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In October 2008, the friends and family of 38-year-old Johnny Altinger were worried. Although emails and social media messages had indicated Johnny had run away on the spur of the moment with an unknown woman he’d just met, things didn’t add up. The messages did not have the same feel as Johnny’s typical fare, and he wasn’t known for his spontaneity. Police had already spoken with the tenant at the Edmonton garage that Johnny was directed to on the night he disappeared. They’d seen some things that concerned them, but there was no sign of Johnny. Something seemed off with the 29-year-old filmmaker Mark Andrew Twitchell, the man they’d spoken to. Little did the police know that only a week before Johnny vanished, another man, Gilles Tetreault, had suffered a bizarre attack at Twitchell’s hands after being lured to the same garage.

In October 2008, 38-year-old Johnny Altinger was looking for love online and, thinking he’d found it, was lured to his death in a dingy south Edmonton, Alberta garage. Johnny believed he would meet the girl of his dreams, but a Star Wars and Dexter-Morgan-obsessed serial killer wannabe and 29-year-old amateur filmmaker named Mark Andrew Twitchell awaited him in the garage’s darkness.

After she’d been missing only one day, on the evening of May 7th, 2002, the body of 14-year-old Jessica Grimard was discovered by her father in a stream within a wooded area near her home in Rivière-des-Prairies, a suburban borough on the eastern tip of the city of Montreal, Quebec. As her killer had placed Jessica in the water, washing away evidence, there was not much for the cops to go on. At first, police considered that Jessica had been killed by someone known to her. However, thanks to a few strange twists, the case would head in a new direction, eventually leading to the capture of a known sexual predator and suspected serial killer who had bragged about his crimes. The boasting included confessions of responsibility for two other 1993 deaths around Montreal, initially ruled accidental, that of 12-year-old Christine Speich and 20-year-old Anna Lisa Cefali. The killer had used water and fire to cover his crimes.

In Victoria, B.C., on the rainy evening of Friday, September 29, 1899, on her way home from work alone, forty-four-year-old Agnes Bings walked across a railroad bridge, cutting through the Songhees Reserve as she did every other night without incident. This night, however, would be her last. Someone took her life somewhere during the 20-minute walk between her bakery on Store Street and the Bings family home on Russell Street. The next morning, Agnes Bing’s body was discovered. She’d been strangled, and her body mutilated. Her slaying has never been solved, although there have been a few suspects, interestingly including the world’s most famous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, whose 1888 crimes also remain unsolved.

Between 1926 and 1928, a sinister darkness was afoot on a small chicken ranch in Wineville, California. When he was only 19, Gordon Stewart Northcott, a Canadian, had abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least three and as many as 20 others. His victims were predominantly prepubescent boys. He sexually assaulted and released numerous others. When a portion of the truth came out, much of it was told by Northcott’s nephew, 13-year-old Sanford Clark. Northcott had brought Sanford with him from Canada two years before. Northcott viciously raped and beat Clark numerous times before tiring of him as he aged. Afterward, through fear and intimidation, Northcott coerced his nephew into assisting him in committing and covering up the murders of his victims. Even Northcott’s mother, Sarah Louise Northcott, helped in some of the crimes to keep her son out of jail.

Episode 230: Over a period of 22 months, between January 1969 and January 1971, 3 women in Southwestern Ontario were brutally murdered in 3 different towns. These women’s names were Isobella “Belva” Russell, Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley. Police solved the case of the third victim, Belva Russell, a matter of weeks after the crime. The perpetrator, Gerald Thomas Archer was convicted and imprisoned. There were obvious similarities between all three crimes. For several reasons the initial investigators on the cases missed them. Gerald Thomas Archer got his freedom in 1985, when he was 65. He was a drifter and passed away in 1995. Five years after Archer’s death, his family made police aware of new information. Through DNA, were police able to connect him to the murders of  Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley.  Gerald Thomas Archer, had been a serial killer and had walked free for the last ten years of his life.

Episode 229: In our last episode we learned about the life and first two murders of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen. He was arrested after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London. In this episode we’ll learn about Nilsen’s next twelve murders, what happened after his arrest and the aftermath of his crimes. A number of Nilsen’s victims remain unidentified to this day. As Dennis Nilsen was a necrophile, some of the information we are about to share are intense and may be very disturbing to some. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 228: In our last episode we learned about the final killing and capture of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London, England. After his capture, the enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, was more than happy to discuss his crimes. In this episode we’ll learn more about the killer’s life, his other crimes and what possibly led to the murders of 15 young men and boys, one of them a young Canadian student, Kenneth Ockendon Jr.Sources:Dennis Nilsen - WikipediaDyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreDinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | ScribdA Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | ScribdWatch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official SiteThe Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen StoryReddit — Dennis NilsenDennis Nilsen – Nick DaviesTommy - Album by The Who | SpotifySerial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The ArmyI Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs.The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivorA murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The SpectatorDennis Nilsen and Bleep: What Really happened to Des’ dog?The Big Read: Dennis Nilsen - The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotlandAn honest lack of answers | The PsychologistPsychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In LifeSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 227: On the 8th of February, 1983, complaints about the plumbing at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a suburb in London, England led to the discovery of human remains. The remains were traced to the flat of a tenant in the home named Dennis Andrew Nilsen, 37, a civil servant, former police officer and veteran of the British military. In Nilsen’s home police found grisly evidence of many more murders. The enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, is believed to have killed 15 young men and boys, one of them a Canadian named Kenneth Ockendon Jr. Listener discretion is strongly suggestedSources:Dennis Nilsen - WikipediaDyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreDinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | ScribdA Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | ScribdWatch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official SiteThe Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen StoryReddit — Dennis NilsenDennis Nilsen – Nick DaviesTommy - Album by The Who | SpotifySerial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The ArmyI Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs.The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivorA murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The SpectatorThe Big Read: Dennis Nilsen - The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotlandAn honest lack of answers | The PsychologistPsychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In LifeMike Browne's - Dennis Nilsen Spotify playlistSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 205: In this Away Game we are off to post World War One Germany where in the early 1920s, a brutal serial killer, Fritz Haarmann, killed at least 27 young men and boys. Many of his crimes, it appears, were committed to impress his lover, a man named Hans Grans. Although Haarmann admitted it was he who murdered and dismembered the victims, he claimed that ultimately, in a few cases, it was Grans who chose who was to die.Sources:Weimar Republic - HISTORYList of German serial killers - WikipediaAuthor & Radio Host | Alan R. WarrenButcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann by Alan R. WarrenSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine