 AUSTIN (KXAN) – A woman who wrote she experienced ‘a high unlike any other’ after stabbing another woman 21 times in March of 2016 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison as part of a plea deal. Pearl Moen, who was 17-years-old at the time of the attack, hid in the bushes and attacked a woman because she wanted to know what it would feel like to kill someone, according to diary entries found in her home. “I always thought she would walk around with guilt, but knowing she had this joy and this pride is very unsettling,” said the victim, a 23-year-old nurse, who spoke with KXAN after Moen was charged with Attempted Murder. According to a release by Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore, Moen had a history of drug use and psychological issues, but no previous criminal record. The victim addressed Moen at her sentencing, saying she was “glad the defendant stabbed her rather than a child, an elderly person or someone who could not defend themselves.” 
 
 The victim also said her background in the medical field allowed her to save her own life. Pearl Moen’s diary entry: 
 
 “So, okay I’ll start with the exciting bit. According to the arrest affidavit, investigators found disturbing entries in Moen's journal that read, in part, "I stabbed an innocent woman to death earlier today. This office was proud to fight for justice on her behalf." McRogers said if you come in contact with someone who seems depressed or suicidal, you should take them seriously and seek medical help for the person. As to why she did it, Moen wrote "Other than the fact that I'm a homicidal psychopath. I have a deep hatred towards people right now..Yesterday I lost my other gold ring I’ve worn all my life on a chain around my neck as it was ripped off by a girl I was murdering.
– "I stabbed an innocent woman to death earlier today ... It was absolutely fantastic." If that sounds to you like the diary entry of Charles Manson and not a teenage girl, you'd be very wrong. It is that of Pearl Moen, now 19, who will serve 15 years in prison after taking a plea deal Friday for stabbing a stranger 21 times on Nov. 14, 2015. Moen goes on to describe the early morning attack, at a park near her home in Austin, Texas, as "a high unlike any other—it feels like this crisp unreality, flashing and sparkling, adrenaline and shock, fight or flight mode." The victim survived, reports the Austin American-Statesman, and told police that her attacker was smiling. The victim tells KXAN that her medical background as a nurse saved her life. She'd been relaxing on a blanket with a friend and closed her eyes when the friend went into an apartment; and seconds later she was attacked. She lost a lot of blood and suffered a collapsed right lung. "I always thought she would walk around with guilt, but knowing she had this joy and this pride is very unsettling," she says. KVUE reports that Moen made several drawings depicting the attack, which her mother found and gave to police. In March of 2016, KVUE interviewed a former classmate of Moen's, who expressed shock that a shy, sweet girl who'd left school to be homeschooled had turned so violent. Moen apparently fell in with a rough crowd and had a history of drug use and psychological issues, though no criminal record. (America's smallest state capital is investigating a rare murder.)