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Strange things come to light under the northern sun. especially with the eighth of a search warrant. as bill clark and his colleagues closed in on a movie maker mark twitchell, they seized his office computer. they found in his house. and on the computers hard drive, they found this video. it looked almost like a movie. >> a horror movie. now, it wasnt a snuff film. it wasnt johnny altinger murder caught on tape. it was raw footage of one of twitchells teas films. the warning told detectives abo...

Confronting him. that would come later on. >> because, one of those down arrows of big clarks lead to a particular conclusion, that mark twitchell thought bill cosby was a dumb cop. twitchell was trying to play him. >> well youre reading him during that interview, he had been reading. >> and he made some probably made some judgments about your ability as an interviewer. what did he think of you do you think? >> i think he did not think i was that smart. i think he believed he was smarter than me...

Now, back to dateline. >> almost 4 am, now downtown edmonton. filmmaker mark twitchell was sitting in an interview room talking to his wife on the phone. fiddling a little. >> my problem is im so tired and its so hard to remember. things >> outside the room detective bill clark watched twitchell, went over a few notes, prepared to switch tactics. >> its already started. the game is. on this big -- he also knew he was quite sure of, it that all evening mark twitchell had been handing him a whole ...

He allowed his prey to escape. >> and johnny altinger? that assault was fake to, said twitchell, just like the first one. but johnny just didnt get the joke. and furious that there was no woman to greet him, attacked which ill with a pipe. >> and hes got this little knife on his belt and he tells the jury in his testimony that he puts his hand on the handle of the knife and just as johnny is about to come at him, hes lifting the pipe over his head, and mark twitchell sticks both of his hands out...

Mark twitches facebook page. >> steve was a crime reporter for the edmonton journal. he had a post their worries said mark twitchell has way too much in common with dexter mormon morgan. and theres an idea there is a man out there is attacking strangers, totally is victims, its almost myth, something buildup by hollywood. it didnt seem like it could be real. >> so, here in edmonton, the question began to circulate. had the cops been cleared by a clever promoter? mark twitchell is known as a pran...

>> it doesnt get more explosive than that. that was all new information that no one had heard of before. >> and the trial only got more bizarre as the prosecution then unveiled for the first time sk confessions. sitting in that room, said, became a journey deep into the wilderness of a mind of >> horrid, horrid details were written down. i mean, no detail was not told within this document. its written -- it sounds just like fiction, like a script but when you take a step back and realize this is...

Youre at lunch. where do you go for lunch? >> i dont remember. >> you dont know where he won four? lunch >> now. >> now it was early morning, they had been at it for hours. they had taken a break, they let mark twitchell sit by himself and perhaps stew a bit. now the time had come for clark to play a different role. >> weve done the good cop routine. now my bad cop is coming up. this is what i like. this is what i relish. >> theres absolutely no doubt in my mind, that you are involved in the dis...

That most of us are looking for. >> so he checked out. hardworking local boy in a city of hardworking people. good parents. nice young wife. sweet little daughter. on his way to becoming a celebrity here in edmonton. detectives even got a look at the teaser film for switches next project, the three and a half million dollar body comedy, date players. >> guys. >> thats mark in the background playing the role of director even as he was the director. sort of a hall of mirrors type story. a movie ab...

>> they requisition the required form. one of the detectives hopped in the car, drove it over to marks place to get a signature. then, the weirdest thing. >> get a phone call from the detective. the detective says to me, he says, you wont believe it but this guy just told me he read a matte red master off a guy. >> a red master? and didnt johnny altinger drive a red master and wasnt missing? mark twitchell hadnt said anything about a red mask that when he came down the police station and talked ...

Five telephone poles down on the left high second hand of this alley a half block from where we stopped. >> this was johnny altingers tomb. >> you could see a little piece of the torso and pelvis. >> probably thought it would all get washed away. >> i think he thought it would just deteriorate to a point that it would be i an identifiable, and that no one would ever look, right? >> no one would ever look, because they wouldnt find the sk confessions. >> thats right. no one would ever look. >> bu...