With Netflix’s ‘Don’t F**k With Cats,’ the True Crime Reckoning May Have Begun
i. Don’t F**k With Cats
Last week, Netflix released its latest true-crime series, Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer. The riveting three-part documentary is about the Luka Magnotta case from earlier this decade, which saw a man escalate from posting videos of himself torturing and killing kittens online, to posting videos of himself doing the same to a human being. The series follows a group of internet activists who pored over the kitten-killing videos for clues as to the killer’s identity and location, ultimately warning the police about the suspect before the murder took place… although their warnings went unheeded, and Magnotta was able to kill Jun Lin anyway.
Magnotta was narcissistic and vain, evidently posting these videos and toying with the internet sleuths because he loved the notoriety that the videos were bringing him online. Before he was a cat- (and person-)killer, he was a “model” who created dozens of facebook fan pages for himself, and hundreds of fake facebook accounts to fill those pages with compliments. Toward the end of Don’t F**k With Cats, one of the…
