He wanted dinner and a movie. His “date” seemed to want something else entirely… This episode originally published on October 24, 2024.
Chapter 1: What is Jill's experience of loneliness in the big city?
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.
My wife and I moved up here to get a better living.
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.
She just fell out of love with me, I guess.
Chapter 2: How did Jill's breakup affect his dating life?
That's not easy. That's not easy at all. Was it a difficult breakup?
It was. For me, it was, yeah.
You would have made the choice to have her stay. Oh, definitely.
I tried to make the marriage work, but she didn't want to. She just wanted to move on.
Boom, it's like you kick in the gut when that happens. Yeah, yeah.
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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Chapter 3: What happened on Jill's date with Sheena?
The same dating site Johnny Altinger had been using. That's when I met this girl.
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.
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.
Was she flirtatious in her approach?
Oh, definitely, yeah. Like how? Very flirty. She said something like, oh, if the date goes well, you never know what can happen.
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.
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.
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.
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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Chapter 4: How did Jill feel when he was late for the date?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I mean, it was chilling. He's telling me things and I know what's coming next. I've read the SK Confessions and everything Jills is telling me is almost... Like he wrote it himself. That's how precise the story writing is of the S.K. Congressions.
So you know what's coming next and he says what's coming next.
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.
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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Chapter 5: What was the moment of attack like for Jill?
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.
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.
And just about then, Jules Tetreault decided he had come to the moment of his own death. I actually started tearing up.
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.
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.
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.
So you suddenly realized...
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.
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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Chapter 6: How did Jill fight back against his attacker?
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.
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.
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.
Jill's stumbled backwards with every blow, closer and closer to the open garage door.
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.
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.
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.
And so he drags me back and throws me back into the garage underneath the door.
But the author of SK Confessions admitted he, too, was exhausted.
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Chapter 7: What dramatic events unfolded as Jill tried to escape?
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.
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.
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.
They were, of course, Trevor and Marissa, who, you'll recall, described their encounter with Jills this way.
He looked at me and said, I'm being robbed. Can you help me? And it was just an instant bad feeling. It was like everything in my body just tensed up. I felt bad. This is a bad situation. I knew right away something was wrong.
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.
It's like every nightmare you had as a child after watching a scary movie, every nightmare you've ever had, all of a sudden it's right here. Like this masked guy is standing there.
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.
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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