The chilling real-life crime inspired by Netflix’s Don’t F**k with Cats: How trans predator live streamed killing a cat in a blender before carrying out twisted murder in echo of notorious Luka Magnotta
This is the moment the smiling Scarlet Blake enjoys putting a cat in a blender before committing a twisted murder in a chilling echo of a Netflix true crime documentary.
Blake, 26, livestreamed the killing and dissection of a cat four months before targeting Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked home after a night out in Oxford in July 2021.
Harrowing audio released by police revealed how Blake, a transgender woman, said: ‘One day I want to learn how to do this to someone’ after killing the cat.
She admitted to dissecting the animal, removing the fur and skin and putting it in a blender, but blames her former partner Ashlynn Bell.
Blake had an ‘extreme interest in death and harm’ and killed the family pet after watching the Netflix documentary Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer, the court previously heard.
The true crime show tells the story of how Luka Magnotta, who killed kittens before killing student Jun Lin, was brought to justice.
Before stabbing Jun Lin to death with a screwdriver, Magnotta films himself putting two kittens in a clear plastic storage bag, turning on a vacuum cleaner and sucking out all the air until they die.
After Magnotta posts the footage on the Internet as a sick braggart, she attracts the attention of Internet sleuths who launch a crowdsourced amateur investigation to find the animal torturer.
Prosecutors say Blake’s killing was relevant to the murder case because it shows she had a “disturbing interest in what it would be like to harm a living being.”
A sickening photo shows transgender killer Scarlet Blake enjoying the moment she puts a cat in a blender
Netflix true crime documentary Don’t F*** with Cats tells the story of how Luka Magnotta (left), who killed kittens before killing a student, was brought to justice. Blake (right) live-streamed killing a cat and putting it in a blender four months before the murder
The court previously heard Blake had an ‘extreme interest in death and evil’ and killed the pet after watching a Netflix documentary called Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer
BMW employee Carreno (pictured) had been out for a night when he was approached by Blake. She claims to have left him unharmed on the riverbank
Blake claimed that Bell (pictured) had manipulated her and that she had been terrified for her safety unless she complied
Prosecutors said Blake deliberately intended to kill after previously enjoying butchering and dissecting a neighbor’s cat.
As her death-obsessed partner Bell watched from her home in the US, Blake live-streamed her dismembering the cat while it was still alive.
A veterinarian determined that the animal would have been in extreme pain until its heart was ripped out.
Police would later find the heart in a trinket box that Blake kept as a souvenir.
Student Jun Lin was attacked by Luka Magnotta with a screwdriver in Montreal, Canada in May 2012
In the show, Magnotta films himself putting two kittens in a clear plastic storage bag, turning on a vacuum cleaner and sucking all the air out. He continued filming as the creatures suffered
It was only after Blake’s arrest in August 2023 that they discovered the cat killing video and her fetish for strangulation and launched Operation Ingmar.
In the trial we previously heard how detectives investigating the murder watched the Netflix documentary ‘Don’t F*** with Cats’ as part of their investigation – because their suspect had also tortured and killed a cat.
The globally successful documentary series follows the crimes of Luka Magnotta – who started by torturing and killing animals before evolving into a human victim.
Prosecutors told Oxford Crown Court that Blake ‘copied’ the actions of Magnotta, who published a series of videos on the internet showing kittens being suffocated before killing a computer technician.
The jury has heard that Blake, like Magnotta, started with an animal victim about four months before strangling Mr Carreno and pushing him into a river.
Police believe Blake would have gotten away with the sadistic murder had she not later had a bitter feud with Bell
Scarlet Blake will be brought before the judge earlier this month for the start of her trial
Prosecutors say Blake had a fetish for strangulation and was obsessed with violence and death. Jurors were previously shown a collage of nine female killers who were saved by Blake
An image entitled ‘First date with me’ showing images of duct tape, a knife, rope and a gun was also downloaded to the 25-year-old’s phone, the court was previously told.
Despite being the turning point in the case by identifying the murder, potentially crucial witness Bell, who was herself obsessed with guns and death, told police she was too mentally damaged to testify in court.
Police admit that without talking to Bell, Carreno’s death would have remained unsolved
While live streaming the horrific event to a former partner in America, she played the New Order song ‘True Faith’, the jury heard – echoing Magnotta, who had played the same song in his videos.
The court heard that Blake and her former partner Ashlynn Bell had been discussing the true crime Netflix series while the stolen cat was being murdered.
Detective Sergeant James Macaro told the court on the seventh day of the murder trial that he had watched the three episodes of the Netflix series as part of the police investigation.
The series shows how cat lovers were so sickened by the kittens’ deaths that they became internet sleuths to help track down Magnotta, who is now serving a life sentence in Canada for the 2012 murder of Jun Lin.
The video of Blake killing a cat called Starlet was not shown to the jury because it was too distressing.
But they have heard audio of the four-hour livestream event in which she and Bell discuss the documentary series.
Bell is heard saying that Magnotta was caught quickly because he was “full of himself.”