The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell’s Kill Room
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About the Book
Reality and fantasy collide with shocking results in this riveting account of the notorious case of Mark Twitchell — and the police investigation into one of the most bizarre murders in recent memory.
In October 2008, 38-year-old Johnny Altinger was on his way to a tryst with a woman he had met on an online dating website when he emailed the directions to their rendezvous to a concerned friend.
He was never seen again.
Two weeks before Altinger’s disappearance, independent filmmaker Mark Twitchell began shooting a low-budget horror film about a serial killer who impersonates a woman on an online dating website to lure his victims to their gruesome deaths.
But these are just the starting points of the stranger-than-fiction case of Mark Twitchell, a man with a startling plan to turn his life-long love of fantasy and desire for fame into reality:
- Did Twitchell, in a horrific example of life imitating art, act out the grisly premise of his own script?
- Obsessed with Dexter, the popular TV and book series about a fictional vigilante serial killer, Twitchell assumed Dexter Morgan’s profile on Facebook. But how far did he intend to take his fascination with Dexter?
- Is the shocking document “S.K. Confessions” a graphic work of fiction that, as Twitchell claims, he wrote to promote his film? Or is it a diary he kept of his transformation into a killer, and proof that the police stopped a prolific serial killer at the very beginning?
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Veteran journalist Steve Lillebuen (pronunciation: LIL-uh-BYOU-en) provides a gripping investigative account of the intricacies of the case, plunging us into the world of pop culture fanaticism and into the mind of a self-professed psychopath.
Drawing on extensive interviews, including a year of contact with the killer himself, Lillebuen illuminates what can happen when some of our culture’s darkest obsessions are pushed to extremes.
Acclaim
“A detailed, well-constructed account of a diabolical real-life Dexter. Lillebuen has written a riveting, true crime page-turner about aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell, who turned his obsession with fantasy into horrible reality.”
— Robert Remington, co-author of Runaway Devil
“A compelling and frightening account … The author creates a fascinating and detailed narrative, from the killer’s and victim’s early lives to the dramatic and bizarre courtroom trial. With its ties to online communities, dating sites, pop culture and modern filmmaking, The Devil’s Cinema is a terrifying and intriguing account of murder in the digital age.”
— Winnipeg Free Press
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