Murder trial hears how forensics team recovered body parts in Edmonton sewer
Posted March 31, 2011 3:18 pm.
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A first-degree murder trial is hearing from the leader of a forensics team that climbed into a sewer to recover the chopped-up remains of an Edmonton man.
Mark Twitchell is accused of killing Johnny Altinger on Oct. 10, 2008, in a garage, cutting up the body, burning the parts and dumping them down a manhole.
Dr. Bernard Bannach told the jury his team recovered parts of a human torso, teeth and other remains from a sewer last June — but no head.
Bannach testified that his analysis found that the bones had been deliberately cut.
He was asked about a text found in a deleted file on Twitchell’s computer about how easy it is to dismember a body.
Bannach says the text, which the Crown contends is Twitchell’s diary, accurately describes the cutting up of a body.
