Brian Whitney - My Son, The Killer: The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta and 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick

My Son, The Killer

The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta

and 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick

BRIAN WHITNEY

with Anna Yourkin

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A Note From Anna Yourkin

Before I begin to tell my familys story, I want to address the fact that I have never publicly expressed my condolences to the Lin family. I would like to take this opportunity to do so now. My entire family expresses our deepest condolences to your family for the loss of your son Jun Lin.

Anna Yourkin

Authors Note

I interviewed Luka Magnotta for this book, both through mail and on the telephone. Any words seen in italics, whether they are at the beginning of chapters or in the body of them, is a direct quote from Luka to me.

Much of the information in this book is based on the F oren s i c Psy c hi a t ric E v a l u a t i o n completed by Dr. Joel Watts in 2014 that was used to evaluate Luka Rocco Magnotta for trial.

All chapters titled Anna were written by Anna Yourkin, Luka Magnottas mother.

Brian Whitney

Introduction

Peoples lies make me feel different from the rest of society. The lies separate me from themLuka Magnotta

There was no part of me that wanted to watch 1 Lunatic 1 Icepick .

You can find some terrible things on the Internet. If you find yourself bored and spending your time surfing around the net, you might wind up going into some dark places, like many people do. If so you might come across 3 Guys 1 Hammer, a murder video filmed by, and starring the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs, who are a brutal pair of Ukrainian serial killers who have since been apprehended. The video features them bashing in a mans head with a hammer and stabbing him in the eyes.

They did if for fun. The violence was less troubling than the unfettered joy the killers took in murdering a helpless man. The video is extremely unsettling on every level, but it wasnt meant to be seen by anyone but the killers. To them it was a personal keepsake, a trophy so to speak, something for these lunatics to get off on when they are sitting around the house with nothing to do, when they werent busy killing people.

This was different. 1 Lunatic 1 Icepick was more than an incredibly disturbing murder video that featured acts of necrophilia and cannibalism, it was a snuff film meant by its maker to be seen by millions. To Luka Magnotta, the director and one of the stars of the video, the other being his victim Jun Lin, it seemed that the killing itself was meant to be secondary to the reaction the act would receive. Although he denied it to me numerous times, on the phone and in writing, it seems to many that Luka butchered a man and abused his corpse mostly because he wanted to mess with peoples heads, and to be famous, for something. Even something such as this.

Traditionally makers of such atrocities tried to keep such things underground. In the book Killing for Culture author David Kerekes says that Snuff films depict the killing of a human being a human sacrifice (without the aid of special effects or other trickery) perpetuated for the medium of film and circulated amongst a jaded few for the purpose of entertainment. Magnotta had no interest in performing for the jaded few; he wanted the world to see what he had done. 1 Lunatic 1 Icepick was his opus on violence, murder, and depravity, and he made sure that it made him a star.

He even had a marketing campaign to make sure that it was seen. It is theorized that he was the person who sent the video to Bestgore.com, a shock website owned by Canadian Mark Marek, who later spent time in prison for simply putting the video on his site. Just in case that wasnt enough, Luka started sending body parts through the mail to Canadian political parties and to an elementary school in Vancouver. He had even made reference to the video by name on some of his numerous social media accounts ten days before the crime ever took place saying, There is apparently a video circulating around the deep web and called One Lunatic One Ice Pick Video. Does anyone have a copy of it?

I am writing this book with Lukas mother. To my surprise she told me that Luka wanted to talk to me. I have spent a lifetime working with and hanging out with people who much of society finds odd, or even abhorrent. The Cannibal Cop has stayed in my spare bedroom when he was drunk. The Unabomber has criticized one of my letters to him, saying I had the worst handwriting he had ever seen. I pride myself on not being judgmental. I dont let things freak me out. But this felt different somehow.

I wrote Luka a letter. He responded. Luka Magnotta told me that he wanted the truth to come out. He wrote me that I dont give interviews. I dont trust the media at all, I have been completely defamed and slandered by them for years, the lies theyve told are horrendous and very troubling. I am constantly being bombarded by news agencies all over the world to tell my story. So far, I have not. Since my mother trusts you, it will be my pleasure to work with you and help this be successful. This was at the beginning of a twenty-five page missive, the first of many, in which he answered my questions on everything to his life growing up, his criminal history, his life as a model and an escort, and about the murder of Jun Lin.

Then I talked to Luka on the phone. Hes charming. Hes got a good sense of humor. We made each other laugh. I like his mother Anna. She says nice things about her son. Of course, I want to think nice things about Luka too.

When we talked he told me of how everyone had him wrong, and how he was looking forward to setting the record straight. He said Everything I do, I do to succeed. Its important to do things properly and right. My background has constantly been edited, I havent spoken to anyone about any of this, none of this is my side of what happened. Its very annoying. I never wanted anything to do with the NCR (Not Criminally Responsible) defense. I have no mental illness whatsoever. I had to go with it, even though I didnt want to, but my lawyers pressured me into it. I told the doctors I had no mental illness. Even now in prison I take no medications, but the lawyers said our only chance was to go with the NCR defense. I wish I didnt do it, I wish I testified and told the story my way. Everyone else had the chance to tell their story. The judge, the prosecutors, my lawyers, I am the only one that didnt get a chance to tell my side. There is a preconceived notion that I am an attention seeker or that I love the limelight. That is something that really annoys me, all throughout my life I havent done that. I mean I have done some auditions to be on reality shows, and then people just spin that around and make it something it isnt. Or people would talk about how many photos I would have taken of myself, that was for my job, you have to have pictures taken for your job when you are a model. Information is just fed to people, and they just go with it. They just recycle it and spin it their way and edit my history.