Mark Twitchell: The Dexter Killer (Part 1)

hello everybody welcome back to another brand new episode of the casual criminalist this one is actually probably going to be a two-parter callum who writes the uh the scripts for these podcast slash youtube shows he wrote me a message like simon this one's setting it to be really really long and if you're watching this you can probably see the size of the script you can hear that the script that i have in front of me and he was like simon i could cut it down and get rid of some really good stuff or or i could just make it a two-parter so callum has decided to write us a book which i shall read uh what happens here if you're new is uh callum will write me this script i'm gonna read it i'm gonna add my own commentary when i see fit and uh that's that's pretty much what the casual criminalist is uh if you haven't left us a review wherever you get this podcast if you are indeed watching it as a podcast or listening to it as a podcast please leave us a review on apple podcasts or stitcher or wherever you get your google is apparently popular i don't even know google had podcasts until i started doing this show and or if you're watching on youtube subscribe of course let's just jump in you guys are not here for me to plug stuff you're here for some crime what is this one even about i don't even know i kind of vaguely know but let's just jump in that's how we do it here [Music] there's no two ways about it we're living in a golden age of great telly oh boy are we although i do miss breaking bad and better call saul it's been way too long i want that show back immediately sure there are plenty of fresh duds being pumped out by netflix each week yeah the i i used to feel that when netflix made a show like when netflix made house of cards i was like wow all netflix shows are gonna be good and now it's like uh if it's a netflix show that i haven't heard of it's probably gonna be a bit trashy hunt or be hunted but for every piece of trash there's another pure gem the kind of show that keeps you gripped for days on end oh my god like queen's gambit was amazing when reality is so dismal and boring these can be a vital source of escapism so it's no wonder that so many people want to imitate their tv idols oh i know i immediately know i totally forgot what this one is about this one's about dexter the dexter killer dexter was an incredible tv show that i loved that's why i like to spend my saturdays in lannister platemail battling northmen or violently assaulting scottish people in tesco as the judge corset oh it's brilliant i'd be the first to admit that passion for a good story can make us do some pretty crazy things and it's undeniable that some tv shows are definitely better off not imitated you can consider today's case a warning in that regard so before you go blowing up your garage with that breaking bad meth lab have a listen to the story of mark twitchell the criminal whose silverscreen obsession went just a little bit too far the man [Music] this story takes place in edmonton canada where mark twitter was born in 1979. his love affair with tv and cinema went far beyond that of your average sofa bound binned binge watcher from a young age mark had aspirations of making it big in hollywood statistically mark that's not gonna happen back in the mid 2000s he was working hard towards that goal this was the era of csi miami and true blood before lost had degraded from trippy fever dream into a base in a feverish sick our loss was the biggest disappointment well i guess there's nothing i can say it's gonna change your mind i love that show that show was coming out uh while i was in my first year of university i think there were maybe three seasons out by the time i was a fresher in university and oh boy the amount of watch uh i've lost i watched hungover was extraordinary and that show was extremely compelling until the end came and it was like well that's a bit um yeah so lost not really worth not really worth it in the end the show closest to the heart of the aspiring writer director however was dexter in case you were born yesterday and somehow got parental permission to listen to me describe murder scenes yeah what you do got this podcast if you you shouldn't be young if you're listening to this but the one we did about that canadian pig serial killer i'm not sure if that's come out because i don't always publish these in orders in order but oh my god that was intense like after that for the rest of the day i was like oh i'm not in a good mood and i don't know why oh oh it's because i spent my whole afternoon talking about a man who just killed dozens of people and ground up their bodies that's why dexter was a series from the showtime network which wrapped up in 2013 it tells the story of a forensic analyst who moonlights as a serial killer and uses his bloody talents to dispose of all kinds of miscreants the show ran for eight seasons and achieved huge success the kind of success that mark twitchell was dreaming of for himself as he wrote his first scripts and started to get comfortable behind a camera you don't just write and produce a hit show overnight though so there were a few stepping stones to clear first in 2007 while working a telecom sales job he cut his teeth with his very own feature film star wars secrets of rebellion hardly an original idea but that was the point this was a fully fledged star wars fan prequel set shortly before the events of episode four i don't think you could just