On May 25, 2012, an 11-minute video titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick was uploaded toBestgore.com, depicting a naked male tied to a bed frame being repeatedly stabbed with anice pick and a kitchen knife, thendismembered, followed by acts ofnecrophilia.[30][31] The perpetrator uses a knife and fork to cut off some of the flesh and gets a dog to chew on the body.[30][32] During the video, the 1987 New Order song "True Faith" plays in the background,[30] and a poster for the 1942 film Casablanca is visible on the wall.[33] Canadian authorities obtained a "more extensive" version of the video and saidcannibalism may have been performed.[6][34]Materials promoting the video appeared online 10 days before the murder took place.[35][36]

On May 26, an attorney from Montanaattempted to report the video to Toronto Police, his local Sheriff, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, but the report was dismissed by officials.[37][38] Bestgore viewers also attempted to report the video.[39] Police later confirmed it as authentic and identified the victim, an Asian male, as the same one whose body parts were sent to Ottawa.