Page 172 of Girl Between
DA: There’s a twenty-year gap between those cases. Why start killing again?
Monroe: Who said I ever stopped?
DA: Are there more bodies than what’s been discovered?
Monroe: You’re the ones with all the evidence. You tell me.
DA: I’m offering you a chance to tell your side of the story, Mr. Monroe.
Monroe: I’m afraid it doesn’t have a happy ending.
DA: Why don’t we start from the beginning? Who was your first victim?
Monroe: I can’t say I remember.
DA: Was it the Harvest Girls?
Monroe: No. They were gifts for her.
DA: Her? The woman in the attic?
Monroe: Yes and No.
DA: Who was the woman in the attic?
Monroe: Rebecca.
DA: Who is Rebecca?
Monroe: My sister.
DA: Did you kill her?
Monroe: No. Landry killed her.
DA: Dr. Landry?
Monroe: Yes.
DA: Was Dr. Landry involved in the abduction of the Harvest Girls?
Monroe: No.
DA: Are they dead?
Monroe: Death is a gift, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
DA: Why did you abduct the Harvest Girls?
Monroe: I had to.
DA: Why?
Monroe: They were begging me. They were wearing white dresses. All four of them. Pretty as a picture. I knew instantly that they would be the perfect gifts for Rebecca. She loved to dress up like the Casquette Girls. I took her to the festival once. After that it was all she talked about. Wanting to be a vampire who could live forever, just like the Casquette Girls. I know it’s just a fairytale, but I couldn’t break Rebecca’s heart. She was dying. She needed something to believe in.
DA: Why was she dying?
Monroe: Because Landry lied to her.