go right in someone else's world can you i know what you're thinking fan fiction isn't that what isn't that when people write stories about super mario falling in love with that little mushroom guy or something and yes unfortunately the vast majority of fan fiction is the product of sexually frustrated madness but from the sounds of it this was on the higher end of the quality spectrum to their credit the team actually managed to land a cameo from jeremy bullock the original boba fett okay i mean that's some wait so they actually produced this i thought he just wrote it but they actually made this movie wow that's pretty intense well good for him i mean i'm saying good for him i'm aware he's probably going to become a horrible serial killer so let's just say okay he made a movie in an interview from tooth back in 2006 the writer producer director twittle said we tell the story of how han solo set the kessel run record and how he names his ship as well as revealing why he had to ditch his cargo the alternate story tracks show what happened to the last jedi left in the galaxy apart from ben and yoda how the death star plans were stolen and what the empire had to go through in order to track them down and i'll make a little confession here i have no idea what any of that means because i've i saw one star wars movie when i was a kid and i saw a new one recently with a ball rolling around and i didn't like either of them so uh anyway hopefully callum will enlighten us a little bit more sounds like a hell of a lot like like solo and rogue one yeah i got no idea what those are maybe rogue one was the one i saw actually is that the one with that uh the ball robots stupid smash that dislike button but i'm sure this budget canadian fan flick told the stories way better we'll never know for sure though i'm not sure if that's sarcasm were these movies well received or i don't know you callum in the audience are in on a joke that i just don't get we'll never know for sure though because the whole thing got caught in post-production most likely due to certain events which will soon become clear the guy became a murderer foreshadowing perhaps as a result disney reaped all of that sweet sweet star wars spin-off cash and we'll never get the boba fett chewbacca romance plotline we've all been crying out for damn you george lucas i may have gone too far in a few places after shooting rapt on his star wars film twitchell was hard at work on his next projects both personal and professional he had recently married his second wife with whom he had his first kid meanwhile he drafted up a terrible sounding comedy called day players raised a decent chunk for funding it then rented out a garage as the set for a short thriller film this was house of cards but not one in which kevin spacey delivers menacing soliloquies to camera for five years before being dragged out back and canceled hunt or be hunted this house of cards was actually twitchil's first attempt at emulating his new favorite show dexter which had premiered two years before you can actually find the whole script for this online but if reading through a film student's derivative short film doesn't sound all that appealing don't worry i've already taken that bullet for you here's a rough overview callum you researching legends i remember you emailing me about this being like yeah i've read all of his stuff and i'm like that is dedication um so thank you callum everyone thanks you and i guess if it's you said it was bad right so we didn't have to read it which is nice it is cool there's a there's a website called drew's scriptorama which has uh tons of scripts like for you know um some of them are transcriptions which is way less interesting but a lot of them are like the original movie scripts and they have different versions of different movies so like you can go look at some of your favorite movies and if they're big popular ones they'll probably have like or they often have like version one of the script or they'll have alternate scripts entirely so they'll have like uh maybe if they made i don't know batman movie in 2001 or whatever they'll also have a version that was pitched in 1999 that is a totally different movie um but it's crazy because you can read them and and like a movie plays out in your mind it's it's something it's really quite something you should give it a go the script [Music] the story opens with roger a middle aged man sitting nervously at his computer on his screen is a website for married people to find partners to cheat with naughty roger after closing his laptop he says bye to his family and drives to a house somewhere across town before old rog can do anything with his rod someone comes up behind him and gives him a prod he's attacked from behind with a stun baton and knocked out he wakes up in a garage gagged and taped to the chair across the room he sees a laptop with superhero stickers on the back sitting atop a table the computer belongs to a character called killer which is kind of a spoiler when reading the script rather than watching it killer is wearing a black apron and gloves and a black hockey mask with a yellow bear claw motive across it although to be honest like he's wearing a hockey mask you're taped up in it in someone's garage it's like look we know you know it's not really a spoiler that guy's the killer also i think if i'm not mistaken i did watch all of dexter but it was a while ago when he ended in it did it really end in 2013 that seemed so long ago he