Aggie Di Mauro

Earlier, you said that I was a little bit reluctant to just do an interview because telling Celeste's story really does put a toll on me.

But you're right that there are messages I need to get out there.

I'm very angry.

It's been five and a half years.

This is not going to subside for me.

It can't.

I'm angry at many things.

One, the fact that absolutely this could have been prevented.

But outside of that, I've been saying Celeste was failed again and again.

She was failed by not being taken seriously the first time, but she was also failed once she was murdered.

So, you know, you got to the fact that he received 36 years, non-parole 30.

We have a system that will continue to excuse and justify offenders, murderers,

Wanting, wanting, and not only them wanting it, but telling us that we want this.

Absolutely wanting a murderer's rehabilitation, which I don't believe any of us want.

In Celeste's case, in a nutshell, and this was all came out at the plea hearing, and obviously the judge read it out in her sentencing remarks, but in Celeste's case,

You have an offender who decides to stalk a young woman who didn't even know him for well over a year.

We have an intervention order in place that he decides to breach with a three and a half page letter where he is pleading with Celeste to drop that intervention order.

And there are many messages in that intervention order that absolutely basically say drop it or else.

We don't drop it, and not because I didn't consider it.

I did want to do things differently, and I'm sure we'll go there as well.