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257 - The Dexter Killer Mark Twitchell

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Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

The curious case of "The Dexter Killer" Mark Twitchell. A punchable, wannabe serial killer who really wanted to be Dexter Morgan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In October of 2008, Johnny Altinger, a single 38 year old Canadian man, was on his way for

0:05.7

what he hoped was going to be a real sexy hookup with a lady named Jen.

0:09.2

He had recently met on a dating site, plenty of fish.com.

0:12.2

And he thought that because that's exactly what Jen had led him to believe.

0:16.6

So on a Friday night, put on some cologne, his best shirt, he drove to St. Albert, a neighborhood

0:21.7

in Edmonton, Canada to meet the attractive woman who had promised him an intimate encounter.

0:27.2

Very unfortunately for Johnny, there was no Jen.

0:29.9

There was only Mark Twitchell.

0:31.6

Two weeks before Altinger's disappearance, Twitchell, a wannabe independent filmmaker, had shot

0:36.4

a low-budget horror short film about a serial killer who impersonates a woman on an online

0:40.8

dating site to lure victims to their gruesome death.

0:44.2

And after an attempted attack on another man, he tricked the same way a week earlier,

0:48.1

Mark brought his sick fantasy to life by killing Johnny in the exact same location where he

0:52.4

had filmed that short movie about a man similar to Johnny being killed by a man similar to

0:57.4

himself.

0:58.9

Life imitating one's own art in the worst of ways.

1:02.8

Mark wrote out and filmed his murder fantasy, then he carried out an actual murder fantasy

1:07.0

on the same film set.

1:09.0

Both the movie and the murder part of a new sick fantasy of his inspired by the Showtime

1:12.6

series Dexter.

1:14.2

Mark was obsessed with Dexter.

1:16.7

He felt like he understood the character of Dexter Morgan, a soft-spoken serial killer

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