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Two Days After
NEWS 9
BREAKING NEWS: POLICE HAVE JUST RELEASED TRANSCRIPT OF INITIAL INTERVIEWS OF ROSEWOOD HIGH MASSACRE'S CULPRITS MONA VANDERWAAL AND ARIA MONTGOMERY
[young, blonde-haired reporter steps on-screen]
REPORTER SARAH STELLAR: THE FOLLOWING IS A WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT IS OF TWO SEPARATE TAPED INTERVIEWS CONCERNING THE MASSACRE AT ROSEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 31ST, 2016. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE FOLLOWING CONTENT CONTAINS HARSH LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC DETAIL.
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THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
CITY OF ROSEWOOD
FILE NO: 2016-734
FULL NAME: MONA BLAIR VANDERWAAL
SEX: FEMALE
DOB: 07-21-2000
AGE: 16
WEIGHT: 5 FEET, 0 INCHES
HEIGHT; 106 POUNDS
CRIME: MULTIPLE COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER; MULTIPLE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE; POSSESSION OF FIREARMS; ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. HAD FEMALE ACCOMPLICE, ALSO SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
DATE: 11-02-2016
LOCATION: ROSEWOOD P.D., INTERROGATION ROOM #1
OFFICER CONDUCTING INTERVIEW: DETECTIVE OLIVER PARISH
TIME: 9:45a.m.
DET. PARISH: This is Officer Oliver Parish of the Rosewood Police Department. It is currently nine-forty-five, the morning of November eleventh, year 2016. I am sitting here with Mona Blair Vanderwaal. Mona, state your name for the record.
MONA: You just did. Mona Blair Vanderwaal. Born on July 21st, 2000. On October 31st of this year, I gunned down a dozen or so classmates. Give or take a few.
: Are you openly admitting, under no coercion, that you are one of the parties responsible for the massacre at Rosewood High School, which took place October 31st of this year?
MONA: [annoyed] Jesus Christ, do you have hearing problems? Yes. Aria and I killed our classmates.
DET. PARISH: [sound of papers shuffling] Aria Genevieve Montgomery?
MONA: Yes. Beautiful middle name, isn't it?
DET. PARISH: It's lovely. Mona, can you tell me why you did this? Why did you attack and murder your friends? You've killed many and hurt so many others.
MONA: So?
DET. PARISH: Well, I'd like to understand why. Let's work together. What can you tell me about the shooting?
MONA: [clucks tongue] I'd rather tell you about Aria.
DET. PARISH: Okay. Tell me about Aria.
THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
CITY OF ROSEWOOD
FILE NO: 2016-735
FULL NAME: ARIA GENEVIEVE MONTGOMERY
SEX: FEMALE
DOB: 05-20-2000
AGE: 16
WEIGHT: 5 FEET, TWO INCHES
HEIGHT; 110 POUNDS
CRIME: MULTIPLE COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER; MULTIPLE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE; POSSESSION OF FIREARMS; ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. HAD FEMALE ACCOMPLICE, ALSO SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
DATE: 11-02-2016
LOCATION: ROSEWOOD P.D., INTERROGATION ROOM #2
OFFICER CONDUCTING INTERVIEW: DETECTIVE RUBY MORELLO
TIME: 10:04a.m.
DET. MORELLO: Good morning. This is Detective Ruby Morello of the Rosewood Police Department. The time is ten o' four in the morning, of November eleventh, 2016. I am sitting here with Aria Genevieve Montgomery. Aria, state your name for the record.
ARIA: You literally just said my name. It's Aria Genevieve Montgomery.
DET. MORELLO: Good. Can you tell me why you're here?
ARIA: Yeah. My friend and I –
DET. MORELLO [cuts in] Your friend Mona Blair Vanderwaal
ARIA: [irritated] Yes, my friend Mona. She and I decided to paint our school a crimson red. Apparently red isn't in this season. It's a bummer.
DET. MORELLO: Whose idea was the shooting?
ARIA: Both of ours. We had been planning it for a year before we decided on a date.
DET. MORELLO: [stressed tone] Why would you want to hurt your friends?
ARIA: They weren't my friends. Not anymore, anyway. Some people deserved to be punished.
DET MORELLO: Is that what you were doing? Punishing your friends?
ARIA: In a way.
DET. MORELLO: What did they do to deserve such a brutal punishment? What had they done wrong?
ARIA: I never said they didn't anything wrong. Not all of them. Look, sometimes people -
MONA: - just piss you off, and you do what needs to be done.
DET. PARISH: Is that what happened? People at school pissed you off so decided to take matters into your own hands?
MONA: [sighs] It's not that black and white.
DET. PARISH: Then explain it to me. Help me understand.
MONA: There's nothing to understand. We did it because we [emphasis in tone] wanted to. Frankly it was -
ARIA: - fun. I have never felt so…[pause] powerful. To see the life drain out of someone's eyes is just an incredible feeling.
DET. PARISH: You don't seem to have much remorse for what you have done.
ARIA: [flat, cold tone] Why should I?
DET. PARISH: Because you killed people.
ARIA: You've also killed people.
DET. PARISH: I've killed criminals, and only when completely necessary.
ARIA: [placid smile] You haven't heard the whole story yet. It was completely necessary.
DET. PARISH: Why don't you tell me the story then?
ARIA: I'd be delighted.
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