Accused Killer Porn Star Captured in Berlin Internet Cafe

[morosco]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 12:58pm

Can't even begin to put in words. Unspeakably horrific.
Accused Killer Porn Star Captured in Berlin Internet Cafe

[tazber]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 1:08pm

This whole thing is just horrific.

And his history of animal cruelty is equally unspeakable.

A truly deranged person.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 1:12pm

Is anyone who does porn automatically considered a star?

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 1:27pm

He was captured in an internet cafe...perhaps posting on BWW?

[Kad]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 1:28pm

Well, if one of our resident sociopaths falls silent...

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 1:46pm

LOL...If you read the complete article it clearly states he was browsing YouTube.

What a horrible, gruesome way for a person to die.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 1:51pm

This guy seems to have a need for attention that goes well beyond pathological.

I feel like he's delighted he's been caught and thinks of himself as a notorious worldwide celebrity.

[morosco]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 2:10pm

A word of warning. I've debated mentioning this because I fear that people would think I'm sensationalizing. I'm not. I would warn against doing an image search on Google in reference to this case. I did last night and I'm still trembling from a few of the images that came up. Harrowing. I had no idea and I'm sorry I did it.

May God bless the victim. I hope there is a special place in heaven for him. And may God bless and give strength to the investigators assigned to this case.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 2:22pm

The great and talented sex-positive Susie Bright has an answer to your question, Erik. She explains that just because the guy put up a few semi-naked glamour shots of himself on his own blogs, he had never made a porn film ever. So, no, he was not a porn performer and certainly not a star. But the Canadian authorities stuck that description on him in a tabloid-like need to make some sense of his psychotic senselessness. "Oh, he was a bisexual porn star, that explains it."

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 2:25pm

Which I find funny because many of the people I know who have worked in porn are perhaps the most trustworthy and grounded people I have met. Funny how being labeled a "porn star" can somehow explain this guys insanity.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 2:29pm

It's just so easy.

[morosco]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 2:35pm

China warns travellers to Canada after killing of student....wait, what??
China warns travellers to Canada after killing of student

[tazber]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 3:20pm

Western people funny

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 3:35pm

At least he's not too cute. I hate feeling guilty when the killers are cute.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 3:38pm

No, but he is purdy.

Right purdy.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 8:43pm

It was kinda maazing how quickly the media here suddenly started calling him a porn star (or more accurately "a gay cannbial porn star").

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/4/12 at 8:46pm

Killing two birds with a single moniker.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 6:31am

So the video....yea, it's online.

Worst thing I've ever seen. I don't think my brain can process that it's real. A part of me can't accept that it's not fake.

And on another note..how the f**k is this thing even online?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 7:15am

May God bless the victim. I hope there is a special place in heaven for him.

...I question those who have an interest and have actually taken the time to sit down and watch the video knowing it's content. Why would you want to? Why? I just don't get it.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 8:38am

Morbid curiosity. It's a natural human reaction to want to see taboo things. I'm not quite sure what about me you're questioning, I mean do you think I was masturbating to watching someone have his body dismembered?

It was horrible and I knew it would be horrible, but I was curious to see what kind of "state" this psycho was in while he was doing it. I was hoping to glean some insight into what makes a monster like this tick. It's such an atrocious and inhuman thing I was hoping to gain some understanding as to how a person could do this another person. As horrific as the video is, there are some very telling moments that help me cope with the sheer insanity of it all.

Updated On: 6/5/12 at 08:38 AM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 8:42am

He weighs 135 pounds? I weigh that and I'm a size 6 and shorter than him.

Otherwise, I don't think I could stomach watching the video or looking at any of the pictures. This is a horrific story.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 8:45am

So glad he was caught, and i won't be going anywhere near that video, it's just plain wrong. It's bad enough the poor guy was murdered, but to have the whole world watching it just makes it worse.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 8:53am

Thread jack:


I love the film "Exam" sadm. I think it lends itself wonderfully to a stage adaptation. Is your company doing it?

