At trial, Twitchell plays a surprising card. Will he walk, or will everything come tumbling down? This episode originally published on October 31, 2024.
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Winter was coming to Edmonton. They were running out of time. What had begun as a simple missing persons investigation seemed to have uncovered something unthinkable. Like a real-life version of that TV show, Dexter. And now, a race against Winter as the detectives search for a body. All because they believed the bizarre stories they'd unearthed from Mark Twitchell's computer. SK Confessions.
You got to realize the computer guys, when they went through the computer, it was a deleted file. He tried to get rid of the file. He tried to get rid of it.
Trouble was, Detective Bill Clark and the others knew they were missing something, and it might be the most important bit of the awful story. They still didn't know how it ended. That bit was gone, cut off, buried even deeper in Twitchell's computer. Maybe irretrievable.
We're going to computer guys. Come on, you got to pull up more. We're right to the point of where he dumped the body and we don't know the location.
So one more time, as each day grew a little colder, frost in the morning, flurries in the afternoon, the computer people dug through the entrails of Mark Twitchell's laptop. And then, a week or two later, finally, there it was. There was more. It was the ghoulish end of a very strange story. Here is how it began. The beginning of the end.
I grabbed a banana nut muffin, a double chocolate donut, and a cafe mocha on the way to my destination.
But then, but now, the horrid, the tone changed. I drove back to the kill room to finish destroying evidence. I'm Keith Morrison, and this is The Man in the Black Mask, a podcast from Dateline. Episode 6. House of Cards The sewer, of course. How obvious. Six simple words from the erased files on Mark Twitchell's laptop.
Words that told Detective Bill Clark that he must surely have been right all along. Mark Twitchell's scary story wasn't fiction. He must have murdered the missing Johnny Altinger and must have dumped his body in an Edmonton sewer. Everything's turned out to be true. So we got no reason to disbelieve this. And here, as read by the voice actor, the recovered lines of SK Confessions.
I chose the eastern suburb of the city to dump my waste. The housing in this part of my world was also older, done back in the 60s and 70s when there were back alleys to be had. Within moments, I found exactly what I was looking for. A manhole cover placed off to the side behind a power pole. I parked in an empty driveway and popped the trunk.
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