The Audience in the Room: Luka Magnotta and the Murder of Jun Lin
May 2012. A video appears on the open internet. People who hunt cruelty online hope it is a hoax. It is not.
Jun Lin was a Chinese student in Montreal. Luka Magnotta — born Eric Newman in Scarborough — murdered him, then used the remains and the news cycle as a stage. He fled through Europe and was arrested in a Berlin internet café, reading about himself. In 2014 a Montreal jury rejected a not-criminally-responsible defence and convicted him of first-degree murder. Life. No parole for twenty-five years.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the Canadian case without…
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