Murder, Mystery & Makeup
When a superfan goes too far for his "art" - The Wannabe Dexter Killer
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
Hi friends, happy Tuesday! What happens when a "Dexter" fanboy, a lifelong narcissist, and a pathological liar are all the same person? Murderer Mark Twitchell would know: you get a lousy attempt at being a serial killer and a life sentence in jail. Also, let me know who you want me to talk about next time. Hope you have a great rest of your week, make good choices and I'll be seeing you very soon xo Bailey Sarian I sometimes talk about my Good Reads in the show. So here's the link if you want to check it out. IDK. lol: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/139701263-bailey _________ : : F O L L O W M E : : Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BaileySarian Tik Tok: https://bit.ly/3e3jL9v Instagram: http://bit.ly/2nbO4PR Facebook: http://bit.ly/2mdZtK6 Twitter: http://bit.ly/2yT4BLV Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2mVpXnY Youtube: http://bit.ly/1HGw3Og Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3cC0V9d RECOMMEND A STORY HERE : [email protected] Business Related Emails : [email protected] Wanna Send Me Something? Bailey Sarian 4400 W Riverside Dr Ste 110-300, Burbank, CA 91505 _________ Learn how to create the best retail experiences without complexity. Go to https://www.shopify.com/makeup
Chapter 1: What is today's murder mystery about?
Hi friends, how are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday, which means it's murder, mystery, and makeup Monday. If you're new here, hi. My name is Bailey Sarian and on Mondays I sit down and I talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin and I do my makeup at the same time. Let me tell you about today's story because I went down a rabbit hole with this guy.
Chapter 2: Who is Mark Twitchell and how did he become obsessed with Dexter?
Ugh, ugh. ah this guy's too much this guy's too much today we're talking about this 29 year old his name is mark and he was like a super fan of a tv show called dexter do you remember no okay great well we'll talk about it mark's obsession with the showtime series dexter would eventually lead to the media dubbing him as the dexter killer let me tell you This guy is a lot.
Let's get into it, shall we? Let me tell you about this Mark guy. Okay, so Mark Twitchell. He was born on July 4th, 1979 in Edmonton, Canada. It was said from a young age, Mark was obsessed with movies, right? And he dreamed of making it big in the world of cinema.
So Mark went on a study at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and he participated in the school's radio and television arts program. After graduating college, Mark married this woman named Megan in 2001. Now there wasn't much said about this first marriage situation.
Chapter 3: How did Mark Twitchell's personal life unfold?
I'm assuming they met in college because like they got married like right after graduating college, but you know, whatever. But Megan, she was from Illinois and the two of them, they got married, you know, and Mark ended up moving to Illinois with her. And again, there was like not much said about their marriage, but I think it's safe to say
It didn't work out because after three years of marriage, they got divorced. And like, that's all that was said about the marriage. After the divorce, Mark had moved back to Canada. And while he was back at home, he signed up for a dating website. you know, plenty of fish. He was like, I'm gonna get back out there and start dating again.
So he gets on this dating website and he ends up meeting a girl named Jess. And this was like 2005. And the two of them, they hit it off and they start dating each other. So then in 2007, Mark, you know, he's still super into movies, right? And he wanted to create his own. It was his passion in life. So he worked on like a little passion project
Chapter 4: What was Mark Twitchell's failed attempt at filmmaking?
And it was a Star Wars fan film that was written, produced, and directed by him. Oh yes, he did it all. Now when it came to this film of his, I mean, he went off. All the way off. I mean, Mark had a major talent for prop and costume design. For his film, he had created like replica suits from the Star Wars universe. And honestly, they looked really legit.
So the title of this movie was called Secrets of the Rebellion. And it was said that it was receiving like some online hype. People were like kind of excited about it. But like, I'm not really sure because the movie, it wasn't ever completed or released. So I'm not sure who or where they were hyping this up, but allegedly it was hyped.
I feel like also Mark probably just was telling people like, yeah, it was super hyped. Mark loved Star Wars. He would dress up in like a costume that he made himself and he would attend movie premieres or anything that was related to the Star Wars world. That was hard for me to say. Star Wars world. You get it. He would dress up. That's great. Like I like, like have your hobby. That's great.
But listen, I guess his costumes were like really, really good because there were two costume contests that he won in 2007. One was at Bear's Halloween Howler and the other was at Sonic's Monster Mash Halloween Bash. What a name. And like each of these were Halloween parties. And you know they had awards for like best costume. And Mark he won. Great, you know? You know the movie Transformers?
Yeah, you know the movie Transformers. So I guess his costume, he made a suit that was just like Bumblebee from Transformers. But Mark said that he went through 240 square feet of plexiglass and foam to make this suit that he made. I'm sure it made him feel good to, you know, when you go off like that and to like be acknowledged and win a prize and, good for him, you know?
