'Haughty and above it all': No sign of contrition from killer Luka Magnotta in new book

Deny, deny, deny.

Anyone looking for signs of remorse from Luka Magnotta for killing and dismembering an international student will not find it in a newly published book that includes extensive interviews with the educated escort, who has come to be known as an attention-seeking narcissist.

"He presents the same way now as he did back then. Rather haughty and above it all, "says true-crime author Brian Whitney, who co-wrote the book with Magnotta's mother, Anna Yourkin.

Yourkin, who was in the opening of the book "My Son, The Killer", "deepest condolences" to the family of the victim Jun Lin, before going on to describe in detail nightmare "she and her family went through.

Through all the grief, anger, depression, shame and fear, she says she has never stopped loving her son and is "proud to be his mother." She is not a monster.

Magnotta gained worldwide attention in 2012 when he was named a suspect in the grisly videotaped death of Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese exchange student in Montreal, whose body parts were mailed to different parts of the country. Following an international manhunt, Magnotta was arrested at an internet cafe in Berlin.

He presents the same way now as he did back then. Rather haughty and above it all

During his trial in 2014, he was not criminally responsible for the murder of a mental disorder that he was incapable of knowing right from wrong. Able to find a judge and a judge in the United States.

In interviews by phone and mail, Magnotta, 36, declined to talk to Whitney about the actual murder. Instead, he offered a laundry list of rebuttals against many of the related allegations against him.

According to the book, Magnotta was never onboard with his lawyers '' absurd '' of the not-criminally responsible defense (" ); denied having killed any kittens ("I actually adore and love them"); and disputed the concept he craves attention ("This inaccurate spin could not be further from the truth").

Magnotta also said he had set up dozens of online profiles and Facebook pages, saying that this was a "big deal" by "The Trolls." But Whitney writes in the book "Pay people to alter photographs of him and then post them online" in order to make him look rich or special.

In an effort to create more "buzz" about himself, he is also said to have a rumor that he had dated Karla Homolka. Magnotta told Whitney that "unstable internet stalkers" were behind this rumor, but a psychiatric evaluation report by Dr. Joel Watts.

A consistent topic emerged from the interviews, Whitney told the National Post in an email. "He thinks society is sick – not him. He feels that he is obsessed with him, constantly making things up, gossiping about him, and so on. I think there were definitely times when I thought he was being deceitful.

Meanwhile, Yourkin describes in the book the "utter shock" she felt as she watched her on television being escorted by police off a military plane.

"I started to cry uncontrollably. I cried for my son; I cried for Jun Lin and his family; I cried for my family, and I cried for myself, "she wrote.

I began to cry uncontrollably. I cried for my son; I cried for Jun Lin and his family; I cried for my family and I cried for myself

Watts and the defense lawyers, who are looking for pry information from them before the trial. "It felt like they were expecting us to come up with the 'magic' word or phrase that would make us feel like we were doing it. we were just as confused, perhaps more so, than anyone else. "

At one point, she writes, she thought it would make her strategic sense. It would not make a difference and only add "fuel to the fire," she wrote.

"The public hated Luka."

Yourkin says she has thought about how things have happened before.

"He tried but never really seemed to fit in comfortably anywhere. When he lived in the world, he lived in a life that he wanted to live in, a life that he wished for. … Luka was in a constant inner battle, as if he was being taken over by something or someone. "

When they learned about it, they wrote about it. "We knew this was really bad, and it was going to get worse if he did not get help."

Despite his lengthy correspondence with Magnotta, Whitney admits in the book it was a challenge getting into the head of the killer, who married a fellow inmate, Anthony Jolin, last year. When it comes to Magnotta, "who really knows what he thinks or what moral code he understands?

"I've interviewed him. I've talked extensively with his mother. I do not know what I think, but do I really know what he thinks? I do not."

What begs the question: what value is there in giving Magnotta this platform?

Whitney told the Post he does not think the book glorifies Magnotta, adding: "I do not think it helps us to just ignore things that make us uncomfortable or disturb us. I look forward to interviewing people who understand what they are doing and what they do, and that they hopefully can help us in such a way. "

Whitney adds in the book it would have been "nice to give more attention to Jun Lin, but just in all the stories about Luka, he is always the star and he will be in this story."