In October 2008, the friends and family of 38-year-old Johnny Altinger were worried. Although emails and social media messages had indicated Johnny had run away on the spur of the moment with an unknown woman he’d just met, things didn’t add up. The messages did not have the same feel as Johnny’s typical fare, and he wasn’t known for his spontaneity. Police had already spoken with the tenant at the Edmonton garage that Johnny was directed to on the night he disappeared. They’d seen some things that concerned them, but there was no sign of Johnny. Something seemed off with the 29-year-old filmmaker Mark Andrew Twitchell, the man they’d spoken to. Little did the police know that only a week before Johnny vanished, another man, Gilles Tetreault, had suffered a bizarre attack at Twitchell’s hands after being lured to the same garage.
NOTE: This is part two of an updated, two-part expanded REDO of an earlier episode with which we thought we could have done better. We plan to update several more historical episodes to provide a better listener experience, more in line with the tone of our show.
Sources:
2010 ABQB 693 (CanLII) | R. v. Twitchell | CanLII
Edmonton Journal | Mark Twitchell’s First Statement To Police | Scribd
Edmonton Sun | Twitchell Agreed Statement 1 | Scribd
Edmonton Sun | Second Agreed Statement of Facts in Twitchell Case | Scribd
Edmonton Sun | Garage and Evidence Photos
Edmonton Sun | Video Evidence of Garage | YouTube
A Transcript of Police Interview with Mark Twitchell From Oct. 20, 2008 | Scribd
Alleged Diary from Mark Twitchell’s Computer | Scribd
Twitchell DNA Report | Scribd
Live Blog of Twitchell Trial | Scribd 
Edmonton Journal | E-Mail Exchange Between Mark Twitchell & a Facebook Friend | Scribd
Edmonton Journal | Mark Twitchell’s Notice of Appeal | Scribd
Mark Twitchell case: Inside the mind of “The Dexter Killer” - CBS News
Gilles Tetreault | Author | The One Who Got Away
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