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We Tried Solving The Unanswered Questions From ‘Don’t F*ck With Cats’

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Already being compared to Abducted in Plain Sight, Netflix’s Don’t Fuck With Cats is the latest true crime show to have the whole world hooked…and horrified.

As the title implies, the story begins with some harrowing footage of a man torturing cats and ends with the murder of Jun Lin, a Chinese student living in Montreal.

The animal abuser and murderer, Luka Magnotta, would eventually send Lin’s body parts around Canada before an international manhunt began, culminating with him being arrested at an internet cafe in Berlin.

What makes this true crime investigation particularly intriguing is that before the police got it involved, it was initially spearheaded by a Facebook group dedicated to finding the guy seen in the video torturing kittens. The series documents two online sleuths, under the aliases Baudi Moovan and John Green, who spent every waking hour dedicated to the case, piecing together clues and analysing footage.

There is a lot to digest in this three-part series, with countless twists and turns along the way. By the end of it all, there were many questions left unanswered so we’ve tried our best to find the most convincing theories across Twitter, Reddit and beyond.

We scaled the interwebs to solve the unanswered questions from Don’t Fuck With Cats:

#1. Who tipped off the Facebook group?

As the dedicated group tried to work out who the kitten killer was based purely off clues in the grainy videos, all of a sudden an anonymous account messaged the group: “The person you’re looking for, his name is Luka Magnotta,” Baudi recounted.

This message was not mentioned again in the documentary, but many viewers are wondering who TF sent it, like @abigail_mary94 on Reddit who queried: “My question is, who was the random tip-off that sent a message to the group saying ‘the person you are looking for is Luka Magnotta’. Was it Luka himself?”

User @StevesMcQueenIsHere echoed the theory, writing, “Definitely Luka. The Internet nerds were taking too long to figure out who he was.”

But not everyone is convinced. “Ok, so he legit ousted himself? I found that rather confusing as he went to SUCH lengths to hide any clues about himself, but abruptly threw himself into the investigation like that,” wrote @JTmtgo1600.

Without Luka admitting to the tip-off it’s hard to know for sure but it’s important remembering he did bizarre things like leaving his own ID with the body, so there’s every chance he wanted the notoriety.

#2. What about the extra hands in the python video?

There are a lot of theories surrounding the extra set of hands seen briefly in the python video, the hands that seemed to convince Luka’s mum of the existence of Manny Lopez — a person Luka said had forced him to commit his crimes.

It’s the series’ greatest mystery that was left up in the air.

There are two main theories that people are putting forward. Firstly, that the hands belong to the snake’s owner – as user @todayschildren wrote on Reddit, “I received multiple confirmations that it was the snake owner, his female neighbour, who agreed to be filmed earlier and had no idea what occurred later on. These were two videos taken at different times.”

However, the series’ star John Green is saying a different story.

According to John, a CBC researcher previously interviewed Luka’s neighbours and found out that the hands belong to an unsuspecting female neighbour, who confessed to holding the python. However, she was not named so it’s difficult to gauge how trustworthy this account is.

Either way, it seems unlikely it was the mysterious Manny.

#3. What about the video of Baudi’s workplace?

Another feature in the series that was seemingly glazed over was the footage that Luka’s account liked, which seemed to show Baudi being filmed by someone at her place of work. How had Luka orchestrated this? “What about the video that was taken in that lady’s workplace…as like a threat… the casino in Vegas. They never explained that,” @Broad-Razzmataz wrote.

User @Medium_We1l had a theory: “Luka didn’t make that clip. He looked up the casino name on YouTube, saw the clip and liked it. A group member went into his liked videos and saw it there. He didn’t go to Vegas.”

It seems probable that Luka found out which casino it was by posing as an anonymous member in the group and as Baudi (real name Deanna Thompson) had said herself, when she first joined the group she did not hide her identity.

Once Luka knew Baudi’s personal info and the name of the casino she worked at, he then may have just found some random footage on the casino floor.

As @kDearest added to this theory: “When I was planning my trip to Vegas I watched a lot of walk-through videos of casinos/the strip to get a feel of the atmosphere. They all looked like that so I’m guessing he liked a blogger’s casino walk-through video where she worked. All you have to do is look up ‘(blank) casino walk-through’ on YouTube and I can guarantee you’ll find it.”

#4. Why did Luka send body parts to the Canadian government?

After killing Lin, Luka sent his body parts to various political parties and schools around Ottawa but his reasoning for this wasn’t really explored. What was not mentioned in the series was that Luka was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic at 20-years-old and for most of his life he had suspected that the Canadian government was spying on him.

After his arrest, he recounted the night’s events when he murdered Jun Lin to a forensic psychiatrist Dr. Marie-Frédérique Allard and said that he became convinced Lin was a government agent who would kill him.

Therefore, him killing Lin and then sending his body parts to various government bodies could be some kind of payback to get them to stop following him.

However, this theory is kind of at odds with Luka’s online presence, where he tried to get as much attention as possible. Reddit user @mjbristolian commented: “But if he was so scared of being followed, why was he putting himself out there so much on social media, I got the impression that he wanted to be followed.”

It’s hard to know whether Lukas’ motives were based on paranoia or narcissism. “Honestly, I think his reasoning to send them to government officials was to get as much attention as possible, he knew it would be plastered all over the news and would make headlines,” wrote @thirstygoals.

#5. What’s up with Luka’s mum?

The second half of the series features several interviews with Luka’s mum, Anna Yourkin, and many viewers are baffled by some of the things she said.

There was very little background about Luka’s family contained in the documentary which could have given viewers insight into his upbringing.

Luka was homeschooled during his early childhood, and a report suggested that Luka’s mother had psychological issues, with Luka saying that she was obsessed with cleanliness: she was said to be often wearing a surgical mask, rubber gloves and was known to lock her children out of the house or car, and leave their pet rabbits outside to freeze to death.

While the documentary made it seem like Luka was raised by his mum, he said he felt that his grandmother, Phyllis Yourkin, was the person who actually raised him.

All of this put together paints a rather grim picture of Anna, so it’s pretty irresponsible for the series to not include some of this information. Another factor to consider is that Luka’s father had a long history of psychiatric problems and was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic manic depressive — which could add another piece to the puzzle.

#6. What the hell was that ending about?

The ending offered up a bizarre moment, where Baudi broke the fourth wall speaking directly to the viewer and posed the question: “Did we feed the monster, or did we create it? And you, you at home watching a whole fucking documentary about Luka Magnotta, are you complicit?”

This had some people watching at home far from impressed, as @zoitberg joked, “Seriously, don’t blame me for watching the thing you made and put on Netflix for people to fucking watch.”

Others understood what the message was implying. As @Dark_Autumn wrote, “I think it speaks to society’s general obsession with true crime in general. I mean, just look how many damn shows, movies, documentaries, FAN CLUBS even (for serial killers) there are. It does a disservice to the victims.”

There is no denying that the series focused on the murderer, rather than the victim Jun Lin so, from a viewers’ perspective, it was the filmmakers who played right into Luka’s hand.

But oh boy, did we all eat that shit up.

We gotta say it: the most important mystery remains unsolved…