>> Reporter: At first it sounded
crazy, a human foot had been
mailed to conservative party
headquarters.
>> Reporter: A torso was
found stuffed in a suitcase.
>> Reporter: The suspect is
a 29-year-old model and
self-styled porn actor named
Luka Rocco Magnotta.
>> Reporter: The most we
know of Luka Magnotta comes
from the digital trail he
created on himself.
>> Reporter: Police
agencies around the world
are circulating photos of
Luka Magnotta.
>> Reporter: Magnotta is
wanted for the gruesome
murder and dismemberment
of 33-year-old Jun Lin.
>> Reporter: He was
spotted, questioned, and
then arrested ending a
feverish manhunt that has made
headlines around the world.
>> Mark: This is where the
hunt for Luka Magnotta ended.
When police finally arrested
him, he was looking at
pictures of himself on the
Internet.
Tonight you'll hear from people
who knew Magnotta.
Their stories have never been
told on TV before.
>> I mean I knew he had
problems.
I mean it showed.
>> In my heart of hearts, I
knew it was Luka within the
first 30 seconds of the video.
>> Someone had to pay attention
to him every moment of every
day.
It was a drug for him.
>> Mark: It was a painfully
public story and a deeply
personal story, and much of it
played out in a virtual world.
Good evening.
I'm Mark Kelley, and welcome
to the "Fifth Estate."
The story of Luka Magnotta
isn't an easy one to tell,
but it is an important one
to learn.
We were all shocked when we
heard the lurid details of
the murder of Jun Lin.
A crime Magnotta has been
charged with, a charge he
has pleaded not guilty to.
But a group of on-line
investigators had been
monitoring Magnotta for 18
months leading up to his
arrest, observing his
disturbing behaviour,
warning authorities
repeatedly that he was a
danger to society.
Tonight you'll meet them and
hear what they uncovered
during their investigation,
the missed opportunities,
and the lessons they learned
hunting Magnotta.
[ ♪♪ ]
>> Mark: It's May 2012 in a
sparse apartment in Montreal.
29-year-old Luka Magnotta is
spending hours alone and
on-line, a virtual shut-in
desperately looking for fame
and recognition.
Police say it was in his
apartment that he planned
and executed a bold and
bloody attack.
Then videotaped it for the
world to see.
But what would push anyone
to do this?
And how did he go from
Internet wannabe to the
object of an international
manhunt?
And why would anyone go this
far to get our attention?
[ ♪♪ ]
>> Magnotta was born
Eric Clinton Newman in 1982.
He grew up in Scarborough
east of Toronto, the eldest
of three.
His parents split when Eric
was young.
In his on-line postings, he
wrote that growing up, he
was close to his grandmother,
Phyllis.
He says he was home schooled
because he was told the world
was a dirty and dangerous
place.
But he went from one broken
home to another when his
grandparents' marriage also
ended in divorce.
His mother now had a new
boyfriend.
Eric described him as a
monster.
As for his father, the two
had now drifted far apart.
The only bright light in his
family life was his sister
Melissa, one of the few people,
beyond himself, he would ever
describe as beautiful.
His family life in shambles,
he wrote there was no relief
at high school where he said
he was an outcast.
So what do his classmates
remember?
Well for someone who would
go on to be so notorious,
they say he didn't act out
or stand out.
He was, in short, forgettable.
By the time he was 22, there
wasn't a whole lot to know
about Eric Newman.
But we now know he was
struggling with depression.
He underwent a psychiatric
assessment and was prescribed
medication for life.
That would play a part in
what happened next.
In 2004, he befriended a
21-year-old girl on-line.
She had the mental capacity
of an eight- to 12-year-old.
He used her credit cards to
rack up thousands in unpaid
bills, but police say he didn't
stop there.
They allege he also sexually
assaulted the woman and
videotaped it.
Newman's lawyer was Peter
Scully.
Was that a concern of yours
when you initially took this
case, that this guy was preying
on a mentally disabled woman?
>> Definitely.
Compared to the fraud charges,
the sexual-assault allegation
was infinitely more
problematic.
>> Mark: Then something
unexpected happened.