just killed murderers right he didn't kill people who were doing like lesser crimes or you know adultery and stuff he wasn't like let's just murder them he was like let's murder the murderers anyway what's worse is that the next few pages of dialogue are mostly dominated by killer spewing out cliche lines which i'm pretty sure will just plagiarized directly from soar you chose to ignore the consequences and all that i don't know why i tried to do a batman voice there what's the sword i like i want to play a game whatever basically the reason he brought roger there is to punish him for his infidelity by stealing money from his credit card threatening him and his family if he doesn't comply first he gets roger's dating site and email passwords from him to delete the digital paper trail then his pin number he tells roger if he plays it cool and doesn't try to report the whole affair to the police he'll be able to go on with his life as usual if not he will frame for murder and his family will die then killer heads off to the atm apparently still dressed in his maniac murderer get up a little bit of a plot hole there that'll be polished up though when he returns he tells roger that actually he's decided to kill him explaining that he realized his original plan was so stupid that he feels like changing it solid plot developments mitchell that's some real david fincheresque intrigue after the arbitrary and underwhelming announcement killer goes about fulfilling the promise of his name but not before one last contrived slog of monologue it sounds like twittle had a bit of an affection for tarantino's kill bill too because the script directions reveal that the killer's weapon of choice is an exquisitely folded steel samurai sword this is so cliche my dude come on after sending some emails from his victim's account claiming he ran off to start a new life he takes the sword down from the wall turns to roger and with no hints of irony says do you know what this is roger this is a work of art samurai swords have a history of taking out the trash my friend they were used to defend and regain honor from a place of dishonor this is a perfectly tempered folded steel weapon built for one purpose the script doesn't specify whether the killer sports a fedora neck bit poking out under the mask but after that monologue we can safely assume so it's the sort of it's the sort of thing some youtube incel says before slicing their fingers off trying to battle a watermelon oh no killer is a little more adept with the blade though he cuts roger's head off before honorably hacking into pieces with a power tool and bagging up the pieces standard slasher film stuff is super weak there's one last scene though that in the grander scheme of things would prove pretty significant indeed in the last few seconds of the film a character called writer played by twitchell is sitting in his home office his distinctive superhero stick laptop sits in front of him with the movie script on the screen it's basically the script i just summarized for you inspired by the events which any unfortunate viewers just had to sit through for the past eight minutes then writer and i quote here leans back staring intensely at his laptop screen and puts his hands behind his head taking a deep sign relief that he's just finished something solid i definitely wouldn't go that far the last yeah i mean no offense but i'm pretty sure i could write that it's it's not it's not fincher is it that very last shot is him saying goodbye to his wife and walking outside with his bag of murder utensils slung over his arm on his way out the door he says to his missus it's true when they say that the best way to succeed is to write what you know very clever brilliant what a development now i know i like to take the piss but that wasn't the worst ending in the world i mean game of thrones season season 8 happened as much as we'd like to forget never seen game of thrones definitely never seen season eight another reference that maybe you get and callum gets that i'm entirely left out of however if you were irritated by the little meta flourish which capped off twitchell's debut thriller let me warn you there's a whole lot more of where that came from oh it's so cringe already callum we know that this canadian george lucas wannabe was little short on fresh ideas but his biggest act of creative recycling was yet to come the twist [Music] open scene a 38 year old oil filled equipment manufacturer named john brian altinger johnny to his friends sits at his laptop on the screen is the popular dating site plenty of fish known as old person tinder to all the under-25s listening johnny had always been a tech fanatic so while online dating was a taboo for some he was diving right into it oh plenty of fish a notification pops up on the screen he's received a message from a woman in his town a good-looking woman too her name is jen the two chat for a while before deciding to meet up on friday october the 10th for a bit of whatever it is people do with attractive strangers they meet online scrabble perhaps no calum that's not what they do if finding such a captivating board game partner seemed to be too good to be true for johnny that's because it was just like every damn time i click on one of those hot single milfs in the area banis it all turns out to be a bitter tasting lie how does anyone think that is possibly real these days i mean it's just really fade to black interior johnny's apartment daytime a group of men force