Gay porn actor kills, dismembers and sends human foot to Canada's ruling party HQ

An actor in low-budget gay porn films is the subject of an international manhunt after two severed body parts belonging to the same person were found in the Canadian capital.

Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for Luka Rocco Magnotta on Wednesday, following a Canada-wide warrant. The 29-year-old is the prime suspect in the gruesome case, in which a severed human foot was sent to the headquarters of Canada's ruling Conservative party and a blood-soaked package addressed to the Liberal Party containing a hand was stopped by police at a Canada Post terminal in Ottawa.

Authorities linked the bloody appendages Tuesday to a torso found in a locked suitcase behind a Montreal apartment building.

The building's manager, Eric Schorer, said Magnotta had been living in the building for nearly four months. "He seemed like a nice guy," Schorer told The Canadian Press.

Several residents in the building told the Montreal Gazette newspaper that police believe the torso belongs to an Asian man who also lived in the apartment building and is apparently missing.

Police said they are rushing to find Magnotta before he strikes again. A letter sent with the bloody foot warned that more body parts had been mailed and that the person responsible would kill again, according to CTV News.

A video purporting to show the killing is circulating around the Internet. On May 25, a user by the name Luke Magnotta uploaded a video that allegedly shows the murder to a website for novice horror film directors, La Presse reports.

The ten-minute video shows a man being repeatedly stabbed with an ice pick. The murderer then performs sexual acts on the body and then dismembers it.

The video draws an eery connection to the 2000 film American Psycho. True Faith by New Order plays as the murder is committed, a song that accompanied the opening credits of the movie.

U.S. lawyer Roger Renville told The Toronto Sun newspaper that he tipped off Toronto police to the video, which he found on bestgore.com.

Montreal Police Commander Ian Lafreniere told reporters Wednesday that Magnotta does not have a criminal record. "The suspect and victim knew each other," Lafreniere said. "It isn't linked to organized crime."

Police have not released the victim's name. An autopsy will be performed to determine how the victim was killed and when the body was dismembered.

"Some police officers have never witnessed a crime such as this," Lafreniere told The Associated Press.

The suspect has a murky past. He has worked as a porn actor, an official close to the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not given permission to discuss the grisly case.

Authorities told the news agency that Magnotta is also known by the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov. He is 5-foot-8 inches tall with blue eyes and black hair, cops say.

Police also confirmed that Magnotta once dated the infamous sex-killer Karla Homolka, the National Post reports.

Homolka was arrested in 1993 for the rape-murder of three Canadian women, one of which was her sister. Homolka was released from jail in 2005. Magnotta denied their relationship in 2007.

He has also been accused online of killing kittens and posting videos of their deaths on the Internet, the Gazette reports. He has responded to those accusations on his website, Luka-Magnotta.net.

"Many hoax websites are created using my image and name, posing as me to seem more believable in respect to the type of audience these websites have," Magnotta wrote in an article titled "Cyber Stalking."

"I feel I don't need to list them specifically but people need to be told, not to believe what they read and to take it as fact."