Who Was to Know Anyway?
Improviser’s Game Scene Foreshadows Own Death
What has local citizens spooked however is the fact that Fetterson closed out the "Shuckster's" show the previous Saturday in a scene where he was sliced through the gut by a Japanese ninja while on a blind date with Joan Rivers that took place in an ice cream parlor.
“I’ve never been a part of an investigation that was as unfortunate as it was mad-capped”, said Detective Mike Richardson.
During the show’s finale Fetterson initiated the improv game "Blind-Line", where the actor chose a folded piece paper among many on the floor that had written suggestions from the audience to inspire the next scene.
"Blind date with Joan Rivers", Fetterson reportedly read aloud, whereby he then asked the audience for a quick "non-geographical location" to start the scene. "Ice cream parlor" was shouted from the inebriated audience inside "The Nut Hut Bar and Grill".
"I remember 'Fetty' was excited because it was the first suggestion we got all night that was an actual idea and not an accusation concerning his sexual orientation" laments longtime Shuckster, Betsy Simmons, 48, a Royal Farm’s shift supervisor.
Authorities’ first suspect was the assailant in the improvised scene Randy Baker, 18, of Omaha. Baker, affectionately known as “Random” by his cast mates, “sliced” Fetterson through the gut eerily in the same manner that he was skewered by the actual ninja just days later. Just as he did in the ice-cream shop, Fetterson gripped his stomach and fell to the floor, gasping the words, “You f**ker”. Fetterson and Baker had to be separated following the show after Fetterson lunged at Baker with a foam tube.
Detectives have ruled out Baker as a possible suspect because of his alibi and also that witnesses reported the real Ninja as stealthily quiet during his brief time in the store. Baker is known locally as someone who cannot make any sort of physical motion without it being accompanied by some sort of "swooshing sound".
Furthermore, “Nut Hut” customers say Fetterson and Baker reconciled in the parking lot and had a discussion, which lasted past closing, breaking down what exactly happened, what could have happened, what sometimes happens, and what they had seen happen in other comedy inside and outside of Omaha.
Comedienne Rivers, area real-estate investor, was set up to go out with Fetterson by a mutual friend. Rivers who is not talking to the media about the incident did say to the police that she had stepped out to "apply skin patches" and thus missed Fetterson's murder altogether.
A funeral for Fetterson will be held on Friday at the Grace Memorial Cemetery in downtown Omaha. Some of Fetterson's friends and family said they plan on attending but may not be able to make it because they think they might have something planned that Friday--they're not sure.
