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Disgusted with the system (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The biological family of a 5-year-old boy who was hit by a car and killed while in state Department of Human Services custody will not be allowed to attend his funeral and burial, but the state is granting them a private memorial service. John Brian Gifford, who was in the care of a foster family, died Tuesday when he was hit by a car that a 13-year-old girl had started to warm the engine....
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
FONT SIZE Authorities in Canada continue to investigate a gruesome killing ripped from the pages of a Hollywood script. Police allege that John Brian Altinger, pictured, was killed by Mark Twitchell, who they say modeled... Police allege that John Brian Altinger, pictured, was killed by Mark Twitchell, who they say modeled the killing after one of his scripts. Inset is the...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Police allege Twitchell, 29, lured John Brian Altinger to a garage in south Edmonton through a dating website with the promise of meeting a beautiful woman and then killed him in a sequence eerily similar to a film Twitchell was making.
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... Mark Anstey, quoted by the CBC . Anstey is investigating the slaying of energy industry worker John Brian Altinger, 38. “It was actually filmed and there are actors; we interviewed the actors,” he said, “We’ve interviewed everybody and that film actually did take place.” Now police are looking for another man who may have escaped the same fate. “Police allege it’s a scenario that...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... joined the call for a public inquiry into the murder of popular St. Thomas University professor John McKendy. A second man who was allegedly lured to the same south Edmonton garage where police believe John Brian Altinger was last alive has contacted investigators, Edmonton police said late Monday afternoon. Ontario will qualify for the federal government's equalization program...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... his provincial and territorial counterparts. The RCMP are coming under fire from a colleague of John McKendy for not protecting him after a series of warnings in the weeks leading up to the killing of the popular St. Thomas University professor. Newfoundland and Labrador reached a milestone Monday by becoming a have province for the first time in its history as a Canadian province. A second...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Edmonton filmmaker Mark Twitchell has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the disappearance of a man who hasn't been seen since Oct. 10, police said Saturday.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... A second man who was allegedly lured to the same south Edmonton garage where police believe John Brian Altinger was last alive has contacted investigators, Edmonton police said late Monday afternoon. The resignation of Justice Harry LaForme as head of a commission looking at residential school abuse of aboriginal children has left a "big hole" that must be filled as quickly as possible,...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... Alberta, Police Service. Quoted by the CBC , he’s investigating the apparent gruesome killing of John Brian Altinger, 38, last seen alive on October 10. Local film-maker Mark Twitchell (right) has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with Altinger’s disappearance, says the story. “Police accuse the independent film producer of acting out his own film-script storyline,...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Two former mechanics for Huron Valley Schools were charged today with falsifying certifications needed to do their jobs — a move that allegedly brought them bigger paychecks for several years.John Brian Reynolds, 53, and Gary Wayne Gould, 53, were charged in 52-1 District Court in Novi with five counts each of false pretenses, a 5-year felony.Both men, whose hometowns are unknown, are...
