Moen, Pearl Ophelia (18 years of age) 15-3180494
Posted on 1/24/2017, 10:50:20 PM by simpson96
“I stabbed an innocent woman to death earlier today. … It was absolutely fantastic. Murder gives me a high unlike any other. It feels like this crisp unreality, flashing and sparkling, adrenaline and shock.”
While these lines might sound like the demented writings of John Wayne Gacy or perhaps Charles Manson, they actually appeared in what police said was a diary kept by a teenage girl named Pearl Moen, 18.
She was mistaken about one thing, though — the woman she stabbed did not die.
On Friday, Moen pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempted murder, in large part because of these words, and others, scribbled in her diary.
They referred to the morning of Nov. 17, 2015.
As the sun rose over the Hyde Park neighborhood in Austin on that Tuesday, a young man and woman sat on the sidewalk outside his apartment complex, savoring the last precious minutes of a date.
Moen, who was then 17, watched intently from behind some bushes. As TV station KEYE noted, when the man ran upstairs to use the bathroom about 7:30 a.m., the woman began to doze off in the morning light.
That’s when Moen struck, bursting from the bushes and brandishing a knife. She stabbed the woman 21 times and left her there to bleed.
As the victim’s father told KXAN, “She kind of looked up, closed her eyes, and then all of the sudden she opens her eyes to someone stabbing her repeatedly.”
Moen described the attack in further detail in her diary, explaining excitedly how the victim fought back.
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Death penalty. She needs to be off the planet.
Her victim survived.
Little psychopath b*tch is gonna do hard time.
Austin.....................liberal bastion of Texas.................
Fifteen years? How about a tree and a rope tomorrow?
Her victim did not die. . . she survived her encounter with this psychopath. I think 30 years would have been more appropriate for attempted murder.
God women get such light prison sentences. This piece of filth needs life without parole or the death penalty.
Articulate young woman.
“crisp unreality, flashing and sparkling”
It has my vote.
50 years, she’s very young, I don’t want her released until she’s old and feeble. I agree that because she did not succeed in killing she should not be put to death, but she will always be dangerous
This is first degree murder. How come she got only 15 years?
Anyone want to bet she’s out in less than 5 years? This is not nearly enough. The little murderer-wannabe will charm the parole board, get out in 4 years, all rehabilitated. Then she’ll kill much more carefully.
15 years? Which, with good behavior will be 7... WTH?
Hi Laz!
Have I got a girl for you!
Attempted murder should carry the same sentence as murder.
Give her a hairbrush to tidy up and sunglasses to hide those crazy eyes, and she’d look okay. And I sure wouldn’t tell her otherwise if I thought differently!
LOL
I’m guessing from Laz’s previous posts, he’d tie this one up first.
She’d hit back.
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