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[quote=SWANSEA,483340]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.

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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.”

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