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A Catfish, a Kill Room, and a House of Cards: "Dexter" Killer Mark Twitchell Pt 2

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True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In part 1, we introduced you to Mark Twitchell. Aspiring filmmaker—though he’s stealing from his own production company and making up outrageous lies to lure investors…New husband and father—though he’s cheating on his wife and showing little interest in fatherhood…And Dexter wannabe. As Twitchell got more and more engrossed in “Dexter” and started researching psychopathy, an “epiphany” began to take shape in his mind. He believed in fate. He believed he was an instrument of it. And now, he felt he knew what fate had in store for him. He would become a serial killer. He was about to move from the realm of fantasy where he’d spent most of his life up til now, to the cold, dark reality of murder. He was making plans. And a whole lot of lives were about to change forever. Join us now for part 2 of this bizarre story.

Sources:

The Devil's Cinema by Steve Lillibuen
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/twitchell-found-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder-1.998969
CBS's, "48 Hours Mystery," Episode "Screenplay for Murder"
NBC's "Dateline," Episode "Deadly House of Cards"
"SK Confessions" manuscript: https://www.scribd.com/doc/202712564/51755869-WARNING-GRAPHIC-Alleged-Diary-From-Twitchell-s-Computer
http://www.stevelillebuen.com/crime-and-justice/the-question-of-mark-twitchell-dexter-killer/

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0:00.0

Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:05.0

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

0:08.0

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the

0:13.8

true crime campfire.

0:17.0

In part one we introduced you to Mark Twitchell, aspiring filmmaker, though he's stealing

0:26.8

from his own production company and making up outrageous lies to lure investors, new husband

0:32.0

and father, though he's cheating on his wife and showing little

0:35.0

interest in fatherhood, and Dexter wannabe. As Twitchell got more and more engrossed in

0:40.7

Dexter and started researching psychopathy, an epiphany began to take shape in his mind.

0:46.2

He believed he was an instrument of it, and now he felt he knew what fate had in store for

0:52.2

him.

0:53.3

He would become a serial killer.

0:55.4

He was about to move from the realm of fantasy where he'd spent most of his life up till now

0:59.6

to the cold, dark reality of murder.

1:02.4

He was making plans. And a whole lot of murder. He was making plans and a whole lot of lives were about to change forever.

1:07.0

Join us now for part two of a catfish, a kill room, and a deadly house of cards. So let's get back to Mark's new writing project, SK Confessions. Early on in the story he outlined his plan for choosing victims. He wrote,

1:36.0

At first I considered married men looking to cheat on their wives. In one way I'd be taking

1:40.9

out the trash, doling out justice to those who on some level deserved what they

1:44.4

got.

1:45.4

Which is just astonishing to me given that he was cheating on Jess his wife.

1:51.0

But Schichle is so out of touch with the truth that he just couldn't see the irony on that, I guess.

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