Steve Lillebuen. Journalist.

EDMONTON — This weekend’s CBS 48 Hours Mystery episode on the Mark Twitchell “Dexter” case — titled “Screenplay for Murder” — is the latest true crime show to cover the story, but it is certainly not the last word. On March 27, my book on the case, The Devil’s Cinema, will be released across the [...]

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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 appeal of his murder conviction, filed this week, will hinge on proving a miscarriage of justice has occurred. In his notice of appeal, Twitchell argues that he deserves another trial, this time by judge alone, because unwanted media attention was “so extensive, so blatant and so overly sensationalized that it is [...]

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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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