Episode 1 - Two Lunatics, One Episode?

A man dismembered with a steak knife and the brutal torture of slaves.

Madame Delphine LaLaurie & Luka Magnotta

Madame Delphine LaLaurie had it all. Good looks, power, money, status... Slaves. She maintained her position in New Orleans society until April of 1834, when civilians responded to a fire at her Royal Street mansion. Even during a time of where the relationships between slaves and slave owners were shrouded in despair, the grotesque site of the happenings within the LaLaurie Mansion shook the community to its core.

Luka Magnotta wanted nothing more in life other than to have all eyes on him. His plan of action? Murder. In May of 2012, Jun Lin, a university student, was fatally stabbed and dismembered with a steak knife in Montreal, Canada, by Luka Rocco Magnotta, who then mailed Lin's hands and feet to elementary schools and federal political party offices. After a video depicting the murder was posted online, Magnotta fled Canada, becoming the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and prompting an international manhunt.

Full Source Notes:

"I just want to disclose that a lot of my research and reporting format were inspired by the video created by the wonderful Stephanie Harlowe. Please go check out her video on the topic of the LaLaurie Mansion, linked down below. She did such a wonderful job." -Tori

Madame Delphine LaLaurie-

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1szWYn91UM

• https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Lalaurie-Mistress-Haunted-House/dp/0813061830

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110807152536/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04042005-171447/unrestricted/Morlas_thesis.pdf

• https://web.archive.org/web/20101116011843/http://www.nola.com/lalaurie/archives/fire1.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20101116011849/http://www.nola.com/lalaurie/archives/fire2.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20200318080330/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46886643/the-pittsfield-sun/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie

Luka Magnotta-

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_F**k_with_Cats:_Hunting_an_Internet_Killer

• https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Magnotta

• https://heavy.com/news/2013/03/trial-set-to-begin-for-luka-magnotta-canadian-psycho/

• https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/12/lin-jun-luka-magnotta-death/

• https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/luka-magnotta-15999.php

Production Note:

Floor On Fire has not done original reporting on this case. The stories are based on existing material (listed in source notes).

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