Luka Magnotta /// Part 1 /// 122 | Forensic Files

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true crime foreign [Music] [Applause] the first package containing What appeared to be a human hand was opened
by staff at Falls Creek Elementary School after 1 pm today another package containing What appeared
to be human foot was found by staff at St George's school later this afternoon I can't link it to anything right now as
we progress in the investigation we will provide as much information as we can we have liaise with Montreal and we'll
liaise with any other police agencies that we need to in the course of the investigation
this is a really traumatic or difficult situation for absolutely everybody and that you know we're doing our best to
try and make sure it's as uh that our students are not negatively impacted as best as we can it's obviously a very
tricky thing to do but we'd want to try and try and really Hammer home a con for
for people to have a calm perspective on this where possible and that take take um I think we're hoping that
people understand that we're doing our best in a very difficult situation foreign
[Music] wanted to break a little news that I've just handed from my colleagues at The
Sun News Network in that The Vancouver Police have just uh indicated that they're investigating finding two body
parts I repeat two body parts sent to two schools in Vancouver it's just breaking now and so I you know
interesting you mentioned about the head earlier we don't know what they are but
the street pieces missing and there may be two have shown up Gene you said that to schools these body parts were sent to
schools yeah uh that's right um they were sent uh to two schools and they received them today Vancouver Police on
the west coast here in Canada uh have just uh they're investigating now it's breaking just seconds ago and um it's uh
so you know the the clues uh I don't know what they are Jane we'll have to find out but this puts it to five and so
it'll be interesting to see that your previous guests mentioned the head because uh you know it could be there or
maybe that is the trophy and uh that's the one piece that we don't know where it is and it does remind us a lot of
Jeffrey Dahmer there's no question about it particularly you know you deal with this Asian victim uh which there was
Jeffrey Dahmer case and the fact there was just this Brazen right in the middle of Milwaukee here right in the middle of
Montreal and also Berlin very crazy stuff Jane it's very crazy it's very disturbing well let's listen to the news
conference that ended literally moments ago out of Vancouver law enforcement describing two body parts that showed up
at schools The Vancouver Police are investigating two disturbing incidents in which human
remains were discovered in separate packages mailed to two local area schools this afternoon the first package
containing What appeared to be a human hand was opened by staff at Falls Creek Elementary School after 1 pm today
another package containing What appeared to be human foot was found by staff at St George's school later this afternoon
unbelievable Robin wolinski anchor reported the blaze do you think this is the tip of the iceberg from your many
years covering Quran Jane I I think there's got to be more I think he started with the animals he
didn't get high enough and then he moved on to humans I listened to that news conference live with you here and what
strikes me about it is is that from a CSI perspective this is a treasure those two boxes that were sent to the school
Jane they have the wrapping they have the tape they have possible fingerprints the material possibly in plastic if he
put the body parts in there they will take those two boxes and compare them to the one box that was sent to the
Canadian Prime Minister to Stephen Harper's conservative party and then to the fourth box that was sent to the
liberal party they will look at all four of those boxes and compare and contrast
foreign [Music] you get a picture of the suspect you get his name also he's also known with the
second name which is Eric Clinton Newman this is the 29 year old suspect we're looking for involved in this 11th
homicide on the Montreal territory this year you get a picture of the suspect we're looking for him a warrant of an
issue this is a Coast-to-Coast warrant we're looking for the suspect and if anyone got information for us they will
have to dial 9-1-1 this is a priority for us we really need to get a touch of that suspect as soon as possible we know
that suspect and victim they know each other so it's not a random attack they knew each other the victim that we found
the identity is not confirmed yet but we know something for a fact this is a male
a white male this is what we get we're waiting for confirmation of his identity as you know part of the body was just
dismantled so for us it started to establish his identity we had all the reasons to believe this is connected
although we don't have any 100 confirmed Nation why that is because we do need a
DNA match to confirm that 100 but we've got all the reasons to believe this is the same body that have been said we're
still missing a few part of the puzzle uh in term of body parts and so yes this is a special crime scene the crime was
horrible but suspect and victim they knew each other I'm not going to tell you I'm happy to say you that but at
least it wasn't a random attack this is horrible no one deserved that at least suspect and victim they know each other
so it wasn't a random attack and that I can confirm you as a fact foreign [Music]
[Music] May 26 2012 Roger Renville a lawyer in Montana He is enjoying his day off from
work he will spend part of his Saturday surfing the internet Roger starts off by
checking his email messaging some friends and then looking for a new funny video posted Roger sees a bizarre
internet video titled One Lunatic one ice pick he clicks on the video to view it the video shows a man tied to a bed
and then the camera shuts off when it continues the man on the Bed is Dead then a man
comes into frame and goes over to the lifeless body on the bed and begins stabbing the corpse repeatedly with an
ice pick over and over again then with a knife the suspect is going to dismantle
the victim the following day Roger can't get the video out of his head a lot of stuff on the internet is fake but Roger
couldn't help but believe that the video was real it looked awfully real to him so Roger believes that he had seen a
genuine snuff film he alerted the U.S and the Canadian police and reported the internet video both countries
