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Oct 18, 2024 12 min

35. Script to Reality: The Mark Twitchell Murder Case

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The "Script Murder Case" in Canada revolves around Mark Twitchell, a failed filmmaker and screenwriter who lured Johnny Altinger, a man he met through an online dating site, to a garage where he murdered him in October 2008. Twitchell had written a movie script about a serial killer and eerily carried out a real-life murder mirroring the plot. After Altinger's disappearance, police investigated and discovered a document called "SK's Confession" on Twitchell's laptop, detailing the killings. The investigation revealed that another man, Gilles Tetreault, had previously escaped an attempted murder by Twitchell. Ultimately, Twitchell was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison, while Tetreault survived and later wrote a book about his experience.

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