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Serial Killer Documentary - The Dexter Killer · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler and former
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  Speaker 1: special agent forensic scientist with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast is about criminal profiling. This is certainly an
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  Speaker 1: unusual case. I've never seen anything quite like this one.
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  Speaker 1: With many serial killers, it's the killing part that they enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: And once they've killed the person, they're done. Not Mark Twitchell. Action.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Twitchell was an aspiring filmmaker.
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  Speaker 3: I interviewed him for my book, and we corresponded for
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  Speaker 3: a number of years. He wrote me probably 30 or
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  Speaker 3: 35 different letters, up to about 350 pages of letters.
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  Speaker 3: In one letter, Mark Twitchell wrote back to me, and
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  Speaker 3: this is what he said. The fact is society in
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  Speaker 3: general has a deep and profound fascination with the dark
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  Speaker 3: side of human nature.
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  Speaker 1: I do think Mark Twitchell was using the filmmaking as
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  Speaker 1: an outlet. to live out his fantasies, and it ultimately
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  Speaker 1: wasn't enough for him. And that's why his fantasies crossed
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  Speaker 1: into reality. I think Mark Twitchell believes that he is
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  Speaker 1: very smart, very methodical, very logical, very level-headed, much like
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  Speaker 1: the character of Dexter Morgan. And so I think he
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  Speaker 1: got ideas from the show. I think he was drawn
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  Speaker 1: to the character because that's what he wanted to be.
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  Speaker 3: There's significant links to Dexter. He had a kill room
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  Speaker 3: set up with plastic sheeting. He had a table set
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  Speaker 3: up for his victims. He had this kind of processing
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  Speaker 3: kit that was very similar to what Dexter uses.
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  Speaker 4: Never once did it cross his mind he'd ever be caught.
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  Speaker 5: They aren't going to catch me. I'm too smart. Nothing's
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  Speaker 5: going to lead them to me.
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  Speaker 4: Our job is to put together the pieces of the puzzle,
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  Speaker 4: and in this case, we had a written document.
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  Speaker 3: There was this document titled SK Confessions found in a
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  Speaker 3: deleted form on Mark Twitchell's laptop, and it appeared to
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  Speaker 3: read like a diary. This is the story of my
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  Speaker 3: progression into becoming a serial killer. And it documented luring
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  Speaker 3: people off the internet. His first victim was a man
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  Speaker 3: named Gilles Tetreault.
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  Speaker 6: I saw this lady. She had blonde hair. She was
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  Speaker 6: about five, six. She was very attractive looking.
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  Speaker 7: And what was her name?
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  Speaker 6: Her name was Sheena.
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  Speaker 7: Sheena. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I messaged her. She messaged me back. How about we
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  Speaker 6: go to dinner and a movie? I thought that was
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  Speaker 6: a great idea. She wouldn't give me the house number,
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  Speaker 6: but she just sent me really, really good directions on
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  Speaker 6: how to get there.
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  Speaker 5: He thought, what's the worst that could happen?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: It would appear that I'm unique in the world. There
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  Speaker 3: is no key, no root cause. If I really were
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  Speaker 3: capable of premeditated murder. Normal, healthy, well-adjusted, 30 old men.
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  Speaker 3: I once heard the legend of another worthy victim. Wonderful
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  Speaker 3: young children and great futures. I dealt with his remains
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  Speaker 3: in a disrespectful manner that traumatized me forever.
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  Speaker 2: The psychopathic serial killer.
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  Speaker 5: My compassion.
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  Speaker 2: I quickly grew to resent and hate this man.
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  Speaker 7: These are the words of Mark Twitchell. Written to author
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  Speaker 7: Steve Lillebu.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is, and I am what I am.
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  Speaker 7: For the first time on television, Lillibuen is revealing the
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  Speaker 7: contents of Twitchell's letters. It's a rare look inside the
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  Speaker 7: mind of a killer.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody would side with Dexter Morgan if he went around
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  Speaker 3: slaughtering schoolteachers and mail carriers on a whim.
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  Speaker 7: Police say Twitchell was fascinated by the fictional character in
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  Speaker 7: the hit Showtime series, Dexter.
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  Speaker 1: I need to kill him.
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  Speaker 3: Twitchell's been dubbed the Dexter Killer because of the numerous
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  Speaker 3: links between the television series and the real-life crimes.
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  Speaker 7: So how did this young Canadian filmmaker end up accused
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  Speaker 7: of horrific acts? The story begins in October 2008.
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  Speaker 4: To hear how everything happened, it was like you're watching
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  Speaker 4: the movies.
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  Speaker 7: Edmonton police detective Bill Clark.
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  Speaker 5: But now we have it happening in real life.
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  Speaker 4: Jill's Tetro was online on the plentyoffish.com website, which is
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  Speaker 4: a dating site.