authorities dismissed the video as a fake so we have this situation here Captain we have somebody that spotted a
very gruesome video and I didn't go into a ton of detail that's not our thing exactly well the thing here is Captain
you know people upload these shocking videos to different websites and then what what boggles my mind is that then
people record themselves watching those videos and in getting their reaction yeah called reaction videos the thing
here is I never saw this video thankfully never saw this video One Lunatic and one ice pick and even when
we you know decided to cover this case I know that it's been taken down from the
uh the bestgore.com website where it was originally uploaded to it was about a 10
or 11 minute video I'm sure it's probably hidden somewhere in the dark corners or dark addicts and basements
and crawl spaces of the internet you can still find it in the Deep Web yeah okay
well I'm glad I didn't go looking for it because I didn't want to see it uh the thing here is like I said it's 10 or 11
minutes not seeing it myself trying to describe the video is tough for me to do but but the thing here is you know there
were other things in that video that that we didn't get to there there were acts of necrophilia there was the
dismemberment there's also a portion of the video where where a dog is involved in in chewing on the body and what we
were talking about earlier is that it kind of seems like uh this video was staged I mean there was music playing we
have new order uh the song was true Faith this was a release from 1987. yeah I've not seen the video but but the way
it's been described to me Captain is it somebody didn't just willy-nilly set up a camera and decide to record this like
you said it appears to be staged it also appears to be planned out thought out like you said putting together a
soundtrack for the future video yeah so at this point in the timeline we have some people that we have an audience for
this video that have seen the video but we have no confirmation if this is actually real or if this is just a false
video on the morning of May 29 2012 around 10 a.m a janitor working at an apartment building in the Snowden
District of Montreal makes a grisly Discovery amongst bags of garbage and old discarded Furniture he finds a
suitcase and he decides to open it up inside the suitcase the janitor finds a human torso the authorities are called
upon arrival the janitor tells the police that he first saw the suitcase four days earlier but there was so much
trash and he had so much to do that this was the first he could get around to collecting everything police started
searching the trash in the alleyway for remaining body parts right and this is not going to be the only body part that
we find that day no because just about an hour later this is 200 kilometers away at the national headquarters for
the Conservative Party of Canada located in Ottawa the office received their mail
just like any other business day typically the office would receive the usual stuff you know bills letters
packages big and small on this day there was one particular package that stood out from the rest this was not a
particularly law large package smaller than average size but the box is labeled with a red heart symbol all right maybe
we shouldn't open that one well according to the return address that package was mailed from a Renee bordelet
the office assistant in charge of receiving and distributing the mail started to open the box inside she could
see something wrapped up but what was more alarming was that the the package it stunk
there was an extremely foul odor coming from this package she noticed what she thought to be blood stains on the bottom
of the Box the assistant stopped what she was doing she was too Disturbed and upset to open the package any further
she took the small box to her boss her boss opened up the box inside there were pieces of bright pink tissue paper
stuffed inside the box to protect the contents from being damaged the contents well there was something soft and mushy
wrapped in a black garbage bag she asked the assistant to bring her a pair of scissors and as she cut open the bag she
noted that strong rotting smell just kind of blowing out at her there from she she now knew for certain that there
was something very not right about this situation right but that's when you stop
you call the police and you have them open it you shouldn't open packages like that and you're you are exactly right
Captain that's exactly what she did they called the Ottawa Police they came quickly
um and it would be their job to finish opening up this package inside the officers found a severed left foot and
they found a note and the note read Stephen Harper and Laureen teskey will know who this is oh and I kind of forgot
this was in here Captain so I I do apologize in advance but I'm just reading somebody else's words the note
from what I could find read Stephen Harper and Lauren teskey will know who this is they [ __ ] up big time
um like I said I believe there's more to that note uh but the people that are named here who was Stephen Harper and
Lauren Teske well I I gotta I Gotta Throw in my ignorance here I didn't know who these people were uh Stephen Harper
at the time was the Prime Minister and Lauren is his wife so it appears to me that this might be some kind of tease or
taunting you know when you throw in a big name like the prime minister right into into an awful package like this we
clearly have a victim but but the mention of Harper and teskey like link well but I'm saying the the mention of
these two people these important people likely has no bearing on the case or its
investigation these crime packages being delivered won't stop there for that day
right so we have the horrible package that was received at the headquarters for the conservative party
the police the investigators have a full-blown you know what one would assume will easily turn into a homicide
case they are on high alert they are going to go to the Canada Post that's the country's primary postal operator
right uh there they find a similar package this one is addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada and again it is
from Renee bordele does it have a heart shape on the box I you know I was looking for that I I found in one
article that it said that there was a heart-shaped a heart-shaped symbol on this second package but most of the
Articles never mention that so I don't know if they just got it from it I don't know yeah I don't know if they just
confused the two packages or if it in fact had the same thing but the the important thing here is you'll see the
