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rivalry, no robbery. and to put it more simply, twitchell was not a criminal. didn't have a record. had never even been arrested. why would a young, married, father kill a perfect stranger? so, besides twitchell. people police also focus their attention on the quiet neighborhood around the studio. and where all taker may have gotten to see a woman that he liked. and they went door to door, had anybody seen johnny altinger or a his car? or anything suspicious? and they found this couple, who told the story that seemed almost lifted from a horror movie. >> i have never, in my life felt fear like that. >> these two, the names are marissa and trevor. we're out for an evening stroll. when they stepped through the looking glass. it happened when a young man kept stumbling out of the army and fell down on the ground with them. >> it was an instant that feeling. >> he looked at me and said i'm being robbed, can you help me?

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all they had after all was a missing man, johnny. who might just have driven off somewhere with or without some mystery woman named jen. certainly that would account for the fact that his red mazda was gone to. but it didn't make any sense, there wasn't much to go on. so being cops, him and his buddies had standard procedure. they doubled back for a second look at things. like the garage that johnny was headed for when he vanished. >> the next step logically is the garage. we have to step inside and take a close look. >> so they applied for a search warrant and it was rejected. >> it turned down. and it is turned down because we haven't proved there was a crime committed. >> so the next thing, simple enough, they want to mark twitchell directly to see if they gave him consent to search the garage. >> we gave him a form to -- >> they gave him a form, one of the directors jumped in the car, went over to mark's place to

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up with reality. the writer in his first person account tells the reader how he used a game processing kit to dismember the victim's body. and, police found the processing kit in twitchell's garage. he said he try to burn the victims body in an oil drum in his parents backyard. and in twitchell's parents house, they found the burn ring in the backyard. there's even a minor detail about the killer getting a speeding ticket and so did twitchell just about the time johnny altinger disappeared. >> he joked about it in his storytelling about how this dumb cop didn't realize he had just killed a guy. and he was not going off to celebrate and have sex with his girlfriend. >> now you could call that cop. >> that's right, the cop remembered it because he had a special license plate, and he remembered the conversation he had with him. it was word for word what that story, that diary told us, was exactly what the sheriff told us. >> but there was a key part of

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one. there was no earthly reason for twitchell to kill altinger. there was no love triangle, no rivalry, no robbery. and to put it more simply, twitchell was not a criminal. didn't have a record. had never even been arrested. why would a young, married, father kill a perfect stranger? so, besides twitchell. people police also focus their attention on the quiet neighborhood around the studio. and where all taker may have gotten to see a woman that he liked. and they went door to door, had anybody seen johnny altinger or a his car? or anything suspicious? and they found this couple, who

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so clark kept himself on a tight leash. and yet to smell blood. >> you must have come to some point where you felt like this was definitely foul play? >> no. >> not at all? all they had after all was a missing man, johnny. who might just have driven off somewhere with or without some mystery woman named jen. certainly that would account for the fact that his red mazda was gone to. but it didn't make any sense, there wasn't much to go on. so being cops, him and his buddies had standard procedure. they doubled back for a second look at things. like the garage that johnny was headed for when he vanished. >> the next step logically is the garage. we have to step inside and take a close look. >> so they applied for a search warrant and it was rejected. >> it turned down. and it is turned down because we haven't proved there was a crime committed. >> so the next thing, simple enough, they want to mark twitchell directly to see if they gave him consent to search the garage. >> we gave him a form to -- >> they gave him a form, one of the directors jumped in the car,

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>> he joked about it in his storytelling about how this dumb cop didn't realize he had just killed a guy. and he was not going off to celebrate and have sex with his girlfriend. >> now you could call that cop. >> that's right, the cop remembered it because he had a special license plate, and he remembered the conversation he had with him. it was word for word what that story, that diary told us, was exactly what the sheriff told us. >> but there was a key part of the story that couldn't be verified, a detailed passage that goes on for pages about an earlier attack, and that victim got away. that part of the story read like a direct lift from the house of cards script where the victim is tasered by a man wearing a hockey mask and hood. >> and that is a big part to prove if it's true or not. it was a huge part of it. >> surely if someone had been attacked, you would've heard about it? >> exactly, we would expect someone to come forward, we have nothing. no call, no nothing that even matches similarities. >> they seem to be one part of

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if you get a case, get your teeth into it. it isn't a type personality. we want to get this guy and put it away. >> but, as for the johnny altinger case. this wasn't even a murder, at least not as far as anybody knew yet. so clark kept himself on a tight leash. and yet to smell blood. >> you must have come to some point where you felt like this was definitely foul play? >> no. >> not at all? all they had after all was a missing man, johnny. who might just have driven off somewhere with or without some mystery woman named jen. certainly that would account for the fact that his red mazda was gone to. but it didn't make any sense, there wasn't much to go on. so being cops, him and his buddies had standard procedure. they doubled back for a second look at things. like the garage that johnny was headed for when he vanished. >> the next step logically is

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but his behavior, was anything but suspicious. he went on about his business. took meeting with sweat investors about his project. even picked up a $35,000 check from financial backer, john vincent. >> the mark twitchell i was dealing with was articulate, in control. running his project the way that you would expect any entrepreneur to run the project. >> and detective clark world of apparels and down arrows. there was one huge up arrow in twitchell's favor. motive. or that is to say, the lack of one. there was no earthly reason for twitchell to kill altinger. there was no love triangle, no rivalry, no robbery. and to put it more simply, twitchell was not a criminal. didn't have a record. had never even been arrested. why would a young, married, father kill a perfect stranger?

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dumb cop didn't realize he had just killed a guy. and he was not going off to celebrate and have sex with his girlfriend. >> now you could call that cop. >> that's right, the cop remembered it because he had a special license plate, and he remembered the conversation he had with him. it was word for word what that story, that diary told us, was exactly what the sheriff told us. >> but there was a key part of the story that couldn't be verified, a detailed passage that goes on for pages about an earlier attack, and that victim got away. that part of the story read like a direct lift from the house of cards script where the victim is tasered by a man wearing a hockey mask and hood. >> and that is a big part to prove if it's true or not. it was a huge part of it. >> surely if someone had been attacked, you would've heard about it? >> exactly, we would expect someone to come forward, we have nothing. no call, no nothing that even matches similarities. >> they seem to be one part of the story that didn't make

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dumb cop didn't realize he had just killed a guy. and he was not going off to celebrate and have sex with his girlfriend. >> now you could call that cop. >> that's right, the cup remembered it because he had a special license plate, and he remembered the conversation he had with him. it was word for word what that story, that diary told us, was exactly what the sheriff told us. >> but there was a key part of the story that couldn't be verified, a detailed passage that goes on for pages about an earlier attack, and that victim got away. that part of the story read like a direct lift from the house of cards script where the victim is staged by a man wearing a hockey mask and hood. >> and that is a big part to prove if it's true or not. it was a huge part of it. >> surely if someone had been attacked, you would've heard about it? >> exactly, we would expect someone to come forward, we have nothing. no call, no nothing that even matches similarities. >> they seem to be one part of

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