Castle High

37. The Transcript

February 8, 2017. 6:17 P.M.
Case #: 102.011.11.21-110
OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF POLICE INTERVIEW

INTERROGATOR: Could you explain all these? Why did you attack your friends? Why did you go beserk like a wild dog? Why was a recording of two men plotting against Joey Cassidy found in your possession, that coupled with an envelope containing fifty thousand dollars.

MARSHALL: [Unintelligible]

INTERROGATOR: Could you please speak up, Mr. Marshall?

MARSHALL: I don’t know, sir. I just [pause] i don’t own those things.

INTERROGATOR: Okay fine, we’d come back to that later. Let’s take this from the top to make it less complex. Why did you attack your friends?”

MARSHALL: I think some sort of drug was in my system. I was drugged.

INTERROGATOR: [LIGHT SNORT] if you were drugged, how did you know you were drugged. We haven’t taken you to the hospital, yet. No sort of tests have been conducted. So why do you say so?

MARSHALL: Because I know. I took the drug.

INTERROGATOR: Meaning you drugged yourself? On purpose. So you’d be able to carry out whatever task that was demanded of you by your hirer.

MARSHALL: No, it’s nothing like that. [Sighs] I just–it’s really complicated, Sir. I don’t know where to start from.

INTERROGATOR: We got all day son, fire away.

MARSHALL: [Exhales] Ever since what happened at J.C. last year, I kind-off had this vibe that somebody was being targeted. And I initially thought the disaster was to eliminate someone in particular probably and make everyone else die alongside the target as collateral damage. I mean no one would question the death of students in a jungle, they’d all assume it’s as a result of natural causative factors.

My mistake was to let my guard down thinking that whomever was behind everything wouldn’t be able to compromise us at home or in school, but I was wrong. He compromised somebody– someone I don’t know yet, whom happens to be in the school. This person was his contact back at J.C. and was also key in what happened yesterday. I know I might sound obnoxious right now – but I’m positive this person was responsible for drugging me and placing incriminating evidence in my bag.

INTERROGATOR: Let’s even assume everything you said make sense, when it clearly doesn’t and let’s also assume it’s true also. You were drugged right, but no one dragged you to the roof-top alongside your target? So how does it happen that Joey whom appears to be the target on the recording found in your back was the same person who was with you on the roof-top?

MARSHALL: They planned it, sir. They made Joey to be there at that exact location.

INTERROGATOR: Really? You and your friend seem to be contradicting each other. Joey was here a while ago to testify in your favor. And he said something about you trying to protect him, and muttering words along the line of – ‘someone trying to target him to render his father heirless.’ Care to explain that, or it was just the drugs speaking.

MARSHALL: [Unintelligible]

INTERROGATOR: Mr. Marshall, please? Speak out!

MARSHALL: I knew Joey was the target. The recording told me so.

INTERROGATOR: The recording which happened to state the target for your mission. Please let the record show that we’re looking at some sort of modified Mp3 player containing the infamous audio recording of two men speaking in hushed and muffled tones.  So Jake, tell me how did you come about the recording?