Originally Posted by National Post

Police have identified a suspect wanted in connection with the discovery of a man?s torso stuffed in a locked suitcase in Montreal ? whose hand and foot were mailed to Ottawa ? as Luka Rocco Magnotta.

A man by the same name, who is featured on a number of lurid Internet sites, is a low-budget gay porn star suspected of appearing in a number of kitten killing videos.

In the past, Magnotta was rumoured to have been romantically linked to Karla Homolka, ex-wife of notorious killer Paul Bernardo, who served 12 years in prison for her role in the murders of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.

Magnotta, however, vigorously denied those allegations, telling the Toronto Sun in 2007 he had never even met Homolka.

Montreal police said they aren?t ruling out other body parts being sent in the mail, and wouldn?t comment on whether other body parts had already been found.
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Police are also in possession of the video of the dismemberment, the CBC has confirmed.

?The suspect and victim knew each other,? Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters Wednesday. ?It isn?t linked to organized crime.?

Mr. Magnotta, 29, uses the pseudonyms Eric Clinton Newman and Vladmir Romanov and is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.

He?s white, weighs 61 kilograms, and has black hair and blue eyes.

The man, believed to originally be from Toronto, was renting an apartment in a Montreal building that is now at the epicentre of the body-parts investigation.

Lafrenière said the crime scene, inside an apartment unit, was one of the worst his force has seen.

?[It was] a very difficult scene, officers haven?t seen that kind of scene in many years, he said.

A janitor discovered the torso, which belongs to a man, in Montreal on Tuesday at about 10 a.m. in the city?s Snowdon neighbourhood and quickly called police.

A Conservative staffer in Ottawa called authorities at about 11:30 a.m. to report the arrival of a suspicious, blood-stained package at the party?s headquarters, just blocks away from Parliament Hill.

After police confirmed there was a severed foot inside, they announced another body part ? a hand, this time ? had been found inside a package at the Ottawa Postal Terminal.

It is believed the hand was bound for the office of the Liberal party.

A low-income apartment complex in Montreal on Wednesday became the epicentre of an investigation into the shocking case.

Police in masks had 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 said earlier in the day the suspect and victim knew each other, and that the case wasn?t the result of organized crime.