Jill's Tetro
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Maybe he was in shock or had a concussion or was just stun gun silly. Whatever the reason, Jill Cetro became fixated on getting to his prized truck, a black Ford Ranger, parked right on that gravel driveway outside the garage where Jill's had just fought for his life.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So willing himself into silence, Jills tiptoed across the crunchy gravel driveway. The masked man just a few feet away on the other side of that partially opened garage door.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And I took off. You put that car into drive and tore down that alleyway. What was it like?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And Jill's began to feel woozy, sick to his stomach.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So Joe's pulled over, drank some water. Maybe he wasn't out of trouble after all.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So I rest a little bit. But not for long. A few minutes later, Jills willed himself back onto the road, forced himself to drive home, where he stood, barely comprehending, in front of a mirror. I'm like, wow.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
What in the world just happened? Why had he, of all people, been attacked? And who was that man who seemed to want to kill him, the man behind the mask?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Was she flirtatious in her approach?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
What is it like to be sitting alone in your apartment in front of your computer with that realization in your head?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And did not call the police? No. I didn't. And sure enough, the author of SK Confessions had anticipated perfectly what would not happen when his intended victim escaped. It was as if he had been reading the mind of the terrified Jules Tetreault. It was the fear in his eyes that told me deep down he wouldn't report the incident.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
But why did that man in the black mask attack Jules in the first place? It must have been he himself who wrote about it later and in such incriminating detail. Though for now, the why of it all wasn't the important thing to the investigators. What was important was proving that the man in the black mask and the author of S.K. Confessions and Mark Twitchell were one and the same.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And most important, finding their missing man. Was he dead? Was he alive? Where was Johnny Altinger? SK Confessions described two vicious assaults. One of them, the attack on Jules Tetreault, was accurate in every one of its bizarre details.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Oh, Jill's had no idea. I'm Keith Morrison, and this is The Man in the Black Mask, a podcast from Dateline. Episode 4, The One Who Got Away. Newly single and alone in a big city, Jills Tetro couldn't believe it when he connected online with a woman with a name so alluring, Sheena. She looked beautiful on her profile. And she wanted Jills, wanted to see him as soon as possible.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Yet, of course, both in real life and in the story, the victim survived. But the other story in SK Confessions? In that one, the victim died a particularly horrible death. Was that story true, too? And was that what happened to Johnny Altinger? If it was, then where was his body?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Unless... Just about then, the tech people uncovered something else in the Twitchell laptop. It had been erased, of course. Buried so deeply it might have disappeared forever. Three more paragraphs from SK Confessions. In which the masked man leaves a clue...
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
In the next episode of The Man in the Black Mask... Our guy pretended he was going to invest in his movie-making business. Somebody wants to give you $30,000, $35,000, come and meet me. Yeah, come and meet me. The Man in the Black Mask is a production of Dateline and NBC News. Vince Sterla is the producer. Brian Drew, Deb Brown, and Marshall Hausfeld are audio editors.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Justin Ratchford is field producer. Leslie Grossman is program coordinator. Adam Gorfain is co-executive producer. Paul Ryan is executive producer. And Liz Cole is senior executive producer. From NBC News Audio, sound mixing by Katie Lau. Bryson Barnes is head of audio production.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Sheena sent him directions to her place. It was a bit complicated, she said, because she lived in a basement apartment that faced the backyard. So best to come in that way.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
But what if he couldn't find her place? He wondered. What if he was delayed? He asked for her cell phone number.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Jill's tetro was lonely. He'd been miserable, too, and sad, but now mostly just lonely in the big city he did not know. How he got that way is a story that's been told before and will be again.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And Sheena had made it clear she wanted Jules to pick her up right at 7. Except now he was late. 15 or 20 minutes late. His one chance with this beautiful woman and... Was he blowing it already?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And then, as hope was fading, he saw it. The alley, the one she'd told him about. And there was the garage with the big door partly open, just as she said it would be.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Growing up, they'd known just about everybody in their little prairie town. Now in Edmonton, they were surrounded by strangers. How many people did you know? Anybody? I didn't know anybody. Nothing. Nobody. No family in town? No family at all. But at least Jules figured they had each other. Except life is not always kind.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So in that dim light, late and anxious, Jills made a beeline through the garage doors toward the door leading to the back patio. And this, said Detective Bill Clark, is when Jills Tetro's account merges seamlessly with the story in SK Confessions.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So you know what's coming next and he says what's coming next.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
It was the moment Jules Tetreault understood he had been caught by a horror movie come to life. It was just like the penny dropped. You realized, this isn't a date I've lured to this garage. It's an attack. That's right. Right then and there. Would he live? Would he die? He didn't know. Jules Tetreault was simply terrified.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And just about then, Jules Tetreault decided he had come to the moment of his own death. I actually started tearing up.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
That's not easy. That's not easy at all. Was it a difficult breakup?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So you suddenly realized...
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
You would have made the choice to have her stay. Oh, definitely.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Boom, it's like you kick in the gut when that happens. Yeah, yeah.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Yeah, exactly. His adrenaline had been pumping so ferociously he was quite unaware of how the shocks from the stun gun or cattle prod or whatever it was had sapped his strength.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Jill's stumbled backwards with every blow, closer and closer to the open garage door.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Jill's Tetra was exhausted from his fight with a masked man, paralyzed from repeated shocks from a cattle prod or stun gun, and quite powerless as his attacker pulled him across the gravel driveway toward his apparent doom. Here's Jill's.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
But the author of SK Confessions admitted he, too, was exhausted.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And sure enough, in one last surge of adrenaline-fueled energy, Jills fought back. He tried to grab my mask and came quite close to pulling it off. which created a brief life-saving opportunity. The masked man momentarily let go of Joseph's leg.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
The same dating site Johnny Altinger had been using. That's when I met this girl.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
They were, of course, Trevor and Marissa, who, you'll recall, described their encounter with Jills this way.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So he's making out like you've just been having fun. Right. Which is when Marissa and Trevor took off, believing somehow that it was all an act and that they had been the intended targets of a mugging.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
But Marissa and Trevor had already helped, whether they knew it or not. Merely by stopping when they did, they may have saved his life. And the masked man was gone. For the moment, anyway. Jills had time to catch his breath and regroup. And get help.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Or he could have called the police on his cell phone, which was still sticking out of his back pocket. But Jules did not do any of those things. No, what Jules decided to do instead was go back to the garage.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Just see his feet down. I just see his feet. The man could see him any second. Jills looked at the door, at the pacing feet, at his truck, his mind worrying.