[6] Secrets of the Rebellion included a cameo by Jeremy Bulloch, a British actor best known for his role as bounty hunter Boba Fett in the original Star Wars films.
[6] In September 2008, he shot a short horror film entitled House of Cards at a garage he rented in the south end of Edmonton.
[4] In October 2008, John Brian Altinger, a 38-year-old former oilfield equipment manufacturer from White Rock, British Columbia,[7] unknowingly interacted with Twitchell on the dating website Plenty of Fish.
Twitchell was posing as a woman on the site in an attempt to lure victims to a garage, which he had rented to use as a film studio, in order to kill them.
He then put the dismembered remains into garbage bags and dumped them into a storm sewer south of 130th Avenue and 87th Street (Edmonton, Alberta).
The key piece of evidence presented by the Crown at Twitchell's first-degree murder trial was a document, entitled "SKConfessions",[13] which stood for "Serial Killer Confessions".
[17] On April 12, 2011, Twitchell was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of Altinger, and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for 25 years.
[18][19] Tetreault testified that he was lured using the website Plenty of Fish, expecting a date with a young woman named Sheena, only to be attacked by a man in a hockey mask with a stun baton when he arrived at the garage in Edmonton rented by Twitchell.
[24] Detectives were adamant that they had gathered a mountain of evidence – much of it revealed during the murder trial – while even Twitchell himself admitted on the witness stand to committing the attack.
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terry Clackson was not convinced by the prosecution's argument that the attack on Gilles Tetreault and the murder of Johnny Altinger were part of the same transaction.
"[28] The jury pool was then polled through a "challenge for cause" procedure to determine if a potential juror had been influenced by the media coverage prior to the publication bans taking effect.
[28] When the bans were lifted, a large media presence attended and reported on the trial, including American television programs Dateline NBC and 48 Hours.
He argued in his notice of appeal that "the media attention surrounding my case was so extensive, so blatant and so overtly sensationalized that it is unreasonable to expect any unsequestered jury to have remained uninfluenced by it, regardless of judges' instructions in the charge.
[30] In December 2012, Michael C. Hall, the actor who played Dexter Morgan, was interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on the Canadian radio show Q.
[34] Tetreault made several media appearances related to his experience, including Dateline NBC,[35] 48 Hours Mystery,[36] The Fifth Estate,[37][38] I Survived... on Biography Channel,[39] Dates from Hell on Investigation Discovery,[40][41] and The Security Brief on REELZ.