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Before I begin today, a warning. This episode contains details of sexual assault and violence.

On Good Friday, 2023, a young Calgary woman went to bed early. As she slept, her phone rang, but she didn't hear it. Then, in the middle of the night, loud knocks on her door, woke her up.

And there's two cops at my door. And at first, you're thrown off because you're like, is my family okay? And then things spiral in your mind after that, right? You get a little scared.

The officers were there to tell the woman that the man who raped her more than 20 years earlier was missing from his halfway house and went AWOL.

And is it going to stop? Is he going to have to do something like this again to someone else? And then maybe they'll open their eyes and realize, hey, we need to put them in jail for longer? I don't know, but it's it's it's scary. Yeah.

I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter for Global News. Today on crime beat, I share how a survivor of a violent sexual assault continues to be victimized more than two decades later.

This is the horror that still lurks.

I first introduced you to Lisa back in season two. She shared what happened to her in 2002 when she was juggling multiple jobs to put herself through university.

She was just 19 years old at the time. One of those jobs was at a Calgary tanning salon.

After a few months at the salon, she was offered the chance to manage her own store and was asked to meet with the owner's nephew to go over details of the job.

She stayed late after work one evening for the meeting, which seemed to go smoothly.

During their interview, Lisa mentioned she was having problems shutting off the lights in the basement. The man offered to take a look.

She was grateful for the help and they both headed to the basement. What happened next was violent and disturbing.

The man who was supposed to be offering her a new job, Marcel Perant, instead violently attacked her.

He used a knife to threaten her, then he raped her, and sawdumized her.

You don't know what's going to happen. Are you going to make it out of this room? Am I going to make it to my car?

Is he going to come to my house and kill me? Is he going to do all these things that he says he's going to do?

I don't know this person and I don't know what he's capable of.

It's not just the rape or the sexual assault. It's the whole thing around it. It's the whole premeditation.

It's the whole I was vulnerable and I was duped.

I was duped into believing in buying this crocushit story that I was going to get promoted so there's my trust gone.

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