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  Speaker 7: Tetro, who was 33 at the time, was excited to
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  Speaker 7: meet the woman who called herself Sheena.
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  Speaker 6: I was actually late, so I was driving quite fast
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  Speaker 6: to get there.
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  Speaker 5: She said, I'll just.
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  Speaker 6: Leave the garage door open for you. And then you
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  Speaker 6: just go in, go through the garage.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he ever imagined in a million years
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  Speaker 4: what would happen to him in that garage.
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  Speaker 6: It was dark. Then I kind of looked around for
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  Speaker 6: the door she told me to go through. And that's
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  Speaker 6: when somebody came out and attacked me from behind. I
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  Speaker 6: finally looked back, and that's when I see this man
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  Speaker 6: with this painted-up hockey mask. I just chilled down my back. Wow,
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  Speaker 6: this is no date. He's about like six foot and
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  Speaker 6: has this Black and gold hockey masks all painted up
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  Speaker 6: on his face.
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  Speaker 7: The hockey mask-wearing man had ordered him to the ground
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  Speaker 7: at gunpoint.
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  Speaker 6: And he tore a piece of tape and he covered
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  Speaker 6: my eyes with it. I start hearing different things, like
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  Speaker 6: a jingling noise and stuff like that. In my head,
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  Speaker 6: it's just racing. It's like thinking, what's going on? What's
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  Speaker 6: he going to do? Is he taking another weapon out?
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  Speaker 7: Jill decided. He wasn't waiting to find out.
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  Speaker 6: I can't do this. I got to fight back. So
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  Speaker 6: I got up and ripped the tape off my eyes.
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  Speaker 6: He was stunned that I got up and started yelling
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  Speaker 6: at me to get back down on the ground.
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  Speaker 7: Instead, he grabbed the attacker's gun.
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  Speaker 6: When I grabbed the gun, I felt the gun was plastic.
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  Speaker 6: This is the greatest feeling I ever felt in my
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  Speaker 6: life because then I knew I had a fighting chance
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  Speaker 6: to get away. That's when I was ready to fight.
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  Speaker 6: I punched him and I felt really weak. I'm like, Wow,
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  Speaker 6: why was my punch so weak?
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  Speaker 7: What Gilles didn't realize was that he had been weakened
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  Speaker 7: by the effects of the stun baton.
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  Speaker 6: And then he starts punching me on the side of
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  Speaker 6: the head.
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  Speaker 7: Just about then, he came up with a plan.
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  Speaker 6: He grabbed my jacket. I jerked forward to make sure
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  Speaker 6: he had a good hold on it. I thought, that's
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  Speaker 6: the perfect time.
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  Speaker 7: That was part of your plan. You're thinking, okay, he
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  Speaker 7: grabs my jacket. And I can get free.
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  Speaker 6: So that's when I slipped out of the jacket, rolled
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  Speaker 6: underneath the garage door, and then got up.
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  Speaker 5: And it worked.
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  Speaker 6: And I tried to run, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 6: my legs wouldn't work. And I just fell, boom, right
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  Speaker 6: on the gravel, trifling. That's when he grabbed my legs,
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  Speaker 6: and he started pulling me back to the garage. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, oh no, what am I going to do now?
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  Speaker 5: I'm dead.
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  Speaker 7: Gilles was thrown back in the garage. but he surprised
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  Speaker 7: himself by rolling out again. This time, Gilles managed to
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  Speaker 7: get into his truck.
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  Speaker 6: I stuck the key in the ignition, and then I
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  Speaker 6: just sped away.
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  Speaker 7: When Gilles got home, he discovered the profile on the
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  Speaker 7: dating site had been deleted, and he did his best
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  Speaker 7: to erase his own memory. Why didn't you go to
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  Speaker 7: the police immediately?
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  Speaker 6: At first, I was in shock. I said, I told myself,
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  Speaker 6: I'll do it tomorrow. And tomorrow came, and I felt
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  Speaker 6: so ashamed that I got duped.
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  Speaker 7: Embarrassed and confused, Gilles convinced himself that perhaps it wasn't
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  Speaker 7: as serious as he first thought.
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  Speaker 6: I really thought I was a mugging at the time.
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  Speaker 7: But just one week later, another man, Johnny Altinger, would
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  Speaker 7: answer a similar dating ad and disappear.
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  Speaker 5: Where is he? What's going on?
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  Speaker 8: He wouldn't do this to us.
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  Speaker 7: Gary Altinger, Johnny's older brother, says the last time anyone
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  Speaker 7: heard from him was on October 10, 2008, when the
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  Speaker 7: 38-year-old left for a date with a woman named Jen.
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  Speaker 8: Not a message, nothing. And then not showing up for work,
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  Speaker 8: totally out of character. John was very, very, very responsible.
