Police say notes found in body parts packages

Associated Press

MONTREAL — Police investigating the grisly killing of a Chinese student said Wednesday that mailed packages containing the man’s body parts also included notes.

The case was discovered last week when Jun Lin’s left hand and left foot were mailed to Canada’s top political parties. The investigation spread to the other end of the country this week as more body parts were mailed from Montreal to two schools in Vancouver. Those parcels contained a right hand and a right foot, and police said they would conduct DNA tests to confirm a match, Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said.

“They were the same limbs we were looking for,” Lafreniere said. The victim’s head is still unaccounted for.

Lafreniere said the parcels mailed to the Conservative and Liberal parties, and at least one of the Vancouver packages contained a note. He declined to say to whom they were addressed, or what they said, for fear of encouraging copycat crimes.

Lin’s lover, porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was arrested in Berlin on Monday and could be extradited to Canada by the end of the week.

Lafreniere said Magnotta had either lived in Vancouver or passed through there at one point, but could not otherwise say if he had a connection to those two schools. In 2003, Magnotta worked on a porn movie for a company that was based in Vancouver, according to Jeff Vanzetti, webmaster for the U.S. based Internet Adult Film Database. It was not immediately known if the movie was filmed in Vancouver, however.