Before the trial even started,
the crown dropped the sexual
assault charge against his
client.
Now looking back, Scully is
unsettled by that decision.
Had he been convicted of
that, what impact would that
have on his life?
>> Huge.
>> Mark: How so?
>> Well he would have been
on a sexual offender, uh,
monitoring which means he
has to report to an officer
supervising him and probably
for life.
>> Mark: So the decision not
to pursue those charges changed
his life immeasurably.
>> Immeasurably, with huge
ramifications to our society
eventually.
>> Mark: Newman was convicted
of the fraud charges.
The judge, aware of his
psychiatric assessment,
warned him.
"You have a medical problem,
and you need to always take
medication.
If you do not, your life is
going to get messed up."
After years of turmoil with
few prospects for the
future, Eric Newman needed
to reinvent himself.
In 2006, he legally changed
his name to Luka Rocco
Magnotta.
He began a transformation
that led him to Toronto's gay
community where he met Barbie,
a transgendered woman, who
would become his girlfriend.
Changing his name was easy.
Changing who he was,
much harder.
>> I mean I knew he had
problems.
I mean it showed, you know,
when I was with him.
>> Mark: How?
>> Just, just his body
language, stuff he would do
sometimes.
Um, it's just, you know, in
his character, you could
just-- his mannerisms.
>> Mark: But Magnotta was a
master of self-promotion.
He marketed himself as a model
and a high-flying escort.
He'd appeared in a handful
of porn movies.
No stage too small for his
ambitions.
>> I'm a swimmer so I keep
myself in shape.
>> What's it's been like for
you becoming an escort?
Do you enjoy your work?
>> Yeah, you know, I really
do enjoy my work.
I get to meet new people all
the time and, you know, I'm
a people person, and it just
worked out great for me,
you know.
>> Mark: He basked in the
attention he received on the
Internet show "Naked News."
>> You know what the best
part is?
The best part about being an
escort is I'm my own boss.
I get to pick my own hours,
and I make a lot of money.
>> He said he wanted to be
famous one day.
I mean that was his dream.
He said, "One day, I'm going
to be famous."
>> Mark: Everything he did,
an attempt to build the legend
of Luka Magnotta.
>> He was just really into
himself, you know, with the
photos, with me, he would
always beg me to take pictures
of him on his digital camera,
right?
It was all about him in the
relationship when I was with
him.
>> Mark: And what was his
image?
Or what did he want his
image to be?
>> Beauty.
He wanted beauty and
perfection.
He wanted to stay youthful
looking, you know.
>> I have had my nose done.
I have 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 because it's pretty --
>> Do you think you are a
bit of an addict?
>> Yeah, my name is Luka,
and I'm a cosmetic surgery
addict.
>> Mark: Magnotta was
developing a pathological need
to get noticed, and what better
platform than auditioning
for a reality TV show called
"Plastic Makes Perfect."
>> It will look before and
after.
>> How important are your
looks to you?
>> Oh, my God, that's number 1.
Okay.
Number 1 is looks.
Number 2 would have to be
intelligence, and I don't
know what the rest are.
All I care about is number 1,
basically, all I do so...
>> Mark: The producers took
one look and rejected him.
>> My name is Luka Magnotta,
M-A-G-N-O-T-T-A.
>> Mark: But for every
exhibitionist, there's
another reality TV show
waiting in the wings.
This was his audition for a
role as an underwear model
on the show "Cover Guy."
>> A lot of people tell me,
I'm really devastatingly
good looking.
>> Mark: The judges didn't
see him that way.
Once again, he was told he
didn't have what it takes to
make it on TV.
Once again, he was rejected.
At this point, Magnotta was
starved for attention, and a
man he was about to meet was
prepared to give it to him.
>> Well he walked as if he
was on a stage or as if he
was on a ramp for modelling
clothes.
He walked a very special way
and was always watching his
posture.
I just thought, I've never met
anybody like this before.
>> Mark: Henry, a successful
professional, isn't his real
name.
He asked for his identity to
be hidden because he feels
his friendship with Magnotta
would ruin his reputation.
