Killer
Gay Chinese
The 29-year-old low-budget porn actor used different music in all three videos, including New Order’s True Faith. That track was also used in the grisly video Magnotta posted depicting him torturing and dismembering his boyfriend, 33-year-old Lin Jun.
The three videos were posted under the YouTube moniker ibechillin69, which has since been closed.
Montreal police Cmdr. Denis Mainville confirmed to newspaper La Presse that the videos are indeed recent.
He said: ‘We must check the clothing, the physical aspects. The French police will give us a hand, adding: ‘It would be very surprising if it was filmed before the murder.’
The songs – Madonna’s La Isla Bonita, The Great Commandment by German band Camouflage, and New Order’s True Faith – were all released in 1987, thestar.com noted.
However, police have not yet found the significance of those songs, nor why Magnotta, who was born in 1982, chose them.
Magnotta, who was born Eric Newman, is currently in a German prison after he was arrested Monday in an internet café.
Meanwhile, a Montreal Police spokesman told MailOnline that the 'have no clue' where Jun Lin's head is, and are not denying the chance that the victim's head may be in the mail.
'It could be, honestly, it is a possibility,' the spokesman said.
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He also said that the victim's genitals were intact and still connected to his body when police found the portions of his remains that his former lover Luka Rocco Magnotta chose not to mail or eat.
Mr Lin's parents are now in Montreal and are waiting to claim whatever portions of their son's body they can bring them back to China with them.
The police spokesman also gave a clearer glimpse into the world of Magnotta, saying that the gay porn actor was found to have 70 different active Facebook accounts.
At the time of his capture, Magnotta had uploaded pictures and videos onto 20 different websites using various aliases.
'He was an extremely busy guy online,' the spokesman said.
They are currently searching for the head of the man murdered, dismembered and partially eaten by a Canadian porn actor - it is the only missing part of his body, which was chopped up and shipped across the continent.
Authorities believe Magnotta mailed Jun Lin's head in the post, as well, according to reports. When or where the gruesome package will arrive is unknown.
On Tuesday, Mr Lin's hand and foot arrived in separate packages shipped to schools in Vancouver. His other hand and foot were discovered in Ottawa, Canada's capital, on May 29, after they were mailed to the country's main political parties.
The news comes as new photographs of the gay performer have emerged, including a menacing shot of him holding a switch-blade.
The Sun reports that investigators expect Mr Lin's head to arrive in the post.
Magnotta, 29, was caught on Monday in Berlin, after evading police for days while he partied in Paris. He told German authorities he would not fight extradition to Canada.
Vancouver Deputy Police Chief Warren Lemcke said a package containing what appeared to be a human hand was opened by staff at False Creek Elementary School after 1 p.m. Tuesday. Another package containing what appeared to be a human foot was found by staff at St. George's private school for boys later in the day.
Trans-national: Pieces of Jun Lin were discovered more than 2,800 miles apart after Magnotta dropped his lover's dismembered limbs in the post
The British Columbia Coroner's Service and the Vancouver police's major crime investigators have been called in.
‘There is no indication any student or staff has been targeted at any school,’ Lemcke said. ‘This must have been a very traumatic incident for all involved in the schools involved in opening the packages and the Vancouver Police Department will assist any way we can with our victims services section.’
Video footage of what authorities believe to be the killing seems to show the suspect eating the body, said police in Montreal, where the death occurred.
Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said that although police have not been able to conclusively confirm it, they suspect Magnotta ate parts of the victim's body.
‘As gross and as graphic as it could be, yes, it was seen on the video,’ Lafreniere said.
A police car arrived at Moabit jail this morning, believed to be carrying Magnotta who is to be brought before a judge in Berlin
Authorities allege Magnotta filmed the slaying in his Montreal studio apartment and posted it online.
A copy of what police believe is the video of the killing, viewed online by AP, shows a man with an ice pick stabbing another naked, bound male. He also dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it.
It did not show anyone eating the body but did show a man using a fork and knife on it. Police suggested Tuesday that they have access to more extensive video of the killing, possibly an unedited version.
Targeted? Police said there is no indication any student or staff has been targeted at either school
Witnesses contacted French police with claims of having seen Magnotta partying in the Bastille area of east Paris, said Christophe Crepin, a police union official who shared details about the manhunt in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
One tipster said Magnotta drank a late-night Coca-Cola at a bar in the northwestern Batignolles quarter, which police collected for fingerprints.
