Gruesome: Torso and Hand Discovered After Severed Foot Mailed to Conservative Party HQ in Canada
- Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:00pm by
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A police officer removes the box containing a foot from Conservative Party headquarters (Photo: Jean Levac / Ottawa Citizen)
Police have said it’s too soon to determine any official link, but soon after a severed human foot was mailed to Canada’s Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa Tuesday, a torso has been found in a suitcase in Montreal, and a hand has been intercepted in the Canadian postal system.
While yesterday it was just a “suspected” foot, after an unwitting staffer called the police in horror, analysis and an x-ray have proven that, indeed, a human foot was sent to Canada’s Conservative Party headquarters.
Significantly, according to The Canadian Press, the package was not addressed to any particular individual, but to the party in general.
As for the torso, a Montreal janitor said he had noticed a terrible smell coming from a suitcase left with discarded furniture and trash on the curb for several days.
“I noticed flies and when I looked closer I saw maggots,” the man said. “I got a friend and we got some cutters because there was a little lock on the suitcase…What I saw when we opened it is hard to describe. There was no head and (the torso) was all grey.”
He said backed away quickly and called police.
Janitor Mike Naseau shows police the area where he made the grisly discovery (Photo: David Sidaway / The Gazette)
Regarding the hand in the package, police are wisely keeping some of the information from the public.
Officials say it was sent from the same point of origin as the foot, but will not reveal its intended address (though they clarified that it was not Conservative Party headquarters).
While police are still in the preliminary stages of the investigation, they have reportedly identified 29-year-old Luka Rocco Magnotta as a suspect related to the case, and are asking for the public’s help in locating him. According to CNN, it is unclear whether the suspect is being charged, or whether he is just wanted to for questioning.
A Canadian officer explains why they are looking for the man:
Autopsies are scheduled to determine if the body parts belong to the same individual, though it will likely be several days before the results are in. Police also combing the area where the suitcase was found in an effort to recover the rest of the limbs, before they are unintentionally stumbled upon by someone else.
“It’s just sickening,” Conservative MP Brad Trost said. “If someone actually did send something in the mail, that’s just abhorrent. I hope it has nothing to do [with] politics. Hopefully it’s just somebody’s idea of a stupid joke.”
UPDATE:
Via the Ottawa Citizen:
Montreal police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for Rocco Luka Magnotta — a man with a disturbing online profile who is now accused of murder after the grisly discovery of a torso, whose severed foot and hand were mailed to the Conservative and Liberal party offices in Ottawa.
Magnotta, 29, who also goes by the aliases Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, is allegedly a former stripper and porn star with multiple websites depicting him in various photo spreads.
Montreal police have obtained a videotape of [what appears to be] the killing, according to the Montreal Gazette.
[...]
Meanwhile, the Montreal police focused their attention on a second-floor apartment in the neighbourhood of Snowdon, located near the alley where the torso was found decomposing in a suitcase on the curb with a pile of garbage.
The tenant of the building is being sought by police, said residents of the building.
The apartment smelled terrible and the bed appeared to be stained with blood when a Gazette reporter visited it Wednesday afternoon.
Neighbors describe the suspect as quiet, saying: “It’s like you see in the movies. It’s always the good neighbour. It’s the cliché.”
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DGuy
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:59pmI thought that because the gun laws were so strict there that they had no crime at all??? (lol!)
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:36pmNo, that was always a load of bunk from any government. It was Great Britain (or the UK) that banned gun ownership a number of years ago, forced people to turn in their guns, which were then destroyed.
Now, crime has not gone down and instead has gone up over 40%, and the police now dress like they’re about to raid a heavily-armed drug compound.
One resident had a home invasion, in which he shot and killed the intruder who was trying to kill him. The police arrested him because he had a gun and killed somebody with it.
Every country, with the acception of that one (for sure — I don’t know the full statistics) that has banned guns, has seem increases in crime rates and turned on their citizens and murdered them.
Remember what one friend of Mark Levin recanted in an interview when meeting Obama at a university for the first time:
“I don’t believe people should be allowed to own guns.”
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:02pmA poor choice of words by Canadian police. So, if it was for political reasons, then it’s awful, but if not, it’s just a “stupid joke”?
What kind of joke involves killing somebody, dismembering them, them boxing up and mailing their body parts to another person or business?
