Montreal Police say DNA testing has confirmed that the hand and foot sent to two Vancouver schools belong to Luka Magnotta’s former lover, Jun Lin.
Magnotta is alleged to have killed Lin, and dismembered his body.
His torso was found in a suitcase outside Magnotta’s Montreal apartment, and packages containing his hands and feet were mailed to the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa and two Vancouver schools. One of the packages was destined for Liberal party headquarters but was intercepted by Canada Post.
False Creek Elementary and St. George’s private school, both on Vancouver’s tony west side, received the body parts last week.
They were mailed from Montreal and immediately believed to be connected to the Magnotta case. DNA testing has now determined that is true.
Montreal detectives had been sure the body parts mailed across the country belonged to Lin, the victim of one of Canada's most gruesome slayings, but were waiting for confirmation by laboratory analysis.
"All the body parts that were found - the torso in Montreal, the foot and hand in Ottawa, the foot and hand in Vancouver - are from the same body, that of Mr. Lin," Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere, a Montreal police spokesman, said in an interview Wednesday evening.
"We've had official confirmation with the arrival of DNA test results, and we have also validated this though the presence of Mr. Lin's parents in Montreal."
The 33-year-old victim's head has still not been found and police have made its recovery a priority so the family can have some measure of closure.
Magnotta, a 29-year-old porn actor and escort, was arrested last week in Berlin and is awaiting extradition to face charges of first-degree murder in Lin's death, which grabbed worldwide headlines.
— With files from CP
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