The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 4: The One Who Got Away
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is Jill's experience of loneliness in the big city?
0:02–0:46
2
How did Jill's breakup affect his dating life?
0:46–1:15
3
What happened on Jill's date with Sheena?
1:15–3:35
4
How did Jill feel when he was late for the date?
3:35–6:23
5
What was the moment of attack like for Jill?
6:23–9:34
6
How did Jill fight back against his attacker?
9:34–12:29
7
What dramatic events unfolded as Jill tried to escape?
12:29–23:50