The two travelled together,
and Henry, a gay man, was
eager to get closer to his
young friend.
He says despite Magnotta's
lust for the camera Lens, he
shied away from any intimacy.
>> Just somebody who
continually said, I have a
private life, and I don't share
it with anybody.
There was a wall, and I didn't
try to get through it because I
just thought he made it pretty
clear that I couldn't get any
closer.
No closer.
That's all.
>> Mark: Despite his best
efforts, Magnotta was bankrupt.
His professional life as
empty as his personal life.
There were no more movie
offers, no more TV auditions.
His interests were now getting
darker with a growing fixation
for serial killers.
>> Well I heard stories about
him on-line, about him dating
Karla Homolka, but I knew that
was all lies, you know.
I mean I knew he made that
up himself because he was,
you know, very fascinated by
her and Paul Bernardo.
So he wanted to link his name
to her, almost like an obsessed
fan, you know.
Why?
Um, I guess obsession, right?
>> Mark: Magnotta even went
so far as to create this
tribute video to Karla Homolka
suggesting they had a life
together.
Though if you take a closer
look, the blonde woman he's
sitting with here, that's
actually his mother.
Now after creating the
rumours he was involved with
Homolka, the master of
self-promotion contacted the
press to deny them.
>> I'm about to have a
nervous breakdown here.
My reputation is completely
ruined.
Um, I just want every-- I just
want to set the record straight
that me and her have absolutely
no connection.
>> Mark: He created a minor
stir, but Magnotta needed
something bigger and bolder,
and he knew exactly what to do.
He was in search of attention,
and he was about to get it
big time.
[ ♪♪ ]
[ ♪♪ ]
>> Mark: It's the fall of 2010.
Luka Magnotta has spent years
feeding his seemingly
insatiable appetite for
attention, but after all the
reality TV auditions, the
plastic surgery, and the
on-line myth making, he was
still hungry for more, and he
got his inspiration from the
darkest corners of the
Internet.
On Magnotta's Facebook page,
he posted a link to a video
called "3 Guys 1 Hammer."
The video is appalling,
revealing a man being
savagely beaten to death.
Made by a group of teenaged
killers, the video was a
sensation for the legions of
blood seekers who troll the
web.
Then shortly before Christmas,
someone was hyping a video
on message boards.
The video was called "1 Boy,
2 Kittens."
It depicts an unidentified man
placing two kittens in a sealed
bag, and then sucking out the
air with a vacuum.
The camera lingers while the
kittens slowly suffocate.
In the on-line world, where
images of unspeakable violence
are just a click away, it might
seem strange, but there is an
unwritten rule.
There's an Internet subculture
that firmly believes that you
never, ever mess with cats.
So minutes after the video
appeared, the outrage went
viral.
>> I don't think I've ever had
a reaction like that to
something like that before
that was so intense because
I was just, uh --
it wasn't normal.
>> Mark: Ryan Boyle, a former
U.S. soldier with the on-line
name "Save Kitty" went on the
offensive.
He formed a Facebook group.
4,000 people signed on
overnight.
>> These were not people
that were being paid money.
They weren't doing it for
the fame.
They weren't doing it for
recognition.
They were doing it -- we all
had the same thing in mind.
We want to catch this guy,
and everyone was volunteering
their own time, their own
effort, taking time away from
their families to come in here,
mostly anonymously, to help
with this one thing.
>> Mark: The vacuum kitten
killer, as he was now known
on the Internet, then released
two more videos and photos 24
hours after the original.
The identity of the killer
still concealed.
The on-line investigators
felt he was taunting them.
>> There was something about
the way he did this.
He loved on these cats.
He pet them.
He snuggled with them, and
then he murdered them.
This guy that's doing this
or this girl, we didn't know
at the time, is a vile human
being, and this needs to stop.
>> Mark: Her on-line name is
Body Mov'in.
She's one of 11 members of a
group called the Animal Beta
Project.
The activists target animal
abusers on-line.
She wanted her identity
protected because she fears
retribution from the people
she hunts.
>> We are all justice seekers.
We're all right seekers,
you know.
