Magnotta – they seek him here, they seek him there
SPVM police have turned to Interpol to list Luka Rocco Magnotta as a wanted man in the Snowdon torso murder. Ian Lafrenière notes Magnotta’s chameleon looks, demonstrated in narcissistic poses on various websites, changing his hair colour and sometimes dressing in drag, may make him hard to spot. The Toronto Sun found a woman who thinks she gave him a lift to Ontario from outside the city last week.
Meantime, the victim is being variously described as white or as Asian depending what you read. I suppose this is partly because they haven’t found the head.
Ian 15:28 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
I guess they haven’t done an autopsy yet as ethnicity is one of the first things determined along with age and gender – you don’t need the head, though it does make the job a lot easier. Body hair has different morphology between ethnic groups.
elleanon 15:39 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
“I suppose this is partly because they haven’t found the head.” Yikes, grisly. You’d think they’d know since they have identified the victim. He was apparently reported missing in the days before the body parts were found. Maybe they’re planting fake info in the news to distinguish from tipsters who genuinely knew them and those attention-seeking sickos who don’t?
steph 16:13 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
^^ can this racists posts be deleted and can we have him banned. That type of commentary is disgusting and I don’t care if he’s just parroting a dumb movie. If this is the type of commentary that I’m going to find on this website, I’m going to have to get my news elsewhere.
Spock 16:15 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
Hey steph, as I indicated it was a silly joke.
Relax, I already said I am sorry and I will repeat it again:
SORRY, DIDN’T MEAN TO OFFEND!!!!!!!!! :(
Steph 16:24 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
The guy was brutally murdered. People are in shock. You must be psychotic to have considered making any joke of any kind, let alone one propagating racist stereotypes.
Kate 16:27 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
Spock: the banhammer has fallen. You were out of line.
I’ve deleted the puerile racist remark made here by user Spock and he has a timeout of 2 weeks.
Steph: my apologies, I was away from the blog for a couple of hours and the racist remark slipped by. Does not mean I approved of it.
Kate 16:30 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
Ian: I don’t know re autopsy. They were quick to do some kind of test that linked up the torso with the body parts mailed to Ottawa. I assumed that would be DNA but I don’t watch enough police procedurals to know if there’s some faster way. I suppose there are quick DNA markers to tell you what general genetic group a person comes from.
Ian 18:51 on 2012/05/31 Permalink
It’s not that quick, a DNA test still takes a more than a week even for the police. There are distinct features of bones and hair on a pathological level that help indicate ethnicity even in advanced decomposition. Depends on the body – as far as body hair goes, some dudes shave all over. You never know.
qatzelok 10:05 on 2012/06/01 Permalink
Another Tori Stafford story to bring our culture down to the level of bar gossip among illiterates. Nice going, mass-media lobotomizers.
ant6n 13:23 on 2012/06/01 Permalink
I agree with qatzelok… ish. Personally would prefer the media not talking about this so much.
Kate 13:32 on 2012/06/01 Permalink
Yikes, i just posted a new item.
It’s a horrible story, but it’s also news.
qatzelok 14:50 on 2012/06/01 Permalink
@ Kate: “It’s a horrible story, but it’s also news.”
I disagree. At least half a dozen people got killed by cars in Canada since yesterday. So this isn’t really news, it’s just IN the news – not the same thing. All those broken bones and squished internal organs in the car accidents are just as lurid and horrible as this. Car companies (and the mafias who own them) prefer this kind of weird story that no one can learn anything useful from.
Kevin 11:48 on 2012/06/04 Permalink
@qatzelok
The very fact that so many people are killed in car crashes is precisely why they are not in the news. (Nobody learns from crashes either, it’s always some other guy’s fault).
Current affairs and documentaries, yes, but not short-form news.