The real life "KILL ROOM"

i would imagine after you hear the ending to today's story that you will most likely go back and watch this all over again because the ending completely changes the story but before we get into today's story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you've come to the right place because that's all we do and we upload once or twice every week so if that's of interest to you please sneak into the like button's house and replace all of the lids of their tupperware with off-market brands so none of them fit also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's story [Music] ever since he was a child mark twitchell had always dreamed of becoming a big time hollywood filmmaker but he knew the odds were stacked against him because he lived in edmonton canada which was not exactly known for being a movie-making hub nonetheless after high school he enrolled in an edmonton art college and in 2000 he graduated earning his degree in radio and television art but after college despite utilizing his training to make several films none of them generated any buzz beyond his friends and family and so it seemed like his filmmaking career was turning into a bit of a dud however in 2007 mark had a bit of an unintentional breakthrough he had been a long time star wars fanatic and that year he decided purely as a passion project he was going to write a script for a prequel to the star wars franchise when he finished it and shared the script with some of his colleagues they were so impressed with his writing they said mark you need to produce this into a movie this is incredible and so mark who was totally amazed at this unbelievable feedback he was getting decided you know what what the heck i will produce this movie and so he began sending his script out to different actors and actresses to see if they might be interested in playing a role and amazingly one of the original star wars actors jeremy bullock who played boba fett he read the script and he was so impressed by it that he agreed to play a role in mark's film and so this passion project had quickly turned into mark's biggest success yet when the movie was finished it did well but it didn't propel mark into hollywood stardom however it did put him on the map as a bonafide filmmaker and it showed him that if he just focused on making films about subjects he was already very passionate about those films would be much more likely to succeed and so in 2008 so roughly a year after creating the star wars fan fiction film mark decided to embark on another film project around another passion of his dexter dexter was a very popular tv show about a fictional serial killer whose name was dexter and the way dexter would kill his victims is he would lure them into these small rooms which he called kill rooms and inside of them basically every surface the ceiling the walls the floor were all covered in plastic sheeting to catch any of the blood and then he would kill his victims usually with a knife and then afterwards he would dismember them and bag up their body and he would roll up all this plastic kind of collecting all the evidence and then he would dump the plastic and the body into the ocean mark was obsessed with the show and so it inspired him to make his next movie be about a killer too except instead of it being fiction like dexter he wanted his movie to be at least based on real events and it just so happened at the time he was thinking about doing this movie there was this uncaught murderer terrorizing edmonton and so mark decided the edmonton killer would be his star mark would spend the next several weeks obsessively researching the edmonton killer and his victims and establishing a clear timeline of what had happened with this case and then after he felt like he had compiled every piece of information he possibly could he used that research to concoct a 42-page first draft of his script and as soon as he was done with that first draft it somehow got leaked and when it got leaked the contents of this script were so shocking and so controversial that the script wound up in the hands of the edmonton police and when they read the script they immediately recognized they had a big problem they reached out to mark and they told him under no circumstances can you turn this script into a movie and then the police basically wiped the script off the face of the earth today if you go looking for mark script online you'll basically only find heavily censored versions of it but recently i got my hands on an uncensored version of this 42 page script now i'm not going to literally read you this script however what i'm going to do is use the script's information to tell you mark's highly controversial edmonton killer story as you listen remember this story is based on actual events and so the victims names and the information about them is real okay here we go [Music] in early october 2008 a soft-spoken 26 year old casino security guard named giles tetro was living alone in edmonton giles life had recently been turned upside down because a few months earlier his wife had told him that she just didn't love him anymore and that she was going to leave him giles was still very much in love with his wife and so this was a totally heartbreaking experience for him after she left giles tried to stay busy and keep his mind occupied but it rarely worked often times he felt crushingly lonely and sad but on friday october 3rd when giles came home from work that afternoon he suddenly felt like you know what i've got to get my life together and i'm going to start by finding myself a new romantic partner and so he went on a dating site and he made himself a profile and he began scrolling through all of the women's profiles that lived roughly in his area and at first no one really appealed to him but then he stopped on this one woman's profile she was this young blonde beautiful woman named sheena and she lived right in edmonton and so giles thought what the heck i'll send her a message and so he did just introducing himself and asking to talk further and she responded just a couple of minutes later and then over the next couple of hours the two exchanged dozens of messages getting to know each other and then finally sheena just says to giles hey you know we live so close together why don't we get together tonight and go grab dinner and watch a movie together and giles is thrilled and he says yeah i'll come pick you up what's your address and sheena would tell him you know what i don't feel comfortable sharing my address over this dating website and so instead she sent giles this strange customized set of directions that didn't give the actual address of her house instead it basically gave giles a set of known landmarks in edmonton that he could follow until he finally arrived at her residence and she also told him that when he arrived instead of just coming up to her house there would be a detached