Excerpted from “I’m Not Sorry and I’d Do it Again” by Irina Sterling
Published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York | First Edition, November 2020
Copyright © 2020 by Penguin Random House LLC
All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5658-9234-7
Chapter 47: The Homecoming
Reports of my diagnosed psychopathy are wildly overblown.
I blame the media for that more than anyone. Certainly not any of the clinicians who’ve come to talk to me since my arrest. Professionals, every one of them. It was those sleazebag reporters who loved calling me “the female Dexter.” Lazy-ass comparison. Dexter Morgan killed out of compulsion and his dad (I think) gave him a code so he only turned that compulsion on people who deserved it.
If you’ve spent even one second looking at my “victims,” you’d know that isn’t the case with me. I wasn’t following anyone’s code but my own. I wasn’t looking for approval from daddy. Or Jackson fucking Reed.
The thing about surveillance is patience. Twenty-three years …