A sick picture captures transgender killer Scarlet Blake relishing the moment she puts a cat in a blender before carrying out a twisted murder in a chilling echo of a Netflix true crime documentary.
Blake, 26, live-streamed the killing and dissection of a cat four months before she targeted Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked home from a night out in Oxford in July 2021.
Harrowing audio released by police revealed how Blake said ‘one day I want to learn how to do this to a person’ after killing the cat.
She had admitted dissecting the animal, removing the fur and skin and placing it in a blender but blames her former partner Ashlynn Bell.
The court previously heard Blake had an ‘extreme interest in death and in harm’ and killed the family pet after watching a Netflix documentary called Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer.
The true crime show tells the story of how Luka Magnotta, who killed kittens before murdering student Jun Lin, was brought to justice.
Before stabbing Jun Lin to death with a screwdriver, Magnotta films himself putting two kittens in a translucent plastic storage bag, switching on a vacuum cleaner and sucking out all the air until they died.
After posting the footage on the internet as a sick boast, Magnotta catches the attention of internet sleuths who launch a crowd-sourced amateur investigation to find the animal torturer.
Prosecutors say that Blake’s cat killing was relevant to the murder trial as it shows she had a ‘disturbing interest in what it would be like to harm a living creature’.
A sick picture captures transgender killer Scarlet Blake relishing 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, who killed kittens before murdering a student, was brought to justice
Four months before the killing Blake live-streamed killing a cat and putting it in a blender having been inspired by the hit Netflix series ‘Don’t F*** with Cats’
BMW worker Mr Carreno (pictured) had been on a night out when he was approached by Blake. She claims to have left him at the riverside unharmed
Blake claimed Bell (pictured) had been manipulating her and she had been terrified for her safety unless she complied
The court previously heard Blake had an ‘extreme interest in death and in harm’ and killed the family pet after watching a Netflix documentary called Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer
Prosecutors said Blake had deliberately set out to kill after previously revelling in the slaughter and dissection of a neighbour’s cat.
While her death obsessed partner Bell watched from her home in the US, Blake live streamed cutting up the cat while it was still alive.
A vet determined it 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 translucent plastic storage bag, switched on a vacuum cleaner and sucked out all the air. He continued filming as the creatures suffered
It was only after Blake’s arrest in August 2023 they discovered the cat killing video and her fetish for strangulation and they launched Operation Ingmar.
The trial 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 global hit documentary series follows the crimes of Luka Magnotta – who started out by torturing and killing animals before graduating to a human victim.
Prosecutors told Oxford Crown Court Blake ‘copied’ the actions of Magnotta who published a series of videos suffocating kittens on the internet before going on to kill a computer technician.
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The jury have been told that, like Magnotta, Blake started with an animal victim, some four months before strangling and pushing Mr Carreno into a river.
Police believe Blake would have got away with the sadistic murder had she not later had a bitter falling out with Bell
Scarlet Blake being led to court for the start of her trial earlier this month
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 that was saved by Blake
An image entitled ‘First date with me’ which showed pictures of duct tape, a knife, rope and a handgun had also been downloaded to the 25-year-old’s phone, the court has previously been told
Despite being the tipping point in the case by identifying the murder – potentially crucial witness Bell – who herself was obsessed with guns and death – told police that she was too mentally damaged to give evidence in court
Police admit that without speaking to Bell the death of Carreno would have remained unsolved
While live streaming the gruesome 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 has heard Blake and her former partner Ashlynn Bell had discussed the true crime Netflix series while the stolen cat was killed.
Detective Sergeant James Macaro told the court on the seventh day of the murder trial that as part of the police investigation he had watched the three episodes in the Netflix series.
The series reveals how cat lovers were so sickened by the death of the kittens they turned internet sleuths to help track down Magnotta, who is now serving a life sentence in Canada for the murder of Jun Lin in 2012 .
The video of Blake killing a cat called Starlet has not been shown to the jury as it is too distressing.
But they have heard audio from the four hour live-streamed event during which she and Bell discuss the documentary series.
Bell is heard to say that Magnotta was caught quickly because he was ‘full of himself’.
