OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A severed human foot was mailed to the headquarters of Canada's Conservative Party and another body part was discovered when police intercepted a second suspicious package, police said Tuesday.
Police were called shortly after a receptionist opened a blood-soaked box at the headquarters of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party. The first officers to arrive saw what appeared to be blood stains on the package and immediately called in a special hazardous-material unit. When the specialists opened the package, police found the severed foot inside.
Police said the package was addressed to the Conservative Party of Canada and not to a specific person. Harper's office is not located at the party headquarters.
As the investigation developed, Ottawa police said late Tuesday night that they had intercepted a second suspicious package containing another human body part.
Police released no other details about the second find, and said the major crime section continues to investigate.
The horror was not confined to Ottawa. Ottawa police were consulting with their counterparts in Montreal after they discovered a severed torso in a suitcase. Montreal police sifted through a heap of garbage in the city's west end to see if they might turn up any missing limbs. Authorities in both cities are trying to determine if there might be a link to the foot mailed to Conservative Party headquarters.
Ottawa police said it was too early to speculate on a link.
A Conservative Parliament member who showed up later at his party's headquarters was horrified by the discovery.
"It's just awful," said Brad Trost, who first learned about the incident from TV. He said it was probably someone's "sick idea."
"I don't think any of us are thinking this necessarily has anything to with politics," he said.
Trost showed up for a meeting but was told by police it was best to leave.
A spokesman for the Conservative Party would only say that a suspicious package was sent to their office before referring all questions to Ottawa police.
Actually, she didn't open it. She noticed the box was blood-stained and reported it. Apparently the building was shut down because of the 'suspicious package' and it was the police who opened it.
The second box (containing a hand) was caught at the post office without being delivered, and I don't believe it's been released who the intended recipient was. They believe they belong to a torso that was found in Montreal.
this is ALL over the news up here - stuff like this doesn't happen very often! I'm curious to see if there is any political motivation behind everything or if its just someones idea of a sick prank. Also curious to see how they do a murder investigation on this type of thing. I watch too much Hawaii 5-0.
this is ALL over the news up here - stuff like this doesn't happen very often! I'm curious to see if there is any political motivation behind everything or if its just someones idea of a sick prank. Also curious to see how they do a murder investigation on this type of thing. I watch too much Hawaii 5-0.
Same. It seems so weird to send it to the CPC. I'm curious about who the hand was being sent to.
My guess is that it's a fame-whoring murderer sending these parts to political offices knowing that it would be all over the news this way. I'd be surprised if it's politically motivated.
MONTREAL—Police have named a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party.
Montreal police say 29-year-old Rocco Luka Magnotta is wanted in connection with a suspected homicide.
A man by that same name has a huge presence on the Internet — as a low-budget adult film actor and for controversial videos he has posted online in the past.
The man, believed to originally be from Toronto, was renting an apartment in a Montreal building that is now at the epicentre of the body-parts investigation.
It was behind that blue collar mid-rise apartment that a man's torso was found in a locked suitcase Tuesday. On the same day, a foot was found in a package opened at Conservative headquarters and a hand was found at an Ottawa postal warehouse.
The building manager tells The Canadian Press that Magnotta had been living there for about four months. In the manager's words, Magnotta seemed like a nice guy.
MONTREAL—Police have named a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party.
Montreal police say 29-year-old Rocco Luka Magnotta is wanted in connection with a suspected homicide.
A man by that same name has a huge presence on the Internet — as a low-budget adult film actor and for controversial videos he has posted online in the past.
The man, believed to originally be from Toronto, was renting an apartment in a Montreal building that is now at the epicentre of the body-parts investigation.
It was behind that blue collar mid-rise apartment that a man's torso was found in a locked suitcase Tuesday. On the same day, a foot was found in a package opened at Conservative headquarters and a hand was found at an Ottawa postal warehouse.
The building manager tells The Canadian Press that Magnotta had been living there for about four months. In the manager's words, Magnotta seemed like a nice guy.
I was just about to post this!
I'm really curious why the guy would send it to the CPC - I'm wondering if mental health is an issue here, because thats just weird. I mean, I dislike Harper but I wouldn't go that far!!
Well, there are a lot of canadians down there all winter. Does that mean you're to blame for the crazy?
Absolutely. Canadian snowbirds are crazy!!! Particularly during early bird times at hot restaurants. And by hot I mean the cheesecake factory and Denny's.
Jesus, this case gets worse and worse. I cannot believe he not only kills animals, but dated a known serial killer. And there are more body parts in the mail??? How have they not been found yet?