same name on the return address that Renee bordelet inside the investigators uncovered more gruesome findings this is
a severed left hand again along with the note and this note said you need to speak to Lauren teskey and her family
lots to hide all right so that's the prime minister's wife but we actually don't think that she's involved or he's
involved in this crime at all or would even know anything about possibly the victim or the perpetrator of whoever's
mailing these these horrible packages but one could assume maybe that this is some kind of political act you know like
uh I murdered for the reasons of some political action yeah that somebody that wants to speak out or speak up for
something the investigators are able to trace the origin of these two packages to a post office near Montreal
now there they are sifting through the surveillance footage police find who they believe is the man that they will
be looking for they have video of a Young Man the video shows a Caucasian male possibly in his late 20s or early
30s dropping off several packages matching the two packages that were previously found
but but now they have to put a name to this face the the face of the man mailing the body parts a big mistake
right away from you have identifiers on the box that you're mailing that's a big
mistake well the name Renee bordelet is going to have no ties to the person mailing out these packages
meanwhile back at the apartment building remember the janitor found the Torso there after searching through the trash
police list their findings as such the Torso was found in the suitcase but they also found bloody clothing they found
several sharp blunt objects and papers which they believe might identify a possible suspect and just like the
police did at the post office they're going to want to look at this surveillance footage of the apartment
complex very closely on it they see who they believe to be their suspect a 29 year old man by the name of Luca
Magnotta uh the footage from the surveillance camera showed Luca bringing numerous garbage bags outside police
learned that mcnatta had lived in the apartment building at 5720 decarre Boulevard and apartment 208 and all the
surveillance footage that we're talking about of the apartment scenes of him throwing away the trash and stuff like
that you can see online if you are interested in looking at that the apartment 208 apartment is located on
the building's second floor around 11 30 p.m the police go to the apartment letting themselves in and they find an
apartment that is covered in blood the apartment quickly becomes the central focus in the investigation inside they
find pink bed sheets soaked in blood a purple blood streak shower curtain and they find more blood in the refrigerator
on the table and lots in the bathtub I I had read one report that said that when
they picked up the mattress because they believed because of the amount of blood
that they found over on the mattress that the The Killing had started there right right that when they lifted up the
mattress itself there was so much blood absorbed by that mattress that it had soaked through to the bottom so pretty
quickly law enforcement had they have the apartment they have the location they have now receiving these packages
with severed limbs from a victim we don't have the identity of the victim yet and we also have surveillance
footage of what we possibly believe is the suspect we also believe that he lived in this apartment so now we're
getting some identity here and what else do they find in the apartment as evidence well for the most part the
apartment itself it looked like it had been emptied out like somebody was in the process of moving out of the
apartment but they also find a cryptic message left on the wall somebody had wrote If you don't like the reflection
don't look in the mirror I don't care uh it was obvious to investigators that this Luca Magnotta who had lived at the
apartment had left the apartment and most likely left the area them believing that he is their suspect at the same
time police are discovering additional footage from the building surveillance system this is of Luca with a man of
about the same age and he looks like like the likely victim here now we've seen this video Captain right they're
walking into the apartment building together and it almost looks yeah it looks like they're walking in and and
Luca has some things in his hand I don't know if it's you know take out carry out
something like that but he's he's fumbling trying to get the keys in the door he's got to unlock the door and the
there's really kind of a sad interaction that you see in that video because you know we know the outcome of this
situation right but even viewing that video for the first time you're seeing what what appears to be the suspect and
the victim and where Luca he looks like he's even wearing a wig to me he holds the door open for his victim for the for
the guy that he's going to kill here shortly he holds the door for him in like a sweet Manner and then the victim
steps inside and and stands there turns and waits for Luca to come into the hallway with him if you didn't know the
outcome of this situation you would think that you were looking at two friends walking together into a building
yeah or or possibly romantically involved yeah you know so yeah I don't know it's it's
those things are just as hard you know as far as the gruesome videos those are you know something I don't you know seek
out to watch uh but even these surveillance films especially when once you know that this this guy is going to
end up being a victim those are almost to me as as hard to watch well with all of this this uh
surveillance footage that the police have collected they agree that the footage from the apartment
it looks a lot like the same guy that they have from the footage from the post office mailing the packages so now
that's that's basically their confirmation we've seen both and it looks identical and then you've found
the Torso at the apartment we we know what's going on here at one point in the surveillance video you know like we
talked about you know that we have the suspect and we have the victim walking in together the victim's actually
wearing like a yellow t-shirt of some kind and then when Luca comes back out and he's you know taking out the trash
and stuff he's wearing the victim's shirt yeah certain parts of that surveillance footage video really really
bothered me and really tug at the old heart strings there there's a lot more to get to about this case right after
this quick beer break foreign [Music] [Music] we're back cheers everybody thanks for
