murder? or accidentally committing a? and he told my mom about dexter. you see the show dexter, this is all modeled after dexter. when you take a step back, you see this is a real man who s been murdered. it was darker than anyone knew. holy mackerel! everyone is on the edge of their seat. an underground parking garage. you re watching a violent attack, caught on tape. who is this? what is happening? or did it happen at all? movies, like that one. are by design deceptive. they blur words. but have you noticed, maybe it s all the technical doodads. the digital cameras. the reality pristine editing. some stories have claimed to be true. are not. anybody can manipulate reality, but sometimes what they say is true, isn t. sometimes fiction turns out to be fact. and then there are stories, just a few, in which fact and fiction hughes. and that s where we re going tonight. a twilight zone world. an illusion. and deception. and deceit. follow the howling wind, no
that s it for me. thanks for watching. tune in tomorrow where i am speaking with congressman jerry connelly. plus, senior adviser and spoke s person for president biden s campaign, adrienne elrod joins us to talk importance of border security to voters ahead of november s election tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. follow us on social media using the handle, at weekend capehart. listened every episode of our show as a podcast for free. scan the qr code on your screen to follow. but, keep it right here. a frightening film about a serial killer. robert barnsley: .he d say, when you re turning the blade, grit your teeth and really really show that you re enjoying it. we had talked about how would you kill somebody and get away with it. i had dark thoughts and shared them with the serial killer. it was supposed to be a movie, a frightening film about a serial killer. you grit your teeth and really show that you on bare enjoying it. but, was it really just pretend
Too much in common with dexter, the idea that there is a man up there who is attacking strangers, totally innocent victims, it s almost a myth. something that is built up by hollywood, it didn t seem like it could be real. so, here in edmonton, a question began to circulate. had the cops been played by a clever promoter? he was known as a prankster. a lot of people thought this was a hoax. you almost wonder whether or not he was doing it as a publicity stunt. exactly. so, maybe bill clark and the rest of the edmonton police force would wind up with red faces and not just from the cold. except, there was one little bit of news police did not announce. when they searched twitchell s car, they found a laptop and on the hard drive of that laptop a very smart detective found a
Question began to circulate. had the cops been played by a clever promoter? he was known as a prankster. a lot of people thought this was a hoax. you almost wonder whether or not he was doing it as a publicity sent. exactly. so, maybe bill clark and the rest of the edmonton police force would wind up with red faces and not just from the cold. except, there was one little bit of news police did not announce. when they searched twitchell s car, they found a laptop and on the hard drive of that laptop a very smart detective found a deleted temporary file, a document about 40 pages long. could be described as a diary. maybe a farfetched novel. or treatment for a dexter episode. it was called ask a confession, it was the first person account, written from the perspective of an inspiring serial killer. i remember reading this the first day when they brought it down, i said holy mackerel, it tells everything. except, the guy is a professional storyteller who tells, you know, movies.
With the murder of johnny altinger. and that of course made big headlines. police even held a press conference to announce the arrest. and the reporters who gathered were left with one juicy tidbit. we have a lot of information to suggest that he idolizes dexter. whatever that meant. remember one of the things we did is we went to his facebook page. he was a crime reporter for the edmonton journal. he had a post there that said that mark twitchell has too much in common with dexter, the idea that there is a man up there who is attacking strangers, totally innocent victims, it s almost a myth. something that is built up by hollywood, it didn t seem like it could be real. so, here in edmonton, a question began to circulate. had the cops been played by a clever promoter? he was known as a prankster. a lot of people thought this was a hoax. you almost wonder whether or not he was doing it as a publicity sent. exactly. so, maybe bill clark and the