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I think we have all given up on why he chose the particular locales to mail the body parts. If anything deserves sleuthing, it's this. Has anything come up with anything at all? Luka didn't appear to be politically motivated in any of his rants,
and I don't think we have come up with any solid theories regarding connections to Vancouver. To me, this is the largest missing piece or the puzzle. I sure wish someone with a big mouth had access to those notes!
I think we are finding it hard to find a Vancouver connection for LRM, because we're not thinking like LRM thinks. Something about Vancouver that seems obvious to him, may not to us.
Here's my simple theory about why LRM sent the body parts to Vancouver -- to associate himself with certain gruesome crimes there.
Let me explain. We know LRM was looking for shock and attention with this crime. And also, created posts online suggesting he was a "serial killer", as if he had done prior killings. Moreover, LRM's online ramblings and anonymous posting had a habit of trying to connect him to other murders and crimes (like animal torture).
Exhibit A - in the RipOff Report LRM filed on the day of the Murder against himself ("Luka Rocco Magnotta"), the second "comment" that LRM made to his own report explicitly linked himself to a "serial kitten killer" in Vancouver:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/bars-lo...sexu/luka-magnotta-bisexual-male-mo-81e0c.htm
News Story on the Kitten Killer:
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/killer+prowls+Maple+Ridge/5425078/story.html (from 2011)
Exihibit B - Now, we also know LRM is obsessed with serial murders and other gruesome crimes.
A few years back, in 2008, a story that caught the entire country's attention was that body parts started washing up on shore in Vancouver. Severed feet kept being found, and no one knows where they came from, or who was doing the dismembering.
Story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7458468.stm (from 2008)
Apparently, human feet keep washing ashore:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-are-human-feet-still-washing-ashore-in-the-vancouver-area/ (2011)
We can't seem to find an obvious LRM connection to Vancouver to justify sending JL's severed "foot" and "Hand" to those Vancouver schools.
But perhaps to LRM-- in his mind, which is obsessed with gruesome murder, crimes, and animal cruelty-- Vancouver makes a whole lot of sense given these crimes (or potential crimes, in the human feet case). It seems like old news to us. But to him, he probably was feverishly thinking that he'd immediately be associated with these other crimes. To a certain extent, he was right, as police in Miami and LA both probed for a "potential" LRM link to local crimes, to no avail.
I realize this is speculative. And I don't think LRM had any real connection to those crimes. But it's certainly his MO to try to connect himself to other crimes, to gain greater attention and shock value.
UPDATE (EDIT)
Just a later thought to add another element to this theory, which came to me in re-examining the RipOff Report Comment where LRM links himself to the "Vancouver Cat Killer".
In that comment, he also points out that Vancouver is "close to San Fransisco (sic)" and that, "[Magnotta] lives in San Fransisco (sic) Vancouver would be the closest major city for him, and Canada used to be his home".
So, sending body parts to Vancouver may also be an attempt at misdirection and disinformation; to not only associate himself with crimes in Vancouver, but also pretend he's on the West Coast.
This, presumably, would be a poor attempt at misdirection, given that the mailed packages would be stamped as being mailed from Montreal, would they not?