His images and words are all over the Internet, on porn sites and what appears to be his own website, where he defends himself as the victim of cyberstalkers out to get him. And a journalist who met him years ago described him as "creepy."

All of it paled in comparison to this week's accusations against Luka Rocco Magnotta as he became the center of Canada's most talked-about crime.

Authorities launched a massive manhunt for Magnotta after a severed hand was sent to Canada's Liberal Party, a foot to the Conservatives and a torso was stuffed in a suitcase and tossed in the trash of the Montreal apartment building where he lived.