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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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>> then later that day, they got a call from a friend that told her that johnny altinger, appeared to be missing. >> it's surreal, you know? you don't expect your friends to go missing. >> pretty soon altinger friends got together. unsure what to do. but before going to police, they thought they would go into his condo. see if they could find a clue into what happened to the guy. had to break in, actually. and everything looked fine. nothing out of place, no sign of any struggle. only things missing where his wallet, his keys, and his red mazda coop. so, it looked like he went out for a drive. could be back any minute. >> there was no answers to anything. he just vanished out of thin air. >> except for the strange emails that he had sent about falling in love, and costa rica. which to the car, said clark

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johnny altinger. >> in the car? he just left in the car? >> and the car turns out to be an absolute gold mine. it absolutely blows this case wide open. there are yellow sticky notes, right on the console. one of them has a map drawn from the garage to johnny altinger's apartment. he kept everything. this guy is meticulous. he kept receipts, wrote everything down. >> after the presentation of the hard evidence. twitchell's friends and coworkers were called to testify. one of the first was the actor who played the victim in house of cards. chris hayward. on the way to court that morning, he worried. what would happen if twitchell was acquitted. >> if he gets out, he will-- i don't know, i feel like he will probably kill me. >> chris was not alone in his wary. renee was unsettled too, the day she testified. but for another reason on altogether. >> i did not want to feel

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>> don't know where you went for? lunch >> now. >> so now it was early morning. they have been out for hours. they had taken a break. and they let mark twitchell slip by himself and still a bit. now the time had come for clark to play a different wall. >> we've done the good cop good routine, now the backup is coming. out >> this is what you like? >> this is what i relish. >> there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that you are involved in the disappearance of johnny altinger. no doubt in my mind at all. mark. >> why? >> i'm going to start with the hammering of what i know. problem is, i know very little. >> but, now that it was perfectly clear to mark twitchell that he was a suspect in the disappearance. and maybe a murderer. his easy camaraderie seem to shrivel. his eyes, glazed with something

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strange things come to light under the northern sun. especially with the aid of a search warrant. as bill clark and his colleagues closed in on movie maker mark twitchell, they seized his office computer. founded in his house. and on the computers hard drive, they found this video of the -- looked almost like a movie. a horror movie. no, it was not a snuff film. it wasn't johnny altinger murder call on tape. it was one of the tease films. the one he told the detective about, the first time he talked to him. >> it's a suspense thriller. actually. it's a short film, the total times gonna be about eight or nine minutes. >> house of cards. is what twitchell was calling it. the promotional film.

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fantastical get ups, outlandish costumes. in 2008, just weeks after his wife kicked him out and the cops began tailing him everywhere, he decided to be iron man. built a costume at his parents garage. but, on the very witching afternoon, near hours to hi grand entrance to a halloween party, as he was walking to a local coffeehouse to meet with potential movie investors, he was thrown to the ground by men wearing their own unique costumes. members of edmonton swat team. mark twitchell was handcuffed and taken into custody, charged with the murder of johnny altinger. and that of course made big headlines. police even held a press conference to announce the arrest. and the reporters who gathered were left with one juicy tidbit. >> we have a lot of information to suggest that he idolizes dexter. >> whatever that meant. >> remember one of the things we did is we went to his facebook page. >> he was a crime reporter for the edmonton journal. >> he had a post there that said that mark twitchell has

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>> that was that. until, weeks later when police came back here looking for johnny altinger. and they wondered, was the guy in the alley, actually johnny, not an actor? a real victim? one of them went downtown to check on a report that was taken from trevor and marissa. and? it did not fit. that call was taken a week before johnny disappeared. >> besides, no victim ever came forward. no one claimed to have been attacked by a masked man. the whole thing sounded almost like, well, like a scene from a movie. coming up! just maybe, a tv show about a serial killer. >> what attracted to you to dexter? >> what i love about the show in the books is how he was able to explore that darkside. rationalize that it is okay to kill somebody because this person deserved it in a way. >> when dateline continues! (♪♪)

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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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alice in the rabbit hole. the missing man, johnny, had balanced without a trace. and they're worried that the disappearance could be part of some publicity stunt. the only suspect was the aspiring movie producer, storyteller. who stood up to bill clark grilling him with his manners intact. even though, by this time, clark could not shake the gut feeling that this movie director was one very bad guy. >> i was thinking that he had filmed whatever he had done to johnny. i think he had killed him and filled the murder. >> so they looked into twitchell's car and home. they had an idea they would find a videotape of a murder. instead, what they discovered was an affair. twitchell had a girlfriend. and when his wife found out about that. she kicked amount. but twitchell seemed, at least

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>> it's all information that no ne had ever heard about before. >> at the trial, it got more bizarre. as the prosecution unveiled for the first time, skconfessions. sitting in that courtroom became a journey deep into the wounded-ness of a mind of darkness. >> horrid details were written down. no detail was not told within this document. it's written like, it sounds just like it's fiction, like a script. but when you take a step back, you realize this is a real person that he is talking about. this is a real man who has been murdered. >> but was johnny altinger murdered? well twitchell certainly admitted he dumped johnny's remains down the storm train. he never said that he murdered him. never even admitted that he was the author of skconfessions. so detectives knew that they would need more than the document to get a conviction. so they quietly built a case on

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