16 Facts About Mark Twitchell

Mark Andrew Twitchell was born on July 4,1979 and is a Canadian convicted of first-degree murder in April 2011 for the murder of John Brian Altinger.

Mark Twitchell's trial attracted particular media attention because Twitchell had allegedly been inspired by the fictional character Dexter Morgan.

In January 2001, Mark Twitchell married an American woman, Megan Casterella.

In 2007, Mark Twitchell directed Star Wars: Secrets of the Rebellion, a full-length fan film prequel set a few days prior to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Mark Twitchell was posing as a woman on the site in an attempt to lure victims to a garage, which he had rented to use as a film studio, in order to kill them.

On October 10,2008, Altinger informed his friends of his plans to meet the woman he believed he was chatting with and sent them the address Mark Twitchell had provided him.

Mark Twitchell then put the dismembered remains into garbage bags and dumped them into a storm sewer south of 130th Avenue and 87th Street.

Mark Twitchell had broken into Altinger's condominium to send these emails.

Mark Twitchell sent a resignation email to Altinger's work, but did not respond to a request for a forwarding address for sending Altinger's final paycheque.

The key piece of evidence presented by the Crown at Mark Twitchell's first-degree murder trial was a document, entitled "SKConfessions", which stood for "Serial Killer Confessions".

Mark Twitchell described the document as fiction based on fact, as if he had planned Altinger's death deliberately, in order to craft a compelling story.

Mark Twitchell still faced an attempted murder charge for his alleged attack on Gilles Tetreault, a computer company contractor.

Mark Twitchell ordered the charges to be severed and heard separately.

In May 2013, it was reported that Mark Twitchell had purchased a television for his prison cell.

Mark Twitchell stated that he had caught up on every Dexter episode that he missed since he was arrested and convicted of first-degree murder.

Mark Twitchell's case was featured in the American magazine Crime Watch Daily on May 1,2017.