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Dateline Aftermath

EDMONTON — If you missed Dateline NBC on Friday night, my forthcoming true crime book on the Mark Twitchell “Dexter” case was featured during the two-hour special, titled “Deadly House of Cards.”

My interview on the program focused on explaining the criminal trial, a month-long process that ended in April 2011.

Below is the two-hour Dateline special. Each section should auto-load:

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The program is reported to have won the nightly US television ratings battle with 5.44 million viewers.

And there’s obviously far more to be told of this true crime story when my book, The Devil’s Cinema, is released in February across Canada and the USA in hardcover and as an eBook (pre-orders available).

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Twitchell book: Tonight on Dateline

EDMONTON — Just a reminder that my true crime book on the Mark Twitchell case will be featured tonight on Dateline NBC.

I’m interviewed at-length on the two-hour special (called Deadly House of Cards) to discuss my background from police reporter to book author, following the case closely as it unfolded from a hush-hush homicide investigation into a criminal trial that was broadcast around the world.

The book, titled The Devil’s Cinema, is available for pre-order:

It will be released across Canada and the USA in February 2012 by McClelland & Stewart and Random House.

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NBC Dateline’s ‘Deadly’ House of Cards

EDMONTON — American TV news magazine Dateline NBC will feature my forthcoming book on the Mark Twitchell case and trial during a two-hour special to air this Friday.

Dateline has released a teaser trailer for Friday night’s episode, titled “Deadly House of Cards”:

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I was interviewed extensively by the program, detailing my initial reporting as a police reporter at the Edmonton Journal to conducting years of research as I completed the upcoming true crime narrative.

In April 2011, aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell was convicted in the first-degree murder of Johnny Altinger, a crime that blended reality and fiction, and became known as the “Dexter” slaying. Elements of one of Twitchell’s own movie scripts (House of Cards) had been re-enacted in real life in a plot that drew inspiration from Dexter Morgan, the fictitious serial killer profiled on the Showtime television series.

Twitchell is currently serving a life sentence in Saskatchewan and is not eligible to apply for parole for 25 years. He is appealing his conviction.

The book will cover the entire case and trial, focusing on the lives of both Twitchell and Altinger, as well as the police investigation that unravelled the bizarre motive. It will be published across USA and Canada by McClelland & Stewart and Random House.

A release date has been tentatively scheduled for February 2012 (pre-orders of hardcover or eBook available).

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