Johnny Altinger

…Embarrassed and confused, Gilles convinced himself that perhaps it wasn't as serious as he first thought. I really thought it was a mugging at the time. But Gilles didn't know how wrong he was. Just one week later, another lonely bachelor, Johnny Altinger, would answer a similar dating ad and disappear.…

…And then, finally, the signal was given. And Mark Twitchell's most important audience filed back into the courtroom. Their faces as blank as the defendants had been during much of the testimony against him. Finally, the foreperson stood and gave Mark Twitchell his last review. Guilty of the premeditated first-degree murder of Johnny Altinger.…

…But, and on this question, the trial would turn. Was Johnny Altinger murdered? While Mark Twitchell certainly admitted to dumping Johnny's remains down a sewer drain, he never admitted that he killed anybody. Never even admitted that he was the author of SK Confessions. The prosecutors knew they would need more than that document to get a conviction.…