We all want to -- we're all
tired of being --
I don't know how to
say this -- we're all tired of
being pushed around by
people who say this is
acceptable behaviour.
It's not acceptable behaviour
to film yourself hurting an
animal and uploading it for
fun or profit.
>> Mark: John Green, also an
alias, joined the group,
convinced the vacuum kitten
killer video was just a dress
rehearsal for something much
worse.
>>> What did you feel was at
stake?
>> We felt he would continue,
that he would harm other
animals and eventually move on
to something even more violent,
hurting a person.
>> Mark: The amateur sleuths
began the arduous task of
deconstructing the video,
frame by frame, looking for
any clues that might reveal
the identity and the location
of the kitten killer.
And then a major breakthrough.
These photos were planted on
a website.
Same kittens, same apartment
as the video, but the face of
the killer was no longer
blurred.
Ryan Boyle, the former soldier,
now believes they came from
Magnotta.
The question is, had Magnotta
drawn attention to himself just
to get attention?
>> Yeah, he did.
That was the whole purpose,
but see the question is, if he
wanted to be known, why did he
do something that was going to
send him to jail where he will
never be heard from again?
I don't understand.
Was he crazy?
He was crazy.
>> Mark: Four days later,
another clue, hand delivered
once again, they believe, by
Magnotta.
>> The name of the kitten
vacuumer you're looking for
is Luka Magnotta.
He was born in Russia, lives
in Los Angeles, and has lived
in several different countries.
The apartment in the video
is located in West Hollywood.
Hope this helps.
I'm 100% serious.
>> While Magnotta revealed his
name and his face, he continued
to cloak his location keeping
himself safe from the
possibility of legal
prosecution.
So the amateur investigators
googled his name to try to
find him, and even they were
overwhelmed by what they
discovered.
>> We started doing research,
and we had to stop and say,
is this real?
Are we imagining this, or
it's too surreal.
This can't be happening, and
we had to take a step back
and say, let's look at this
from an objective mode.
Is this real.
>> Mark: What was surreal?
>> Everything on the Internet
about him.
>> Mark: Magnotta's carnivorous
narcissism exploded before
their eyes, all his multiple
looks and identities, designed
to both promote and protect.
They read him boast of his
ties to serial killers and
the Russian mob.
They read how he said he was
persecuted because of his
white supremist sympathies,
and they marvelled at his
imagined celebrity as a
model and porn star.
Luka is the prince of Canada
writes one fan, likely
Magnotta.
He is a God here.
>> If you have 50 different
blogs and a whole bunch of
Youtube profiles and Myspace
profiles, and I can't evence
name -- it seems like every
day, they're finding totally
new different websites that he,
uh, purportedly created.
You've got to spend a
lot of time on the internet.
>> Had a house in Paris.
>> Had a house in Paris,
Miami, Boston.
I mean...
>> There's pictures of him
with sports cars making it
look like he lives this
glamorous lifestyle but...
>> Hundreds of Facebook
profiles and pages and groups.
>> Mark: But finding himroups.
wouldn't be easy.
Magnotta made himself a
citizen of the world.
There he was in Los Angeles
driving a fancy car or sitting
in a hot tub surrounded by
friends or another at some
exotic beach location.
>> They're all photoshopped.
They're all photoshopped.
We found the images that
you're speaking of, you know,
of him in Miami in front of the
Miami sign, and he's sitting
there looking cool.
That's not him.
That's actually somebody
else, and he put his head on
that person's body.
You know, he says that he's
in Russia.
He says he's in Miami.
He says he's in Los Angeles.
He says he's in New York,
all at the same time, and
nobody can do that.
Nobody can be in five different
places on the same day.
>> Mark: They were determined
to find him and stop him, and
they got the break they needed
when they came across
this seemingly innocuous
picture.
They knew digital pictures
contain invisible data, bits
of stored information
embedded in the photos.
Using that, the on-line
investigators could determine
details about the make, model,
even the colour of Magnotta's
camera.
Pink, by the way.
They could also determine
when and where some of the
pictures were taken.
This picture was taken on a
cellphone and stamped with a
G.P.S. location.
