Luka Rocco Magnotta, a former gay porn actor also known as the "Canadian Cannibal" was convicted of first-degree murder today for the 2012 killing of Concordia University exchange student Jun Lin. Magnotta killed, dismembered, and mailed parts of Lin's body to political offices in Ottawa and two schools in Vancouver.

Lin, 33, was last seen alive entering Magnotta's apartment in Montreal on May 24, 2012. The next day, Magnotta, 32, uploaded a video online titled "1Lunatic 1Icepick" that apparently depicted the killing and dismembering of Lin. Days later, Lin's torso was found stuffed in a suitcase. Following a weeklong manhunt, Magnotta was arrested by police in Berlin.

Magnotta was convicted by a jury of all charges brought against him, including: criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament, mailing obscene and indecent material, committing an indignity to a body, and publishing obscene materials.

His lawyer's argued that Magnotta is schizophrenic and "suffered a psychotic episode when he killed Lin," making him "not criminally responsible for Lin's death." Two psychiatrists testified that they would diagnose Magnotta as schizophrenic. Prosecutors successfully argued that Lin's killing was premeditated. From the Toronto Star:

Among the evidence put forward by the Crown was an email Magnotta sent to a British newspaper reporter in December 2011, six months before the murder. In the message, Magnotta talked about moving on from the cat-killing videos he had previously produced and posted, and suggested his next victim would be human and that the murder would be filmed.

The Crown also revealed that Magnotta had filmed another individual tied to his bed in a pose identical to that of Lin and that this footage made up the opening seconds of the infamous murder video. Security camera footage from Magnotta's Montreal apartment showed the man walking groggily out the front doors the morning of May 19, 2012. The identity of this man remains a mystery.

Following the discovery of Lin's body parts, videos of Magnotta torturing, killing, and defiling the corpses of animals were discovered online.

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