the delicious beer big shout out to Amber hook yeah we got a message from your brother Todd on Instagram so cheers
to everybody out there this brings us to May 30th 2012. this is just the day after those two packages are received
and then the Torso is found in the suitcase at the apartment complex we have an international Manhunt that is
underway this is this is after Montreal police named Luca magnata as their suspect and accused him of killing a man
and mailing the body parts to various locations one looking into Old puka uh he he travels the world you know he's
been known to travel to different locations so this makes it you know we have our suspect but now we have a guy
that is a known traveler to even other countries so we gotta catch this individual before this happens again
police identify Luca Rocco magnata age 29 as the suspect he is also known by the names Eric Clinton Newman and
Vladimir Romanov uh there are profiles circulating online describing him as a male model and a bisexual porn actor now
when I say that there are profiles circulating there are a lot of profiles sir calculating and furthermore there
are many many photos of him online and some of the photos aren't actually real they're photoshopped he he kind of
creates his own image he's even known to you know somebody'll be in Miami and he
finds somebody that kind of looks like him and he photoshops his head onto them so it makes it look like he's traveling
to Miami yeah and you'll see a lot of photos that look like he's posing for maybe a magazine or you'll see pictures
of him in fancy sports cars or in front of expensive properties um and like like the captain said we
don't know how many of these photos are photoshopped um right but some are some of them are
so clear that you know so clearly photoshopped that you know they're pretty ridiculous
um he was just a very odd guy well and the thing that you learn there is that he's
he's almost creating a personality he's creating a lifestyle for you to see of him someone that's traveling the world
he's he's riding around in expensive cars going to expensive places creating a Persona online for all of us to view
and admire well and on top of that he's creating fictitious profiles so then therefore those fictitious profiles
could interact with the real profiles so what did he do he'd post a picture of something and then he'd go on to his
fake profiles and like you know the picture or comment on the picture and he would like make up ridiculous claims
like ah Lucas a big huge celebrity here in Canada he is you know he is God in Canada well every Every Morning Captain
when I wake up and I'm eating my lucky charm cereal the first thing I do is I go on to the Facebook page for True
Crime garage and I like us you mean yeah I wake up in it after I eat my Lucky Charms I I take off my
diapers and then my mommy powder my butt uh yeah okay yeah just stop liking us I
can see it just for that tomorrow I'm gonna like me and dislike you the on the following day May 31st 2012 the Montreal
police they tell the global news that they have information suggesting Magnotta had left the country and
they're pretty sure he's in Europe somewhere now media reports suggest that he may have traveled to France but at
this time I mean still really anywhere is a possibility in my opinion he he could be anywhere he
he could still be in Canada or maybe even Russia you know we see from his online profiles his online Persona that
he talks about having Russian ties that he might the ties are to the Russian mafia not only says that but he also
says that he is Russian you know or that he's of Russian and Italian descent so really he could be anywhere now on June
1st the Montreal police identified the victim in Montreal's grisly murder and dismemberment case as missing Concordia
University student Jun Lin yeah now some people will say that his name is Jun Lin
and sometimes you'll sit here Lin June Lin was a 33 year old student from China he was actually reported missing on May
30th this is just one day after a janitor in Montreal found the Torso of the man locked in a suitcase police are
now saying it is possible that Jun Lin the victim in magnata had some sort of relationship well the thing here is
Captain with with Mr Lynn he his his family suspected something was going on before he was actually reported missing
his his boss reported that he had not shown up for work on a particular day and this was very unlike him we also
have his friends they say that they hadn't seen him in days so they reach out to his family and this is where he's
officially reported as missing now how does he come in contact with the old puka well the thing here is at first the
police state that they had they believed that the two might have had some kind of
relationship and I think maybe part of that is from what they could witness from that apartment from the apartment
surveillance footage like I said it it was almost like two friends walking in together or like you said maybe somebody
in a relationship together walking in together but the situation was not that the situation was that he had responded
to some kind of ad that Luca Magnotta had placed looking for uh companionship well yeah it's not that simple the ad
was more wasn't it to make a video who's looking for somebody to join him in making a video and I believe it was like
a sexual video well either way we have the student Lynn responding to an ad um there apparently there was no
long-term relationship as far as I could find John Lin had not even been in Canada for that long or in the area for
that long for there to be a long-term relationship and at this point law enforcement is not releasing all the
information on the notes that they found with the body parts they're also not releasing a lot of the information or
like some of the writings and stuff that they found in mcdonough's apartment and the reason for
this in why the public is calling in into question so much is because I apologize but there's no nice way of
saying this there are still pieces of the victim missing at this point in the investigation You Know Not only was Luca
magnate a scene mailing several packages but it was also communicated somewhere in those notes that six body parts had
been distributed and Luca was claiming that the perpetrator of this crime would most certainly kill again so we have a
threat with him being on the run and we also have uh you know evidence and portions of the victim that still need
to be found we do have a threat on certain people receiving these body parts I mean like we said before some of
the body parts were sent to school and luckily those were intercepted and you know no kid opened up those uh packages