open the door and search around the place frantically looking for any sign of their friend's whereabouts it's now the middle of the week after johnny went off to meet his new love interest in person and things have taken a strange turn a couple of days after the rendezvous he had started messaging his friends and family telling them that he and jenna decided to take a spur spur-of-the-moment holiday to costa rica as you do his msn messenger buyer read i've got a one-way ticket to heaven and i'm not coming back that yeah also msn messenger this was when was this 2000 i don't even know msn messenger that was back in the day that's got to be like what 20 years ago easy an email also found its way into the hr inbox at argus machine factory where he worked tendering his resignation when the company replied asking where they should send his final paycheck he never bothered getting back to them it must have been a damn good hookup to make him give up his entire life after just one night which is why everyone who knew johnny started to grow worried the police however were reluctant to devote much time to the case of a missing grown man who was still apparently in contact with his relatives but the messages were just a bit off johnny usually signed up his emails with a smiley face or some little joke however the ones he'd been sending on mass recently were pretty robotic the sort of messages you'd expect from someone who went off to join a cult like do not fear dear relatives friends i am happy and well please don't try to contact me i'm so happy when they tried to get more information out of him he just deflected their requests and told them that phone signal was too weak down in paradise to be able to call back that's what led to the current scene in which his friends have kicked in the door of his apartment to find out where johnny had gotten off to johnny is dead friends i mean good for you like johnny must have been a popular guy for like people to go and like the police aren't doing anything let's go break into his plan see if he's all right i mean i guess i'll do that for my friends i'd do that for my friends yeah for sure i guess johnny just had friends which is nice also i mean when you meet someone i've i've never been in the online dating scene because i've been well uh with my current and now my wife for 10 years so i kind of yeah no i and then i think like before that online dating wasn't really like as popular as it is today and surely the first date you do right you meet up somewhere in public it's not like really attractive jen or whatever invites him around to his house uh to her house and he goes in and it turns out to be like a scary dude in a hockey mask you meet attractive jen at the uh at the restaurant which is really super busy did i miss something oh well whatever mate you made an error didn't you didn't you strangely he hadn't bothered taking his passport to costa rica nor any of his clothes or other belongings what's more one of his two treasure motorbikes was parked out front without a cover which he would never do his friends decided that was all the confirmation they needed then they had to call them and they called the police again to report the suspicious circumstances as i said the cops have been reluctant to treat the disappearance of suspicious so far with it becoming increasingly clear that the person on the other end of the emails was not johnny they were forced to up their game good also that missing passport the the lack of missing passport i mean that's gotta be a thing right because you can't just go to costa rica without a passport they're gonna be like go home they're not gonna you're not gonna get into the airport investigating the garage by this point i think you've probably already predicted where this blockbuster is heading with the pressure on to find out about what happened to johnny the police decided to follow up on the strongest lead they had it was handed to them by one of johnny's mates dale smith he had been suspicious of the whole situation from the get-go on account of the strange stipulations the lucky lady had for johnny's arrival he was to park in the alley out back of her house and walk through the open shutter doors of the detached garage to get into the property pretty strangely specific yes johnny mate go to a busy restaurant that's where you should be meeting the random person who you met on the internet only text chatted with what is wrong with you dale asked johnny to give him a call when he arrived at the love den and took down the address in case anything happened when the police initially came to interview johnny's friends for the first time dale was able to provide them with details that he had noted down good man dale let's all be more like dale yeah johnny has good friends and that wasn't all as it turns out he did receive the call that he asked for he was right to be suspicious something seemed off when johnny arrived instead of a beautiful blonde greeting him when he walked into the garage he bumped into some pudgy film geek showing off his film props johnny didn't give much of a description just that he was taken aback by the whole thing his date wasn't home yet and that he decided to leave not long after dale received an email suggesting that it had all been a misunderstanding which read she's home now i'm heading over again he he dale told all of that to the police who were able to do a quick check of the edmonton city record why are you going to someone's garage you