“Meanwhile, China’s Consulate General in Montreal asked for the community’s help to find 33-year-old Lin Jun, who hails from the east-central Chinese city of Wuhan. Family and friends, the consulate stated, lost contact with him on May 24.
Lin arrived in Montreal in July 2011. A spokesperson for the consulate said she didn’t know why he came to Montreal or what he was doing here. A May 30 posting on its website is entitled: “Find Lin Jun.”
A police source confirmed to La Presse on Thursday evening that Lin is the victim in the case and that he was a student at Concordia University in Montreal.
Police have said the video is authentic. “We have all the reasons to believe it is the killing,” Montreal police Commander Ian Lafrenière said. Police also believe the victim in the video, an Asian male, is the same one whose body parts were sent to Ottawa.
The video was posted May 25 to a Canada-based website that deals with death and gore.
It shows the perpetrator repeatedly stabbing then dismembering the victim. It also appears to depict cannibalism and sexual defiling of the body.
In the background is the song “True Faith” by New Order, notable for its presence in the film American Psycho.
Police sources also said the victim was in a romantic relationship with the suspect. The two lived fairly close to each other in Montreal’s west end.”