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Would need more than this document to get a conviction. so the quietly built a case on csi basics. take twitchells garage for instance. this is what it looked like during the normal light of day. and this is a photo taken from the same angle minutes later once the floor was sprayed with aluminum all, the chemical that makes blood glow. >> huge spots in the garage which would indicate a large pulling of blood. they found a piece of a human tooth in the garage. we found blood splatter all along th...

He was sentenced to life in prison. >> ive never been involved in an investigation like this in my whole career. as homicide detectives, you theorize about how someones died. >> right. >> and there is no doubt that we dont always get it right. we get a good idea, but were never right. here, we knew exactly what happened to john. >> because he told you. >> he told us. ultimately, johnny let us to it and mark twitchell closed it on himself by writing all about it. no doubt in my mind he wouldve ke...

No. i thought somebody is making this. up this cannot be true. this is not a real story. >> police also tracked down toronto actor robert barnes lee, who played the starring role in house of cards. that of the deranged, masked murderer. >> i was thinking, great short film. i like the idea of this. it sounds interesting. and of course i wanted to try to be the killer. i wanted to be the bad guy. mark twitch ill mark twitchell? >> he seem like a very normal guy, trying to do a film. >> nice guy. >...

One. there was no earthly reason for twitchell to kill altinger. there was no love triangle. there was no rivalry. there was no robbery. and to put it more simply, twitchell was not a criminal. did not have a record, had never even been arrested. why would a young, married father kill a perfect stranger? so besides twitch will, the police also focus their attention on this quiet suburban neighborhood around twitchells rental garage studio. and where altinger may have gone to see a woman he met o...

Rather than a sociopath. because i had the perfect upbringing in no history of abuse. , violence, drama. >> but an escape confessions, the violence is graphic. the description for example of how the killer dispatches victims with a metal pipe in a hunting knife. >> i thrust it in his gut, his reaction was pure hollywood. the lurched forward with the grunt was dead on tv movie of the week. >> the little bit i knew at that time, in the things we had, found i thought it was true. >> cops can have h...

Fiction. and indeed, police found details in this tale that lined up with reality, the writer it is first person account tells the reader how the user processing kit to dismember the vitims body. and police found a processing kit in twitchells garage. the-esque a killer says he tried to burn the victims body and his oral drummond parents backyard. >> and he joked about it in his storytelling, about how this dumb compton realize he had just killed a guy, and he was now going out and celebrating, ...

Any jury be sure that important parts of this "sk confessions" werent just some fantasy from the dark side? so clark confronted twitchell with the evidence against him, hoping he would confess. >> ill make an interesting comment. this reminds me of dexter too clean sweep. you were referring to your garage as a killed room. your garage was to kill room. the table is the kill table. its undoubtedly where you carved him up. im gonna show you that later, but all the blood seeps right underneath. the...

Was giving bill clark of videotape blow by blow account of the assault. >> and its just there is no doubt in my mind that he is being so truthful. >> the cops had real evidence that "sk confessions" was all true was all true -- except it was not quite completes. it was a story without an end. >> the part we never had, we never had johnny. that is, johnny altinger, the victim who it seemed did not escape from the suburban garage. still no sign of him. unless just about then, detectives uncovered ...

But there were detailed directions to her place. so the cops drove the road. and the directions led them to this neighborhood, down this alley. to this garage rented by -- >> a guy named marked which will. he happens to be a local emerging celebrity. mark twitch always making a name for himself as a scrappy young independent filmmaker here in edmonton. he recently made a low budget sci-fi theme. so they called him up, of course, and he readily agreed to come down and open the place up. when he g...

Worry. for nate wearing was unsettled to the day she testified, but for another reason altogether. >> i didnt want to feel judged. >> judged because -- >> i have dark thoughts and i shared them and with a serial killer. >> johnny altingers friend, debra tightrope testified. >> there was a lot of sadness that day for me in the realistic-ness of it all came but all i can do is think for john and the kind of person he was. >> nice man? >> definitely a nice man and im sure if things had not turned o...