Jules Tetreault
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So I decided the smartest thing was to actually go back and get into my truck because I'd be safer in a locked vehicle. You'd have to break the windows to get to me.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I get the keys out of my pocket and I quietly open the door and quietly get in. So you're trying to do all of this without him hearing you. Right. You're sneaking. Right. So I'm thinking, okay, once I slam the door, I got to do everything at the same time. So that's what I do. I slam the door, start the truck up right away and lock the door.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And then put it into reverse and peel out of that driveway.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
It was like... An amazing feeling. I'm like, I can't believe I got away.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Yeah, I was shaking. I started coming down off the adrenaline after a bit. And then all of a sudden, everything started hurting. My ribs were hurting.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
She said, how about dinner and a movie? So she asked me if I could pick her up. I just can't remember everything we talked about. But, yeah.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And the punches he gave me to the side of the head, they started throbbing. And I'm just sweating. I feel sick. I feel like I want to throw up, but I can't. And I just, I couldn't drive anymore.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And I'm so tired and in pain.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
My face is all swollen up on my left side. And I'm just red and I'm sweating.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And then I decided, you know what, I need to go back onto that online dating website. I want to get as much information as I can so I can give this to police. And so I go back on and all of a sudden, everything was gone. Her profile was gone. All the sent and received messages that I got from that person were all gone.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I felt almost ashamed. It was like, I can't believe I got duped by this woman. It's like, you know what, I just want to put this behind me. I just don't want to think about it. I want to move on.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Oh, definitely, yeah. Like how? Very flirty. She said something like, oh, if the date goes well, you never know what can happen.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Go through the back alley and she'd leave the garage door open for me. I'd go through the garage to the other side, get into the yard and go knock on the back door to pick her up.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
My wife and I moved up here to get a better living.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
No way, said Sheena. And she would not give me her phone number. She basically said that for security reasons, she had people that she met before that stalked her. And so for security reasons, she didn't want to give me her phone number.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I thought, oh my God, I hope she can forgive me because I'm going to be a little late. Because she said be on time. First date. Yeah, exactly. Be on time. Yeah, be on time. And I'm already late. So I tried to get there as fast as I could.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
The door was high enough that I didn't have to crawl under. I just had to squat under. And I'd get into the garage. At that hour, at that time of year, is there any light in there? Yeah, actually, it was... quite light out still. But once you got into that garage, it got kind of dark.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
That's right. I touched the knob to open the door and all of a sudden, Somebody attacked me from behind. I kind of turned back to look to see what's going on. And I see this man wearing this black and gold hockey mask. And this guy was much bigger than me, prodding me with this stun gun. And I still get chills to this day. I just got one actually just seeing him wearing this mask.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Very terrified, yeah. It was the most horrible feeling I've never... I've never been mugged ever or attacked. Yeah. So... You don't look like you're a fighter type. I'm not normally, no. And you're not a very... Forgive my saying, but you're not a large person. I'm not, yeah. So this guy was much bigger than me. He was about 5'10". How tall are you? I'm about 5'7 or 5'8".
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And he was stun gunning me on my chest, all over my chest. And whenever he triggered it, it just turned... He's wearing this hockey mask. Yeah, that was terrifying. Looking like, you know, some slasher movie guy. Yeah. And so I tried to make a run for it. And that's when he actually pulled out a gun. What is that like when somebody pulls a gun on you? I was terrified. I didn't know what to do.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
It was like, oh my God, I think I'm going to die. Then he yells, get down on the ground. Put your face down, close your eyes, and put your hands in the back. I don't know where he had it, but he took out duct tape, and he ripped off a piece, and then that's when he covered my eyes with it.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And it was like life flashed before my eyes. And it was quite emotional. I'm like, oh my God, my family is never going to see me again. I never told anyone where I was going that day. And all of a sudden, he comes towards the back of me by my legs. And so I hear his belt jiggling. I immediately thought he's going to rape me. So I'm like, you know what? I better fight for my life.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
She just fell out of love with me, I guess.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I said, I'd rather die my way than his way. I knew he's going to pull the gun out again. And you know what? If it kills me, it kills me. So I get up and rip off the duct tape. And I yell at him. I said, I can't do this. I'm not going down like this. And he started yelling at me. Get back down on the ground. Back down on the ground.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So I just darted for the gun, grabbed the end of it, and pushed it away from my body. It was the best feeling I ever felt in my life because I felt plastic when I grabbed it. Just immediately? Immediately.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
