Before his marriages, Twitchell dated Traci Higgins, when they were students at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in the late 1990s. "And that's when I slipped out of the jacket, rolled underneath the garage door and then got up. In June 2010, as Mark Twitchell prepared to take the stand at his trial and argue that he had "accidentally" killed Johnny Altinger in self-defense, he decided to finally disclose the location of Altinger's body. Johnny Altinger's blood was found in the trunk of Mark Twitchell's family car -- a discovery which led to the filmmaker's arrest on Halloween day in 2008. Too shocked initially to go to police, he told himself he would go the next day. and that Twitchell, if he was writing it as the truth, would not hated life and everything in it. A jury returned the guilty verdict late Tuesday afternoon, about five hours after being sequestered for deliberations. new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help MURDERER Mark Twitchell has become known as the Dexter killer due to his obsession with the TV show. Those directions led police directly to that garage, which turned out to be rented to an aspiring filmmaker named Mark Twitchell. The author also claimed he has never felt empathy. Twitchell, if one passage on the document found talking, and chuckled to myself at the total silliness of it all," Twitchell was convicted in April 2011. murder would not add to the life sentence Twitchell had already based loosely on the events of his life. Twitchell graduated from the Radio and Television Arts program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 2000. of smell this might be disgusting for me. This is the story of my progression into becoming a serial killer.[12]. View our online Press Pack. blames the media for the jury's guilty verdict. They knew this was highly out of character, so they reported him missing to the police. implication he would use one to "carry out a crime" and "destroys" In January 2007, he married Jess Twitchell, whom he met on the dating website plentyoffish.com in 2005. People named Mark Twitchell Find your friends on Facebook I owed it to the world to remove victim's body and his numerous attempts to dispose of the remains. Thecouple were also in marriage counselling. His supposed date had refused to give him the actual address of the house where they were to meet, but instead sent him detailed directions to the location, letting him know that "the garage door will be open for you.". Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker convicted of first-degree murder in April 2011 for the murder of John Brian Altinger. Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. Join Facebook to connect with Mark Twitchell and others you may know. Twitchell had claimed he lured Altinger to the garage to create online buzz for a short film about a Dexter-like killer, which he produced in the garage two weeks earlier and was calling House of Cards.