'My progression into becoming a serial killer' - Canada

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Court told of shocking diary found on Twitchell's laptop
Last Updated: March 16, 2011 10:35pm
By Tony Blais, Edmonton Sun

Jurors at the first-degree murder trial of St. Albert filmmaker Mark Twitchell heard Wednesday the "most significant" evidence in the case was buried on his laptop.

In his opening address, Crown prosecutor Lawrence Van Dyke said police found in the memory of Twitchell's laptop computer a deleted document called SKConfessions.

Van Dyke alleged the document is a diary written by Twitchell and the opening lines are as follows:

"This story is based on true events. The names and events were altered slightly to protect the guilty. This is the story of my progression into becoming a serial killer. Like anyone just starting out in a new skill, I had a bit of trial and error in the beginning of my misadventures. Allow me to start from the beginning and I think you'll see what I mean ..."

Van Dyke said the document is a 30-odd page detailed account of events which mirror what happened to victims Gilles Tetreault and Johnny Altinger.

"I expect a key issue in this trial will be whether this document represents fact or fiction, but on a careful appraisal of all of the evidence, I believe that you will be left with the inescapable conclusion that this document is essentially a diary - that being, a factual documentation of Mark Twitchell's truly lived experiences and a description of his own thoughts about those experiences - with one proviso ... that some of the names and events have been altered slightly to protect the guilty."

Court heard the document explains the following:

- the author's aspirations to kill.

- the author conceiving a plan to accomplish this goal involving the use of Internet dating websites to lure in single men.

- the luring and unsuccessful attack upon a first victim, an individual the author names as "Frank."

- of how he waited for this victim while wearing a hoodie and a hockey mask and how he tried to use a stun baton to disable his victim, but it failed.

- of how he pointed a fake handgun at him.

- of how he ordered his victim to lay face down.

- of how he put duct tape over his eyes.

- of how the victim got up and fought back.

- of how the victim was able to wriggle free out into the driveway, but how he dragged the victim back.

- of how the victim ultimately escaped and flagged down a couple walking on a nearby walking path.

- of how a second victim first attended the garage a few minutes early and caught him off-guard, so he introduced himself to the victim as a film-maker and showed him a prop handgun, then told him that the woman he was supposed to meet was not there as she was running late.

- of how he lured the same victim back to the garage via the Internet on the premise that the girl was now there.

- of how he attacked the victim and hit him over the head multiple times with a pipe wrapped with hockey tape.

- of how he then used a hunting knife to finish him off.

- of how he then used a dismembering tool kit that hunters would use to dismember large wild game to dismember the body of the victim.

- of how he went to the victim's residence a few days later and authored an e-mail from his e-mail account advising the victim was going on a two-month Caribbean vacation.

- of his deliberations over how best to get rid of his victim's severed remains and his attempts to first burn the remains in a steel drum in his parents' backyard.

- of how when that did not work, he ultimately decided to dump the remains down the sewer.

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Blackout of 20/20 program
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/19/17684771.html

Items seized by police
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/18/17676261.html

Bloody evidence
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/17/17657916.html

VIDEO: Tools, knives
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/18/17677021.html

VIDEO: Twitchell's Home
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/17/17662756.html

VIDEO: Altinger's condo
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/17/17659246.html

VIDEO: Rented Garage
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/17/17660566.html

VIDEO: Twitchell's car
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/17/17664156.html

Alleged killer's fascination
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/17/17662751.html

EPS evidence photos
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/17/17661086.html

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