Filmmaker lures victim to garage using a dating site | Forensic Files

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

Johnny Altinger went missing after going to meet a woman he met on a dating site, and clues lead investigators to a filmmaker's garage. Was Mark Twitchell planning a movie or a murder? #MarkTwitchell #TheDexterKiller #48hours

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Brief Summary

Mark Twitchell, a filmmaker, murdered Johnny Altinger in 2008, using a dating ruse to lure him to a garage.

Key points

Mark Twitchell: The Filmmaker Killer. Mark Twitchell, an aspiring filmmaker, turned his dark fantasies into reality, leading to murder.
The Mysterious Disappearance. Johnny Altinger goes missing after planning to meet a woman named Jen from a dating site.
The Shocking Discovery. Investigators find Johnny Altinger's blood in Mark Twitchell's car, confirming their worst fears.

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Episode quotes

That's got to be the weirdest message I've ever received.

A friend recalls the strange email from Johnny Altinger.

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