Gilles Tetreault
Appearances
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
He thought, what's the worst that could happen? I was actually late, so I was driving quite fast to get there. She said, I'll just leave the garage door open for you. And then you just go in, go through the garage. I don't think he ever imagined in a million years what would happen to him in that garage. It was dark. Then I kind of looked around for the door she told me to go through.
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
And that's when somebody came out and attacked me from behind. Somebody puts me in this hole, and he's prodding me with this thing. And all I can see is it's kind of almost like a baton, and it's turning blue. I finally look back, and that's when I see this man with this painted-up hockey mask. This is just unbelievable. This is what movies are made of.
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
We're just both standing there looking at each other, and that's when he pulls out this gun. He finally yells at me, and he says, get down on the ground, put your head down, close your eyes, and put your hands in the back. I don't know if he's going to kill me or not. He's a cold-blooded, heartless killer.
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Scripting a Murder
And it's the same hockey mask that I saw. Wow, yeah, this is the guy. This is what happened to me. It's the same mask, everything.
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Scripting a Murder
I couldn't believe it. Once you find out the whole story, I knew at that point it was not just a mugging. It was actually, he was probably going to kill me. I'm like, wow, I have to go forward now. I have to come forward.
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
I was all off balance. I couldn't run. I fell down from the gravel driveway and basically crawling.
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Scripting a Murder
All I could think about was that I never told anybody where I'd be. If I died right then and there, no one would know what happened to me.
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Scripting a Murder
I knew he couldn't hurt me anymore. How important was Gilles' testimony?
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Scripting a Murder
When I first saw him, I look back and I see this man kind of hovering over me with a hockey mask. I just chill down my back. Wow, this is no date.
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Scripting a Murder
I didn't know how she'd take to me because I survived and her son didn't, you know, how she'd be with me. She was so nice. She grabbed my hand and she thanked, she said, I'm so happy you're still with us. That was so nice. It's so emotional. Yeah, yeah, it is.
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Scripting a Murder
If I would have died that day, my son wouldn't have been born. I think about that all the time. I don't know if it's the willpower to live or some higher power was looking over me that day, but I thank God that I got away.
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Scripting a Murder
And he tore a piece of tape, and he covered my eyes with it. I start hearing different things, like a jingling noise and stuff like that. In my head, it's just racing. It's like thinking, what's going on? What is he going to do? Is he taking another weapon out? Jill decided he wasn't waiting to find out. I can't do this, I gotta fight back. So I got up and ripped the tape off my eyes.
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
He was stunned that I got up and started yelling at me to get back down on the ground. Instead, he grabbed the attacker's gun. When I grabbed the gun, I felt the gun was plastic. This is the greatest feeling I ever felt in my life because then I knew I had a fighting chance to get away. I punched him and I felt really weak. I'm like, wow, why was my punch so weak?
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Scripting a Murder
Just about then, he came up with a plan. He grabbed my jacket. I jerked forward to make sure he had a good hold on it. I thought, that's the perfect time.
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Scripting a Murder
So that's when I slipped out of the jacket, rolled underneath the garage door, and then got up. And it worked. But the developing real-life horror movie plot was far from over. And I tried to run and all of a sudden my legs wouldn't work. I just fell, boom, right on the gravel, trifling. That's when he grabbed my legs and he started pulling me back to the garage.
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Scripting a Murder
And all of a sudden, the masked man came back out. And then I pointed to him and I said, that's the guy.
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Scripting a Murder
He started pretending he was my best friend. What did he say? He said something like, come on, Frank, or come on, friend. And he kind of gestured to me like we were playing. You thought this was a trap?
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Scripting a Murder
So I started walking back to the garage and sure enough, I see his feet in the garage and he's pacing back and forth in the garage. So I quietly, I got out my keys from my pocket, I stuck the key in the ignition and then I just sped away.
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Scripting a Murder
Why didn't you go to the police immediately? At first, I was in shock. I said, I told myself, I'll do it tomorrow. And tomorrow came and I was, I felt so ashamed that I got duped.
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Scripting a Murder
When I was first telling the story, when it first happened to me, everyone thought it was a movie. They couldn't believe this happened to me. It was a crazy story.
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Scripting a Murder
I saw this lady. She had blonde hair. She was about 5'6". She was very attractive looking. And what was her name? Her name was Sheena. Sheena. Yeah. I messaged her. She messaged me back, how about we go to dinner and a movie? I thought that was a great idea. She wouldn't give me the house number, but she just sent me really, really good directions on how to get there.