CNN: Survivor of hatchet attack confronts her past

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Survivor of hatchet attack confronts her past

By Ted Rowlands CNN

Monday, May 8, 2006; Posted: 9:46 p.m. EDT (01:46 GMT)

REDMOND, Oregon (CNN) -- Terri Jentz was a 19-year-old college sophomore in 1977 when she and a friend were attacked by a man with a hatchet.

Seven days into a cross-country bike ride, the young women were camping along the Deschutes River in central Oregon, near Redmond. That night, a pickup truck crashing into their tent startled Jentz out of sleep.

"The tent was a piece of bloody nylon," Jentz says, as she describes a man getting out with a hatchet to attack them. "I heard my friend screaming 'leave us alone;' then I heard a sharp blow, then I heard about six more blows."

The attacker left the women for dead, but minutes later they were saved by two teenagers on a midnight drive, who saw Jentz signaling for help...