After cutting the victim’s throat, the voices told him to "give it back," and Magnotta said he took that as a sign to send body parts to political parties.
In his sessions with Allard, Magnotta couldn’t explain why he chose to send packages to Vancouver schools, but he said he thinks it’s because he and Lin had talked about that city.
Magnotta reported he did not remember the specific names he chose or how he found the return addresses, but they simply "popped into his head.". . .
Posting the edited video showing parts of the crime online was done to scare the voices away, Magnotta said.
The accused also told the psychiatrist he didn’t sleep for more than 36 hours, as he threw things out, booked a flight to Paris and ordered a pizza.
The days following the killing, as Magnotta moved from Montreal to Paris to Berlin, were dominated by anxiety and confusion, Allard reported he said.
When he saw his photo in a newspaper report at the internet cafe where he was later arrested, he reported feeling like he was blacking out.
"I felt I was inside another person’s body," Magnotta said to Allard.
The report concludes Magnotta was in a psychotic state when he committed the crime, and notes that at the time, he hadn’t been taking antipsychotic medication for almost two years.
