Severed feet.

lexxie said:


this has been a weird week.

FreakPirate said:
Not really a mystery.

The foot in the mail thing, however, is beyond me.

yellowkid said:

Ah, good. I was afraid that it was some strange Canadian mafia.

MONTREAL - A low-income apartment complex in Montreal has become the epicentre of an investigation into the shocking case involving severed body parts, including a foot mailed in a package to the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Police in masks have been combing through an apartment in the mid-rise brick building, zeroing in on one particular unit from which a rotten stench is drifting out, says a building resident.

The neighbour says police are showing people pictures of one man, while also asking questions about the unit's resident and about his possible connections.

Police have confirmed they are zeroing in on a suspect in the macabre case involving three body parts: the foot in a package opened at Conservative headquarters, a hand found at a Canada Post warehouse in Ottawa, and a torso in Montreal.

They all come from the same male victim, Montreal police confirmed Wednesday.

The packages in Ottawa were mailed from Montreal. Police shared other new details about the case Wednesday.

"The suspect and victim knew each other," Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters.
"It isn't linked to organized crime."

Police are expected to provide further information around 2 p.m.

The Canadian Press spoke to a man in the west-end Montreal neighbourhood where the torso was discovered — locked in a suitcase, in a pile of garbage.

"I saw the suitcase and I was tempted to go get it," said Richard Payette, 60.

He said police wearing masks were milling about one particular apartment in the building on the second floor. He said the door of that particular apartment was left open, and the smell of rotten meat was drifting out into the hallway.

Police showed neighbours a picture of a man — whom Payette said he didn't recognize.

What isn't clear yet is why body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including a foot received at the offices of the Conservative party and a hand found at a Canada Post warehouse.

Montreal police have taken over the investigation, while Ottawa police will continue to provide assistance.

The packages are linked to a grim discovery made behind an apartment building in Montreal, where a janitor found a decomposing male human torso stuffed in a suitcase tossed among garbage.

An autopsy was being conducted on the body part. It wasn't immediately clear where the rest of the body was.

Initially, there were contradictory reports over whether the Montreal and Ottawa cases were linked.

While police were combing through garbage in Montreal looking for clues Tuesday, speculation had been rife that there might be a link to the more high-profile body part discovery in Ottawa.

Clidna said:
A source also apparently said that there might be a link to Karla Homolka? Oh, if anything good could come out of this morbid case, it would be her ass back in prison, where she belongs...

Clidna said:

Says that the hand that was found was addressed to the Liberals. Wonder if there's something waiting for the NDP?

A note sent with a severed foot to Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa indicated that more body parts had been sent in the mail, and that the person who dismembered the victim would kill again, CTV News has learned.

Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported late Wednesday that the note with the foot, which arrived at Tory headquarters Tuesday morning, said six body parts had been distributed. Police found a severed hand in a parcel addressed to Liberal Party headquarters in Ottawa later Tuesday.

"Canada Post and the police are now working, trying to find those four other missing body parts," Fife said.

"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."

A video that may be connected to the body parts case has been making the rounds on the Internet. It purportedly shows a young man being stabbed and dismembered.

The video was posted to a website that specializes in gory videos and photos, but by Wednesday evening the link was slow to load and the video disabled.

A written description of the video's contents posted to the same site suggests it shows two naked young men, one stabbing the other with an ice pick. The killer then dismembers the corpse and engages in sexual acts with the body and its severed parts.

The written description also says the killer cannibalizes the corpse.

Internet searches for Magnotta bring up a variety of lurid stories about the suspect, including a possible connection to kitten snuff films that were posted online.

Magnotta has also written several lengthy blog posts that appear online, including a 2009 piece entitled "How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found." The blog offers a six-step process to shedding an identity, including cutting ties with all friends and acquaintances and acquiring false identification.