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(Vancouver Sun) MONTREAL, June 3, 2012 (AFP) — The murder suspect dubbed the
“Canadian Psycho” has worked as a bisexual porn star, as a gay
prostitute called “Angel,” and is an alleged kitten killer with a string
of fraud convictions.
Luka Rocco Magnotta is believed to be
hiding in Paris and is suspected of filming himself as he dismembered
his male lover whose body parts were then mailed to a series of
addresses in Canada.
Importantly for police, he is accustomed to changing his appearance.
In
addition to having had plastic surgery on his face — apparently to look
more like James Dean — he often wears lipstick and make-up, has dyed
his hair and worn wigs, and sometimes dresses up as a woman.
Described
as handsome but narcissistic, the 29-year-old, who naturally has black
hair and blue eyes, has also changed his name and used several aliases.
He
was convicted under his birth name Eric Clinton Newman for defrauding
several retailers and with stealing $16,900 from a woman in Toronto,
culminating in a suspended sentence and probation in 2005.
A
series of judge imposed conditions reportedly banned him from owning or
using a camera or a computer, and from accessing the Internet.
Born in Toronto, family members told reporters they lost contact with him some time ago.
For
years Magnotta built a profile through blogs, escort adverts in which
he searched online for sex partners, and posted photographs showing
himself as a fit, pouty-lipped model and traveler in cities, including
Paris.
He used the name “Angel” when working as a prostitute and
stripper at Remington’s, a well-known gay bar in Toronto, according to
transsexual performer Nina Arsenault, who claims to have had a
relationship with him.
The one-time supporter of white
supremacists posted a video online of two kittens being suffocated in a
plastic bag, according to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, ending an online
hunt for the so-called “Vacuum Kitten Killer.”
At the same time,
profiles he reputedly posted on online dating services conveyed an
altogether different persona — on one website he listed beach volleyball
as a hobby and stated that finding a long-term relationship was his
priority.
He was granted a license to work as a stripper in Toronto in 2005 and also worked as a male escort.
Pierre
Bonhomme, a Canadian filmmaker who recalled a meeting with Magnotta in
Toronto in 2007 or 2008, told the Ottawa Citizen it was a “creepy”
experience that he quickly decided to escape from.
“I left within
about five minutes. It was a really uncomfortable, awkward situation. He
was in the shady, druggy, gay-sex prostitution world. He was on a lot
of the gay hookup sites,” Bonhomme said.
Magnotta used Russian
names, including the alias Vladimir Romanov, on such sites, according to
Bonhomme, who also attested to the suspect’s willingness to use fraud
and deception.
“He was a hustler,” Bonhomme said. “He was
definitely not a gay village kind of guy. He was more of a suburban guy
on the Internet, scamming married guys, that kind of thing.”
With
Magnotta now a fugitive, probably in France, a 2009 posting he made on
the Internet offered advice on how to vanish and never be found.
“A
minimum of four months is really necessary to carry out the heroic
actions necessary to leave your old life behind,” he reportedly wrote.
He
said a person must withdraw from all social circles, possess two sets
of false identification papers, convert all assets to cash and then take
a bus to a chosen destination, after selling a car somewhere else to
mislead police.
Magnotta has apparently not done such a good job
of staging his own disappearance: investigators believe he boarded a
France-bound plane on May 26 in Montreal and police traced his cell
phone signal to the suburb of Bagnolet on Saturday.
But he remains
on the run. Psychologist Gilles Chamberland told Radio Canada that
Magnotta exudes “narcissistic, anti-social,” behavior, having described
himself as being “incredibly beautiful.”