If you're listening to this episode after July 15th, there is something I need to tell you first.

I contacted Skater who identified herself as a friend of Andrews because I wanted to give our

listeners another window into what else was going on through the killer's mind.

I then asked Skater whether knowing that she had been friends with a killer had somehow impacted or changed her worldview.

You may have heard the shock in my voice when she expressed that it hadn't.

In the following interview, which I granted Skater after she expressed dissatisfaction with the first, I asked again.

I got the same response.

So I published the interview.

Subsequently, Skater asked for the entirety of both interviews to be removed.

I thought they were relevant to our listeners, so I declined her request.

Then she updated her profile on social media and published an additional YouTube video

claiming that she is autistic, which would explain her perceived lack of empathy.

Of course, if I had had any indication prior to contacting her that she was indeed

autistic, I would have never agreed to conduct the interview in the first place. It's not my

place to diagnose people over the phone, only to ask them questions and listen and try to understand

their responses. However, since all of this happened, more questions have been raised that lead me to believe

that our listeners deserve to hear the whole interview, hear my reactions, as well as skaters,

and make their own judgments.

The only thing I should say, though, is I mistakenly referred to Skater as he on several occasions,

which I shouldn't have, because I found out after the interview that she identifies as female.

Had I known this up front, I would have corrected my inadvertent mistake.

The reason we refer to the killer as male during the first interview is because

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