It was a fake gun. And in that moment, he, Jills, became the attacker. And I think I'm high on adrenaline now. And I'm like, I'm going to break this gun. And I kind of see it bending a little bit. And that's when I look down. And on the ground, there's these black metal handcuffs. And that just set me off because I'm like, wow, he was actually going to handcuff me now.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
It was. For me, it was, yeah.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
That's what the clinking was. Yeah, that's what it was. I had no idea. And it just made me even more angry. I went down, grabbed the cuss, put it around my knuckles so that I'd have some kind of weapon so I could strike him with. But I realized he's wearing that hockey mask. So the only way to be effective was I'd need to hit him in the back of the head because of this hockey mask was on my front.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I tried to make the marriage work, but she didn't want to. She just wanted to move on.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Like somebody wearing armor. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I decide that the cuffs are no good and it's getting him very angry and more agitated. So I decide I'm just going to throw these handcuffs to the corner of the garage where there's a whole bunch of junk over there and make it a little harder for him to go get these cuffs in case he needs to use them again later.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And that's when he grabbed me by the arms. And we're kind of struggling all over the garage. So I tried to kick him. But as I did that, he saw me going to do that, so he actually went and swiped my leg, and I almost fell down, and I almost lost my shoe. And I'm thinking, wow, I can't get down. If I get down on the ground, I'm... You're cooked.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And I'm thinking, why am I so weak? My muscles just couldn't move and I was just so weak. He goes forward and tries to headbutt me. That's when he says, because you didn't cooperate, this is the way it has to be. And then he starts punching me in the head.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
That kind of led to me feeling lonely and wanting to meet people. Mm-hmm. So that's how I decided to join this online dating website. What was it called? Plenty of Fish.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I'm letting him punch me. He punches me again, multiple times on the side of the head. And I moved again. And all of a sudden, I looked at the door, and he grabs my jacket. So then I slipped out of my jacket. rolled underneath the garage door, and finally made it out of that garage. So I start to try to run, and all of a sudden, it was like my legs were paralyzed, and I just couldn't move.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And I just fell right on my face. It's like being in the nightmare where you can't get away from the monster. Yeah, and I start crawling away on this unpaved driveway. Sure enough, he comes back underneath the garage after me and grabs my legs and he starts dragging me back. And I'm like, oh no, I have nothing left. There's nothing else I can do.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And so he drags me back and throws me back into the garage underneath the door.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And I'm thinking, hey, he doesn't have a hold on me anymore. So I'm like, this is my chance. I can maybe get away again. And then I rolled back underneath the garage door. I got back up, and in my head, I was like, there's no way I'm not running this time. Legs carry me. Yeah, and I made my legs move, and then I ran off. But it wasn't really running. I think it was more like a jog.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So I turned left, and to my surprise, there's actually a walking path right beside this house. So I get onto the walking path, and I'm so weak, I stumble. And I fall down. I get back up, and I look up. There's this couple walking their dog. They're coming towards me, and I yell to them, there's a man after me. He's trying to mug me. Please help me.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
She seemed... I saw her profile. She seemed very attractive. She had blonde hair and... She was shorter than I was, about 5'6". Sheena was her name. We started talking back and forth for a bit. Online? Online, yeah. And all of a sudden, she became really forward and asked me what I was doing the following Friday. I said, well, what do you have in mind? And she messaged back.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
And I'm hunched over. I'm trying to get my breath. And they looked stunned. They didn't know what was going on. And to me, it felt like it was taking the masked man forever to come after me. He comes towards me. I'm standing close to the couple. I tell him, hey, that's the man. And then as I looked up, the attacker almost actually ran into me.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
Once he saw the couple there, he goes, hey, Frank, or come on, Frank. That's what the guy in the mask said? To me. Hey, come on, Frank. And then he pretends like he's going to lift the mask up like we're playing. And but he doesn't. And then he turns around and he starts walking back to the garage.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I couldn't believe they weren't going to help me out. So I'm like, I yelled towards them. I said, aren't you going to help me out?
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
I can go onto the street, flag a car down. Or I could go to a neighbor's house. Maybe they might help me out.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
For some reason, I thought it was the best thing at the time was to actually go back to the garage on my own because I figured I had the advantage and he didn't know the couple had left me. So I go back, start going back, and from a distance I can see Him pacing back and forth in the garage. But he's not looking out. No, no, he's still, he's completely in the garage and he's pacing back and forth.
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The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
So I'm thinking, okay, once I slam the door, I got to do everything at the same time.