garage and the door would be open and he would go through the garage out the door into her backyard and then he would go up the back steps to the back door of her house and she would meet him there now giles did think this was a little bit strange but at the same time he's thinking you know i am basically a complete stranger to her we just met today on the internet and so i really can't blame her for taking some extra safety precautions with me and so we told sheena he had no issues using her special directions and then he said he'd be over soon and so giles hopped in the shower he freshened up he got dressed he hopped in his truck and then he began driving to sheena's house after about 15 minutes of following these directions he reached the end of them and they placed him in this alleyway in a suburban neighborhood and where he stopped he looked off to his right and he saw there was this two-car garage and he knew it was sheena's garage because one of the doors was open like she said it would be although the door was not open all the way it was open enough to where he would have to duck to get into the garage but either way he knew it was her garage and so he turns off his truck and he gets out and he tries to look up at sheena's house behind the garage to see if maybe he can see her looking out the back door but the detached garage that was right up against the street was kind of blocking his view and so he thought okay whatever i'll just go in and make my way up to the back steps and so he walks over to this two-car garage and he goes to the open side he ducks down and he goes underneath and he stands up inside of the garage now it was dark inside of the garage there was no light on but there was enough light spilling in from the opening of the garage door that he could see there was really nothing in the garage however virtually every surface the walls the ceiling the floor was covered in plastic sheeting now he had no idea what this plastic sheeting was for and he really didn't care he just kept walking across the garage towards the door that would lead into sheena's backyard and when he reached that door he reached down to the door handle and he was about to turn it when he felt a blinding pain in the back of his neck he whipped around and even though it was dark inside of this garage he could clearly see this huge man in a black and gold hockey mask standing right in front of him holding a stun baton giles tries to run past him to try to get out of the garage but the man grabs him and then takes his stun baton and drives it into giles stomach and he pulls the trigger immediately giles feels this coursing pain in his torso and he falls to the ground and then this man in the mask releases the trigger and giles tries to scramble up to his feet to try to run out of the garage but as soon as giles turns around he stops where he is because he sees this huge guy in the mask is standing between him and this open garage door and he's now holding a gun in his hand and he's aiming it right at giles and so giles freezes he has no idea what's going on and this man who's got this mask on barks the giles to get on the ground and put your face on the ground and so giles at this point is thinking i'm going to get killed in here i have nothing i can do i'm completely defenseless here and so he just does what he's told and he lies down on the plastic sheeting and he's totally terrified and this man walks over and he puts a piece of duct tape over giles's eyes and so as he's laying there blind and terrified giles becomes very emotional he suddenly longs for his ex-wife and for his family and his friends he wishes he could see them just one more time and he knows he's not going to then as he's laying there he's coming to the stark realization that he didn't tell anyone where he was going and so if this masked maniac does kill him who's going to find his body will his family and friends ever know what happened to him so as he's laying there thinking of these horrible thoughts he hears his attacker who's several feet behind him start fiddling with what sounds like chains or handcuffs and giles thinks to himself if i get chained up in here i really am done and so he has this sudden surge of adrenaline where he thinks to himself i'm gonna get killed in here i know it i'm gonna get killed but if i'm gonna die i'm gonna die on my terms and so giles takes a deep breath and then jumps to his feet rips the tape off of his eyes he turns around and he faces his attacker and he says i'm not gonna do this i'm not gonna go out this way and the attacker is totally surprised but he just begins to raise his gun at giles to shoot him and giles lunges forward and he grabs the barrel of the gun and he pushes it away from him and as soon as he does that giles realizes something the gun is made of plastic it's fake and so giles is suddenly so confident he grabs the arms of his attacker and he tries to kick the guy in the legs but the attacker is so much bigger and stronger than giles that he just headbutts giles giles goes flying to the ground and his attacker jumps on top of him and begins punching him and slamming his skull into the ground but giles is so high on adrenaline he can't feel any of the blows all he's trying to do this whole time as he's getting pummeled is just find a way to stand up and run out of this garage just get out escape and amazingly against all odds he does manage in-between blows to wriggle his way out of the attacker's grasp but as he begins to run towards that opening in the garage door the attacker grabs him by the jacket and so giles twists himself and he actually comes out of the jacket and then he throws himself onto the ground and he rolls out of the garage and as soon as he is free he suddenly can't stand up the stun baton he didn't feel it before but it had sapped all of his strength but the adrenaline had kind of overridden that feeling but here he is outside and he suddenly can't stand up and so he's trying to stand up and then the attacker who's still inside dives down reaches out from underneath the garage and grabs giles by the ankle and begins trying to pull him back into the garage and so giles is kicking and screaming and punching and he finally breaks free and then he has another surge of adrenaline and he stands up and just begins running down the alleyway doesn't even go to his car he just starts running towards hopefully civilization and he makes it a couple of houses before he collapses to the ground in this very busy walking trail and so he's landed right in this intersection where he's hoping someone's going to be he turns back and looks down the alleyway and he sees his attacker who's now on the road he's got the mask still on his face and he's charging up the road giles can't even get up he's so tired but giles looks to his side and he sees there's this random couple walking down the walking path they see giles on the ground