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Note with severed foot threatened more killings: Report

Porn actor Luka Magnotta has been named as a suspect in sending a human hand and foot through the mail, discovered in Ottawa on Tuesday. These are screengrabs from a September 2007 video done by Joe Warmington and Veronica Henri at the Toronto Sun.

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OTTAWA - A note attached to the package containing a severed foot sent to the Conservative Party warned the killer would strike again, according to a report.

The note, which arrived with the foot at the Tory headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday also claimed that six body parts had been distributed, CTV reports. A hand was intercepted in Ottawa and a torso was discovered in a suitcase in Montreal.

"Canada Post and the police are now working, trying to find those ... other missing body parts," said the news organization's Ottawa Bureau Chief, Robert Fife.

"And that note also said that the suspect indicated he would kill again, and that is why the police are trying to find him, and fast. Police say there is no political motivation behind this, this was the work of a madman."

The news comes after police announced a porn star linked to Karla Homolka and horrific online videos is a suspect in a grisly Montreal slaying, in which body parts were mailed to political addresses.

An international man-hunt has been launched for porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, who is being sought after a dismembered torso was found in a suitcase in Montreal and body parts mailed to Ottawa.

Police say Magnotta may have left the city, or possibly the country. The FBI and Interpol have both listed him as fugitives.

Magnotta has been linked in the past as having had a romantic involvement with schoolgirl sex killer Homolka.

In a grisly twist to the case, a graphic and deeply disturbing video has emerged which is purported to show the murder and dismemberment. A Montreal police source confirmed cops are in possession of a video, which also includes cannibalism, but would not say if it is the same video.

The graphic video online shows a man being stabbed to death with an ice pick and then being cut into pieces. The video was shot inside an apartment that bears a close resemblance to the unit in west-end Montreal that's at the centre of the homicide investigation.

The victim, an Asian mane who looks to be in his thirties, might have been his ex-lover who was reported missing just over a week ago in Montreal.

Magnotta also goes by the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Radulov, Montreal police said. He is white, 5-feet-10 and weighs 135 pounds. He has blue eyes and black hair.

A man by the name of Luka Magnotta is also shown in other disturbing videos and photos online feeding a kitten to a python, and drowning kittens in a bathtub.

On the subject of Homolka, the self-described male model and adult film performer, who boasts of having an addiction to cosmetic surgery, vehemently denied any romantic connection when the controversy became public six years ago.

"I want to set the record straight," he told QMI Agency in an exclusive 2007 interview. "I not only have never dated Karla, I have never even met her."

A number of media outlets, however, reported on Thursday that police have confirmed the two were romantically involved.

The body parts found in the mail in Ottawa on Tuesday are believed to be from a male whose dismembered torso was discovered tossed out with garbage in Montreal.
Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere indicated as much Wednesday.

"All of our evidence indicates that it's related to the homicide here," he told reporters at police headquarters.

"That's why Montreal police are investigating, with our colleagues from Ottawa and the RCMP. "That being said, what is missing is confirmation ... to make sure that the DNA is the same in the two cases."

Lafreniere said the suspect and the unidentified victim knew each other.

"It wasn't done by accident," he said. "That's what we know. What was the exact link, we don't know right now.
"You will understand that there are some elements that we are keeping to ourselves. Yes, we want to be as transparent as possible, but our ultimate goal is to arrest the suspect and make sure there is a trial for the person who did a crime that I would call horrible."

The torso was found Tuesday stuffed in a suitcase and left among a large pile of garbage outside a building in the Snowdon neighbourhood.

The caretaker of the Place Lucy building found the body on Tuesday morning after receiving complaints about a strong smell coming from a garbage pile.

The janitor said the suitcase had been there for at least a week.

While Montreal police were investigating the torso, two equally horrifying discoveries were being made in mailed packages in two separate Ottawa locations. Wednesday morning, police confirmed both packages, one containing a severed human foot, the other a human hand, had originated in the Montreal area.

The severed foot was found Tuesday morning at the 130 Albert St. headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada. A CPC staffer made the gruesome discovery after partially opening a box in the day's mail delivery.
The staffer was overwhelmed by a horrid stench, and immediately alerted police.

Later Tuesday, Ottawa police investigators confirmed the discovery of the second body part, a human hand, at an Ottawa Canada Post facility. The package was intended for the Liberal Party headquarters.

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