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The perps, bowing their heads in silent prayer to Slenderman

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were two young ladies from the good ol' U S of A who tried killing their friend, Payton "Bella" Leutner, to get a High Score in the hopes it would appease a mediocre creepypasta character named Slenderman. Though they stabbed Bella 19 times (in an action Morgan described as "stabby stab stab stab"), their plan ultimately failed when a cyclist founded Bella's body in the woods in Waukesha, Wisconsin and called 911. Morgan and Anissa surrendered to the police and are currently in court awaiting trial for having shit taste in scary stories.

more factual edit The Slender Man stabbing occurred on Saturday, May 31, 2014 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, when two 12-year-old girls lured another girl of the same age into the woods and stabbed her 19 times, allegedly in order to impress the fictional character Slender Man.[2][3] After being stabbed, the victim crawled to a road and lay on a sidewalk, where a cyclist found her and called 911. She was rushed to a hospital, at which point she was "one millimeter away from certain death," according to a criminal complaint.[2] The victim was hospitalized for six days and has since recovered and returned to school.[4][5]

Contents [hide] 1 Background 2 Lead-up to stabbing 3 Attack 4 Immediate aftermath 4.1 Victim 4.2 Perpetrators 5 Investigation and court procedures 6 Reactions 7 References Background[edit] Main article: Slender Man The Slender Man is a fictional entity created for a 2009 Photoshop contest on Something Awful, an online forum, the goal of which was to create paranormal images. The Slender Man mythos was later expanded by a number of other people who created fan fiction and additional forged images depicting the entity.[2]

The Slender Man is depicted wearing a black suit and with tentacles growing out of its back that it can extend to great lengths. According to the Slender Man mythos, the entity can cause amnesia, bouts of coughing and paranoid behavior in individuals. It is often depicted hiding in forests or stalking children.[2]

Lead-up to stabbing[edit] Both perpetrators were twelve years old at the time of the stabbing, as was the victim. All three were classmates, enrolled in the same middle school and had been at a sleepover at one suspect's home the night before.[6] The perpetrators had discovered Slender Man on the Creepypasta Wiki, a website that hosts creepypasta, or internet horror stories. The two perpetrators believed that Slender Man was real, and that they wanted to become his "proxies", or followers, to prove their loyalty to it, prove his existence and to prevent it from harming their families.[2] The two perpetrators believed that the only way they could become Slender Man's proxies was to murder someone.[2] After they carried out the killing, the perpetrators believed they would become servants of the Slender Man and be allowed to live in his mansion, which they believed was in Nicolet National Forest.[7]

The two girls selected a mutual friend to target. The two perpetrators initially planned to carry out the attack on May 31, 2014 at 2:00 AM, when the victim would be sleeping over to celebrate one of the perpetrator's birthday. They planned to duct tape the victim's mouth, stab her in the neck with a knife and flee. They did not carry out the attack at that time however, since one of the perpetrators desired to give the victim one more day to live.[2]

Attack[edit] The two perpetrators planned to carry out the attack Saturday morning in a bathroom at a local park. However, they actually carried out the attack in a nearby forest while playing a game of hide and seek. During the game, one of the perpetrators pinned the victim down, but there was a dispute about who would carry out the stabbing. Eventually, the perpetrator who had pinned the victim down ordered the other perpetrator to carry out the attack.[2] She complied and stabbed the victim nineteen times in the arms, legs, and abdomen with a large kitchen knife; two of the stab wounds were to major arteries. One of the two nearly penetrated her heart, but missed by less than a millimeter, and the other went through her diaphragm, cutting into her liver and stomach.[3] After carrying out the attack, the two perpetrators told their still conscious victim to be quiet and that they would get help for her. In actuality, the perpetrators fled.[2]

Immediate aftermath[edit] Victim[edit] The twelve-year-old victim was found by a bicyclist, badly wounded in a ditch on the side of the road after having managed to drag her way out of the forest. Police were called and she was immediately taken to Waukesha Memorial Hospital and rushed into surgery.[2][3] The doctor noted her heart rate was elevated and her blood pressure was low, a sign that some of her organs were failing. She was in surgery for six hours. The doctor operating on the victim was forced to open her chest in order to repair the damage.[3] The victim was discharged from the hospital about a week after the attack.[2] The victim continued to run fevers and have difficulty breathing for several weeks after her release from the hospital. As she recovered, she received thousands of letters of support from well-wishers around the world. These letters often took the form of a purple heart, the victim's favorite color. The victim ultimately healed from her injuries, and was able to resume school after it re-opened in September of that year.[3]