who's calling out for help and they run over to him and they get right in front of giles and giles immediately points at the attacker coming down the alleyway and says he's trying to kill me and the attacker amazingly just jogs right up to giles right up to the couple he does not take his mask off and he acts like he's friends with giles and says oh come on frank you're making a big deal out of it it's a game come back to the garage i'll meet you there and then the attacker just turns around and walks back down the alleyway back towards his garage and so giles turns and looks up at the couple who are totally freaked out by this whole situation they don't know if this is some weird setup that they're gonna get robbed or something they don't know if this is a hoax and so they say hey you're on your own pal and they turn and they leave and so giles is left in the middle of this intersection the only people that could have helped him are now gone and so he rolls over and just looks down the alleyway in the direction of the garage and he can actually see his attacker pacing back and forth inside of the garage because that door is partially open and so giles doesn't know what to do he has to get to his truck to get out of here and so he just sits there for a couple of seconds just watching the attacker making sure he's staying inside of the garage and then finally he just took a deep breath he pulled himself up and he stumbled down the alleyway he got in his truck fired it up and he peeled out of there when giles got home he was obviously traumatized from this horrible thing that had just happened to him but he also felt embarrassed and kind of ashamed that he had clearly just gotten catfished by the psycho in the garage obviously sheena the woman he supposedly was talking to was not real it was that guy in the garage that had attacked him but he didn't really understand why it had happened he had no idea why anyone would target him and so the whole situation was just such a mess he decided you know what i'm not going to tell anyone he didn't report it to the police he didn't tell his friends he didn't tell his family he just decided he was going to move on and forget about it a week later on october 8th another edmonton man 38 year old johnny altinger was perusing the dating website that giles had been using johnny made a living doing quality control for an oil and gas company but he hated that job he much preferred to spend his time tinkering with his computers or his prized motorcycle johnny had lots of very close friends but romance was always something that had eluded him so that afternoon johnny like giles was on this dating website to potentially find a romantic partner and so as he was scrolling through all of these different women's profiles that lived roughly in his area he wasn't interested in any of them until he stopped on this one profile of this beautiful young blonde woman named jen who lived right in edmonton and so johnny was interested he sent her a message and very quickly she wrote back and before long the two are chumming it up and then eventually they actually agreed to get together that night for dinner and a movie but when johnny asked jen for her address she would tell him that she's a paranoid person and she doesn't want to give him her actual address over this website and so instead she gave him a set of very strange directions that relied on local landmarks in edmonton to guide him in to her residence and she would tell johnny when you get here go through the garage the door will be open go out the back door go into the backyard make your way up to the back of the house and i will meet you at the back door and so johnny definitely thought these directions were very strange but he was really eager to meet up with jen and so he really didn't care and so he told jen it was no big deal he'd happily follow her directions and then he hopped in the shower and he got himself together and then before he left to go to jen's house he forwarded jen's email that included her very strange directions he sent those directions to one of his very close friends and he kind of jokingly included a message that was like hey if i go missing tonight this is where i'm going and then johnny hopped in his car and he left the directions brought johnny to the same garage in the same alleyway that giles had been to a week earlier and when johnny came to a stop in front of jen's two-car garage with one of the doors partially open he saw there were lights still on inside of the garage and he saw someone walking around inside and so johnny looked at his watch and he realized he was maybe 15 or 20 minutes too early and so he parks his car and he's thinking okay you know jen might be inside of this garage and i'm early but maybe i'll just walk over and say hi to her i'm sure she wouldn't mind and so johnny turns off his car he gets out and he starts walking over to this half open garage door and as he gets closer and closer the lights in the garage go off and so johnny stops and he's thinking why are the lights off did she hear me does she not want me to come in you know what's going on but he's thinking okay well i should definitely go over and say something and so he walks over to this open garage door and he bends down and he looks inside and it's totally dark and he just says hello and there's a pause and then the lights come on and johnny suddenly sees this garage that's basically devoid of anything minus a table off to the side and every surface is covered in plastic sheeting the floors the walls the ceiling everything and in the back of the garage is not jen instead it's this man he doesn't recognize and so johnny's looking at this man and this man is looking over at johnny and finally the man speaks and says hi uh i'm harry i i'm a designer i rent this uh this garage out from jen uh and actually i just talked to jen and and you're meeting up with her tonight right you're meeting up with jen yeah she's she's running late so i think she'll be back in about maybe 20 minutes so can you come back and in 20 minutes come right back here come to the garage and i'll bring you up to the house because i know you're meeting her up at the house so 20 minutes and so johnny doesn't really know what to make of this he figures okay i don't really know what jen's arrangement is with this designer in this plastic covered garage but you know whatever and so johnny says okay no problem i'll come back in 20 minutes and so johnny turns around and he walks back to his car and he leaves and drives around for about 20 minutes and then he comes back to the garage and as soon as he parks he notices right away the light in the garage is now off so presumably harry has actually left and so he will not be available to walk johnny up to the house to meet jen but johnny was thinking i don't really want to interact with harry he seems like a strange guy anyways and so he counts this