MURDEROUS MINDS: The Dexter Killer Pt. 1
Serial Killers & Murderous Minds
Crime House
4.5 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Mark Twitchell wanted to be a filmmaker. A storyteller. A star. But when fame didn’t come fast enough, he rewrote the script. In Part 1, we uncover the twisted rise of a Canadian director whose obsession with the TV show “Dexter” drove him to turn fiction into murder.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Crime House community. It's Vanessa Richardson. Looking for another Crime House original podcast to add to your rotation, you will love Clues with Morgan Absher and Kalyn Moore. |
| 0:12.8 | Every Wednesday, Morgan and Kalin dig into the world's most notorious crimes, clue by clue, from serial killers to shocking murders. |
| 0:21.5 | They follow the trail of clues, break down the evidence, and debate the theories. |
| 0:26.3 | It's like hanging out with your smart and true crime-obsessed friends. |
| 0:29.8 | Listen to clues on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:48.7 | Music. or wherever you listen to podcasts. Ever since he was a kid, |
| 0:52.4 | Mark Twitchell knew he was going to be a famous director. |
| 0:56.4 | He saw it so clearly, walking the red carpet, rubbing shoulders with A-list celebrities, |
| 1:02.2 | seeing his name in lights. He wanted to be considered alongside the Greats, Scorsese, |
| 1:07.9 | Tarantino, and Spielberg. And even though Mark spent years working towards this dream, |
| 1:13.5 | at some point it began slipping through his fingers. |
| 1:17.2 | When that happened, he came up with a new idea, |
| 1:20.2 | one that would put him back on the path to stardom. |
| 1:24.2 | He decided to film a movie about a killer, |
| 1:27.3 | and that the best way to make that art was to imitate it. |
| 1:32.3 | The human mind is powerful. |
| 1:47.0 | It shapes how we think, feel, love, and hate. |
| 1:51.0 | But sometimes it drives people to commit the unthinkable. |
| 1:55.0 | This is Killer Minds, a crimehouse original. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm Vanessa Richardson. |
| 1:59.0 | And I'm Dr. Tristan Engels. |
| 2:01.4 | Every Monday and Thursday, we uncover the darkest minds in history, analyzing what makes a killer. |
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