Report Post »Jedrin
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:42pmRemember the guy coming back to Montreal on a bus and he grabs the guy next to him and stabs and starts eating the one guy while everyone else escapes off the bus? That was a Canadian deal. I wonder if the FLA cannibal came from Canada?
Report Post »Bellini
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:41pmThe bus was going to Winnipeg rather than Montreal, and it was a decapitation rather than cannibalism. The murderer was completely mentally ill rather than completely deranged like this one. So, that’s equally horrifying, but not quite related. I just wanted to clarify. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tim_McLean
Report Post »hacker2000
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:23pmThis is the SUSPECT posting the gruesome ACT , be warn its 11 mins of hell..
http://www.bestgore.com/beheading/1-lunatic-1-ice-pick-video/
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Report Post »Melika
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:24pmNOW I hate the internet.
A site that promulgates such violence is just sick.
Report Post »rederthanyou
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:27amThat is the sickest internet site I’ve ever seen. People become desensitized after watching that stuff. Then later start fantasizing about it. Then acting it out. Its like porn. Start by looking and end up raping. Its all over a period of time of coarse.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:58pmJust heard a reporter say that a clip of a snuff film was uploaded to the net recently on a Gore website where a man was murdered with an icepick then dismembered and parts eaten. The image from the video clip matched video from Magnotta’s apartment, the torso of the victim was found at the apartments garbage area.
Report Post »hacker2000
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:20pmTook a little digging but this is the Video of the SUSPECT posting the gruesome act , be very warn its 11 mins of hell ..
http://www.bestgore.com/beheading/1-lunatic-1-ice-pick-video/
..
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:54pmJust when you think you see and heard just about everything a new case of evil keeps popping up ?.
Report Post »Factoidal
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:48pmIt is now reported by the CBC and others that the second package was addressed to the Liberal Party.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:40pmThanks above, the foot is not a suspect anymore. I wonder who the Canadian Conservative Party ticked off?
Report Post »affinity
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:32pmYou know the world is going to hell when the Canadians start mailing body parts to each other.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:04amWell said, eh?
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:28pm“Police have identified a suspect wanted in connection with the discovery of a man’s torso stuffed in a locked suitcase in Montreal — whose hand and foot were mailed to Ottawa — as Luka Rocco Magnotta.”
A man by the same name, who is featured on a number of lurid Internet sites, is a low-budget gay porn star suspected of appearing in a number of kitten-killing videos.”
“Police are also in possession of the video of the dismemberment, the CBC has confirmed, which was believed to have been taken by the suspect.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/30/suspect-wanted-in-ottawa-montreal-body-parts-case/
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:46pmDoesn’t look political ..
“After police confirmed there was a severed foot inside, they announced another body part — a hand, this time — had been found inside a package at the Ottawa Postal Terminal.
It is believed the hand was bound for the office of the Liberal party.”
Report Post »Conservative AMERICA
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:26pmHi, Blaze crew, Bilderberg is happening right now, how about some reporting?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:50pmSend them a TIP ;-)
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:42pmOccupy Bilderberg!
Report Post »copey99
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:54pmyou could start your own website, instead of crying in every comment section about it.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:23pmWell, it looks like the pieces are starting to fall into place.
Report Post »Sarcasm aside, I really do wonder what has actually happened here and why someone would mail a foot to anybody, business, or political hq.
CatB
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:07pm. “I hope it has nothing to do [with] politics”
Then why would they send a human foot to the Conservative Party headquarters?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:12pmI thought the same thing. Is he kidding himself or what? That would be some kind of STUPID JOKE.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:18pmProbably does and I would not vote for the party that creep is in if no one else was running. He needs his own body done the same way. When people do things like this, they need to be treated in kind. Give them good as they send. They will get the picture soon enough. Some people deserve to be treated in such a manner that they learn not to mess with people.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:25pmYep, my initial thought exactly.
“I‘m hoping it’s a random lunatic rather than a politically moivated attack” is probably a better way of putting it. Any random lunatic can do something like this, and maybe the hand intercepted was on its way to the HQ of one of the Leftist parties. That would answer part of the question (whether it’s politically motivated or not), but not whether it’s a random lunatic.
Report Post »Factoidal
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:46pmThe second package was addressed to the Liberal Party.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:51pm@FACT .. what second package? .. you have a link?
Report Post »saranda
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:45pm@catb- the second package was mentioned in the article you are posting about. Yeesh. Canadian press is reporting that it was addressed to the the Liberal party in Ottawa.
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