Icepicks and Nukes

There’s a fascinating and chilling writeup in Rolling Stone about the online sleuths who were hunting Luka Magnotta for uploading a video of himself killing kittens, BEFORE he went on to kill a Chinese college student. They figured out his identity and location and went to police and animal welfare officials with their evidence, only to be told they wouldn’t mobilize because his victims were cats. The article points out the correlation between animal abuse and serial killers. Perhaps most infuriating of all was Magnotta’s motivation for pretty much everything he did in his adult life: a desire to be famous, or infamous. Read the entire thing here.