Who Shot Her in the Head?

WIEGERT: What else did you guys do, come on.

FASSBENDER: What he made you do Brendan, we know he made you do somethin’ else.

WIEGERT: What was it? (pause) What was it?

FASSBENDER: We have the evidence Brendan, we just need you ta, ta be honest with us.

BRENDAN: That he cut off her hair.

WIEGERT: He cut off her hair? In the house?

BRENDAN: mm huh.

WIEGERT: Why did he do that? Was she alive?

BRENDAN: No.

WIEGERT: What did he do with the hair?

BRENDAN: He set it down on the counter.

WIEGERT: The counter where?

BRENDAN: Like a dresser.

FASSBENDER: What did he use to cut the hair off with?

BRENDAN: The knife.

FASSBENDER: Was she alive? (Brendan shakes head “no”)

FASSBENDER: Did he say why he did that?

BRENDAN: No.

WIEGERT: OK, what else?

FASSBENDER: What else was done to her head?

BRENDAN: That he punched her.

WIEGERT: What else? (pause) What else?

FASSBENDER: He made you do somethin’ to her, didn’t he? So he-he would feel better about not bein’ the only person, right? (Brendan nods “yes”) Yeah.

WIEGERT: mm huh.

FASSBENDER: What did he make you do to her?

WIEGERT: What did he make you do Brendan? It’s OK, what did he make you do?

BRENDAN: Cut her.

WIEGERT: Cut her where?

BRENDAN: On her throat.

WIEGERT: Cut her throat? Te-when did that happen?

BRENDAN: Before he picked her off the bed?

WIEGERT: So she was alive yet right? (Brendan nods “yes”)

WIEGERT: So she’s alive and you cut her throat?

BRENDAN: mm huh.

WIEGERT: Was that before or after Steve stabbed her?

BRENDAN: After.

WIEGERT: It was after Steve stabbed her?

BRENDAN: (nods “yes”) mm-huh.

WIEGERT: Was she a-how do you know she was alive? (pause) Tell me. When you cut her throat, how do you know she was alive?

BRENDAN: She was breathing a little bit.

WIEGERT: She was breathing a little bit. Did Steve tell you to do that?

BRENDAN: Yeah. (Fassbender and Wiegert speaking at the same time- cannot understand)

FASSBENDER: How’d he tell you to do, how’d he tell you to do that? What’d he say?

BRENDAN: To go across her throat and pull it back.

FASSBENDER: Did he say why he wanted you to do that?

BRENDAN: No. (shakes head “no”)

WIEGERT: Which knife did you use?

BRENDAN: The same one he stabbed her with.

FASSBENDER: And how many times did he stab her again?

BRENDAN: Once.

FASSBENDER: Are you sure about that? (Brendan nods “yes”)

WIEGERT: So Steve stabs her first and then you cut her neck? (Brendan nods “yes”) What else happens to her in her head?

FASSBENDER: It’s extremely, extremely important you tell us this, for us to believe you.

WIEGERT: Come on Brendan, what else? (pause) :

WIEGERT: We know, we just need you to tell us.

BRENDAN: That’s all I can remember.

WIEGERT: All right, I’m just gonna come out and ask you. Who shot her in the head?

BRENDAN: He did.

FASBENDER: Then why didn’t you tell us that?

BRENDAN: Cuz I couldn’t think of it.

FASSBENDER: Now you remember it? (Brendan nods “yes”) Tell us about that then.

BRENDAN: That he shot her with his .22.

WIEGERT: You were there though?

BRENDAN: Yeah.

WIEGERT: Where did this happen?

BRENDAN: Outside.

WIEGERT: Outside? Before? Tell me when it happened?

BRENDAN: When we brung her outside ta throw her in the fire.