went there once it was creepy you're like yeah i'll go back dude think with your head and not with your penis come on please uh dale told that to police we're able to do a quick check of the edmonton city records to find out the name of the tenant a group of mexican immigrant workers were set up in the house but the garage was leased out separately as you might have guessed the name listed was mark twitchell this garage was the exact same place where he had bought brought the painful to read house of cards to life just two weeks prior oh wait was this actually called house of cards it's a much worse version of it since it was a film set plenty of people had come and gone through the place the police had to ascertain who would have access to the unit and who the mystery gal jen could have been him being the primary key holder they asked a bewildered twitchell to come down and open up his garage for them on the 19th of october he gladly obliged driving to the south side of town to help the police in their investigation when he met the officers at the garage however he discovered that the padlock on the latch was different from the one he had fastened onto it before the officers managed to pry the screws out of the latch and twitchell swung the door open for them inside he noticed that some things were out of place trash bags were missing and a steel oil drum ordered for the film had seemingly been used as a fire pit after that he went with the police to the station to give a statement in an interview with one detective tabler the aspiring artist revealed that he had been back to the garage on the afternoon of the 10th to collect some trash then again on the 15th to drop off some cleaning materials which would be used to scrub away any of the sticky fake blood mixture made of corn syrup left over from the film shoot he didn't know anything about a gen or a johnny his answers to the practical questions were pretty aimless and rambling what really got him talking though were questions about his film projects seriously the 47-page transcript could have been cut down to five if the man had just shut up about star wars it follows a rhythm of questions about padlocks and latches followed by minutes-long monologues about breaking into the film industry each time this guy just wants a friend please talk to me about my career so you're in the police station you're not here to have a chat each time detective dabbler snapped him back on topic twitchell soon finds another chance to go off on a waffling tangent in the end though the detective is able to get a decent account of events room went to the garage two times recently didn't see anyone there didn't notice anything strain when told that johnny met a man inside the garage which will replies that would explain some things meaning the mysterious change of padlock in the past few days he explained that it couldn't have been related in any way to his crew or the movie because all the production instructions came from him someone must have broken in and potentially used the garage for some illicit purposes q more verbal details with twitch all bragging about how great his budget sets on secret of the rebellion looked and ranting about his past bankruptcy before tabla desperately tries to wrap things up much like everyone who's ever met twitchell at a party must have done yeah i'm just like oh this guy also i'm a detective i'll just be like yo i got crimes to solve dude get out of here interview over and i'll dramatically reach over and stop the tape recorder because unlike at a party you can joking leave given his compliance during that interview and lack of any clear evidence of foul play the police had no real reason to definitively suspect twitchell however detective tabler couldn't quite get over the coincidence the man had been shooting a film about an abduction and murder at the exact same place the police were investigating a suspicious disappearance things would only get stranger from here by the next day the police had also gotten the chance to interview some other witnesses including twitchell's production staff they were kind of they were kind enough to provide a copy of the script for house of cards the similarities between the film's story and the real life details of the case were undeniable so not only we've i i have brought up on casual criminalist a number of times the importance of if you are a criminal please don't write down your crimes like writing down your crimes is never a good idea i don't know why you do it but often criminals do and they get into trouble this also comes up on my other channels i've got several youtube channels all the time don't do it and also so this guy not only did he write down his crips he made a goddamn screenplay out of his crimes convinced that there was something he wasn't telling them the cops decided to have another crack at twitchell on the 20th this time the slash rate scorsese was put in the hot seat by a veteran homicide detective called bill clark the new lead on the investigation ever since it had been officially upgraded to a suspicious disappearance he would be twitchell's arch-nemesis the vader to his kenobi in interview part 2 the edmonton pd strikes back now if you're looking for a crash course in how to be a world-class police investigator i recommend giving this transcript a read there's more genuine drama in those 89 pages than anything our anti-hero ever cooked up in his brief career detective clark is careful to say right off the