it's around this time in the investigation captain that the police now believe that the video published on
May 25th titled one Luna to take one ice pick again that this is a video depicting the murder of John Lin
committed on camera by Luka Magnotta and there was actually a lot of reaction videos posted on this again a lot of
people not knowing that if it was real or it was hoax you can actually find the footage of that of the reaction videos
uh I think playing any of that material would be out of distaste they suspected him so much that at this point with
Interpol uh in the search for Luka Magnotta they were listing What charges Luca would face if apprehended and these
charges included first degree murder committing an indignity to a dead body publishing obscene material mailing
obscene and indecent and immoral material well and not only that but also threatening criminally uh the the Prime
Minister Stephen Harper yeah along with several members of parliament now in Interpol issued a red notice for Luka
Magnotta what's a red notice I don't I don't know but I'm guessing that that's a pretty I'm guessing the red notice is
like the highest alert notice okay you know find this guy pretty pretty please find this guy with the cherry on top uh
this is at the request of the Canadian authorities magnata is he is to be tracked down apprehended and he's going
to be extradited back to Canada if they can find this guy now the international police are learning quite a bit about
mcnatta's movements after the murder they learned that mcnatta had booked a round-trip flight from Montreal to
France using a passport with his name on it on May 25th this is just four days before they discovered the remains now
Magnotta would be a no-show of course for the return flight after arriving in France mcnatta used a different passport
to check into a hotel the passport name was Kirk Trammell after the Manhunt for Magnotta got underway authorities were
able to trace his cell phone you know magnata even even though he's on the Run he's still using his phone you know many
times on the show we've talked about my theory that some serial killers are addicted to hunting or addicted to
killing people and of course magnata he's a different breed of monster to me he is someone that is addicted to his
phone and addicted to checking the internet so much so that he can't stop himself from logging on one I think some
of it too was he's trying to figure out what uh law enforcement knew about the murders and did they have him as a
suspect yeah so they they trace his phone to the hotel but unfortunately Magnotta had left before they could
track him down so they they go to this hotel looking for Luca they get there he's no longer there but they are on his
Trail now and on June 4th Luca Magnotta is apprehended by Berlin Police at an internet cafe yeah and what is old
self-obsessed [ __ ] staying puka doing he's in the internet cafe Googling himself
you know and I heard if you Google yourself too much you go blind but so he's sitting there looking up uh I think
not only stuff about the case that's happening you know he's searching himself on Google Images yeah and like
you said earlier he's reading news stories about himself as well looking up pictures of himself now when he's first
approached by the Berlin Police he you know he says no you got the wrong guy he gives a fake name he tries this several
times and finally he ends up saying you know he ends up admitting who he is and later fingerprints would confirm this
and he essentially leaves is without incident you know he gets apprehended and he leaves without incident now on
June 5th that same year a package containing a right foot was delivered to the Saint George's school another
package containing a right hand was delivered to false Creek Elementary School in Vancouver both schools opened
as normal the following morning it was confirmed that both packages were sent from Montreal and like the captain said
these things these things were sent to schools and and luckily children didn't end up finding them or seeing them right
and then what they're looking for now is their they want to know you know we got
Luca in custody they're talking with him they're they're trying to figure out where June Lin's
head is and that's because they want to give them a proper burial yeah his family would like to return him to China
now the other thing that we have to be concerned with here is that are all of these packages belonging to the same
victim and it wasn't until June 13 that the four limbs in the Torso were matched
to the victim John Lin using DNA samples from his family and it wasn't until July
1st that the head was recovered at the edge of a small Lake in a Montreal Park after police received an anonymous tip a
lot of people suspect that that tip came from Luca himself but I haven't been able to confirm that myself it's quite
possible you know they they do their investigations a little bit differently than we do they up in Canada they
handled their news a little more discreetly when it comes to these types of situations I'm just going over my
notes Here captain and I wanted to talk about John Lin real quick here our our victim and I misspoke earlier I have in
my notes that he arrived in Canada in July of 2011 so he would have been there long enough for some potential uh
long-term relationship but that was not the case he did not have a long-term relationship with Luka magnata as we
said you know he was he was from China he was going to go to college he was seeking a degree in computer science
from the Concordia University I'm not certain but I I believe that I read that you know this was like a he was going to
be one of the first you know he was certainly the first in his family to travel abroad and go to college this was
kind of not just his dream but also the family dream and you know one one piece of footage that I saw
real you know that really kind of really kind of affected me was you know when we
talk about these victims they're kind of we only get a screen shot you know just
a very brief glimpse into their life because unfortunately and and I hate that it's this way but unfortunately the
victims end up being the smaller part of the story which is which is terrible because that's the worst part of the
story that's the part that lasts forever the hurt that lasts forever now the thing with with Mr Lynn here Not only
was he young and outgoing but there was a video that I saw of him he's singing karaoke
and you just get this vibe that this is this is a a really good guy an outgoing person that's full of life and full of