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  Speaker 7: And when did you grow concerned?
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  Speaker 8: When I received that email. And this email was completely
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  Speaker 8: out of character.
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  Speaker 7: What did it say?
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  Speaker 8: I've met a woman named Jen and I'm going away
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  Speaker 8: with her to Costa Rica and I'll call you at
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  Speaker 8: Christmas time. I just thought right away, after I had
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  Speaker 8: read this, that's got to be the weirdest message I've
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  Speaker 8: ever received.
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  Speaker 7: That identical strange message had gone out to all of
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  Speaker 7: Johnny's friends as well. Desperate for some answers, Johnny's friends
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  Speaker 7: broke into his apartment.
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  Speaker 8: They found his passport and they found dirty dishes and
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  Speaker 8: they found everything just like as if he were going
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  Speaker 8: to return an hour or two later. And with that information,
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  Speaker 8: then they went to the police and they said, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 8: you've got to do something.
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  Speaker 5: You know, his red Mazda was missing. He had taken
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  Speaker 5: his vehicle. It couldn't be found.
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  Speaker 4: So obviously that's what we're going to look for first.
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  Speaker 4: Easier to find a car than a person. Based on
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  Speaker 4: the emails and they talk about Costa Rica, the officers
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  Speaker 4: search all the parking lots at the airport.
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  Speaker 5: It's not found. Everything's turning up negative.
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  Speaker 7: But there was one clue that would give police their
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  Speaker 7: first big break in the case. On the day he disappeared,
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  Speaker 7: Johnny Altinger had forwarded the directions of where he was
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  Speaker 7: going to friends.
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  Speaker 4: Well, John's friends were concerned. His friend even questioned him
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  Speaker 4: on the emails.
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  Speaker 5: You know, be careful.
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  Speaker 4: And John said, yeah, well, here's the directions, and if
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  Speaker 4: anything happens to me, you'll know where to look.
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  Speaker 7: Armed with the directions, police were led directly to the garage.
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  Speaker 4: They learned the garage was rented out to an individual
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  Speaker 4: named Mark Twitchell.
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  Speaker 1: Action.
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  Speaker 7: Twitchell, then 29 years old, a married man with a
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  Speaker 7: young daughter, had used the garage as a set for
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  Speaker 7: a recent movie project.
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad I got the chance to work with you
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  Speaker 8: all and I hope I see you all in the industry.
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  Speaker 7: Mark denied knowing anything about a missing man or a
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  Speaker 7: red Mazda. And he had no problem with the police
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  Speaker 7: wanting to search the garage.
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  Speaker 4: They have a look around and they see some what
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  Speaker 4: looks like blood and Mark Twitchell's explaining, oh no, that's
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  Speaker 4: my movie prop. We did a film about killing a
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  Speaker 4: guy in here and I filmed it all and I've
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  Speaker 4: been cleaning it up over the last couple weeks.
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  Speaker 5: There were some.
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  Speaker 4: Things that were, you know, raising your spidey sense in
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  Speaker 4: this one, going, yeah, this isn't right.
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  Speaker 5: Something going on here.
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  Speaker 7: For detectives in the Edmonton Police Department, the disappearance of
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  Speaker 7: Johnny Altinger was a mystery. in more ways than one.
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  Speaker 4: It's a missing persons case. We don't know what foul
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  Speaker 4: plays happened here. We don't have a body. We don't
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  Speaker 4: even know if we have a crime.
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  Speaker 7: Their only lead was Mark Twitchell's film set garage. Voluntarily,
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  Speaker 7: the amateur filmmaker came down to the Edmonton police station
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  Speaker 7: to speak with detectives.
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  Speaker 5: All tainted.
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  Speaker 3: Does that name the Ring of Metal to you or
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  Speaker 3: mean anything to you?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: Never heard it before?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 7: Mark appeared to be eager to help. He had no
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  Speaker 7: history of violence and was hardly a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: Action.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, he seemed guilty of nothing more than wanting
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  Speaker 7: to brag about his film career.
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  Speaker 8: I'm working on a comedy right now, which is actually
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  Speaker 8: a full-blown feature. It's actually going to have a decent
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  Speaker 8: budget in the neighborhood of about $ 3.
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  Speaker 9: 5 million.
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  Speaker 7: Mark Twitchell's first film project, a Star Wars fan film,
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  Speaker 7: had received some media buzz back in 2007.
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  Speaker 8: Word has gotten around that I'm making a $ 100 million
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  Speaker 8: movie for 60 grand, and some production and directing jobs
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  Speaker 8: have already come my way.
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  Speaker 7: But the police were more interested in Mark's latest production,
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  Speaker 7: a suspense thriller called House of Cards, where a hockey-mass
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  Speaker 7: serial killer lures a man to a garage via the
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  Speaker 7: Internet and kills him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of odd that you're filming that
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 7: And we end up going to that garage because of
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  Speaker 7: a missing person who supposedly went there. That's really freaky, too.
