Two 12-year-old girls were charged in the attack. ByABC News June 24, 2014, 8:16 PM NaN:NaN The victim of the Slender Man stabbing in Wisconsin has released photos thanking people for their support.Courtesy Steve LyonsJune 24, 2014 -- The Wisconsin family of the 12-year-old survivor...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — AWisconsinwoman who admitted to helping stab a classmate to please online horror character Slender Man will be freed Monday from a mental health institution under strict conditions, a judge ruled Friday. Anissa Weier, 19, will be released after spending almost four...
SLENDER MAN STABBING VICTIM SLEPT WITH SCISSORS UNDER HER PILLOW, MOTHER SAYS Leutner's mother sent the judge a letter this week detailing that the 2014 attack "has defined our lives," and that Leutner still fears for her life. "She will struggle with the events of that...
Parents of Accused Teen Stabber in 'Slender Man' Case Speak Out for the 1st Time Children as young as 10 can be tried as adults in Wisconsin. 8 years ago Girl Accused in Slender Man Stabbing to Plead Insanity: Lawyer Morgan Geyser, 14, will plead not guilty by reason of mental disease...
In 2014, Slender Man made the jump from the world wide web to the nightly news when two girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin repeatedlystabbed their schoolmate, claiming that they carried out the attack in the name of Slender Man. A small number of incidents connected in various ways to the Slender...
WAUKESHA, Wis. –A Wisconsin girl broke down in court Thursday as a judge asked her to recount a 2014 stabbing attack on a classmate she said she carried out toplease the fictional horror character Slender Man. Morgan Geyser, now 15, sobbed during her plea hearing Thursday, during which a...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Sony Pictures is trying to capitalize on a tragedy by releasing a movie starring horror character Slender Man, according to the father of one of two Wisconsin girls who attacked their classmate to please the fictional boogeyman. Bil
This paper examines 96 US and British Commonwealth articles on the 2014 Wisconsin Slender Man stabbing. Using critical textual analysis, this study examined how media took a horror-themed meme from the underbelly of the Internet and curated a moral panic, once the meme was thrust into the ...
Slender Man has been cited as a factor in other crimes. Days after the Wisconsin stabbing, a 13-year-old girl in Hamilton County, Ohio, attacked her mother with a knife. The mother told WLWT-TV that she thought the girl was obsessed with Slender Man. In September of that sa...
WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS/AP)-- A judge will hold a hearing in April to determine whether a Wisconsin woman involved in a stabbing inspired by the online horror character Slender Man has again should be released from a mental institution.