I'm Mooraka and I'm back with season three of my podcast, Mo Pituaries.

I'm looking forward to introducing you to more of my favorite people and things.

All of them dead.

From a top dog in 1990's television, to a former top banana.

In the world up to 1960 when the Gromachelle was the only banana that we got, they were

clearly better.

Listen to Moor Pituaries wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler and former special agent forensic scientist

the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. This podcast is about criminal profiling.

This is certainly an unusual case. I've never seen anything quite like this one.

With many serial killers, it's the killing part that they enjoy and once they've killed

the person, they're done. Not Mark Twitchell.

Mark Twitchell was an aspiring filmmaker. I interviewed him for my book and we corresponded

for a number of years. He wrote me probably 30 or 35 different letters, up to about

350 pages of letters. In one letter, a Mark Twitchell wrote back to me and this is what

he said. The fact is society in general has a deep and profound fascination with the dark

side of human nature. I do think Mark Twitchell was using the

filmmaking as an outlet to live out his fantasies and it ultimately wasn't enough for him and

that's why his fantasies crossed into reality. I think Mark Twitchell believes that he is

very smart, very methodical, very logical, very level-headed, much like the character

of Dexter Morgan. And so I think he got ideas from the show. I think he was drawn to the

character because that's what he wanted to be. There's significant links to Dexter. He

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