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  Speaker 8: And as soon as they called me on the phone,
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  Speaker 8: I got this weird chill.
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  Speaker 4: He looked pretty comfortable in the interview. And when it
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  Speaker 4: was done and I watched, I went, wow, that guy
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  Speaker 4: interviewed well.
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  Speaker 7: Hours later, Mark Twitchell even agreed to let officers back
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  Speaker 7: into the garage where he had filmed House of Cards.
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  Speaker 7: Little did they know The case was about to take
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  Speaker 7: an unusual turn.
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  Speaker 4: Detective Murphy goes, you know, and meets him and talks
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  Speaker 4: to him and there's this huge revelation about, oh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I bought a red car off a guy.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, I remember getting the phone call at the
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  Speaker 4: police station just thinking, holy crap.
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  Speaker 7: That's because police were still looking for Johnny Altinger's red Mazda.
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  Speaker 7: So investigators called Mark again. And again, he voluntarily agreed
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  Speaker 7: to answer more questions. This time, Bill Clark conducted the interview.
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  Speaker 10: So as you know, Mark, we're just here trying to
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  Speaker 10: find this John, John, John Altinger.
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  Speaker 7: Clark listened while Mark told him how he came into
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  Speaker 7: possession of a red car, a detail he failed to
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  Speaker 7: mention when he spoke with police earlier.
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  Speaker 10: This guy taps on my window, you know, hey buddy,
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  Speaker 10: do you want to buy a car? I said, I've
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  Speaker 10: checked up with this really rich lady and she's going
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  Speaker 10: to buy me a new car. So I'm just looking
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  Speaker 10: to unload buying. How much do you have on you?
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  Speaker 7: Mark claimed he bought the red Mazda for just $ 40
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  Speaker 7: and that it was parked at a friend's house. So
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  Speaker 7: what are you thinking when you hear that, that he
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  Speaker 7: purchased a car for $ 40?
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  Speaker 4: I just thought that's unbelievable. That's just, right away I'm
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  Speaker 4: thinking to myself, this is a bunch of crap.
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  Speaker 7: The strange story about the red car. the serial killer
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  Speaker 7: movie being filmed. For Clark, it could only mean one thing.
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  Speaker 4: There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that you're involved
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  Speaker 4: in the disappearance of John Altinger.
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  Speaker 10: No doubt in my mind at all.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 7: But it was only a hunch. Clark had no hard
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  Speaker 7: evidence against Mark. Police began digging deeper into his background.
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  Speaker 7: They were interested in speaking with anyone who had worked
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  Speaker 7: on House of Cards, where actor Chris Hewitt's character meets
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  Speaker 7: an untimely, bloody end in the film.
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  Speaker 11: My character was killed with the samurai sword. They said
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  Speaker 11: they would have a mannequin or a dummy to run
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  Speaker 11: the sword through, and when I got there, there was none.
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  Speaker 11: I looked at the weapons, that was my first sign.
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  Speaker 11: When I saw that they were real, I thought, this
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  Speaker 11: is off. Why didn't I tell somebody where I am?
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  Speaker 7: Hewitt left the garage film set unharmed, but rattled. And
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  Speaker 7: his unease only escalated when police asked him about that
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  Speaker 7: allegedly fake movie blood they spotted in the garage.
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  Speaker 11: How much of the blood splatter on the wall was
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  Speaker 11: from your filming?
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  Speaker 2: I said, none of the blood splatter was from us.
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  Speaker 7: And then, in a search of Twitchell's belongings, police found
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  Speaker 7: his laptop.
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  Speaker 4: They pulled off the hard drive a deleted file titled
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  Speaker 4: SK Confessions.
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  Speaker 7: SK Confessions. Police believed SK was Shorthand. for serial killer.
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  Speaker 4: One of the first lines, it says, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 4: when I decided I'm a serial killer, but it was
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  Speaker 4: a feeling of pure euphoria.
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  Speaker 7: SK Confessions told the story of a man who was
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  Speaker 7: lured to a garage and stabbed to death, a plot
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  Speaker 7: strikingly similar to House of Cards. I plunged the knife
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  Speaker 7: deep into his neck.
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  Speaker 5: It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: I just remember reading it all and just was fascinated
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  Speaker 4: by this document going, holy mackerel.
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  Speaker 7: But was the document a screenplay or was it in
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  Speaker 7: fact Mark Twitchell's confession of murder?