Turned out, Magnotta was in
Toronto.
>> The Toronto Eaton Centre.
So that's late October.
Okay.
The images from the kittens
were taken on November 28th.
>> Mark: Now that they knew
where he was, they contacted
the Ontario S.P.C.A. with an
urgent request.
>> We were like, this is it.
We got a name.
We got a location.
Give it to the police, and
they'll handle it from here.
>> Mark: An inspector with
the O.S.P.C.A., Brad Dewar,
says a file was opened on
Magnotta in January 2011,
and it was treated as a
priority.
>> Certainly, um, past history
has proven that acts of cruelty
will accelerate to acts of
cruelty to, um, children and to
adults.
>> Mark: You've seen that?
You've seen that link?
>> That link has been proven
by the FBI.
>> Mark: Dewar says the
O.S.P.C.A. was now working with
Toronto police and the R.C.M.P.
to find Magnotta.
>> The information that we
had was that he was in Toronto,
but if he was bunking with
someone or living somewhere
else, there was no fixed
address with his name on it.
>> Mark: So you're telling
me here that there was no
way if he was living in
Toronto as we know, there
was no way to find him with
whatever resources you had
or the Toronto police service,
the R.C.M.P., whoever else
you've reached out to,
with all these agencies
together, no one could find him
in the City of Toronto?
>> Not at that point, no.
>> Mark: Really?
>>And in our minds, why is it
so difficult to find this
person, you know?
All they have to do is go to
their system, type in the name
and find him.
It boggled us at times.
How can this person
get around so freely and not
be found.
>> Mark: The Toronto police had
been contacted in February
2011.
Now eight months later,
Magnotta hadn't been found,
hadn't been questioned.
The on-line investigators
warned police he was an
animal abuser, a public danger.
But you can imagine in a big
city like Toronto, questioning
an alleged on-line kitten
killer probably wasn't a
priority.
Magnotta's pursuers had
backed off for now, but he
was about to get their
attention again.
>> I got a message from
somebody saying you might
want to look at this video.
>> He sent the link to me,
and my heart literally sank.
All that we had done,
everything that we had done
was for nothing.
Here he is doing it again.
>> Mark: The new videos were
posted in November and
December of 2011, a year
after the vacuum killings.
In one, an unidentified man
wearing a Santa hat feeds a
live kitten to a python.
In the other, a kitten is duct
taped to a broom handle,
then drowned in a bathtub.
>> I knew it was Luka.
I mean in my heart of hearts,
I knew it was Luka within the
first 30 seconds of the video.
>> It felt like he was waving
his-- sticking our noses in it.
He was basically saying, look,
I've done it again.
You're not going to catch me.
[ ♪♪ ]
[ ♪♪ ]
>> Mark: It was July 2011 in
Montreal.
And a young man had just
arrived following his dream
to go to university here.
Jun Lin had grown up in
rural China.
Now he was the great hope of
his family.
He was pursuing a degree in
computer science at
Concordia University.
Once he graduated he planned
to support his parents and
younger sister with his new
career.
Lin was 33 years old, but his
mother still worried about him
living in a big foreign city.
So he'd walk the streets with
his cellphone and stream images
back to her.
His message to her in their
daily conversations was
always the same.
Don't worry he told her.
I'm safe.
>> I do.
I got a great view of my condo.
Other than this bitch keeps
complaining about me.
>> Mark: But where was Luka
Magnotta?
He'd left Toronto planting a
story claiming he'd fled to
Russia.
Still his pursuers hadn't
given up finding him.
>> We felt like we were
always one step behind him.
Eventually he's going to
make a mistake, and he's
going to give us a piece of
information that's going to
give us exactly where he's at.
That was to us the one piece
of information we didn't
have an exact address.
>> (Voiceover): Your help is
needed ...
>> Mark: The team of Internet
experts had now spent a year
analyzing Magnotta's on-line
footprint.
They released this video to
the Internet.
Illustrating his kaleidoscope
of identities.
This video, a worldwide alert
asking for help in bringing him
to justice.
The question, where in the
world was he?
>> (Computer voice): We need
your help.
