Steve Lillebuen. Journalist.

MELBOURNE — Gilles Tetreault’s experience of being lured to “Dexter Killer” Mark Twitchell’s kill room under the ruse of meeting a woman is certainly one of the “Dates From Hell” worth featuring on Investigation Discovery. The new series profiles the young man’s survival story in Edmonton, Canada, during an episode first broadcast on US cable on Wednesday [...]

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MELBOURNE — The police case against fugitive Luka Magnotta has been drawing comparisons to Mark Twitchell, a Dexter-inspired wannabe serial killer whose crimes are explored in my narrative non-fiction book The Devil’s Cinema. Both were heavy Internet users — especially social media — and were eager self-promoters who ended up documenting their (alleged) crimes. An [...]

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MELBOURNE — The initial tour for The Devil’s Cinema has reached its end with my return to Australia, leaving my book on the Mark Twitchell “Dexter Killer” case in the hands of the first wave of North American readers. These past few weeks have been a fascinating and jolting experience. A manuscript grows out of [...]

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LOS ANGELES — It is perhaps fitting that the American leg of The Devil’s Cinema book tour ends near Hollywood, where filmmaker Mark Twitchell had tried for so long to succeed prior to his bizarre descent into becoming the “Dexter killer.” The US tour has taken me from east to west, from New York City [...]

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