as a win and so johnny parks his car he hops out he walks over to the garage he bends down and goes inside of the garage he stands up and he walks across the plastic line floor to the door that's going to lead out into jen's backyard but before he reaches that door something smashes into the back of his head and immediately johnny is horribly dazed and he instinctively throws his hands up to protect his head and he begins spinning around trying to figure out who or what had just hit him and as soon as he turns around he sees in the shadows is the figure of none other than the man he saw before harry and harry is holding a big metal pipe and immediately when johnny sees him he begins screaming police police police and harry just winds up and wails on johnny with this metal pipe and johnny's trying to turn around and get away from harry but harry just keeps moving around him and beating him with this pipe until finally johnny collapses on the ground but he's not unconscious and so johnny is kind of shielding his head and he's looking up at harry who's now just standing over him he's ceased his initial barrage and johnny begins pleading with harry i'll give you money i'll give you anything just please let me go and so harry smiles and he says you promise you won't tell anyone if i let you go but before johnny could answer this harry winds up with his pipe and he brings it crashing down on johnny's face but amazingly this does not knock johnny unconscious instead johnny grabs the pipe after it hits him in the head and he holds on to it to prevent harry from hitting him again and so at this point harry is frustrated that johnny is still putting up this huge fight and so with one hand holding on to this pipe that johnny has the other end of harry reaches down with his other hand and he unsheathes a hunting knife and he holds the blade right in front of johnny's face and as soon as johnny sees this knife his eyes go wide and he lets go with the pipe and he begins to plead for his life but harry just smiles and continues to show him the blade and then at some point he grabs johnny's shoulder he pulls the knife back and he plunges it into johnny's stomach johnny howls out in pain and he curls over and he begins screaming for the police screaming for someone to help him and then finally harry pulls the knife out of his stomach and then plunges it into the side of johnny's neck and then harry lets go of the knife and he stands up and he just watches johnny as he bleeds out onto the plastic lining as harry watched johnny die he had this pang of regret he thought to himself why didn't i play more mind games with him before i killed him ah i'll do that with the next one after johnny died harry would dismember and bag up johnny's body and then he would roll up all of the plastic from the walls and the ceiling he'd gather that all up and then a couple of days later he would dump both johnny's body parts and all of the plastic containing all of the evidence down a nearby sewer drain at this point in the story mark's script just kind of comes to an abrupt end we don't know what harry did after getting rid of johnny's body and the evidence because mark just didn't write it it was like he didn't finish the script and there's a reason for that and it's the same reason the police stepped in and stopped mark from making this script into a movie at the time they read his script the police had already figured out who owned the garage where giles and johnny were attacked johnny's friend the one who johnny had forwarded jen's email that had those strange directions well that friend gave those directions to the police once johnny had been reported missing and so the police followed these strange directions to this garage and they discovered it was not owned by some young beautiful blonde named jen or sheena it was not owned by some designer named harry it was owned by a young up-and-coming filmmaker named mark twitchell but to this point mark had been extremely cooperative with police and allowed them to search it and they found nothing and he explained to them he was not remotely the only person with access to this garage not by a long shot but when police searched mark's laptop they found a hidden document and this document was his 42-page script and when they read it they saw there was a huge issue giles the first victim of the edmonton killer had eventually gotten over his embarrassment and shame and he went to the edmonton police and he told them in detail what happened to him inside of that garage but giles was so scared he had not told anybody else what had happened the only people who knew were himself and the edmonton police yet somehow in mark's script the account of what happened to giles was exactly correct every little detail of what happened to giles was encompassed inside of this script and the reason mark had this information is because mark was in the garage when giles got attacked because mark was the edmonton killer mark had been so desperate to make his killer in his new movie as good as dexter in the tv show that mark decided he needed to literally become dexter in real life he needed to know exactly what it felt like to lure an unsuspecting victim into a kill room and murder them so that he'd be able to more accurately write about it in his script he believed this would put his movie over the top it would be the most authentic killer movie ever and it would be his ticket to hollywood and so after mark used a fake dating profile to trap and then attack giles after that experience he wrote about it and that became his script and then when he did the same thing to johnny and then actually successfully killed and disposed of him he sat down and wrote about that experience too and tacked it on to the end of the giles attack he was literally living his movie and writing the script in real time the title that mark gave his script was sk confessions which stood for serial killer confessions and that's exactly what the script was it was a real confession and based on the way his script just kind of abruptly ends without any sort of conclusion it seems fairly obvious that mark was planning to kill more people and then incorporate those experiences into this script ultimately though the script that was found by police was used to convict mark of murder and he is currently serving life in prison so that's going to do it guys if you got something out of today's episode and you haven't done this already please sneak into the like button's house and replace all of the lids of their tupperware with off-market brands so none of them fit also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly one or two video uploads we are now selling merchandise like flannels and hats and sweatshirts and all sorts of stuff if you're interested go to shopmrballin.com if you want to get in touch with me you can 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Channel: MrBallen

