11-02-2008, 02:03 PM
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Edmonton filmaker charged with murder
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11-02-2008, 02:06 PM
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Well, he really did butcher that re-make...but murder? Thats harsh.
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Last edited by Locke; 11-02-2008 at 02:09 PM.
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11-02-2008, 02:20 PM
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holy crap...that is ridiculous. That guy is clearly off his rocker.
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11-02-2008, 02:28 PM
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Sounds like an act to drum up some hype for his new movie! Early oscar nomination to the costume designer for the man dressed in a tight gold shirt with soul-glo perm?
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11-02-2008, 02:36 PM
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The guy apparently idolizes Dexter Morgan, from the TV show Dexter. What a creep. Very strange murder.
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11-02-2008, 02:36 PM
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That's unreal...guy definately sounds crazy.
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11-02-2008, 03:32 PM
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I used to work with the victim.
He was an extemely decent man who didn't deserve this at all.
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11-02-2008, 05:14 PM
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looks like a sickko
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11-02-2008, 05:36 PM
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wow i didn't realize filming mullets at concrete strip malls was now a film genre. In all seriousness this guy is sick
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03-23-2011, 09:01 AM
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Bump.
Twitchell's trial started earlier this week. Lot's of coverage from the Edmonton Sun: http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/Twitchell/home.html
The Sun was live tweeting the trial for a while using #edmsuntrial but that seems to have stopped Monday. The Edmonton Journal was live blogging it too for a while here: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...771/story.html
There are quite a few odd things going on with this whole situation. You can read the script to the short film "House of Cards" which the Crown alleges mirror the crimes Twitchell has been accused of committing here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/51321071/H...f-Cards-Script
ABC's 20/20 had a story last week about the case... and the whole segment was blacked out in Canada: http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmo.../17684771.html
In hindsight, dude probably should have got a tattoo of the Galactic Empire logo instead of the Rebel Alliance:
I recognize that this is real life and an actual person with family and friends and hopes and dreams was brutally murdered but I can't help but be fascinated with this whole case on so many different levels.
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03-23-2011, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
The guy apparently idolizes Dexter Morgan, from the TV show Dexter. What a creep. Very strange murder.
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Which doesn't even make sense. Why is it all of these Dexter imitators kill innocent people?
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03-23-2011, 09:17 AM
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ABC's 20/20 had a story last week about the case... and the whole segment was blacked out in Canada
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Friday night IIRC. I watched it with morbid fascination. Dude is one creepy SOB and not a very smart one at that.
They were doing a paralell in the segment of a teen in Ohio or Illinois who killed his little brother because he was fascinated by Dexter as well.
here is the whole thing...
http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/SH55902...lt-like-dexter
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03-23-2011, 09:19 AM
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You appear to be outside the United States or its territories. Due to international rights agreements, we only offer this video to viewers located within the United States and its territories
Shucks.. Yeah this guy is a cold blooded murderer. Photographs of him are pretty chilling, seems to have the killer eyes.
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03-23-2011, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by CampbellsTransgressions
Which doesn't even make sense. Why is it all of these Dexter imitators kill innocent people?
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Because they are either too stupid or too deranged or both to tell the difference.
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03-23-2011, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by CampbellsTransgressions
Which doesn't even make sense. Why is it all of these Dexter imitators kill innocent people?
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I blame television, to me if you're going to imitate a serial killer, imitating a fake one played by a television actor is pretty much as lame as it gets.
The real ones are so much more interesting.
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03-23-2011, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I blame television, to me if you're going to imitate a serial killer, imitating a fake one played by a television actor is pretty much as lame as it gets.
The real ones are so much more interesting.
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Not as accessible though. TV provides far more cookie-cutter inspiration to draw from rather than serious research on crazed, psychopathic murderers.
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03-29-2011, 03:54 PM
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An Edmonton Police Service forensic investigator wrapped up his testimony today regarding items found on the laptop they seized from the accused. On the laptop, he found a few temporary and deleted files which, when pieced together, formed the manuscript of interest. He read out large sections of the manuscript to the jury which detailed the level of planning and execution behind one failed and one successful murder attempt.
Now, the Crown is presenting witnesses who had contact with Twitchell in real life that almost exactly mirror the events alleged to have occurred in the manuscript. There's the Sheriff who pulled Twitchell over and issued him a speeding ticket (in the manuscript the author thought he was pretty cool for getting a ticket while body parts were stored in his trunk).
There's the girlfriend with the celtic cross tattoo with whom he made out with at the movies.
Stuff just goes on and on...
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03-29-2011, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by fredr123
An Edmonton Police Service forensic investigator wrapped up his testimony today regarding items found on the laptop they seized from the accused. On the laptop, he found a few temporary and deleted files which, when pieced together, formed the manuscript of interest. He read out large sections of the manuscript to the jury which detailed the level of planning and execution behind one failed and one successful murder attempt.
Now, the Crown is presenting witnesses who had contact with Twitchell in real life that almost exactly mirror the events alleged to have occurred in the manuscript. There's the Sheriff who pulled Twitchell over and issued him a speeding ticket (in the manuscript the author thought he was pretty cool for getting a ticket while body parts were stored in his trunk).
There's the girlfriend with the celtic cross tattoo with whom he made out with at the movies.
Stuff just goes on and on...
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Between this guy, and the pair who murdered the farms market vendor theres a lot of dirtbags on trial right now. This Twitchell feller is quite the peice of work, did he really think he was smart enough to get away with it? Especially after getting caught in the car he claims he bought for $40.
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03-29-2011, 06:52 PM
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Not really related to this, but related to the Edmonton homicide scene. I read an article today about Edmonton's 14th homicide of the year (yes, already), and they mentioned that this took place in the same apartment building in which Punky Gustavson was kidnapped from back in 1992. I didn't think it was, so I did some googling, and found some really interesting material on her kidnapping and subsequent murder. Sorry for the derail, but I found this to be a very good read.
http://web.ewu.edu/groups/chemistry/Sleigh_Part1.pdf
http://web.ewu.edu/groups/chemistry/Sleigh_Part2.pdf
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03-29-2011, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Between this guy, and the pair who murdered the farms market vendor theres a lot of dirtbags on trial right now. This Twitchell feller is quite the peice of work, did he really think he was smart enough to get away with it? Especially after getting caught in the car he claims he bought for $40.
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I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill somebody the way I described it in my book. I'd be announcing myself as the killer. I'm not stupid.
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