For all that Slender Man is a modern, Urban Legend and story, it crossed the line from fantasy to reality when a couple girls in 2014 attempted to murder a fellow 12-year old girl in Waukesha, Wisconsin. If you hadn’t heard of Slender Man before then, people knew about him now. A ...
Anissa Weier listens during jury selection in her trial at Waukesha County Courthouse Monday, Sept 11, 2017, in Waukesha, Wis. Prosecutors allege that Weier and her friend, Morgan Geyser, lured classmate Payton Leutner into a Waukesha park in May 2014 and stabbed her 19 times. The girls have...
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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...
From 2012 to early 2014, Slender Man was one of the most popular figures in modern pop culture. That all changed on May 31st, 2014. On May 31st, 2014, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser - two 12-year-old girls living in Waukesha, Wisconsin, lured classmate Payton Leutner and stabbed her ...
Investigators say the two plotted to lure Payton Leutner into some woods in Waukesha after a sleepover. They say the girls intended to kill Payton to win thefavor of Slender Man, an character described as unnaturally tall and thin with no visible facial features. ...
Weier, along with Morgan Geyser, lured classmate Payton Leutner into a wooded park in Waukesha in 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier encouraged her, investigators said. Leutner crawled out of the woods and a bicyclist found her. All three girls were 12 years...
Waukesha Detective Shelly Fisher interviewed Payton Leutner at the hospital a week after her friends attacked her in the woods with a knife. 7 years ago Mothers of teens who pleaded guilty in 'Slender Man' stabbing case say there were no warning signs of violence ...
Police found Weier and Geyser later that day walking on Interstate 94 in Waukesha. They told investigators said they attacked Leutner because they thought it would make them Slender Man’s servants and prevent him from killing their families. After the stabbing they began walking to Slender...
After the stabbing, authorities say, the survivor crawled to a road near Waukesha, Wisconsin. A passerby on a bicycle discovered her fighting for her life and called for help. “This past week she had four medical appointments with specialists,” Lyons said. “She is home but the healing ...