bat that he doesn't want to hear a damn thing about any films he's here to understand exactly what went down in the garage the other guys warned him like please you don't go in there he's going to talk to you about films forever you've got to cut it off at the past tell him no after that he gives his first lesson in interrogation 101 when a nervous man wants to talk let him talk himself into knots and christ did twitchell do just that there were so many amendments to his story you'd think he was workshopping a second draft for creative writing class he now claimed that his car had been broken into recently and several things have been stolen mainly a pair of sunglasses and the rental receipts for a storage unit he speculated that the thief could have thrown the paperwork away and someone else picked it up and then maybe went to the garage and no no no he realized that was a stupid angle halfway through and just abandoned it better to go with the far more believable story that the missing man had randomly approached him and sold him his car yep the police knew twitcher was in possession of the victim's ride by this point so he invented the most bad cap story to explain it okay dude what is going on none of this is at all believable and it's like i don't believe this and i'm not a veteran homicide detective you're not going to pull the wool over detective clark's eyes with this one on the 15th while on his way to drop off the cleaning materials at the garage he stopped to take a call at a strip mall some guy knocked in his car window and told him i shacked up with this really rich lady uh you know it's like a sugar mama kind of situation and she's gonna take care of me and she's even gonna buy me a new car when we get back from a vacation that we're gonna take so i'm looking to unload mine i don't really care that much how much i get for it you know how much do you have on you apparently the guy agreed to pay the joke price of 40 so twitchell directed him to the garage just a couple of blocks away where he handed over the money and took the registration papers apparently the gentleman had introduced himself as martin and had a celtic knot tattoo on one shoulder strange because when he checked the registration papers later he thought they said mark k or something similar he wasn't sure after a hasty transaction the mystery man took off and twitter called his friend to take the car to his driveway since he couldn't operate a manual gearbox detective clark pushes him on why he apparently didn't think to get a bill of sale telling him come on you're not a 16 year old kid here but twitchell just continues playing dumb as to how a car sale actually works no ifs no officer i really am 16 years old mentally i swear dude what is going on you are just spinning so many crazy stories also who buys a car and doesn't think there's going to be some paperwork to go along with this it's like yeah here's a car i'll give you 40 dollars for it and then you just take the car away you're gonna need don't they call it i feel like i've seen enough moves is it called a green slip or green papers or something you know when they'll go for they'll go isn't that in a in greece where they race for green slips or pink slips something like this you get something with a car in america that's how it works and that's how it works everywhere here they're green as well or maybe they're pink in this i don't know whatever there's why are we going on about this but there is paperwork when you buy a car yes the overgrown teen was no match for this grizzled old cop again and again detective clark stopped which will dead whenever he tried to skip forward to the parts that he'd already prepared for in his head forcing him to fill the gaps with fluff and nonsense then when he gets the end of the story clark makes him run through it all in reverse much like how traffic police bamboozled drunk drivers with the backwards alphabet trick this gives twitchil more chances to trip up which he continues to do like a newborn giraffe running the 500 meter hurdles after that the season detective leaves the suspect stewing in the interview room for a full 30 minutes before coming back to deliver some verbal right hooks things were about to get tense for twitchell when detective clark pointblank asks him do you think if there's been a foul play to jon that the person who did this deserves a second chance under any circumstances uh i would say no replies twitchell on the tape you can see the anxiety start to creep in as the suspect realizes that his story might not be quite as waterproof as he assumed why for any brief flash of light moment would you believe that your story was watertight you literally made up the craziest stories another 20 minutes of stewing alone in the interview room before the glorious final act the gloves are fully off now and twitchel's day week and life are all about to be succinctly ruined clark straight up tells him there's something else i want to tell you mark and that's that there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that you're involved in the disappearance of jon altinger no doubt in my mind at all mark the detective lays all his cards out on the table first the neighbors spotted twitch are going to change the lock on the carriage dude come on come on do better the same lock which he told the police he had no idea about on top of that officers had already spoken to his friend joss who he called to move the car and their stories didn't match reality was