better be criminal. we don t even want to come out if you re just dead. if the patrolman doesn t know it s criminal, don t bother calling us. you ve got enough to do. yeah. which explains perhaps why some of the locals have taken to calling their city dead middleton. our concern was, do we have a murder? because if we don t, this isn t our file. we have enough to work on. i mean, we have no indication of foul play. nothing, right? the missing person in this case was a guy with the name of johnny ulterior. 39, single, worked in the oil industry, like to ride motorcycles. unlucky with women. he had a wide circle of friends who are now telling police something kind of weird. i ll take her seem to have dropped off the face of the earth except for the strange emails he was sending. i ve left with a woman, i m going to costa rica. she was one of the recipients of the emails, his old friend, deborah tight grow. saying that he had met a wonderful girl name jen and he was going
johnny altinger had been flirting with online? the one who gave him directions to the garage? told him he would meet him there? the woman who signed her emails, jen? does the name jen mean anything to you? now, constable maxwell asked me about that to. yeah. we don t have gender anything like that. so the name jen doesn t mean anything to you? you don t know again? you don t have an actress named jen? no. so who was this mystery woman, jen? why in the world which he arranged to meet johnny altinger here, in the very backyard garage an independent edmonton film crew was renting for use as a studio. how odd. especially since the movies producer, slash director mark twitchell express the exact same confusion as the police. he didn t get it either. the dots didn t connect. mark twitchell didn t know
received several of them. i received six altogether but in runs of three. six messages. how is that the same message? the exact same message. same words? hi there, i m at a wonderful girl name jen. i m going to costa rica. and i will keep in touch and call you when i get back after the holidays. johnny. almost formal in a way. yes. suddenly. yes. it s like someone you didn t really know was sending an email. absolutely. i was like, that s really odd. that doesn t sound like john. well, it was odd. and even more so one another friend of vaulting years received the exact same message, word for word. i ll turn his face books that is change from single two in a relationship. and then i think it was the following day i was on ms and messenger and johnny popped on line. so i thought, oh he must not
getting out of the country without your passport. so it seemed like he had to be within driving distance, but what direction? where? and just as the police were contemplating that puzzle, one of altinger s friends came up with another email. this one tiny had received from a woman he had met online. jen was her name. the same woman with whom he had supposedly scampered off to costa rica. jen and johnny had a date going out on the town of the night he disappeared. but because he had never been to her place, she sent him an email with directions on how to pick her up. and out of an abundance sense of caution, he had never met the woman after all, he sent a copy of that email to a friend of his. just in case. i can t remember the last word of the email, but he said if anything happens to me you know where i m at. you know, laugh out loud. it wasn t a phone number. not even an address.