Luka also goes by the name Eric
Clinton, Kirk Newman, and
Vladimir Romanov as well as
hundreds of other aliases.
>> Mark: Magnotta was making
news in London.
This headline in the U.K. Sun
on December 3 last year urged
people to help catch the sicko.
Two days later, who but
Magnotta himself would walk
into the Sun's office to deny
any link to the videos.
>> Why would you run?
>> Mark: Sun reporter Alex
West confronted Magnotta.
>> You can pretend to
someone you are not on the
Internet?
>> People frame me so isn't
that logical to try to defend
myself.
>> But they're not pretending
to be someone they're not.
>> You are not answering me.
>> They're not pretending to
someone they're not.
>> They're pretending to be me.
>> People are pretending to
be you?
>> Isn't that obvious.
>> Mark: Two days later, the
Sun received this e-mail
believed to be from Magnotta.
"It's fun watching people
work so hard gathering all the
evidence, and 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.
Next time you hear from me,
it will be in a movie I am
producing that will some
humans in it, not just
pussies."
The London police were
notified.
They said it was out of
their jurisdiction.
So he slipped out of the U.K.
and disappeared back into
his virtual world.
Those who were looking for
him knew police aren't going
to spend their time building
a case against a suspected
cat killer.
They knew they had to
tighten the noose, and they
knew they had to do it
themselves.
>> I think our biggest
frustrations was getting
people to believe us.
>> Mark: Ryan Boil the former
soldier now commanding a
Facebook army of 4,000 people
looking for Magnotta knew they
needed hard evidence.
>> No one really cared.
We had a lot of trouble
getting help from anybody.
So the way we felt about it
was, well we just needed to
build the case stronger.
We had to make it-- that was
really-- that was sort of
our goal was we wanted to
make a case that was so rock
solid, it was impossible to
ignore.
>> Mark: So the animal
activists produced a C.S.I.
like video laying out their
case against Magnotta.
The proof Magnotta and the
Kitten Killer were one and
the same they asserted was
right in front of their eyes.
The furniture in the videos
matched the furniture in
Magnotta's personal photos.
They matched the animals he
killed with ones he posed with.
They pointed out the
similarities in the clothing
the killer wore and the
clothes Magnotta wore.
And look, this chair seen in
the python video appears in
pictures posted on Magnotta's
own website.
>> (Computer voice): Please
remember this face.
>> Mark: Brad Dewar of the
Ontario S.P.C.A. conceded the
case against Magnotta was
mounting, but without a suspect
to question, what could be
done?
>> Our goal at that point is
to confirm those details.
So it's great that those
details came forward, but
now as an officer who's
investigating the case, we
have to confirm that, and
that is why we needed to
further the investigation
with police services, to try
to locate this person, and
to try to find out where
they are so that we can
confirm those details.
>> Mark: While Magnotta had
a sweeping presence on-line,
in the real world, he was like
a Specter.
No credit cards.
No paper trail.
Ironically he seemed to
glide through life unnoticed.
(indiscernible)
The on-line investigators were
now learning more about his
lies designed to throw them
off.
For example, in the vacuum
video, a voice can be heard
in the background speaking
Russian, a clue perhaps the
video was made in Russia,
but they traced the voice
back to a Russian TV series.
Magnotta had recorded the
audio and inserted it in the
video.
(speaking in Russian)
>> Mark: He also posted an
Arizona phone number from one
of his known alias accounts
claiming he was moving there to
open a business.
But as his pursuers tracked
Magnotta, it appeared he was
also tracking them, and to make
sure they knew, he posted
details about their private
lives.
If you were trying to size him
up, you were trying to figure
him out, you can imagine he was
probably trying to figure you
guys out as well.
>> Absolutely.
>> Yeah.
He's mentioned us.
He has mentioned my name
several times.
He would name certain
pictures that he would send us
with some of our profile names.
It was-- so it was this back
and forth between us, but we
knew-- we knew we knew more
about him than he would ever
know about us.
>> Mark: Magnotta would even
send them this not so subtle
message connecting to the
opening animation of the
Steven Speilberg film "Catch
Me if You Can."