excitement uh you know and I saw some of his other posts where they were um text messages and pictures that he was
sending back to his family and a lot of it was nature oriented and a lot of it was very
um positive stuff you know look how beautiful it is out today things like that so truly a good person that that
came across just a monster and we've lost him because of that yeah very uh tragic story yeah and on June 18th Luka
magnada was flown aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force plane back to Canada they deemed that there were too many
safety concerns to use uh commercial flight back to to transport him back to Canada now soon after he arrives in
Canada his trial is going to begin well and before the trial happens they're going to be looking into a old pukem not
Hada and as they're looking into this vigil they're going to realize this guy's a sicko right and be long before
the body parts long before the murder long before the the videotape being posted he he was doing some stuff that
should have had them on the radar if you know to me he should have already been locked up and put behind bars are you
gonna call him puka the whole time you got me laughing the first time I'll call him whatever the hell I want to call him
um it doesn't bother me one bit captain no I agree with you there were things going on and there were red flags going
up that this whole tragedy might have been may have never have happened had they picked them up for some of these
other crimes so once they start diving into this we're going to ask who is Luca magnata
foreign [Music] m-a-g-n-o-t-t-a hi Luca how are you today good how are you so thank you by the way you know this is
all right definitely his voice I have a very deep voice a lot of people tell me that actually
how do I get my voice so deep practice makes perfect right you've got kind of a rightfully Pride
going on a lot of people tell me that like they remind me of like 54 that movie you know yeah
oh really yeah I think you look good I think that that your body is a little bit slim I used to be really overweight
to be on honest uh I used to be really overweight I lost like weight really how do you do that oh I just like got up
every morning at like four o'clock and like ran constantly and people would tell me oh stop running stop running and
I just kept doing it basically what's your idea oh God I was I I was I was a lot of overweight actually so like you
know your hair color does that happen uh no actually I just gotta highlight it change things up a bit Yeah
Yeah that's what happened to me yeah for sure yeah definitely yeah that happens sometimes right yeah yeah yeah
I think this foundation will be a little bit built up you know like I think I have no problem gaining weight like I
can gain weight if I need to gain weight muscle definition that could happen really quickly I can
gain weight really quickly I'm gonna say potentially I need to have potential but
I'm gonna ask you to come back next year okay all right um look up I'm I'm surprised
to see how you look because I think you look better in person in front of me than you welcome to your modeling
portfolio Okay I think your photos are Overexposed and blown out all right sir um
a lot of people tell me I'm really devastatingly good looking so I made a picture like that is kind of a
tournament yeah but I think the problem is that what is good for cover eyes always when you're attracted to in your
personal life but now I think you bury your time well everyone has their personal point of view like who who they
like and who they don't like basically I don't think you have the musculature yeah I cannot definitely can gain weight
yeah you don't think I can I can gain muscle everybody can do it you know I can gain muscle I can work
out I'm very determined and every goal that I put my mind to I surpass foreign so we uh we learned what Luca is I mean
Luca is determined and whatever he puts his mind to he accomplishes he also comes off as somebody that's willing to
be whatever you want him to be to fit in I mean there he is trying out for I believe that's his tryout for a thing
called cover guy right um now he had done several of these tryouts now he's ultimately turned down for this this TV
show or for the cover of a magazine whatever this cover guy thing is but uh you hear him you know any any thing that
they point out that they might be looking for that's different he's willing to fit the mold he's willing to
adapt himself physically and mentally to whatever they need which is definitely I
mean you know part of you feels for him you know part of you is you know sadded that there's an individual out there
that is willing to be like okay whatever you want me to be I'll be yeah but he was doing this well before his tryouts
you know and this is what we talked about with his purse Persona online that he's creating of himself well he
definitely has some you know self-loathing he definitely has some kind of you know body dysmorphia uh he
he has a lot of mental issues going on here and we also learned that not only is he constantly changing his appearance
with the use of makeup or dyeing his hair changing his clothing um you know he he's always creating he's
always changing and adapting but we also learned that he's had some cosmetic surgeries done as well and we realized
this because he does an interview he's trying to become a contestant on a show and if you win the show you get cosmetic
surgery so let's go to this little clip of Luca magnata talking about his plastic surgery and his viewpoints on
that foreign and what do you do for a living I'm a model okay do you want to talk about the
other stuff that you do yeah definitely is that okay totally fine basically um I
do a lot of uh adult modeling and um I do adult films as well and I'm pretty comfortable in front of the
camera so I'm doing it for a while and it's been working be good for me so and you do it full time I do it's full time
whether it's doing the films or doing magazines or Internet uh shows what have you um it's all very consistent so it's
been really good for me it's great how long you been doing it on and off for about two years now you know travel and
then I come back to Toronto and do it I go to Montreal and do it go to La so whatever right yeah wherever the
paychecks come from definitely so what is the surgery you're thinking about having done with the procedure
um well it's going to be at the back of my uh head I've had three done sorry two
done already you tell me what it is you're having done that's a hair transplant and basically told me to just
