MONTREAL - An international manhunt has been launched for a porn actor wanted in a gruesome case of dismembered body parts found in Montreal and Ottawa.
Montreal police have issued a countrywide arrest warrant for Luka Rocco Magnotta, and he has also been added to Interpol's wanted person's list.
There could be unique obstacles in tracking him down.
He has used myriad aliases over the years and legally had his name changed from Eric Clinton Kirk Newman on Aug. 12, 2006, while he still lived in Ontario before moving to Quebec. His online posts also suggest he has a longtime fascination with identity change and escape.
Most recently, the 29-year-old was renting an apartment in a working-class Montreal neighbourhood.
Authorities are now investigating the possibility that he killed a man in that apartment, committed numerous acts on the corpse, dismembered the body and mailed the parts to the offices of political parties in Ottawa.
It was behind that apartment building that police found a torso stuffed in a suitcase in a heap of garbage on Tuesday, after it had been lying there for days.
Also Tuesday, a foot was found in a package mailed to the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa, and a hand was later found in a package at a postal warehouse in the city.
The package with the hand was addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada, and tests show the three body parts come from the same victim.
A police search is also on for other body parts. Montreal police are investigating the possibility that other parts might have been mailed out.
via Weird News on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/31/luka-rocco-magnotta-international-search-interpol_n_1558730.html
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