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Officers canvassing the working-class Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal where the torso was found in a suitcase have been showing residents an image of an Asian man in his 30s. Lafreniere has said that police believed that the male victim knew his assailant. Police in Montreal continue to investigate the possibility that Magnotta killed the man inside the apartment where he lived, dismembered the body and mailed pieces to political parties in Ottawa. One neighbour told The Canadian Press that he last saw Magnotta nearly a week ago, at about 11 a.m. Richard Payette, who lives on the same floor as Magnotta, said he saw the man carrying a box at the time. Payette said the box appeared similar to boxes used to package hockey skates. On Tuesday, a package containing a severed foot arrived in the mail at the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters in Ottawa, prompting a police lockdown and investigation. Later that evening, a second package, this one containing a hand, was intercepted at a Canada Post office in Ottawa. The package was addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada.Īuthorities have said that Magnotta has no criminal record, making it difficult to track the suspect's history. Magnotta, who also uses the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, has an extensive and macabre online footprint that includes links to videos purportedly showing the torture and killing of kittens, profiles as a male model and rambling blog entries posted under the headlines "Cyber stalking," and "Media propaganda."Ī video that may be connected to the body parts case has been making the rounds on the Internet.