Views: 2,833,262

Keywords: strange, dark, mysterious, true, story, scary, scary story, horror story, disturbing, narration, narrator, storyteller, storytime, storytelling, unsolved mystery, solved mystery, true crime, canada, Edmonton, Mark Twitchell, Star Wars, prequel, film, filmmaker, movie, hollywood, serial, killer, dateline, horrifying, worst nightmare, nightmare, narrowly escaped, crime, survival, psychopath, script, police, ban, banned, forbidden, stormtrooper, boba fett, actor, actress, director, dexter, garage, plastic, plastic sheet, wow

Id: KdQujjxb258

Length: 26min 57sec (1617 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 29 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/alfy2pointohno]

I love this guy and his story format. Will definitely have to check it out.

[u/Limited_U]

OP, if you’re interested in the Dexter killer ( Mark twitchell) you should really check out the free show on CBC the gem The Detective S1 E3, it’s a good show that goes over the case and the lead detective talks in it as well! U might wanna check it out, it’s on YouTube as well but it’ll cost a couple $

[u/spacefish420]

I usually watch his videos before bed. I got the notification he posted a video this morning and was pretty excited to watch it later. Now I’m even more excited knowing it’s about Edmonton

[u/ExistingVariation720]

The only unreal thing about this someone getting life in prison for murder in Canada lol

[u/lolahen]

I love his videos, I just wish he posted as frequently as he used to

[u/ProfessorSillyPutty]

I have no idea how I never heard this story before. Mr Ballen is a semi popular YouTuber and you can imagine my surprise when they started talking about edmonton.