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Interview #02

Name of Subject: Morgan Slaughter (“MS”)

Name of Interviewer: Greg Rowe (“GR”)

Date: 10/XX/20XX

[Begin transcript 00:01:52]

Morgan Slaughter is a seventeen-year-old girl with long red hair wearing a simple black dress. While she’s conventionally pretty and mature for her age, there is an unnerving blankness to her expression, and she sits extremely still, like a predator. [Editing note: juxtapose shots of Ms. Slaughter with footage of GNS.]

GR: Thank you for agreeing to this interview. I understand that, for most people, this would be an incredibly difficult thing to discuss.

MS: It would.

GR: I would also like to take this time to let you know that your mother will not be reviewing this footage, and will not have access to the video or transcripts of this interview until they’re released to the public.

Ms. Slaughter makes eye contact for the first time since the camera began rolling.

MS: [flatly] Is that legal? Will somebody else be looking it over to make sure you didn’t say something you shouldn’t have?

GR: You’re more than welcome to tell a trusted adult if you’re uncomfortable, though if we’re going to be honest, I get the sneaking suspicion that my crew and I are in more danger being alone with you than you are being alone with us.

MS: Hope you feel better having it all recorded.

GR: We certainly do. Now, I’m sure this is a question you get often, but for the sake of any viewers who are new to your story, tell us—before that awful day, did you have any idea of the monster your father was? Looking back, were there any warning signs?

MS: No. He wasn’t around a lot, and he was always busy, but he was a lawyer. Late nights at the office, you know how it is.

GR: Even when he was using you as bait? You didn’t have the slightest suspicion.

MS: He was good at cleaning up his messes. And lying. But he made most of his money filing federal lawsuits on behalf of Republican interest groups, so we can’t exactly be surprised.

GR: You must have figured it out eventually, though. Right? After all, you were the one who told law enforcement that Jane Doe wasn’t the only victim.

MS: Don’t you want to tell our viewers who that is?

GR: We’ll cut to an explanation.

Ms. Slaughter considers this answer. It takes her approximately six seconds to respond.

MS: When I saw the body, a lot of things made sense in hindsight.

GR: That must have been a terrible realization for a child to make. You were eleven years old, weren’t you?

MS: Ten.

GR: But nobody believed you.

MS: Not even my mother.

GR: Why do you think that was?

MS: I have some ideas, but this is your documentary. You tell me.

GR: Well, it’s hard to trust the testimony of a child in a complex situation like this. And your mother stated you were diagnosed with autism at seven years old, along with—

MS: Nobody’s ever been able to explain why autism made me untrustworthy, but I can guess. I was off-putting. Pulling out your hair and hitting yourself and skin-picking to the point of open sores isn’t very cute.