Warning: Graphic details follow.My Son, The KillerDid Anna Yourkin — mother of Luka Magnotta — even resist going with that title for her recently published book, written with Brian Whitney?For a woman who claims that she was sickened by trauma, crazed with anguish when her eldest child was arrested and ultimately convicted of first-degree murder in the sadistic sexual killing and dismemberment of international student Jun Lin; who, like her son, rails against the treatment the family suffered at the hands of predatory media — she’s certainly played the sensationalism card to push sales.Subtitle: The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta and “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick.”Magnotta, né Eric Newman, was the porn actor, model and gay escort who hooked up with Lin on Craigslist, then turned their Montreal date into a crime of unimaginable horrors — raping his bound victim, stabbing Lin at least 55 times, committing unspeakable abominations upon the poor man’s corpse, cutting the body into pieces, playing with his decapitated head, masturbating himself with a severed limb, sodomizing the torso, and finally disposing of the remains in garbage bags and a suitcase. (Stopping in the lobby to primp and preen in front of a mirror).No imagining required. Magnotta made a snuff video of the entire thing and uploaded the footage to a website specializing in gore, even marshalling online traffic by beating the promotional drum, under various handles, on other social media sites. That video was entitled “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick.”Then, after mailing various body parts to political offices in Ottawa and two Vancouver schools, Magnotta jaunted off to Europe, arrested weeks later on an Interpol warrant at an internet café in Berlin, where he’d been eyeballing news coverage of the crime and the international manhunt.In first-person chapters — alternating with Whitney chapters that include his prison interviews and written ...
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