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  Speaker 5: It just doesn't make sense. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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  Speaker 7: Two weeks after the disappearance of Johnny Altinger at a
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  Speaker 7: garage film set, police had sharpened their focus on filmmaker
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  Speaker 7: Mark Twitchell. Police cameras were rolling as the forensics team
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  Speaker 7: processed Twitchell's family car and the garage he rented. And
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  Speaker 7: a few miles away, detectives had been at the Twitchell
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  Speaker 7: home where they found just Twitchell, Mark's unsuspecting wife of
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  Speaker 7: two years.
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  Speaker 4: What I said was, we're investigating a missing person. I
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  Speaker 4: believe your husband's got something to do with it. And
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  Speaker 4: it's quite possibly, you know, could be a homicide. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't really go into anything more, but I think that
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  Speaker 4: was enough. I mean, she was emotional.
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  Speaker 7: Police soon discovered that the Twitchell marriage was already fractured.
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  Speaker 4: They had been living in, basically sleeping in separate bedrooms.
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  Speaker 4: She was basically living on the main floor. He was
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  Speaker 4: living in the basement.
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  Speaker 5: So there was obviously... Trouble's in paradise there.
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  Speaker 4: We knew that.
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  Speaker 7: Twitchell had been having an affair with an old girlfriend
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  Speaker 7: and lying to his wife about having a job.
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  Speaker 5: He found out that he was telling his wife he
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  Speaker 5: was going to work every day. He had no job.
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  Speaker 4: He was getting his friends to invest in his alleged
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: movie-making business with his Hollywood connections, and basically Mark Twitchell
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: was living off their money.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: Interestingly, the document police had found in Twitchell's laptop, titled
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: SK Confessions, also referenced a crumbling marriage and secrets. It read,
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: and went through great lengths to bring my wife over
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: to the comfortable belief I wasn't cheating on her.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: It was basically almost like a movie script.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: But what was real? And what was fiction? The closer
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: police looked, the more the lines blurred. Police discovered Twitchell
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: spent countless hours making elaborate Halloween costumes.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: It's almost like at times Mark Twitchell lives in a
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: fantasy world.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: But it was Twitchell's Facebook page comparing himself to TV's
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: fictional serial killer, Dexter Morgan, that really raised eyebrows. Mark
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: has way too much in common with Dexter Morgan, read
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: twitchell status.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: He talked a lot about how he loved the show dexter.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: I need to kill him twitchell even posed as dexter morgan.
• 20:51
  Speaker 12: On facebook we all have a dark side some darker
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: than others and you're not the only one to relate
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: to dexter it sometimes scares me how much i relate
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: i mean look at this profile That.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Profile had caught the attention of a woman named Renee
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: from Cleveland, Ohio.
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: I am a huge fan of the Showtime show, Dexter.
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: So I thought, oh, well, you know, I'll be friends
• 21:14
  Speaker 12: with him.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Eventually, Twitchell revealed his true identity.
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: He was a filmmaker.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: We are rolling.
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: And he was working on a new thing called House
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: of Cards.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Camera's rolling.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Renee was intrigued. After all, she was an aspiring writer.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: And her friendship with the movie maker could open doors.
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: I thought it was going to be like a working relationship,
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: a working friendship. You know, we had a lot in common.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, you spoke to him a couple of times
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: a day online?
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: A couple of times a day.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Was it flirtatious? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Their email exchanges soon
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: became dark. It was shortly before Johnny Altinger disappeared.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: We couldn't.
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: Talked about, you know, serial killers and, you know, the
• 22:01
  Speaker 12: psychology behind a serial killer.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: At the time, Renee was upset with her ex-husband's new wife.
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: And I wanted her dead at the time, but I
• 22:11
  Speaker 12: said I couldn't do it. And hypothetically, how would you get.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Away with it?
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: How do you get away with it?
• 22:17
  Speaker 12: He said, you cut her up in little pieces. You
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: put her in trash bags like Dexter. And since I
• 22:24
  Speaker 12: was close to the lake, you run a boat. and
• 22:29
  Speaker 12: dump her out in the middle of Lake Erie.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: But then she began to wonder.
• 22:37
  Speaker 12: He said over the weekend he did something and he
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: liked it. I crossed the line and I did something
• 22:44
  Speaker 12: and I liked it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: And what did you take that to mean?
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: That he killed somebody. What other line is there to cross?
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: Something inside my head just gave me red flags and said,
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: He did it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: And her suspicions kept growing with another email he sent.
• 23:05
  Speaker 12: There's an enormous missing person, possible homicide investigation, going on
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: centralized around a location I've been renting for film work.