coming down hard but twitchell still couldn't get his head out of tv land he says he feels like he's and i quote in the twilight zone but clark tells him get out of your film producer mode because this is real life all right real life if you were telling me the truth you would have one story one story that would flow from beginning to end and you could repeat that 100 times with no changes in the story yours is so bad it's a shame the cut rate kubrick wasn't taking notes because it'd probably have picked up some tips on how to write better dialogue the detect this yeah this whole interview scene this calib said is way more compelling than any of the movies that or films or tv stuff that he wrote undoubtedly the detective doesn't bother with any praise sandwiches as he dishes out some harsh harsh criticisms of twitchell's narrative namely that he's never mentioned any car sale in the first interview he gave three different reasons for why he stopped for gas and threw out dozens of little half-baked red herrings all twitchell does is shut down he admits he's scared alludes to his own guilt and asks him for some time to think and sleep i.e cook up a new story that the neighbors have completely screwed him over he's not going to cook up it i need some time to think and make up some new lies which are going to be wildly unbelievable because you're a terrible liar despite being well you are also also you're a terrible storyteller so no surprises laptop and car [Music] for the moment twitchell was free to go the statements of the other witnesses weren't yet complete enough to solidify the suspicion into an arrest warrant maybe should flee to costa rica but it was only a matter of time soon the neighbors would pick the wannabe director's picture out of a lineup and he'd be taken in for good for the moment they just placed him on round-the-clock surveillance while they waited there was plenty more to chew on twitchell had driven his car to the station for the interview and the police luckily were able to seize it that's brilliant don't pick him up have him drive his car here or we'll take it he can figure out his own way home and now we've got his car that is g i like it if they struggled finding it in the car park the license plate drk jedi would have been a dead giveaway inside the jedi master starship they found his laptop which had spider-man stickers plastered on the back sound familiar yes it does callum the digital forensics team went through the whole thing with the tooth going presumably trudging through all sorts of script fragments and test shoots that thankfully never saw the light of day but the most interesting find was buried deep inside the deleted files of the computer ah no again like don't write down your crimes or you know do stuff with your crimes and if you're deleting stuff make sure you empty the recycle bin or i mean these are probably detectives so use like one of those shredding programs get rid of your stuff come on come on you're all terrible criminals i know i'll be giving some of you sweaty palms by saying this but when you delete files from your recycle bin they're not actually gone for good anyone with the will and know-how could easily dig into your laptop and recover the clip of that ill-fated evening with the whipped cream and chocolate sauce you know the one you dirty bastard um that's true for a while right you can delete them but then when start new stuff is added to your computer they'll eventually be written over so if you've recently deleted stuff it's still going to be recoverable but not after some time don't panic though nobody cares what you get up to in your spare time unless you're suspected of murder of course yes hopefully you're not the cops were probably expecting the usual digital dross which turns up in these searches but they ended up finding what was every investigator's dream something which not only blew the case open but did so in excruciating the candidate oh mark have you been writing down your crimes again please no several days after which will walk free detective clark was just about to wrap up for the day on the way out the door a colleague stopped him and gestured towards a stack of papers sitting on his desk apparently the i.t guys had something from him had something for him and it was related to the twitter case the detective flicked through the first few sheets of the pile and couldn't believe what he was seeing just to confirm he wasn't losing it he read over the first line again 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 you wrote down your crimes which we talked about so much in the most obvious way clark turned to his co-worker it's a diary of how he killed the guy and that's everybody i'm excited for next week because that is quite i mean he's going to prison right he's definitely going to prison for sure uh but i feel that's pretty good place to end it pretty good cliffhanger for next week thank you callum for putting this together as always thank you jen who does the video and the the sound effects that you hear throughout on this one uh if you're watching this please do subscribe to this channel hit that like button if you didn't enjoy it there is a dislike button provided for you to use if you're listening to this leave us a review that would be grand and i'll see you next week you

Channel: The Casual Criminalist

Views: 473,073

Keywords: true crime

Id: Va-lpp8rtGM

Length: 34min 37sec (2077 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 31 2021