That's the only time we'll be rooting for him, I guess. Anywho, not long after Mark and his girlfriend, Jess, they would go on to get married. And then about a year later, they would have a daughter. So throughout 2008, Mark started to work on like another passion project of his. It was a short crime film called House of Cards.
Now this short film was like about a killer who lured a cheating man off of an online dating website, attacking the victim with a lead pipe and then stabbing them to death. I know it was very clue. A lead pipe? Come on. Not sure what the moral of the story was, but like that's, you know, that's what he was going with. I have to say, I'm impressed with you guys.
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Chapter 5: What happened during Mark's attack on Gilles?
Gilles told himself, like, I'd rather go my way than his way. And, you know, adrenaline is pumping. So he gets up, he rips the duct tape from his eyes. I know, I was like, ooh, ah, he rips that shit off. And then he grabs Marc's gun from his hand. And at this point, Gilles realizes that this gun was plastic. It was a plastic gun, which must be such a relief in that moment, I'm sure.
Well, adrenaline's going, but you know, you're like, oh, thank God this shit's plastic. Anywho, so I guess after this, like there's a violent struggle between the two of them. So they're fighting each other and Mark is like grabbing at him and Gilles was wearing like a jacket, kind of like I got like a zip on, you know?
So Mark was like holding onto his jacket and Gilles like kind of maneuvers out of it. Do you know what I'm saying? Like when you can kind of like snake your way out of the jacket, he snakes out the jacket. And then he rolls out from under the garage door, you know, getting ready to make a run for it.
But he, like, he rolls out from under the garage, stands up, and I guess Mark is, like, right on his ass, grabs his legs and, like, is trying to, you know, drag him back into the garage. Run. Run. Luckily, Gilles, he is able to get that dirt bag, get off my feet and takes off running and hollering. Now at this point, Mark had like come outside of the garage. He's still wearing his mask.
Comes outside of the garage and he's like gonna start going after me.
but he looks and across the street there was like this couple who was walking their dog and they're watching like this whole like weird situation go down and they're like this is like so weird you know you would stop and be like what the fuck is going on so mark actually sees the couple he's like oh shit you know and he's trying all of a sudden to act natural He's like, ha ha.
I mean, I guess Mark wanted the couple to think like the two of them were friends and they were just playing around. So he's like trying to be loud and like, ha ha ha, my friend is so crazy. You know, wow. He's like, isn't that crazy? Like I'm wearing a mask, LOL. So after taking a few moments to make it look like, I don't know, that was his friend. He's just like, all right.
And then Mark goes back into the garage. Gilles was able to escape. Sadly, after the fact, Gilles wouldn't report like what happened to police because he was embarrassed, which is so sad. You hear about this, like men not wanting to report things because they feel embarrassed by it and stuff. And it's just like this... It's just sad.
You know, he didn't feel like he had a safe space to like report this. Gilles would later say that like he tried convincing himself that the attack wasn't as serious as he was making it out to be. Or at least like he was trying to convince himself of that. It's just so sad. I felt so bad when I read that. Because at first you kind of want to be frustrated with him.
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Chapter 6: How did Johnny Altinger become a victim?
I guess like Mark tried to burn some of the body parts. Yeah, but we know he tried to. I think he realized it either wasn't like a good idea or something because he gave up on that. But he ends up like dismembering the body and like cutting it up and then putting the remains in different garbage bags.
And then he was gonna take all those garbage bags and like drop them into the storm sewer, which he does. I mean, if you've been paying attention, which I'm sure you have been, this whole attack was just like the movie that Mark had made called House of Cards. Mark had like just filmed House of Cards two weeks prior to this attack, to this murder, sorry.
And it was filmed in that garage where the murder took place. I don't know what to say to that. So three days go by and Johnny's friends and family, they're like getting kind of worried about him. You know, at first they thought like, oh, he's busy, you know, whatever. But on day three, they're like, okay, something's not right.
Especially because there was an email that went out from Johnny's, Johnny's email account saying that he had met a woman who was taking him on a tropical vacation to Costa Rica. And it's like, okay. What? Right? So Johnny had sent out an email from his account and I have it in my notes. Don't laugh at me. The email went out October 13th, 2008 at 8.52 a.m.
It says, hey there, I've met an extraordinary woman named Jen who has offered to take me on a nice long tropical vacation. We'll be staying in her winter home in Costa Rica. Phone number to follow soon. I won't be back in town until December 10th, but I will be checking my email periodically. See you around the holidays, Johnny. If I could flip this table, I would.
