good. that car, as the hasn t mentioned it? big down or. but those two arrows are about all clark had to work with. so as you know mark, we re just here trying to find this john fellow. johnny altinger. we had nothing, i don t know what happened to johnny. or whatever happened? exactly. because once again as the interview proceeds, the young filmmaker is the very picture of cooperation. he volunteers information. answer questions without hesitation or any apparent guile. his demeanor is expensive. even an untrained eye can see the twitchell body language is open, comfortable, in control. so they get to the story about the red mans that. he was approached, he said, just a few blocks from his garage by an agitated man. it was the night that johnny altinger disappeared. the man seem desperate to get rid of his car. said mark. offered to sell it for
arrows at bill clark s lead to a particular conclusion. mark twitchell thought bill clark was a dumb cop. he was trying to play him. well your reading him in the interview, he had been reading you. no doubt. and he had probably had made some judgments about your ability as an interviewer. what do you think of you do you think? i think he didn t think that i was that smart. he thought he was smarter than me. and i believe that he felt that anything that he had told us, he could concoct to make us believe him. and of course, his only one proper expanse to that. i let him go, and then i take him back through. it question and answer. standard procedure. just nailed down the details. start nailing them down. now i m starting to see, he is not remembering specific details. let s go back to your lunch, your at lunch. where do you go for lunch? i don t remember.
strange things come to light under the northern sun. especially with the aid of a search warrant. as bill clark and his colleagues closed in on movie maker mark twitchell, they seized his office computer. founded in his house. and on the computers hard drive, they found this video of the looked almost like a movie. a horror movie. no, it was not a snuff film. it wasn t johnny altinger murder call on tape. it was one of the tease films. the one he told the detective about, the first time he talked to him. it s a suspense thriller. actually. it s a short film, the total times gonna be about eight or nine minutes. house of cards. is what twitchell was calling it. the promotional film.
all they had after all was a missing man, johnny. who might just have driven off somewhere with or without some mystery woman named jen. certainly that would account for the fact that his red mazda was gone to. but it didn t make any sense, there wasn t much to go on. so being cops, him and his buddies had standard procedure. they doubled back for a second look at things. like the garage that johnny was headed for when he vanished. the next step logically is the garage. we have to step inside and take a close look. so they applied for a search warrant and it was rejected. it turned down. and it is turned down because we haven t proved there was a crime committed. so the next thing, simple enough, they want to mark twitchell directly to see if they gave him consent to search the garage. we gave him a form to they gave him a form, one of the directors jumped in the car, went over to mark s place to
detectives even got a look at the teaser film for twitchell s next project, a three and a half comedy called day players. that s mark in the background playing the role of director. even as he was the director. sort of a hall of mirrors types of story. a movie about a movie, about making a movie. or something. fantasy and reality. all mixed up somehow. just to cover the bases, police interviewed mark twitchell s members and he vouched for him completely. he came off squeaky clean, and his film company was legit. bill clark and the police were back at square one by the look at things. what do we have? we have nothing. coming up! soon this tough cop would catch a big break. you get a phone call from the detective. detective says, you won t believe it but this guy just