• 23:14
  Speaker 12: So of course the police have tossed my house and
• 23:16
  Speaker 12: impounded my car. Not fun considering they won't find anything.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: But Twitchell had underestimated the police.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: He thought he was way smarter than the police. One
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: of the biggest mistakes I think that he made was
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: he had no idea how we do our job, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: that was a huge advantage to us.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Adding to their circumstantial case, Twitchell possessing Altinger's car, the
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: SK Confessions document, and his Dexter obsession, investigators finally had
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: hard evidence. They found Altinger's blood in Twitchell's trunk.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: When we got the word that the DNA matched We
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: briefed our tactical team, our arrest team, and we had
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: officers ready to make the arrest.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: On Halloween morning, 2008, while Twitchell was putting the finishing
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: touches on his Halloween costume at his parents' home, police
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: were busy laying a trap.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: We got an undercover operator to work the internet and
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: pretend he was an investor. He was lured out on
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: the promise to meet this guy at this coffee shop,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: and when he got about three blocks from his house...
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Tactical team swooped in on him and took him down.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Tough guy Mark Twitchell peed his pants. He was so scared,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: and it was a little taste of his own medicine,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I guess.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Back at the station, Detective Clark and Twitchell came face-to-face
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: in the interrogation room once again.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: As I told you that night, I knew that you
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: were involved in the disappearance at that time of Johnny Altinger.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: That's changed slightly. I now know that you killed John Altinger.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: Three weeks after Altinger's disappearance, police charged Twitchell with first-degree murder.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: The once talkative movie director barely uttered a line. You
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: didn't get much of a reaction, did you?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: No.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: He's, uh.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Well, he knows not to say anything. Talking to his lawyers,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: he's not going to admit to anything.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: He didn't have to. Ask a confession. which police had
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: been dissecting word by word, spoke volumes. They were now
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: convinced it was no screenplay, but rather a diary of murder.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: One passage about a knife red I thrusted into his gut.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: His reaction was pure Hollywood.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: We do believe as investigators that the account written by
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Mark Twitchell in that SK Confessions is exactly what he
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: did to John Altinger.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: By now, Renee had called the police. As authorities began
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: building their case, there was one crucial part of SK
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Confessions they wanted to verify about a victim who had survived.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: It was just a huge piece of evidence because not
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: only would it verify what was written in SK Confessions,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: it would also have a living witness.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: So it was paramount that we find this person.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: Detective Bill Clark knew his next move was finding the
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: alleged victim who had escaped from Mark Twitchell's garage.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: You know, one of the first things we did was
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: check the police records, figuring hopefully someone called the police
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: on this, and we have nothing.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: But police had found a helpful clue during the search
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: of Twitchell's home.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: One of the things they had found was a hockey mask.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: The SK Confessions talked about how Mark Twitchell had worn
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: this mask when he attacked both victims.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: But we figured it was something the first victim would
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: key on.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Police soon took to the airwaves.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: We have some details on this male victim who was
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: attacked and we would like him to come forward.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: Gilles Tetreault was at home oblivious to the horror he
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: had escaped when a friend told him to watch the news.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: To date, we do not know who this victim is.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: I believe the victim entered the garage and was attacked
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: by another male who was wearing a hockey mask.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: And it's the same hockey mask that I saw him. wow, yeah,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: this is the guy. This is what happened to me.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: It's the same mask, everything.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: What Gilles heard next came as an even greater shock.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: Another man had been lured to the same garage and
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: met a gruesome man.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: We have not found John Altinger's body.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: And what were you thinking when you heard this?
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: I couldn't believe it. Once you find out the whole story,
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: I knew at that point it was not just a mugging.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: It was actually, he was probably going to kill me.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: I'm like, wow, I have to go forward now. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: have to come forward.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: Exactly one month after he was attacked, Gilles Tetreault walked
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: into the Edmonton Police Department and told police his incredible story.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: I was all off balance. I couldn't run. I fell
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: down from the gravel driveway and basically crawling. So he
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: dragged me back to the garage.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: Gilles' story matched nearly word for word what was in
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: SK Confessions. I grabbed him by the leg, as if
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: to drag him back into the garage, caveman style.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: So I know that this diary we have is true.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: After this all happened, I realized how lucky I was.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: Seven days after Gilles was attacked, police say Twitchell wasn't
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: going to make the same mistake twice. How did he
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: kill John?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: We know that he lured him to the garage in
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: the same way he lured Jules Tetreault. And then in
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: this case, because he learned from Jules that the taser
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: didn't work, he hit him over the head with a
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: lead pipe.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Following the narrative, police believe Altinger was then stabbed and
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: dismembered on a makeshift autopsy table. What was the most
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: damning piece of evidence that you discovered?