But the on-line investigators
knew he would slip up sooner or
later.
And then a tip, Magnotta may
be in Montreal.
So they began to go through
their archives of pictures
looking for any that might
place him there.
This photo attracted their
attention because of the
unique street lights.
>> And they're ornamental.
They're very kind of
ornamental.
You know that is specific to
a city.
>> Also the light poles were
very unique.
They were straight and then
rounded very slightly, and
they looked unique to me.
>> So there is just-- you take
pieces-- you take that photo,
and you look for things that he
can't manipulate that's there.
You look for a landmark, and
you just start going to Google
maps.
>> Looking for those street
lights.
>> All we would do is we'd go
to Google maps.
Go to an intersection.
Go to the streetview and
look at the lamp.
Light poles and the street
lights.
>> If it wasn't that, we moved
on to the next city.
>> So we started looking in
Montreal.
Said well here we go.
Black poles, black street
lights.
This seems to be the area,
and basically what we do is
we just take like a grid
pattern.
You go here, and you start
looking for this location.
>> Mark: They found exact
intersection in Montreal.
They tracked him down, and
now they were closing in.
Where did you think he was
going next?
You were trying to anticipate
his every move.
>> I remember specifically
posting in our little secret
group -- somebody has to do
something, and I don't know
who that somebody is, but
this is getting out of control.
He's threatening to kill
people.
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>> What's up and hi to all my
fans.
>> Mark: It's hard to pinpoint
what was fuelling Luka
Magnotta's desire for fame and
recognition.
>> I just did what else you
want me to say.
>> Mark: Did it start when
he was Eric Newman, the sad
kid from Scarborough?
Was his narcissism a way to
mask his personal and
professional failures and
his struggle with mental
illness?
It's hard to say where it
started, but soon people
around the world would know
his name.
It was spring 2012, and Jun
Lin, the exchange student from
China was settling in to his
home in Montreal.
He would send picture backs
to his mother expressing the
joy he had found in his new
life here.
This is the last one he sent.
A simple park in his
neighbourhood.
Isn't it beautiful, he wrote?
5720 Decarie Boulevard,
apartment 208.
Luka Magnotta had just moved
here.
The lives of these two men
were about to intersect.
>> Your help is needed to
locate Luka Magnotta.
>> Mark: In April a video is
posted on the web urging
people to join a Facebook group
to find the "serial killer".
It's believed Magnotta made
this video and issued thise
warning.
>> (Computer voice): Do not
approach Luka Magnotta.
He is a dangerous psychopath.
>> Mark: The on-line
investigators felt they were
closing in.
They had spent 18 months on
his trail ever since he made
his first kitten video.
Now they were sure he was in
Montreal.
They sent that information
to the Toronto police and
Brad Dewar at the Ontario
S.P.C.A.
>> We immediately reached
out to the S.P.C.A. in
Montreal, and Montreal
Police Services to identify
that we had this concern
with this individual and we
were seeking some help.
>> Mark: Was that good enough
in your opinion for something
to be done.
>> It was certainly enough
information was provided to
raise the alarm and to continue
to question, to ascertain
this person and to speak to
them, to make contact.
It was enough information to
make contact.
>> Mark: Did any S.P.C.A.
official did, any police
official speak to this guy
through this timeline now
where we're getting to more
than a year, a year-and-a-half?
>> Not that I'm aware of.
>> Mark: So the on-line
investigator contacted the
Montreal police themselves,
telling them Magnotta was a
threat, but to Montreal
police, Magnotta was a
nobody.
They had no file on him.
There was no warrant for his
arrest.
In short, they said there
was nothing they could do.
So the investigators spoke
with the Montreal S.P.C.A.
and urged them to contact a
crown prosecutor to get a
warrant.
The contact was made.
The request for a warrant?
Denied.
It seemed the evidence coming
from the virtual world just
wasn't enough.
>> All of our information, all
of our evidence was gained from
the Internet so to them it
was internet-based
flu-flah-flim-flan, you know.
They didn't care until he
killed a person, and then it
was all of a sudden, oh, my
gosh.
We've got to go find this guy.
