No evidence has been found that such a person even exists but the name is very similar to Catherine Tramell’s boyfriend named Manny Vasquez. Luka also tried setting up an alibi months earlier by telling his mom that the cat killing videos were staged and that he was blackmailed by a man named Manny Lopez into doing them. While in Paris, he used the pseudonym “Kirk Tramell”, an homage to Sharon Stone’s character Catherine Tramell. Luka used it as an opportunity to place a Casablanca poster where the window is supposed to be to hint at where he was fleeing to - Paris. The scene also had a stained glass window in the backdrop. He framed the video of the murder similarly to the murder in the movie with the victim tied to the bed, the killer being on top of the victim (cowgirl position), and even painted a screwdriver to look like the ice pick used in the movie. When he finally moved on to killing a person (Jun Lin), he recorded video of himself committing the act while framing his shots similarly to Basic Instinct. He killed animals (a classic telltale sign of a would-be murderer) and made occasional homages to films. If you don’t care about spoilers though.īasically, Luka Magnotta has a fascination with serial killers and films.