So, um, people were like, I don't know what kind of friends you have, but like if you're a friend, I know. Okay. If one of my friends was like, sent me this type of email, I'd be like, first of all, what? Second of all, where's the invite? Third of all. What? Like it just, right? It doesn't, it doesn't make sense. It's just random.
And then on top of that, Johnny's boss also received a resignation letter through the email, through Johnny's email. And it was like, I'm quitting my job. I'm going to Costa Rica or whatever. The boss writes back asking for a forwarding address to send Johnny his final paycheck. But like... He never got a response. So all of this is not sitting right with Johnny's friends and family.
They knew something was up. And these are some great friends, seriously. Three days and they're worrying. I could be missing for weeks. I don't know who's showing up. But these friends, they end up driving over to Johnny's condo and they decide to break in.
because they think like inside they can find some kind of clue or evidence or maybe Johnny's inside like in the condo and like no one knows or something you know they were just like going and looking for something now when they go outside technically they don't like there's no evidence found but what they do notice was that there appeared to be no evidence that Johnny had left for a vacation
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Chapter 7: How did police get involved in Mark Twitchell's case?
So Mark ends up sitting in custody for like quite some time. And during this time, he's like swearing he's innocent. He's telling everyone that like he quote unquote accidentally killed Johnny in self-defense. And it was like, make it make sense. But he wasn't trying. He was just like, it was self-defense.
But after two years behind bars, Mark finally like cracks and he ends up giving police handwritten directions as to where he dumped Johnny's remains. Because at this point they didn't find his remains yet. So they print out this little like Google map. And then what's his name? Mark.
He like, he wrote handwritten details at the bottom of the page and it kind of like drew like where the remains were at. So at the bottom, he like hand wrote the location of where to find the remains.
in an alleyway between 86th and 87th street south of 130 avenue where two manhole slash sewer covers are in close proximity the only area in the alley where this occurs the cover on easternmost edge of alley on private property fifth light post from 130 avenue indicated by red circle above and then he signed it and then he dated it they were able to uncover the remains
Then in June, 2010, Mark was like fully ready to take the stand at his trial. Like he really thought he was gonna like say something good that was gonna get him off the hook because he really like wanted to argue that he had quote unquote accidentally killed Johnny in a horrific accident of self-defense. Like he was gonna fight for this.
So while he was in prison, this guy named Steve, Steve was working as like an investigative journalist with Edmonton Journal. He got wind of the story, wanted to talk to Mark. So he like wrote him a letter and started talking with Mark behind bars. And boy, did Mark deliver. Kind of. Steve said that like Mark just like straight up called him out of the blue. I was like, hey, I got your letter.
I would love to communicate with you. And then afterwards, the two of them kept in contact by writing each other letters. So they were sending letters back and forth. And Steve said that he got around 30 to 35 letters from Mark. It was like a total of 350 pages.
steve said he was trying to push mark to explain himself but like he never received a good answer and it was like yeah you know i don't think you can receive a good answer with these types of people right there is no good answer i don't know what would qualify as a good answer i did it for the gram i don't know we are teresa and nemo and that's why we switched to shopify the platform we used before shopify needed regular updates that sometimes led to the shop not working
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Chapter 8: What evidence did the police find against Mark Twitchell?
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What is a good answer? It doesn't matter really, but there wasn't one. One of the letters from Mark said, quote, after curiously shoving aside my human sensibilities, I dealt with his remains in a disrespectful manner that traumatized me forever, end quote. He was referring to Johnny's murder. And then in another letter, it said, quote, it would appear that I'm unique in the world.
There is no key, no root cause. End quote. I know. Have you ever noticed that like killers, they always want to be so unique and special. They always claim this shit. You know, I mean, I am talking about him. So I guess like, I don't think he's unique. Okay. Thank you. There was another letter that said, quote, it is what it is. And I am what I am. Wow, I know he's so deep.
Steve, the journalist, he actually wrote about the conversations that he had with Mark in a book titled The Devil's Cinema, The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell's Kill Room. So when police had arrested Mark, they also searched his home and his car and they took away like anything and everything that might have been evidence or have evidence on it.
With that being said, at the time of his arrest, they got Mark's laptop. Oh, the laptop. So of course they search it, right? And they uncover a document that Mark tried to delete. And you know how computers go. Like you think you delete something. Baby girl, Lisa, listen, no. It can always be found, can always be found. So when they searched his computer, they came across a document called S.K.
Confessions. And this would end up being like the key piece of evidence for the murder trial. S.K. Confessions, to their surprise, stood for Serial Killer Confessions. Police are like, great, you know, confess away. Love that, we love a confession. SK Confessions starts off with, this story is based on true events. Great, love that. The names and events were altered slightly to protect the guilty.
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