stupid. It’s easy.
“So, I have to disappear for a while, until people quit bothering me. But next time you hear from me it will be in a movie I am producing that will have some humans in it, not just pussies.
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I felt sure that the threats it contained should be taken seriously and contacted the police. Unfortunately it did not result in Magnotta being detained.
I received the vile email on a Saturday. On the following Monday morning I went into Limehouse Police Station in East London and reported my suspicions.
My complaint was filed as a malicious communication and the case was passed to Islington Police in North London.
I gave them all the information I had discovered in my inquiries.
After an initial response from the officer in the case I then heard nothing more about it. If the police had stopped investigating Magnotta, then I was not told.
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rest here
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... haken.html
dqueue wrote:Per Alchemy's post of all the accounts this guy maintained... how the hell would he keep trackof all that? 97 youtube accounts. 8 vimeo accounts. 15 daily motion accounts. All the previously posted photo sites. Would there be some way to automate and manage such a digital presence? Persona management software, a la HB Gary?
A CBC article from Saturday covers the presumed victim in the case. The article fails to address the issue of the video (or references to the video) pre-dating his disappearance.
High weirdness.
First-person: What it feels like to report on alleged murderer Luka Magnotta
REPORTED BY Justin Ling
Tilling the soil and building an Internet profile for someone so prolific isn’t easy. Typing some keywords into Google is one thing, but if you really want to pull together every string of someone’s (alleged) life – from their public Facebook pages to their darkest writing in the annals of the Internet – you’ve got to go deeper. It means searching for a multitude of variations on their name, from their various cities, connecting their online profiles, searching by their images, and so on.
So I started digging. I did some searches on Magnotta’s early life. Before 2006, however, Magnotta – or, Eric Clinton Newman, as he was known at the time – was virtually invisible.
After that, however, it looks like Magnotta began to write. Tacking onto Internet content publishers such as Associated Content, Magnotta (or someone posing as Magnotta) published a range of articles – some of them seemingly plagiarized – that ranged from self-obsessed details of his cosmetic surgeries to anti-police tirades.
He also began to create online profiles. A lot of them. When I spoke to a woman who claims she dated Magnotta, she confirmed that he was obsessed with his Internet presence.
http://montreal.openfile.ca/montreal/te ... d-murderer
'Cannibal' porn star escapes police raid on his hotel room... but finds time to play violent games on the Internet
The former porn star accused of killing and eating parts of his lover is still on the run after evading a police raid on his hotel room - and has been playing war games online.
An online account allegedly belonging to Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, has been signed into since he narrowly escaped Saturday's raid, in Bagnolet.
It was accessed on Friday before the raid, and then again on Sunday.
It shows the breathtakingly casual attitude of the man suspected of murdering 33-year-old Chinese engineering student Jun Lin in Montreal.
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Other online postings, believed to be the work of Bagnotta, include a short animation that involves a bloody hand print and the phrase 'It was Luka Magnotta'.
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