go into the federal yeah tell me a little about the procedure yeah okay so basically uh back of my head here is
going to be frozen I'm awake through the entire procedure and there's like no uh
uh what do you call that an aesthetic there's no like you don't get put under your sleeve right so basically uh they
cut open the back of my head and they take a strip of uh flesh off and they they cut it off and they take it to the
side and nurses work on it for a few hours by taking each uh individual hair out of the graph and then they sew the
back of my head up and that takes about an hour uh so they pull the skin down yeah they pull it they pull it down and
tighten it and sew it back up then while the nurses are working on taking the hairs out the doctor puts me back and he
tries to decide where exactly all of them are going to be needing to be placed so it looks very natural okay and
as you can tell here in the front of my head oh the hair is growing in pretty nice because I used to be receding so
it's it's grown in and it's basically to take all the individual hairs and one by
one they put it transplanted into my scalp and um wherever they feel it needs to be yeah definitely so it's all filled
in and there's no I guess it's basically uh at the back of my head here it's I cover well with my hair but uh it's with
uh it's going uh not bald but I don't have a denial here you know what I mean I guess you
can say it is kind of going bald then but it's I I just every time I look in the mirror it seems to be getting worse
so I want to like completely yeah eliminate it and stop it you know before obviously because I can have my hair
looking uh like I'm 50 years old when I'm 25 right so I want it to look pretty good
yeah and um I've had cosmetic surgery center in the past so I'm pretty used to them and what have you had done in the
past had my eyes done here because they used to have dark circles underneath my eyes and it
was completely making me look like I was tired all the time um I've had my nose done I've had two
hair transplants like I said before and I'm planning on doing muscle implants in my pecs and my arms so
that just remains to be seen but because that's pretty I think you're a bit of an
addict yeah my name is Luca and I'm a cosmetic surgery addict but yeah I I would say to
be able to be completely honest I I think that I I am because just the profession that I'm in it
makes me more aware of my looks because I'm constantly seeing other people you know that are extremely good looking
how they look and I'm comparing myself so I need to um step up my game basically and that's why I'm having
all these procedures done do you feel it's more a modeling thing or more of an adult entertainment thing do you feel
the pressure I would say it has to be both because both Industries are so competitive uh
that they they they both need you to look your best all the time and there's just a lot of stress and a lot of
anxiety in both Industries you know so I have to say a bit about definitely there's pressure to look good there is
so much pressure look there because you're you're on set with these other people and you know you see how they
look and then after you all your little flaws start coming down you're like oh well you know this person looks that way
and they have this sort of body this sort of face and hair and now I compare myself to this person so he has like
Fuller hair so now I want Fuller hair he has a better nose so I want a better nose and this person's face doesn't have
those so why should I have it if I could just pay for it to have uh taken away and corrected why not I don't it's any
problem with it you look like you're I mean you're a handsome guy I can't imagine you weren't that handsome before
you know what a lot of people tell me that they say you know what oh you don't need it you
don't need it but before I was uh I was good looking but it was starting to fade
and I was starting to get very self-conscious with that and I I couldn't I could not deal with having my
looks go you know because before it was a receding like I was saying and my nose
was a bit different and my you know now I just take very good care of myself by going to the gym all the time working
out you know eating properly so I don't want to kind of defeat the purpose if I was doing all that exercise and then
you know looking at kind of ugly like so when I'm in the when it's seriously when I'm in the uh the chair
and they're doing like say my hair or something or they can say oh well we better it really gets because they say
to me we better cut it uh a bit longer at the back because we can see that's starting to and I'm like don't even tell
me that do not even tell me that it's starting to get uh within the back side I don't want to hear I'm in denial like
I said about it so I'm like okay I've been hearing it so much lately and the other act like the actresses who I work
with are like um yeah it's kind of they like pointed out I'm like you know what that is not
nice okay I don't want to hear it so but they do tell me it and you know I guess
uh I have to hear it because you know just reality so how important are your looks to you oh my god
that's number one okay number one is looks number two would have to be intelligence and I don't know what the
rest are well I do I like care about is number one basically all I do is care about how I look
um by getting close basically because you know what when you're going up to parties when you're going to events or
you're going traveling everywhere you don't you have to constantly work wear something new all the time you know you
can't you know it's very it's very it's a very strange industry but a lot of people can
understand unless you're in it you know so do you think um I enjoy it though yeah have you always been obsessed with
your looks like I mean I have like seriously people say to me all the time even when I was a teenager they're like
oh you're completely vain all you do is like stare in the mirror if you walk by the mirror all you do is like glance and
look at it you know when you're in a restaurant you just like take like your spoons like do a little like look in it
and you know try to like check and see if you're okay and a lot of my friends and family are just
saying you know what you're obsessed with it you're just so obsessed with how you look and so obsessed with your
cosmetic surgeries that we don't understand this you know we don't still understand you're becoming something
completely different and then going into it an industry where it's all about your
lungs it is you know so when you go from you know when you're in high school or something and your looks you know
