Netflix ’s Don't F**k With Cats is the latest true crime documentary to grab the attention of the world.

The documentary follows the horrifying story of Luka Magnotta, and his link to the mysterious figure known as Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Lopez.

Luka filmed and uploaded videos of himself killing animals, and eventually Chinese student Lin Jun.

The three-part documentary follows the internet’s desperate attempts to find out the true identity of the killer in the videos.

** Spoilers for Don't F**k With Cats below **

A Facebook group who were investigating the animal torture videos were eventually able to unmask the cat killer as Luka Magnotta.

He was eventually apprehended by police on June 4, 2012, but claimed he had been forced to carry out the acts of violence by someone else.

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Who is Manny Lopez? How is he connected to Luka Magnotta?

Luka claims he was forced to carry out the killings by a mysterious figure who he referred to as Manny.

Luka didn’t deny killing Lin, but he said Manny had forced him to do it, and watched the murder from an SUV in the car park.

He told police Manny was telling him what to do through the phone.

However, Manny Lopez didn’t have an online footprint, and no phone records could be found related to his name.

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Meanwhile, his mother, Anna Yourkin, corroborated the existence of a man called Manny, but she had not met him.

She explained how her son had started speaking about Manny years before the murder.

Luka insisted he was a regular client of Manny through his escorting and sex work.

He said Manny began to request more and more violent acts, including BDSM and torture fantasies.

According to Luka, it eventually escalated to killing cats – and then Manny would upload the video.

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Luka said Manny threatened him with his life if he failed to co-operate.

Detectives believed Manny was a figment of Luka’s imagination to give him a defence if he was caught.

No investigations have found proof of the existence of Manny.

It wasn’t until after the trial the Facebook group who discovered Luka’s identity believed they had found out the truth about Manny.

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They went through Luka’s aliases and discovered he had used the name Kirk Tramell.

Trammell is Sharon Stone’s character in the 1992 blockbuster Basic Instinct.

In the movie Trammell kills her lover by tying his hands to the bedpost during sex, and stabs him to death with an ice pick.

The character’s former fiance was called Manuel Masquez, or Manny for short.

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