Luka Rocco Magnotta, Suspected Murderer-Dismemberer Tells Arresting Police: “You Got Me”
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the man suspected of having killed a man with an ice pick and dismembered his victim's body before sending the body parts by postal mail to political parties in Canada, has been arrested Monday in Berlin.
After trying to resist Berlin police, Magnotta gave up and said, "You got me."
Magnotta reportedly filmed his murder and uploaded it to a website devoted to gore and violence. The video was called, "1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick."
Police found a human torso in a pile of garbage behind Magnotta's apartment in Montreal on May 29. On the same day, a severed foot was sent to and opened at the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa . Police was able to intercept another parcel with a severed hand, addressed to the Liberal Party.
Magnotta, a known porn star, reportedly had links to Karla Homolka, one of the most notorious killers in Canadian history, but this has yet to be proven with facts.
Police caught Magnotta while he was surfing the web in an internet café in Berlin around 2 p.m. local time.
Kadir Anlayisli, owner of the internet café recognized the suspect from the news when he stepped in and took off his glasses. Discreetly, Anlayisli left the café and waited for a police van to signal. He was successful in his plan.
A staff of the internet café later told police Magnotta was reading a web page about him. The internet café was on Karl-Marx-Strasse in Neukolln district.
Police earlier believed Magnotta may have flown to France after fleeing Montreal, where he allegedly murdered and dismembered his victim, Chinese national Jun Lin.
When police walked in on Magnotta and asked for his identification, the suspect gave different names at first. Then he gave up, telling police, "You got me."
Magnotta, 29, was included in the Interpol's wanted persons list after police concluded he may have sent Lin's body parts by Canadian postal mail.
The National Post had reported Magnotta had previously been suspected of having filmed and uploaded to YouTube the torture of kittens in 2010.
Police has not yet recovered all of Lin's body parts.
"We are still missing a few parts of the puzzle in terms of body parts, so yes, this is a special crime scene," Montreal police spokesman Commander Ian Lafrenière told reporters last week.
"For most of the officers that were there all night long, this is the kind of crime scene they've never seen in their career," Lafreniere added.
German police said Magnotta could be back in Canada within a week, but this may be delayed if Magnotta works against the extradition process.