they're they're important but not like everything then you just go into an industry like people on their day-to-day
jobs like who are not even in this industry they really don't have to look they're better look presentable they
don't have to like look perfect but when you're doing this in front of the camera
basically it's a whole different story you know what I mean people judge you so much and it's it's not really nice but
you know it's the way things are if you don't look good you don't look this way you can't get that job you can't do this
have you ever heard of uh body dysmorphic disorder have you heard of that term I've heard of it uh briefly I
know that it's people who look good and they think that they look completely hideous so I I don't have too much
knowledge into the whole thing so you think I mean you don't think you look hideous you think you look good you just
want to look even I think that I used to look hideous and after that after when I
got all of my procedures done I'm starting to look better and better but I still feel as though I can look
even more uh have some you know if I I finished my journey into getting the surgeries done
yeah you know what I mean do you um do you think it'll help you like in the adult entertainment industry do you
think this is going to get you more work or make you more I have to say that um it would get me a lot more work if I
do get the hair transplant done because I noticed a difference when I didn't have it
as opposed to now because before it was as though um I noticed that the jobs were going
more and more to the other people and after I got the procedures done I noticed that I was the one who was
getting more and more of the work so now I'm like okay what happens if I get um more and more work done then that
means I'm going to get more and more work obviously and I think that once I get the whoops yeah let's look at the
implants and pack implants and stuff because a lot of the guys I notice I work out like a nut so other guys who
are getting the jobs are like getting bigger bodies so I'm like you know what I'm just going to follow whatever they
do because they're getting bigger bodies and Better Bodies so that's going to make me more money I have to do that I
mean they're getting more jobs so I wonder why so I look at what they're doing and it just makes logical
sense to me that I would do it too yeah so do you think that having the surgery is going
to make a big change in your life it's going to make a drastically uh different change
in my life and it's just gonna give me more self-esteem and like make me feel amazing about myself
because it's very important for people to have high self-esteem and to feel good about themselves and if
going under the knife can help somebody achieve that then I think that it's a great thing yeah you know
um people's kind of people look at it as like a magical new experience but it's just it's not really that
um different it's not really that bad you know when you go under your you know even though I'm awake you know I I
can still feel them cutting open my head but it's not like you feel the pain you
know what I mean but you just have to stay there for like hours and hours in the field and cutting open your head and
putting it in and you can actually feel like the blood dripping down the back of
your neck and and it's kind of graphic I mean like throws everybody out here but
it's like seriously graphic um what do you see when you look in the mirror now like what
oh God when I look at the mirror now I just saw the little flaws just come out and I'm just like
you know what I can notice that I can just if I just I want to fix that I want to fix this and what other what other
things I mean other than you like the other stuff that you're looking to fix other than your hair and your packages
okay it doesn't sound really weird but I've seen this other guy on a cosmetic surgery show and he had on his forehead
here he had like two little bumps in his skull and they protrude out of his forehead like just
two bumps here in my head um because my bone sticks out a little bit on my forehead like just two little
bumps yeah and he had his grinded down but he couldn't do it all the way because if he did his photo would
collapse they had to dig stop but because he thought it looked like devil horns and I noticed when I look in
the mirror that I have the same thing too like one gear and one here so I want I want to taken off my forehead and look
there and I'm like damn it's getting bigger and bigger on my forehead so I just I want that done and I like is that
do you see an end to the Cosmetic Surgery like will you ever be perfect in your own eyes
you know what I just I don't think I I know that there's so much things I'm going to do and I don't care whether or
not I have to work every single day every hour I'll do it and get all my Cosmic surgeries done maybe there might
not be an end maybe there will be an end but I just know that I'm just going to keep doing it until I'm personally
definitely even if anybody else says to me so uh you know what Luca you look really good I don't believe in them I
just think they're saying that foreign that's kind of an interesting look into the way Lucas Luca magnata's brain works
and how he views himself that is from an audition from a show called plastic makes perfect which took place in 2008.
now we still got a lot to get to as far as Luca Magnotta goes we got to talk about his early life some other crimes
that he has committed and his trial and we'll do that on tomorrow's show and we also have a special surprise on
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Brief Summary

Luca Magnotta's gruesome murder of Jun Lin and the mailing of body parts to schools are detailed in this episode.

Key points

Body Parts Discovered at Schools. Two packages containing human remains were found at local schools in Vancouver.
Gruesome Internet Video. A lawyer discovers a shocking video that leads to a police investigation.
Severed Limbs Mailed to Politicians. Packages containing severed body parts were sent to Canadian political offices.
Luca Magnotta Identified. Surveillance footage leads police to suspect Luca Magnotta in a gruesome crime.
Luca Magnotta's Surveillance Footage. Investigators discover footage showing Luca with his victim, creating a chilling contrast to their fate.
International Manhunt for Magnotta. After the gruesome discovery of body parts, police launch a manhunt for Luca Magnotta, who is now a suspect.

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Anchor's reaction to the discovery of body parts.

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