[tazber]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 9:03am

Back on topic:

Here's an interesting article about him. I'm copying and pasting it because there are some paragraphs towards the end that I think many of you may wish to skip. If you want to read the entire thing though, I've linked it.

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He sits, relaxed, one arm propped casually on top of a couch, describing his work as a stripper and adult escort.

He talks about the difficulty drawing a line between his personal and professional lives and how he responds to aggressive clients.

"Some clients, mostly the ones that are on drugs or drinking alcohol, can get very violent, but I know how to handle myself in that situation. Basically I've been around and I know what to say and what not to say in a dangerous situation," the young man reports.

Those words, spoken in 2007 to "Naked News," an Internet-based service, took on fresh meaning as the man on the couch was identified by Naked News to be Luka Rocco Magnotta, a porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a man in Canada. He was arrested in a Berlin internet cafe Monday, ending an international manhunt.

See details of arrest in Germany

"I really do enjoy my work. I get to meet new people all the time. I'm a people person," Magnotta, who used a pseudonym during the interview, told Naked News, a self-described nude news program.

He said he'd traveled around the world as a "high end" escort and had the opportunity to meet influential people.

"The best part about being an escort is I'm my own boss. I get to pick my own hours and I make a lot of money," Magnotta said, laughing.

The Naked News interview was apparently just one in a very long line of Internet appearances by Magnotta in images and words -- on porn sites and what appears to be his own website, where he defends himself as the victim of cyber-stalkers out to get him.

In months and years past, he was pegged as a serial kitten-killer by animal rights activists, and as a man who may have dated a Canadian woman convicted of drugging, raping, torturing and killing young girls almost two decades ago. A journalist who met him described him as "creepy."

All the charges, however, paled in comparison to last week's accusations against Magnotta as he became the center of Canada's most talked-about crime.

Authorities launched a massive manhunt for Magnotta after a severed hand was sent to Canada's Liberal Party, a foot was sent to the Conservatives and a torso was stuffed in a suitcase and tossed in the trash of the Montreal apartment building where he lived.

Inside Magnotta's apartment in Monreal, police found dried bloodstains on the table, the bed, the bathtub and the refrigerator.

Montreal police Commander Ian Lefreniere said officers who have been investigating crimes for 30 years had never encountered such a grisly scene before.

To make matters more chilling, Lefreniere said Magnotta filmed himself in the act of dismembering a body, the shocking 10-minute video then posted online for all to see.

Magnotta was born in 1982 in Scarborough, just outside Toronto, as Eric Clinton Newman. He changed his name to Magnotta in 2006, according to the Toronto Star.

Sometimes, he used the alias Vladimir Romanov. His website has writings in Russian as well as a link in Arabic that takes readers to an explanation of homosexuality.

A search for Magnotta on Google last week yielded a plethora of images that match his description of himself: A model, an actor, a porn star. There are images of Magnotta half or fully naked, in suggestive poses, lips always pouted.

Reporter Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun met Magnotta in 2007. There were rumors then that Magnotta was romantically linked to Karla Homolka, who many years before was arrested for the rape-murders of three Ontario girls, including her own sister. In a plea bargain deal, she was sentenced to only 12 years in prison.

She had been released from prison when the rumors about Magnotta started, Warmington said.

He asked Magnotta to come to the Sun building -- he was nervous to meet him in an unfamiliar location.

He had bleached blond hair and wore black leather. He said his modeling career was careening because of the rumors.

"I very quickly determined he was narcissistic," Warmington said. "He was a guy looking for attention in a creepy way -- name dropping one of our most notorious criminals."

Warmington felt Magnotta was a "little out there." Coherent but not connecting. But he didn't sense him to be dangerous.

When police released his name last week, Warmington felt chills.

"It freaked me out," he said.
I'm a people person

[tazber]

Posted: 6/5/12 at 9:03am

Double

Updated On: 6/5/12 at 09:03 AM