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: We had a luminol test done on the floor. Large
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: amounts of blood had been spilled on the floor of
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: the garage.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Probably one of the biggest pieces.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: A piece of tooth that was found inside there. That
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: piece of tooth matched up to our victim.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: According to SK Confessions, the killer then broke into Altinger's
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: apartment and sent out those emails about taking an exotic vacation.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: The killer then attempted to... burn the remains in a barrel,
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: but failed. He next tried to dump them into the river,
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: but was afraid of being seen.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Ultimately, Mark Twitchell drove around with it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: According to the SK Confessions documentary, He even talked about
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: driving around with them and pulling up beside people at
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: red lights and looking at them and thinking that they
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: don't know I have a dead body in the trunk
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: of my car.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: But where was Johnny Altinger's body? SK Confessions described the
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: killer finally choosing a sewer to dump the remains. But
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: that's where the pages stopped. It was a story without
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: an ending.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: In any homicide investigation, you obviously want to bring closure
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: to the family, so... Not only do you want to
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: make that phone call saying, we got the guy that
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: did this to your loved one, but in this case,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: we wanted to say to him, look, we found Johnny.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: Detective Clark hoped Twitchell would provide the final chapter.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: I'm going to get the car ready.
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: We're going to take a drive.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: You guys were driving around and there was a camera
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: trained on him in the back of the police car.
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: Tell me about that.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: When you read all the experts' books about these type
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: of individuals is they tend to like the media attention.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: So we thought, well, maybe if we drive him around
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: and We'll put a camera on him. Maybe we'll just
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: take him to places. Because we had no idea where
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Johnny's remains were at that time. So in order to
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: finish the movie, we'd find the body, take it back
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: to the people.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Family.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Done.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Movie's over.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: We're all done.
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: Detective Clark was relentless, taking Twitchell on a tour of
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: his old neighbourhood.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: And we first drove to his parents' house where he
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: had been staying. We actually demanded that he tell us.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: He wouldn't. Look familiar, Mark?
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Are we parked right on top of the sewer where
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: you dumped the body?
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: Next stop, the scene of the crime.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: So here we are back at the killing garage, the
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Dexter garage.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: Bring back any memories?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Want to tell us where the body is now?
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: We'll get this over with.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: But Twitchell remained silent. So police kept searching on their own,
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: looking in sewer after sewer.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: So all these manhole covers were pulled off in this alley.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: So anytime I'd see one, I always had my flashlight
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: with me and would get out and actually take a look.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: Weeks, then months passed and still no luck. Then a
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: year and a half after Johnny Altinger disappeared, Twitchell, while
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: awaiting trial, broke his silence and gave the police a map.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Just up here on the left, it's about a block
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: south of his.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Parents' house. Investigators followed it to an alleyway just a
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: half block away from where they had stopped the search.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: And he had marked an X. X marks the spot.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: It took its way to this sewer cover here.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: We could see what looked like pieces of human torso
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: down there.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: In March of 2011, Mark Twitchell went on trial for
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: the murder of Johnny Alting. Prosecutors called Gilles Tetreault to
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: testify and to prove that what Twitchell described in S.K.
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: Confessions was not a work of fiction, but an account
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: of what had actually happened.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: I wasn't really afraid of him at that time. I
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: knew he couldn't hurt me anymore.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: The only witness the defense called was Mark Twitchell, and
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: he had one unbelievable tale to tell. Steve Lillibuen, a
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: college professor and an investigative journalist, was covering the trial
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: for the Edmonton Journal and went on to write a book,
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: The Devil's Cinema, about the case.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Mark Twitchell testified that this was all a big misunderstanding
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: and he had killed Johnny in self-defense.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Twitchell claimed that Altinger's death was nothing more than a
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: publicity stunt gone horribly awry. He said he intended to
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: let both men go, so they would create a buzz
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: for his film by telling people that this had actually
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: happened to them. But he claimed Altinger became enraged at
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: being tricked, and he accidentally killed him in self-defense.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: He blames Johnny, saying it was Johnny's reaction to his
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: attempt at this promotion is what happened.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: In the end, the jury took just five hours to
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: find Mark Twitchell guilty. He was sentenced to 25 years
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: to life. But for Lillebu, there were still so many questions.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: So the motive is the mystery, the why did he
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: do this? What is Mark Twitchell's psyche? What led to
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: this happening?
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: Questions little Buenhot might be answered when he got a
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: call out of the blue from Mark Twitchell himself.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: He just said straight out, if you're going to be
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: writing a book about me, you might as well come
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: straight to the source.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: What do you think Mark Twitchell's motive was?
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: See the evidence presented at trial and more at 48hours.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: Com.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: The first time I met him, he actually had me laughing.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: He's very charismatic.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: Mark Twitchell was nothing like author Steve Lillibuen expected.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: He has very much that salesman, slick behavior. He knows
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: how to put it on to get people to like him.
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: Twitchell began writing to Lillebuen before he was even convicted
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: in 2011. Over the course of almost three years, they
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: exchanged dozens of letters.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I learned really quickly that he preferred to talk through writing.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: These weren't ramblings of a crazy man. There was actually
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: some substance in these letters. Yes, absolutely.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: So he's not, he's not crazy. He is, he is lucid.