Pornography magazines and an air-sickness bag from the plane he had taken from Montreal to Paris were found in a dingy hotel room where he stayed in Bagnolet, northeast of Paris.
‘He needed to be seen, and to party,’ said Crepin, who relayed information he received from agents in the judicial police unit that tracks fugitives. ‘Naturally some of the people who saw him broke out into a cold sweat when they recognized him.’
Magnotta's refusal to stay low eventually got him caught. He was arrested while reading about himself at an Internet cafe in Berlin after an employee recognized him from a newspaper photo and flagged down a police car.
Magnotta appeared before a German judge in the afternoon and was ordered held pending extradition, police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf said. He was then transferred to a Berlin prison from a police detention center.
He will have to go before a German court for an extradition hearing once Canada formally requests that he be returned for trial, Neuendorf said.
‘I assume there will be no problems,’ he said. ‘According to his statements to prosecutors he will not fight his extradition.’
That means Magnotta could be returned to Canada as early as this week, according to authorities. The Canadian Embassy in Berlin declined to comment on when Ottawa may file the official papers seeking extradition.
Cmdr. Denis Mainville, the head investigator of the Montreal police major crimes unit, said investigators will review hundreds of homicide cases over the last 30 years in Montreal and throughout Quebec for any possible links to Magnotta. Mainville said such a review is routine in such cases.
Magnotta arrived in Berlin on Saturday on a bus Paris, said Martin Steltner, a spokesman for Berlin prosecutors.
Crepin said Magnotta had contacts in Paris from a previous visit in 2010.
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‘He didn't come to Paris by chance. He knew he could get along in Paris, he knew people,’ he said.
Police, for example, trailed a large-framed man who had been in contact with Magnotta, he said.
Police questioned another man with whom Magnotta spent two nights. The man didn't immediately realize who his companion was, Crepin said.
At times, French investigators grew frustrated with leaks in the media — notably a French TV report indicating police had used technology to track Magnotta's mobile phone. As a result, Magnotta turned it off, Crepin said.
‘He had closely monitored what we police were doing to concoct his strategy,’ he said.
Alias: Magnotta, pictured at right at age 6, was said to use the name Eric Newman. Police said he may dress as a woman to avoid capture and released a sketch, left, during their manhunt
Crepin said surveillance camera footage showed Magnotta boarding a bus to Berlin on Friday evening. He said German officials were alerted that Magnotta might be in Berlin at some point before the arrest, but he did not specify when.
The case's full horror emerged on May 29 when a package containing the severed foot was opened at Canada's ruling Conservative Party headquarters and a hand was discovered at a postal facility, addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada.
A torso, meanwhile, was found in a suitcase on a garbage dump in Montreal, outside Magnotta's apartment building.
As they unraveled his background, police discovered that Magnotta changed his name from Eric Clinton Newman in 2006 and that he was born in Scarborough, Ontario. He is also known as Vladimir Romanov. Police said he has 70 Facebook accounts under different names.
Hunt: Police said the body they found of Mr Lin was still missing a head, hand and foot, but would not immediately confirm if the found appendages were his
Montreal police on Tuesday said DNA tests have confirmed that the body parts mailed to the political parties were Lin's remains, and that they have footage of Magnotta mailing the two parcels that were sent to Ottawa.
‘The head is still missing,’ Lafreniere said, hours before the parcels were discovered in Vancouver. ‘And one hand and one foot is still missing.’
Zheng Xu, a press spokesman at the Chinese consulate in Montreal, said Lin's family has been contacted and wants to travel to Canada as soon as possible. He said he was not able to give any further details without the family's approval.
In Vancouver, Kurt Heinrich of the city's school board said no students saw the package at False Creek Elementary.
Larissa Warrington, the chair of the False Creek elementary parent advisory council, said students were in school at the time and police vans were present when she picked up her three kids.
‘I came to pick up my children as I usually do and was told there was a suspicious package at the school,’ an emotional Warrington said.
‘It is disturbing. It's awful. Why would anybody do that? It's very unsettling, as you can imagine, having children at this school.’
