| Cyber Edu: Accused killer ‘Luka Magnotta is like a toxin’ | |
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| Nov 30, 2012 20:29 |   |
 | Since Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested in a Berlin Internet café last June for allegedly killing and dismembering Chinese exchange student Jun Lin, a psychological profile rife with contradictions has emerged. It’s fascinating to get an insight on what’s going on in his mind, The multiple identities he had online, the virtual world he created for himself that was so beyond belief when you deconstruct it . . . you can understand why so many called him a ticking time bomb. . .Now, It has been addressed in western media that cyber activities is in urgent need of regulations and tracking technology. . . ----------- source: internet blog He was a wayward Scarborough kid from a broken home, starved for attention and relentless in his pursuit of celebrity, however morbid. Since Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested in a Berlin Internet café last June for allegedly killing and dismembering Chinese exchange student Jun Lin, a psychological profile rife with contradictions has emerged. Magnotta was a shut-in with visions of wealth and exotic travel, a shy introvert who unsuccessfully promoted himself as a “devastatingly good-looking” male model. As Magnotta awaits trial in a Montreal court next year, an upcoming CBC documentary has built a revelatory character study of the 30-year-old, digging deep into the alleged killer’s vigorously maintained online presence to reveal a man so desperate for public notice he may have been driven to kill. |
| Nov 30, 2012 20:32 | #1 |
| “It’s fascinating to get an insight on what’s going on in his mind,” said veteran CBC journalist Mark Kelley, who hosts the documentary “Hunting Magnotta,” which airs Friday on the network’s investigative news show the fifth estate. “The multiple identities he had online, the virtual world he created for himself that was so beyond belief when you deconstruct it . . . you can understand why so many called him a ticking time bomb.” MORE: Jun Lin’s mom has sympathy for Magnotta Kelley interviews several of Magnotta’s acquaintances, including a lawyer who defended him against fraud and sexual assault charges in 2004; a former transgender Toronto girlfriend named Barbie; and a gay friend who travelled Europe with the alleged killer. Much of the documentary’s source material, however, comes from Magnotta himself. It includes the vast trove of pictures, websites, reality show audition tapes and self-circulated online rumours — including a claim the erstwhile gay *** star once dated Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka — all of which became news fodder as Magnotta led authorities on an international manhunt last summer. Magnotta is facing several charges in connection with Lin’s death, including first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts.  |
| Nov 30, 2012 20:33 | #2 |
| Kelley said the production team’s greatest challenge was finding people who knew Magnotta and were willing to talk about him. Magnotta’s sister, Melissa, told CBC the family would speak only after her brother’s trial concluded. “Luka Magnotta is like a toxin,” Kelley said. “For the many people who knew him . . . they want nothing to do with him anymore. He has left a vapour trail.” The documentary also delves into the cat-and-mouse game Magnotta played with a group of 11 amateur online sleuths — dubbed the Animal Beta Project — beginning in 2010 and continuing over a period of 18 months leading up to Lin’s slaying. MORE: *** star courted to play the bait in sting to nab Magnotta It was believed Magnotta, who was living in Toronto at the time, was behind a series of gruesome animal cruelty videos, in which kittens were drowned in a bathtub and suffocated in a vacuum bag. The Animal Beta Project told CBC that Magnotta goaded his pursuers by sending them pictures of himself with kittens and dodgy tips about his whereabouts. The sleuths, some of whom chose to remain anonymous in the documentary, believed if Magnotta was, indeed, a cat killer it wasn’t a stretch to imagine him killing humans. Email correspondence between the Animal Beta Project and Toronto police indicates authorities had an active file on Magnotta. Yet he was never questioned. “It was like he only existed online,” Kelley said. “No one knew whose responsibility he was, until he became the subject of an international manhunt and then he was everybody’s problem.” |
| Dec 1, 2012 11:39 | #3 |
| yes, u never know the criminal that u meet online is your neighbor, collegues or a stranger u meet in public...a strange thing happened to me a couple years ago where a seriese of scam meaningful emails flooding in my personal emails that I never use registerred in a particular Chinese website (later on I know this is a hidden overseas Chinese *** site)...So surf safe, stay strong! |
| Dec 3, 2012 19:57 | #4 |
| stay cool. Glen... |
| Dec 28, 2012 20:59 | #5 |
| the background of Mr. LIN, the victime, an adult international Chinese student.. Lin Jun, the kind of guy who posts pics of his beloved villain the pics he posted on his Sina Weibo acct shows the hints of a darker side… Rumor said he wants to finish his miserable adult international student status through gay play or/and fishing thru marriage …however… R.I.P Mr. LIN ---------- Please read the global and mail--the multiple sides of Mr.LIN http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ |
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