Steve Lillebuen. Journalist.

EDMONTON — The Devil’s Cinema, my forthcoming non-fiction book detailing the Mark Twitchell case and trial, has received its first review. Journalist and author Robert Remington read an early draft of the manuscript and has come back with the following critique: “A detailed, well-constructed account of a diabolical real-life Dexter. Lillebuen has written a riveting, [...]

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EDMONTON — Mark Twitchell’s murder trial essentially narrowed to a single issue that will be explored further in my upcoming book on the case: where does reality end and fantasy begin? It is a question that defines our internet generation and our obsession with reality television, but I’m hard pressed to find the topic ever [...]

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EDMONTON — Jury selection has been completed in Mark Twitchell’s lengthy court proceedings, leading the way for a criminal trial to begin later this week. Twitchell is charged with the first-degree murder of Johnny Altinger, a 38-year-old who vanished in October 2008. After seven hours of deliberations today, a jury of 12 people and two [...]

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