Accused killer Mark Twitchell urged friends not to talk to cops — Transcript

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1. 0:00you
2. 0:03st. Albert filmmaker accused of
3. 0:05first-degree murder in the slaying of
4. 0:07city man Johnny Altinger sent an email
5. 0:10to his moviemaking pals warning them not
6. 0:13to speak to police the email written by
7. 0:16accused killer Mark Twitchell was read
8. 0:18to the jury Tuesday at the Edmonton
9. 0:20trial in it Twitchell offers his deepest
10. 0:23apologies to the recipients for their
11. 0:25lives being disrupted and says he wishes
12. 0:28he could talk about what was going on
13. 0:30Twitchell then urges everyone not to
14. 0:32talk to the police and tells them they
15. 0:35have a right to silence he also writes
16. 0:37that he is being screwed around with and
17. 0:39he is being serious the time for dry
18. 0:42sarcastic humor and flaky jokes is over
19. 0:45and this is no prank read Twitchell he
20. 0:48ends the email by saying nothing will
21. 0:50happen to you if you tell them to pound
22. 0:52salt and this will go away faster the
23. 0:55jury was also read the script of a movie
24. 0:57Twitchell made called house of cards
25. 0:59which the crown alleges mirrors what
26. 1:02actually happened to Altinger the crown
27. 1:04alleges Twitchell used an internet
28. 1:06dating service to learn Altinger to a
29. 1:09rented mill Woods garage on the pretext
30. 1:11of a date or a possible sexual encounter
31. 1:14he then allegedly bludgeoned Altinger
32. 1:17over the head with a metal pipe and
33. 1:19stabbed him to death with a hunting
34. 1:21knife before dismembering his body and
35. 1:23disposing of the remains down a city
36. 1:25sewer the trial continues this afternoon
37. 1:27for the Edmonton Sun I'm tawny bleh