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[Music] with many serial killers it's the killing part that they enjoy and once they've killed the person they're done
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not mark twitchell action mark twitchell was an aspiring filmmaker living in edmonton alberta
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canada i'm glad i got the chance to work with you all and i hope you i see you all
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in the industry i do think mark twitchell was using the filmmaking as an outlet to live out his
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fantasies and it ultimately wasn't enough for him and that's why his fantasies crossed into reality
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on october 10th 2008 a man named johnny altinger went to meet what he thought was a woman named jen whom he had met on
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a dating site not a message nothing and then not showing up for work totally out of character
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john was very very very responsible altinger and his red mazda had gone missing and when did you grow concerned
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when i received that email and this email was completely out of character what did it say
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i've met a woman named jen and i'm going away with her to costa rica and i'll call you at christmas time i just
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thought right away after i had read this that's got to be the weirdest message i've ever received altinger's friends
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had reported him missing to police and provided them with an important clue altenger had forwarded the directions of
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where he was going to his friends well john's friends were concerned his friend even questioned monday nil you know be
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careful and john said yeah well here's the directions and if anything happens to me you'll know where to look
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the directions led investigators to a garage in southeast edmonton they learned the garage is rented out to
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an individual named mark twitchell twitchell initially denied knowing anything about
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a missing man or a red mazda they have a look around and they see some what looks
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like blood and mark twitch was explaining oh no that's my movie prop we did a film about it killing a guy in
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here and i filmed it all and i've been cleaning it up over the last couple weeks he bragged to police about his
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film career and told him he was working on a horror film titled house of cards where a man is lured to a garage and
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stabbed to death eventually twitchell told investigators that he had purchased a red mazda for 40
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dollars and that it was at a friend's house so what are you thinking when you hear
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that that he purchased a car for forty dollars i just thought that's unbelievable that's just right
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away i'm thinking to myself this is a bunch of crap police also impounded twitchell's personal vehicle and his
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laptop on his laptop police were able to access a deleted file they pulled off the hard drive a deleted file titled sk
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confessions police believed sk was shorthand for serial killer one of the first lines that says i'm not sure when
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i decided i'm a serial killer but it was a feeling of pure euphoria sk confessions told a story that was
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strikingly similar to that of house of cards it was unbelievable i just remember reading it all and just was
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fascinated by this document going holy mackerel but was sk confessions a screenplay or was it mark twitchell's
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confession of murder while examining twitchell's car they finally found hard evidence
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johnny altinger's blood in the trunk of twitchell's vehicle when we got the word that the dna
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matched we briefed our tactical team our arrest team and we had officers ready to make
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the arrest you