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: At first, Lillibuen didn't want to push Twitchell away with
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: too many probing questions about his crimes.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: I asked him a lot of softball questions just about
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: who he was, his family, his upbringing, all that kind
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: of background detail. He was newly married and a new father,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: so he was just a typical local guy who had
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: dreams of making it big in Hollywood and really no
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: red flags, no warning signs that something like this was
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: on the horizon.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: In letters, Twitchell clung to his defense that he had
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: no choice but to kill Johnny Altinger and then dismember him.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: He writes, I killed Johnny Altinger in a horrific accident
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: of self-defense. After cursorily shoving aside my human sensibilities, I
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: dealt with his remains in a disrespectful manner that traumatized
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: me forever.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: He still is.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Adamant that this was not a planned and deliberate murder.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: And to be frank, he's wrong.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: Lillibuen points to SK Confessions, where Twitchell describes how he
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: turned that garage into a kill room, set up a
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: makeshift autopsy table, had plastic sheeting, and a processing kit
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: similar to the one Dexter Morgan used.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Mark Twitchell wrote to me quite extensively about his interest
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: in Dexter.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: Dexter on his mind. Twitchell drew this portrait of Michael C. Hall,
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: the actor who plays him. And to Lil' Buon's surprise,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: even behind bars, Twitchell was able to feed his obsessions.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: Previously on Dexter.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Mark Twitchell had actually been granted access to finish watching
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the series while he was incarcerated.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: In 2012, Dexter star Michael C. Hall was asked about
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Mark Twitchell on a Canadian radio.
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: It's horrifying to entertain the notion that something you did
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: inspired that.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Twitchell's response to Hall's comments was to downplay his fascination
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: with the Dexter character.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: So he wrote to me, as you're aware, Dexter has
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: almost nothing to do with my case.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Throughout their correspondence, Lillebuen continued to grapple with what drove Twitchell.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: And then Twitchell told him.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: There is no key, no root cause. There's no school
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: bully or impressionable gory movies or Showtime television series to
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: point the finger at. It is what it is, and
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I am what I am.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: He's a depraved individual, and he knows that.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: Retired FBI criminal profiler Julia Calley didn't work on this case,
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: but she spoke with Detective Clark and reviewed Mark Twitchell's
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: writings and letters for 48 hours. She thinks she knows
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: what made Twitchell tick.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I think he identified with Dexter to some degree. I
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: think he's different than Dexter. He's not killing bad guys.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: He's killing very innocent, good people, living productive lives. And
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: while he's technically not a serial killer, he was headed
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  Speaker 1: in that direction if they hadn't have caught him.
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  Speaker 7: Callie believes Twitchell took pleasure in planning and executing his
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  Speaker 7: crimes as if They were romantic trysts.
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  Speaker 1: I think the primary motivation was sexual.
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  Speaker 9: Sexual? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He's targeting men that perhaps he would be interested in
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  Speaker 1: having a date with. It's a combination of sexual motive
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  Speaker 1: and a thrill killing. He's pretending to be a woman.
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  Speaker 1: He writes extensively about what he's going to wear, the
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  Speaker 1: weapon that he chooses. He sort of describes it in
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  Speaker 1: seductive language. He said, I wanted the weapon used for
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  Speaker 1: the deed itself to be simple, elegant, and beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: And in a strange twist, Twitchell's been able to feed
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  Speaker 7: that obsession too. In 2017, he was allowed to join
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  Speaker 7: an online dating website for inmates.
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  Speaker 3: Which, you know, I find quite surprising considering the way
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  Speaker 3: he ended up in prison.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's been taken down since then.
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  Speaker 7: The man who was tricked into that very bad date
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  Speaker 7: in Twitchell's garage, Gilles Tetreault, continues to be haunted by
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: the experienced We caught up with him recently.
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  Speaker 9: I still think about the pad up hockey mask. I
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  Speaker 9: still think about the stun gun, you know, fight for
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  Speaker 9: my life.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Twitchell cannot be rehabilitated. This is who he is. Action.
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  Speaker 7: And for Mark Twitchell, the aspiring filmmaker, there may be
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  Speaker 7: one final plot twist. Author Steve Lillebuen sold the rights
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  Speaker 7: to his book, The Devil Cinema, to a film company.
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  Speaker 7: Twitchell's story may be coming to the big screen. A
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  Speaker 7: son with secrets.
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  Speaker 6: He just lied to everybody.
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  Speaker 7: His parents vanish.
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  Speaker 6: Cars go off the road.
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  Speaker 5: Things happen.
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  Speaker 7: What happened to the Haldersons?
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  Speaker 2: Not making any sense.
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  Speaker 6: It's taking weird and weird turns. Nobody saw this coming.
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  Speaker 7: The 48 Hours Crime Time double feature continues next on CBS.