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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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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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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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>> not yet. >> am i free to go? >> yeah. >> then i will. >> okay. >> and then, as bill clark escorted mark twitchell out of the building, and into the early morning park. he up the ante a little. told twitchell that he was seizing his car. >> and then he goes, he almost stopped and pulled back. he goes, well, i need to get something out of it. i said you're getting nothing. i'm taking that car. >> and, it was then. as khark approached twitchell's car to take it to the impound lot. that he notice the license plate, personalized. dark jedi. >> coming up! >> i have never in my life felt fear like that. >> police find witnesses that saw something like a horror movie. >> it's like every nightmare that you had as a child. after watching scary movie, every night you ever had all the sudden is right here.

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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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too much in common with dexter, the idea that there is a man up there who is attacking strangers, totally innocent victims, it's almost a myth. something that is built up by hollywood, it didn't seem like it could be real. >> so, here in edmonton, a question began to circulate. had the cops been played by a clever promoter? >> he was known as a prankster. a lot of people thought this was a hoax. >> you almost wonder whether or not he was doing it as a publicity stunt. >> exactly. so, maybe bill clark and the rest of the edmonton police force would wind up with red faces and not just from the cold. except, there was one little bit of news police did not announce. when they searched twitchell's car, they found a laptop and on the hard drive of that laptop a very smart detective found a

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it seems like hybrid break. >> and then he expects interest in me and my writing styles. and my ideas. >> would it be like about your writing styles? he >> never said specifically, he just said i just think that we have chemistry together. and we'd be able to work very well together. and, we thought a lot alike. >> this had to be pretty exciting. >> yeah. >> soon she was intoxicated by this online collaboration, and then. wonder of wonders. he offered her work on her next project. his feature length film, house of cards. the film, he told her about. a serial killer. >> we had talked about our hypotheticals of how would you kill somebody and get away with it. >> whether they want with you? >> he said, you would do it like dexter because dexter shows you how to do it all the time. >> dark? oh yes. but all in fun of course. like twitchell's playful advice like eliminating, indexed or

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csi basics. take twitchell's 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 luminol. the chemical that makes blood glow. >> huge spots in the garage which would indicate a large pooling of blood. we found a piece of a human tooth in the garage. we found blood spatter all along the roars of the garage doors. hundreds of spots of splatter where an obvious beating had taken place. >> also in the garage? csi investigators found this game processing kit. >> hunters would take out in the bush, to cut up a moose or whatever they have killed. to bring them up. this is what he used and every single tool in that kit had our victim's dna on it. >> and in twitchell's car? police found other hard evidence. >> we find a knife in there. a knife with blood on it. >> visible blood? >> visible blood on that knife. and that blood matches to

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movie director in edmonton, canada. loved. loved. the tv show dexter. with so taken with the whole idea of it that he posted this online ad, and attempts to sell the script for his house of cards short film. as if it were an original dexter episode. and in fact, the story on twitchell's computer, the one called skconfessions is a lot like the episode of the tv show of the avenging psychopath. and now here in twitchell's rented garage, police saw would look for all of the world like a kill room. there was plastic sheeting, an autopsy kit. all matching careful descriptions of skconfessions. what's the killer couldn't learn from dexter though, was how to dispose of the body. the tv dexter lives in miami, dumps his victims in the atlantic. but edmonton, out in the middle of thousands of square miles of farmland and oil fields is many

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>> detectives even got a look at the teaser film for twitchell's next project, a three and a half comedy called day players. >> that's mark in the background playing the role of director. even as he was the director. sort of a hall of mirrors types of story. a movie about a movie, about making a movie. or something. fantasy and reality. all mixed up somehow. just to cover the bases, police interviewed mark twitchell's members and he vouched for him completely. he came off squeaky clean, and his film company was legit. bill clark and the police were back at square one by the look at things. >> what do we have? we have nothing. >> coming up! soon this tough cop would catch a big break. >> you get a phone call from the detective. detective says, you won't believe it but this guy just

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