Mr. Ballin

She thought to herself, my plan has worked perfectly.

Except it's important to understand that, you know, Mona wasn't really famous as much as she was infamous.

And it really stemmed from that ritual she performed on Maslin.

Because what she did to Maslin is she actually just ritualistically executed him.

Except it would turn out Maslin wasn't even her first victim.

He was her eighth victim, at least as far as we know.

And she just got caught after she killed Maslin.

When Maslin was laying in that room and the ritual's going on and he's being told to picture all these, you know, gold coins and silver bars raining down on him, well, while he was doing that, and critically, he had his eyes closed, Mona grabbed an axe, raised it up, and brought it down into the middle of his chest.

And so this ritual murder was designed to lead to somebody getting more power and more fame, except that person was not really Maslin, it was Mona.

I mean, Maslin did become extremely well known for being a victim of Mona, but it was Mona who suddenly was the talk of the entire country.

I mean, she was all over the news and she was beautiful.

And so it's like this crazy dichotomy of this unbelievably attractive woman who's also a serial killer.

I mean, this is the stuff that just makes the news over and over and over again.

And Mona loved it.

And so when Mona was walking past that crowd of paparazzi and they're all taking photos of her, that was actually her walking to her murder trial.

Every day she would basically treat that walk up the steps to her murder trial as like her personal red carpet with all the paparazzi taking her photo.

She'd dress up in these lavish outfits and smile for the cameras on her way to be tried for murder.

And then ultimately she was convicted of it and sentenced to death.

But she was totally unphased because for her, again, it was all about gaining this incredible notoriety and she had succeeded.

It was like the ultimate shaman move and she had done it.