Canadian police say porn star Luka Rocco Magnotta is severed foot suspect

This undated photo provided by City of Montreal Police Service media relations shows Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, who is wanted for homicide. / AP Photo/City of Montreal Police Service

(AP) OTTAWA, Ontario - A porn actor is wanted 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 Wednesday.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is wanted for homicide, Montreal police said at a news conference.

According to an official close to the investigation Magnotta worked as a porn actor and there is video of the crime. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about those details. The Globe and Mail in Toronto describes him as a "male model and adult-film performer...Mr. Magnotta has a long electronic trail on the Internet, including modeling pictures and allegations he suffocated kittens."

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 Tuesday, police said. That same day, a foot was found in a package mailed to the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa, and a hand 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.

"Some police officers have never witnessed a crime such as this," Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said.

Severed human foot mailed to Canada's Conservative Party office

Lafreniere said they are investigating the possibility that other body parts might have been mailed. He said the suspect and the victim knew each other. He said it isn't linked to organized crime.

A police officer removes a package from the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

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The packages with the foot and the hand had been mailed to Ottawa from Montreal. It wasn't clear why.

"We're talking about a very disturbed person. It's very graphic. We're still missing parts of the body," Lafreniere said.

Police said Magnotta is also known by the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov. They described him as white, 5.8 feet tall with blue eyes and black hair.

Police discovered the severed foot after Jenni Bryne, a top political adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, opened a bloodstained box at Conservative party headquarters Tuesday.

When Bryne opened the box, a foul odor overcame the office.

"It was such a horrible odor. I'm sure many of us will not forget it," Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said.

Police said the package was addressed to the Conservative Party of Canada and not to a specific person.

Canada Post wouldn't comment on the discoveries.

Eric Schorer, the manager of the building where the suspect lived, said Magnotta had been living there for about 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," Schorer said.

In Ottawa, political staffers were keeping a nervous eye on the mail.

"It's very upsetting," Opposition New Democrat member Yvon Godin said. "It could be just one crazy person that did it, but at the same time we have lots of people unhappy in our country, the way the country is going."

Opposition Liberal member Justin Trudeau called the packages horrific.

[cbsnews_viewer]

The world is full of aspiring actors and fame seekers. This man has just pushed and upgraded it in the internet age. He is more interesting in what he is not than what he is. What he is not: He is not a sex driven or impulse killer. He is not a natural killer. He is not over average intelligence. He is internet savvy but not elite or particularly a internet nerd. He is not a cannibal. He is not physically powerful. One might call him a wimp killer.* What I believe he is: He is a attention seeker first and foremost. He is a extreme narcissist with only some traits of psychopathy**. This means he has nonexistent,suppressed or weakened morality. Yet, he is not intelligent enough to be a full blown dangerous psychopath. He is a cookbook fame seeker that turned killer. He follows a plan. He has long term plans. He has the ability to form a long term plan and carry it out. (to a point).*** He has above average Emotional intelligence (EI).*** Although he is a homosexual that does not define him or his desires. He has no problem with mutilation or desecration of the human body..

* His online posting of killing kittens happened in his mid to later twenties. His choice of weak victims: Kittens, an Asian man with his family not living in the country.
** Real psychopaths develop these tendencies before the age of fourteen.
*** My guess is he would of potentially made a good intelligence asset but not necessarily a spy if he was recruited (Intelligent agencies need young homosexual agents to lure older homosexual men in positions of power) if well controlled by his handlers. He is self driven and has an ability to work alone.
****http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence

[jcnbma]

He should mail the pen*is to GOP headquarters and tell them to suck it.

[sg1kitten]

For those who say it's fake, or Luka was framed, google 1 lunatic 1 ice pick. That's the video evidence of what is beleived to be Luka Magnotta dismembering and eating this poor asian guy, as well as letting his puppy eat some of his freshly dismembered parts!

[Bush-cheney-R-Terrorists]

Don't rush to judgment here. You don't know if that was a suicide. If that cut off his own things and mailed them just to frame the porn guy because he was jealous..

[Megapril]

I like how they keep highlighting the fact that this freak sent a foot to the Conservative HQ, but barely mentions the Liberal site that received an equally unpleasant surprise... It is quite clear he was a registered Independant.

[cbsnews_viewer]

The foot in the package never made it to the Liberal address, it was intercepted at the mail processing place by the police by the tracking number.

[Megapril]

@cbsnews: it was a joke. But, Thanks...

[sg1kitten]

It's finally coming to public attention!
The video of this dismemberment has been on the internet for about a week now, and thanks to Best Gore members(DO NOT go there if you are under 18 and/or have a weak stomach), it was discovered that he's also behind a few videos of kitten suffocation, his name, his profession.

This guy is sick in the head and needs to be captured and tried for his crimes (including animal cruelty), and the public needs to know so he can be captured and answer for them.
Way to go Mark and the rest of Best Gore! :D

[PeteTheDragon]

Totally weird story line here.

[AnnieDanny]

Yes, and after the event in Miami it seems that "horror" stories are now part of the news. We've had plenty of murder and mayhem for years but this week it's kicked up a notch to gore and cannibalism. I truly hope this isn't a new trend. More and more sickness in society.

And I wonder why Sci-Fi stories always portray Earthlings as Advanced beings....