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Canada greets 'Karla' with outrage By ANNE NEVILLE NEWS STAFF REPORTER 1/21/2006 Laura Prepon has the title role in "Karla," a film that will open in the Buffalo area later this year. Karla Homolka served 12 years in prison and was released last summer amid a storm of public opposition. For Western New Yorkers who remember the early 1990s Ontario sex slayings by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the movie "Karla" may shed light on the psyche of an unlikely and vicious killer. But Michael Sellers, the film's Los Angeles-based producer and writer, is finding that people in Ontario are...

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...

Ottawa police say the suspicious package sent to the Conservative Party of Canada's headquarters appears to be a human foot. Police say a call about a suspicious package at 130 Albert St. came in around 11:20 a.m. The package, which police confirm was sent through Canada Post, was partially opened when police arrived. Police also say the package possibly had blood stains on it. CPC spokesperson Fred Delorey would only confirm that "a suspicious package was sent to our office" and directed all other questions to Ottawa police. The major crime unit is now in charge of the investigation. RCMP...

A porn actor is wanted in a gruesome case of dismembered body parts that were mailed to different places including the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada, police said. Canadian police named a suspect in a gruesome murder case involving a dismembered torso, mailed-out body parts, and what one senior officer said was the worst crime scene his force has ever seen. Montreal police released a photograph of a man they said is Luka Rocco Magnotta, who they said also uses the pseudonyms Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, and asked people across Canada to help locate him....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Okay. So President Obama gives the highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to a Marxist socialist. What is the media narrative? The media narrative is Romney is out of kilter with America because he will not denounce Donald Trump as a supporter. While Obama is honoring Marxists and socialists (Toni Morrison is one as well), the media is ripping Romney to shreds for being out of touch with America because Trump is a supporter and contributor. Last night and this morning, we have a media montage of media people demanding that Romney denounce Trump and me....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Back to this Trump business. You know, the cable networks are running headlines, something like, "Romney Victory Lap Overshadowed by Trump." And they're all on this theme. Last night Trump was on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. Yeah, here it is. It's quite telling. After a report about Trump questioning Obama's place of birth, 'cause he's still out there talking about that, Wolf Blitzer said, "Donald, thanks very much for joining us." TRUMP: I thought that your introduction was highly inappropriate, but that's okay because I've gotten to know you over the years. BLITZER: Well, listen, Donald, I...

(Rocco Luka Magnotta, 29, is a suspect in the discovery of a man's torso in Montreal.) (CNN) -- The search continued Thursday for a gay porn actor suspected of dismembering his acquaintance, posting the video of the incident online and mailing the severed limbs to different locations in Ottawa, including to a political party's headquarters, according to a source with direct knowledge of the investigation. Authorities are searching for Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, who they allege is responsible for a human torso discovered in Montreal, thought to be linked to a human hand and foot that were separately mailed from...

Over the past two years, a man from Toronto, Ontario, CA has posted videos to YouTube (which were subsequently removed) of a very graphic and disturbing nature.The first(from 2010) contained two small kittens which were placed inside a vacuum bag from which all air was removed and they were made to suffocate.The second, posted a year later (November 2011), showed another kitten that was fed to an albino burmese python. The third, released shortly after, gave the image of a cat taped to a broom handle and lowered into a bathtub filled with water to be drowned. Efforts of individual...

An international manhunt for a Canadian suspect intensified today as authorities identified the victim of a gruesome killing and dismemberment as Lin Jun, a Chinese student who was studying in Montreal. Montreal police have confirmed Lin, 33, was killed about a week ago. Authorities believe he was in a relationship with Luka Rocco Magnotta, a self-styled porn star who fled Canada last weekend, and is now wanted for first-degree murder and carrying out an indignity to a human body. Montreal authorities believe Magnotta killed Lin and videotaped the act, before mailing body parts to political parties in Ottawa.

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. There is considerable online chatter that the killing and other gruesome acts on the body were videotaped and posted on the Internet. Magnotta, believed to be originally...

Canadian police are searching for a man in connection with a murder in Montreal. A male human torso was discovered in a suitcase in a pile of garbage at Place Lucy and Décarie in Montreal Tuesday morning. Although authorities have not released the name of the victim, they have released the name of a suspect: 29-year-old Luka Rocco Magnotta. Magnotta is a name well known in the animal rescue community. In 2010, a video surfaced of him on YouTube, torturing and killing two kittens. Photos of Magnotta holding various terrified animals as well as a list of his aliases made...

OTTAWA — A man who once dated notorious sex-killer Karla Homolka now stands accused of murder himself after the grisly discovery of a torso in Montreal, whose severed foot and hand were mailed to the Conservative and Liberal party offices in Ottawa. Montreal police have confirmed that Luka Rocco Magnotta — also known by the aliases Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov — had dated Homolka. . . . An extensive online profile depicts Magnotta as an alleged former stripper and porn star, who gained notoriety for posting videos of killing kittens online. Various glamour shots show a young man, who is wanted...

Karla Homolka liked bondage sex games but was a positive role model for a female convict who fell in love with her and now describes the relationship in a new book. Lynda Veronneau, a l'ombre de Karla (Lynda Veronneau: In the Shadow of Karla) is mainly the story of Veronneau, who spent time in Joliette prison with Homolka, who was serving 12 years for the sordid sex slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. But it also details Veronneau's three-year love affair with Homolka, who was freed in July and now lives under another name in Montreal. "Lynda...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian sex killer was freed after 12 years behind bars on Monday for her involvement in the rape, torture and murder of two schoolgirls, in a case that horrified Canada in the 1990s. Karla Homolka, 35, was released from prison in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, near Montreal, the Correctional Service of Canada said in a release. Homolka and her then-husband, Paul Bernardo, kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured and killed two teenaged girls in the early 1990s in southern Ontario. Homolka, who videotaped the assaults, also drugged her 15-year-old sister so Bernardo could rape her in the basement of her...

KARLA HOMOLKA is a ticking time bomb who is likely to kill again, according to a recent risk assessment by the National Parole Board. "The commission believes if (Homolka) was freed before the end of the sentence ... we are convinced you would commit an infraction that would result in the death or grave harm of another person," the Dec. 12 assessment obtained by the Toronto Sun states. Homolka, 34, waived her last chance to fight for early prison release and will serve out her entire sentence which ends in seven months. She'll be free July 5, 2005. "I can't...