Well that's what we've been
telling you all along.
>> Mark: The on-line
investigators believe
Magnotta then started to
hype a new video.
Remember in that e-mail to
the British newspaper, he
promised his next movie
would have humans in it.
First a picture was posted
with someone in a purple
hoodie clenching an ice pick
promoting one lunatic, one
ice pick.
I hears it pretty disturbing
someone writes.
Then on another site,
someone, likely Magnotta,
asked "where can I watch the
'one lunatic one ice pick'
video.
I've been trying to find it
for weeks."
There's another posting on a
discussion board, again
believed to be by Magnotta,
that asked "I'm just curious
to know what you guys think
about people who film their
crimes."
It's important to note there
was no evidence the video
even existed yet.
But Ryan Boyle felt it was
only a matter of time, and
he was powerless to stop it.
>> It was exactly the same.
He used the same exact
method to submit his video.
He promoted it.
He talked about it.
He gave it a name.
>> Mark: A week later on May
24th, Jun Lin failed to show
up for work.
His friends were worried.
One would even call his
mother in China asking if
she had heard from her son.
She hadn't.
She said she had a bad feeling.
That same day, on this
website, someone, likely
Magnotta, posts this cryptic
profile.
"Luka Magnotta is an extremely
dangerous and sick psychopath.
He is incapable of feeling
remorse.
Psychopaths can appear very
charming and look beautiful,
but beware.
They are cunning and highly
maniacal."
Attached to the profile was
a series of links to all the
news stories about the
search for the kitten killer
posted with pride.
The next day, May 25th, "one
lunatic one ice pick" appeared
on the web.
It depicts a man bound on a
bed.
At first he's alive.
Then there is an edit.
Now it's clear the man is dead.
The video lasts 11 amoral
minutes.
Someone stabs the corpse
repeatedly with an ice pick
and then dismembers the body
with a knife.
Four days later, a janitor
discovered a torso in a
suitcase.
It was Jun Lin.
Police would finally knock
on Luka Magnotta's door, but
he was long gone.
They discovered an empty
apartment soaked in blood.
Inside Magnotta's apartment,
this message was left, scrawled
on the wall "If you don't like
the reflection, don't look in
the mirror.
I don't care."
Before he fled the country,
Magnotta unleashed a torrent
of rage on-line railing against
people who had hurt or
disappointed him over his
lifetime.
He signed them with his
ex-girlfriend's name.
Just wondering why he would
want to drag you into this
all these years later.
>> He didn't have much friends,
right, so I think I meant
something to him for him to,
you know-- he lived his life
mainly on-line, on the Internet.
>> Mark: Why is that?
>> Well I guess most people
found him weird.
So he felt left out.
You know, isolated.
>> Mark: Isolated but with a
loyal audience.
The on-line investigators
had given him 18 months of
their attention.
When they heard about Jun
Lin's death, they were torn.
Could they have done more,
or did they do too much?
>> .. Can't really pretend to
kill someone, if you look at
that video ...
>> Mark: They continue to ask
themselves whether their
relentless pursuit of Magnotta
only fed his pathological
desire.
>> You internalize it, and
you start to blame yourself
for things you shouldn't.
>> Mark: So you felt some
culpability in this?
>> Oh, sure.
I think anybody would.
Maybe I didn't say the right
things to the police officer.
Maybe I didn't call the
right person.
>> Maybe I didn't push hard
enough.
>> Maybe I didn't push the
authorities hard enough to
investigate.
You blame yourself.
>> He has been associating
himself with serial killers
way before we even knew him.
Did we push him over the edge?
Probably not.
Were we a part of his little
act?
Yes, but we do want people
to know, especially the
family members, that there
were people out there trying
to stop this person from
doing an act like this.
>> Come on.
>> Mark: There will be plenty
of debate over whether people
like Luka Magnotta should be
ignored or pursued.
>> I want to be taped, I'm just
watching my show.
You stop.
>> Mark: But this video
illustrates the dilemma.
He made it by himself.
A man so preoccupied with
attention.
>> I'm in the mood.
>> Mark: That even when he
was alone, he played to an
audience.
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