Two 12 year old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser
lured their classmate, another 12 year old, into the
woods last Saturday after a sleepover, where they stabbed the girl 19
times hoping to kill her so they could
join the cult of the 'Slender Man' after reading about him on the
internet. Thing is; 'Slender Man doesn't exist. It's a mythological horror creature that was created by a website in 2009. The gholish child killer has since become a viral sensation.
But the little girls believed so much in it they planned their friends
murder for months. Fortunately the girl didn't die but Morgan and Anissa
are being tried as adults and face 65 years in prison.
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| Mythical figure 'Slender Man' picturedove ab |
Two 12-year-old girls who are accused
of viciously stabbing a classmate 19 times have been identified for the
first time publicly since telling police that they plotted for months to
commit murder.
Morgan
Geyser and Anissa Weier face attempted murder charges after attacking
their friend, saying that they did so because they wanted to join the
cult of the 'Slender Man' after reading about him online.
The
girls told investigators they believed the Slender Man was real and
they wanted to prove it by slaughtering their friend after inviting her
for a sleepover in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin.
The
two suspects the knife back and forth between them before one girl held
the victim down and the other stabbed her 19 times. It is not clear
which one held the victim down and which had the knife.
One girl told detectives she regretted it and the other said she was sorry.
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| Morgan with her lawyer |
Geyser and Weier told police they read
about the fictional character on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki,
where scary stories are submitted by users. One of the suspects is
understood to have told police a user must kill someone in order to
climb into the Slender Man's realm.
When the victim escaped in the midst of the
assault, her assailants grabbed her and pulled her into the woods and
told her to lay down and be quiet, hoping she would bleed out and die,
according to court documents.
She eventually crawled out of the
woods, covered in blood after being stabbed in the legs, arms and torso.
A passing cyclist saw her and called police. The girl was taken to the
hospital and is expected to live, despite being stabbed a dozen and a
half times.
Surgeons say she was a 'millimeter from death' - one of the stab wounds nearly sliced open a major artery.
'It was weird that I didn't feel remorse,' one of the girls told detectives.
'The bad part of me wanted her to die, the good part of me wanted her to live,' the other girl said.
Both girls are charged as adults with
attempted pre-meditated murder. If convicted, they face 65 years in
prison and are being held on $500,000 bail each.
The
criminal complaint spells out how the Geyser and Weier initially
planned to put duct tape over their friend's mouth while she was
sleeping and then stab her in the neck as she lay in bed, but then they
thought that a bathroom would be a better scene for the crime because it
would be easier to clean up after, according to CNN.
They
opted against both of those theories, however, and chose to go for the
attack during a game of hide and seek at a nearby park.
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| This is the first known appearance of the 'Slender Man' online -
Photoshopped into a picture 2009 - it has been a viral internet
phenomenon ever since |
As they left for the park ... (the
victim) was walking in front of them and Geyser lifted up the left side
of her white jacket and displayed the knife tucked in her waistband.
Weier stated she gave Geyser a look with wide eyes and, when asked what
that meant Weier stated, "I thought, dear god, this was really
happening,"' the report states.
The
girls were found walking near an interstate highway shortly after their
victim was rescued. They had a backpack full of snacks and a five-inch
knife.
They decided to put it off, but the next day, during a
hide-and-seek game in a wooded park, they attacked their friend with a
knife. One girl told the other to 'go ballistic, go crazy,' according to
the complaint.
The victim began to scream that she hated them and started stumbling away, one of the girls told police.
The
girls left the victim lying in the woods. She crawled to a road where a
bicyclist found her lying on the sidewalk. Police arrived and she gave
them the name of one of the girls who attacked her.
She was rushed into surgery, police said.
One
of the girl's attorneys, Donna Kuchler, asked Pieper to remove
reporters from the courtroom because she planned to attempt to get her
client waived into juvenile court. Pieper refused. Kuchler escorted the
girl's family out of the courtroom, telling reporters only that the
family was horrified at what happened.
The other girl's attorney, Joseph Smith Jr., led her family out of court. He declined to comment.
Both girls are due back in court on June 11 for a status conference.
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