Timeline of two cases: grisly murder and a website owner who posted the video

EDMONTON – Edmonton website owner Mark Marek pleaded guilty Monday at what was supposed to be the start of his trial for posting a video showing Luka Magnotta dismembering Montreal university student Jun Lin in 2012. Magnotta is serving a life sentence for murder. Here is a timeline of events:

2012

May 24: Lin is last seen entering Magnotta’s apartment building on surveillance video.

May 25-26: Magnotta is seen coming and going from the apartment, emptying its contents.

May 26: Montana lawyer Roger Renville sees a bizarre Internet video depicting a man being stabbed and dismembered.

May 26: Magnotta flies from Montreal to Paris.

May 27: Renville alerts U.S. and Canadian police to the video but they dismiss it as fake.

May 29: Montreal police are called to an apartment building after a janitor finds a torso in a suitcase left in the trash. The same day, a foot is found in a package mailed to the Conservative party in Ottawa. A hand is found in a Canada Post warehouse in a packagedestined for the Liberal party. Lin is reported missing by friends.

May 30: Montreal police name Magnotta as a prime suspect and issue a warrant for his arrest. Interpol adds him to its wanted list.

May 31: Magnotta boards a bus from Paris to Berlin.

June 1: Montreal police identify the torso victim as Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese computer science student at Concordia University.

June 4: Berlin police act on a tip and arrest Magnotta in an Internet cafe.

June 5: Two schools in Vancouver receive packages containing Lin’s other hand and foot.

June 11: Magnotta is transferred to a Berlin prison hospital, where a psychiatrist believes Magnotta is in a psychotic state.

June 18: Magnotta is extradited and arrives in Montreal on a Canadian military plane.

July 1: A tip leads police to a Montreal park, where they discover Lin’s skull.

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2013

July 17: Edmonton police charge Marek with publishing obscene material after he travels back to Canada from a trip overseas. They say they didn’t previously have the evidence they needed to arrest him.

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2014

Sept. 29: Magnotta’s trial begins. A jury hears that he admits to the crime but argues that he was not criminally responsible due to a mental illness.

Dec. 23: On their eighth day of deliberations, jurors find Magnotta guilty of all five charges against him — first-degree murder, committing an indignity to a body, publishing obscene material, mailing obscene and indecent material and harassment of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament. He is sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

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2016

JAN. 25: Marek pleads guilty to publishing obscene material — a charge under the corrupting morals section in the Criminal Code. He is given a six-month conditional sentence, half to be served under house arrest.

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