Sometimes you read a story twice to make sure what you read was real. Unfortunately, the story of Luka Magnotta was real.
He was a repeat offender of digital fraud, a spreader of disturbing rumors, an animal abuser, and a sadistic murderer.
Sometimes there are just bad people, and Luka Magnotta seemed to be one of them. He was self-obsessed and paranoid.
Mental illness was only one stage to his incurable, inexcusable type of dangerous personality. He was an enemy of the people, particularly those online who loved cats.
Luka’s story inspired a Netflix documentary series,Β Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer. His horrible actions afforded him worldwide internet infamy and a lifetime in solitary confinement away from society.
Although it’s too little, too late for his victims, both animal and human, there is some solace knowing that the internet banded together to stop such a terrible person before they had the power to post proof of their crimes again.
10 /10 Early Life
Luka was born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman in 1982 in Scarborough, Ontario. His youth was spotted with drama as his parents had an eventual divorce when Luka was 12 years old.
At that time, he was subject to unique abuses. His mother showed signs of mental disturbance and would lock her children outside, even in the cold.
One winter, she closed their pet rabbits out to freeze to death in an obsession with cleanliness. After his father was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he was raised by his grandmother instead.
9 /10 Obsession For Perfection
Starting in 2003, Eric started to make a change to himself. He used a false name, “Jimmy,” and began working as a gay stripper and prostitute.
At some point, he was recognized by Toronto’s fab magazine for his modeling work and tried completing for a spot on a reality TV series in 2007.
He also had several plastic surgeries in a bid to be acknowledged by a different TV show. He had the early warning signs of dangerous narcissism and obsessions with recognition.