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(CNN) — The search continued Thursday for a porn actor suspected of dismembering his acquaintance, posting the video of the incident online and mailing the severed limbs to different locations in Ottawa, according to police.

Authorities are seeking Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, also known as Eric Clinton Newman.

Police were first alerted to a case of dismemberment Tuesday, when a severed foot in a package arrived by mail at Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, CNN’s Canadian affiliates CTV and CBC reported.

Police Sgt. Steve Hodgson told reporters outside the office that staffers had begun to open the package before calling police.

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“The odor coming from the package was just horrible, and I’m sure many of us will never forget it,” said Conservative Party spokesman Fred Delorey told CBC.

A severed hand turned up the same day at a postal distribution center, where it was intercepted. It was addressed to the Liberal Party.

On Wednesday, a third body part, a torso, turned up behind a Montreal apartment building, where the suspect was a tenant. It had been stuffed into a suitcase. The foot and hand belong to the same victim, Sgt. Ian Lafreniere said, and police believe the torso does as well.

“We are still missing pieces of this puzzle in terms of body parts,” he said.

Magnotta knew the victim, who Lafreniere would only identify to reporters Wednesday as a white male.

The suspect has a previous conviction of fraud in Ontario in 2005, CTV reported.

Two people associated with the beige brick apartment building where Magnotta lived noticed the suitcase standing around outside the building.

“I had my eye on it, because it looked like a nice suitcase,” resident Richard Payette told CBC. But something about it struck him has odd.

Later, a janitor made the shocking discovery and police were alerted.

Arriving officers cordoned off the area. The scene inside the apartment was no less disturbing.

“I’ve been a police officer for more than 20 years now and I met officers that were doing an investigation for more than 30 years and they said they never saw a scene like that,” said Lafreniere.

Dried blood stained the table, the bed, the bath tub and the refrigerator of apartment 208.

Police say they have found a video online of Magnotta committing the murder in Montreal.

His image and information related to him were later recovered from a “very graphic” website, Lafreniere said. At least one of the websites examined by authorities was a pornographic site.

Authorities said they are asking the public for help in locating Magnotta, after a “coast-to-coast” warrant was issued for his arrest. Police say they plan to charge him with murder once he’s apprehended.

“We need to bring him to justice,” Lafreniere said.

CNN’s David Ariosto, Jake Carpenter, Paula Newton and Matt Smith contributed to this report.