A foot mailed in a package to the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada

A police officer removes a package containg a human foot from the Conservative Party …

By Peter Rakobowchuk and Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press/

MONTREAL - A low-income apartment complex in Montreal has become the epicentre of an investigation into the shocking case involving severed body parts, including a foot mailed in a package to the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Police in masks have been combing through an apartment in the mid-rise brick building, zeroing in on one particular unit from which a rotten stench is drifting out, says a building resident.
The neighbour says police are showing people pictures of one man, while also asking questions about the unit's resident and about his possible connections.
Police have confirmed they are zeroing in on a suspect in the macabre case involving three body parts: the foot in a package opened at Conservative headquarters, a hand found at a Canada Post warehouse in Ottawa, and a torso in Montreal.
They all come from the same male victim, Montreal police confirmed Wednesday.
The packages in Ottawa were mailed from Montreal. Police shared other new details about the case Wednesday.
"The suspect and victim knew each other," Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters.
"It isn't linked to organized crime."
Police are expected to provide further information around 2 p.m.
The Canadian Press spoke to a man in the west-end Montreal neighbourhood where the torso was discovered — locked in a suitcase, in a pile of garbage.
"I saw the suitcase and I was tempted to go get it," said Richard Payette, 60.
He said police wearing masks were milling about one particular apartment in the building on the second floor. He said the door of that particular apartment was left open, and the smell of rotten meat was drifting out into the hallway.
Police showed neighbours a picture of a man — whom Payette said he didn't recognize.
What isn't clear yet is why body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including a foot received at the offices of the Conservative party and a hand found at a Canada Post warehouse.
Montreal police have taken over the investigation, while Ottawa police will continue to provide assistance.
The packages are linked to a grim discovery made behind an apartment building in Montreal, where a janitor found a decomposing male human torso stuffed in a suitcase tossed among garbage.
An autopsy was being conducted on the body part. It wasn't immediately clear where the rest of the body was.
Initially, there were contradictory reports over whether the Montreal and Ottawa cases were linked. While police were combing through garbage in Montreal looking for clues Tuesday, speculation had been rife that there might be a link to the more high-profile body part discovery in Ottawa.