Nicole Ernest Pate was 21 years old when she was assaulted by a predator in her own home.

He is kind of the boogeyman in the night that you are truly afraid of.

He wore a mask throughout the whole ordeal.

He said, let three songs go by before you cut yourself loose.

She went straight to the cops. She said, this sounds like some sort of movie plot.

Like you made this up from a movie plot.

Until one day, the man who helped put the Golden State Killer behind bars

helped figure out the serial predator's pattern.

This is a serious offender.

He'd been hiding in plain sight.

This is the same guy.

It's so bizarre to me that he's a father.

A wolf in sheep's clothing.

But even when the attacker was unmasked,

Nicole still had questions.

The why, the what, the why me, all of those things that I think most victims think about

that will probably eat at me a bit until I get those answers.

So Nicole wanted to do something unusual.

She wanted to meet him.

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