Killer in Canadian dismemberment case: Luka Magnotta
Luka Rocco Magnotta, a 29-year-old porn actor and model, was arrested on June 4, 2012 for homicide in a gruesome case of dismembered body parts that were mailed to different places including the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada, police said.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
Magnotta, believed to originally be from Toronto, was renting an apartment in a working-class Montreal neighborhood. It was behind that building that police found a man's torso in a suitcase in a heap of garbage on May 29, 2012 police said.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
That same day, a foot was found in a package mailed to the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa. A hand was also found at postal warehouse in the Canadian capital. The package with the hand was addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada. Early testing shows the three body parts come from the same man, police said.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
According to an official close to the investigation, there is video of the crime.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
Police said Magnotta was arrested in 2012 at an internet cafe in a working-class district of the German capital after an employee recognized him from a newspaper photo and flagged down a passing police vehicle.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
Magnotta made his first court appearance before a judge on June 5, 2012. He was transferred to a Berlin prison from a police detention center after he was ordered held pending extradition. Berlin police said he wouldn't fight extradition.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
Luka Magnotta was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2012 slaying of Jun Lin after eight days of jury deliberations in December 2014. He was also convicted on the four other related charges.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
Magnotta had pleaded not guilty. While he admitted to the slaying, he sought to be found not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. His lawyer argued he is schizophrenic and couldn't tell right from wrong at the time of the slaying.
Luka Rocco Magnotta
In June 2015 Magnotta joined a matchmaking website for inmates. His profile was posted Sunday on Canadian Inmates Connect Inc., a website that tries to hook up lonesome convicts -- some behind bars for violent offenses like first-degree murder -- with potential companions on the outside.