Perpetrators[edit] The two perpetrators were apprehended by police officers about four hours after the attack while they were walking near Interstate 94. The officers discovered the knife used to carry out the stabbing in a bag being carried by one of the perpetrators. After being arrested, the perpetrators expressed ambivalent views about the attacked. They were described as feeling guilty for stabbing their friend, but felt that the attack was needed to appease Slender Man.[2]

Investigation and court procedures[edit] In August 2014, one girl had been ruled incompetent to stand trial.[8] In December 2014, both girls were ruled competent to stand trial.[9] She had been diagnosed by state psychiatrists with Childhood Onset Schizophrenia, and was remanded to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.[10][11]

The girls have been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide. They have been set to be tried as adults because in Wisconsin, "all murder and attempted-murder charges for children older than 10 start in adult court."[2] A conviction on first-degree charges in adult court could result in a sentence of up to 65 years in state prison, whereas a conviction in juvenile court could send them "to a secure facility until age 25."[12] Bail was set at $500,000 each.[13]

In February 2015, both girls accused of perpetrating the stabbing were interrogated by local police. Each girl blamed the other for coming up with the plan to murder their friend. They also reiterated the belief that Slender Man would harm them and their families if they did not carry out the attack.[7] Later that month, Anthony Cotton, an attorney for one of the two girls, filed a brief contending that his client should not have been charged with attempted first-degree homicide. According to the brief, the correct charge would be attempted murder second-degree because the girl believed Slender Man would have hurt her and her family if she hadn't killed on his behalf.[14] In March 2015, the judge disagreed with this argument and ruled to keep the two in adult court. Their cases may still be moved to juvenile court for other reasons during hearings in May and June 2015.[15] On August 10, a judge ruled that both teenagers will be tried in adult court.[16] On August 21, Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren entered a "not guilty" plea on behalf of both girls after their attorneys declined to enter pleas.[17] On September 30, 2015, Judge Bohren stayed the case against the two girls so that a state appeal court could determine whether they should be tried in adult or juvenile court. The decision was initially scheduled to be made in January 2016,[18] but was pushed back until April of that year due to an extension requested by the state of Wisconsin and the attorney of one of the accused.[19]

In December 2015, the perpetrator initially found incompetent to stand trial was remanded to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute again by the Wisconsin State Court of Appeals for treatment. She remained there until March 2016, when doctors determined that her condition had stabilized.[10][11]

On April 15, a judge refused to reduce the bond of the two girls, which had been set at $500,000, due to the seriousness of the crime they were accused of having committed, and the belief that they posed a flight risk. The defendants are scheduled to reappear in court in July 2016.[20]

Reactions[edit] The stabbing resulted in extensive debate about the role of the internet in society and its impact on children. Russell Jack, Waukesha Police Chief, said that the stabbing "should be a wake-up call for all parents", adding that the Internet "is full of information and wonderful sites that teach and entertain," but that it "can also be full of dark and wicked things."[2] John Egelhof, a retired agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, argued that the Internet had become a "blackhole" with the ability to expose children to a more sinister world.[21] He further stated that the best way to avoid future incidents for parents to keep track of their children's web habits and to educate them on the differences between right and wrong.[21] Shira Chess, an assistant professor of mass media arts at the University of Georgia, noted that creepypasta was no more dangerous than stories about vampires or zombies. She argued that creepypasta websites were actually beneficial, and that they gave people the opportunity to become better writers.[22]

Max Rodgers, Utah's Director of Netsmartz, an internet safety and advocacy program, argued that students often have difficulty differentiating between the real and online world, and that events such as the Waukesha stabbing occur when these two worlds intersect.[23] Jacqueline Woolley, director of the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, indicated that children were actually capable of distinguishing fiction from reality and that they were fully developed in this capacity by the age of nine.[22]

On the morning of the Tuesday following the stabbing, a statement from the creator of Slender Man was posted to the Creepypasta Wiki, a website where stories about the character are collected, expressing condolences for all those involved.[6][24] Sloshedtrain, the administrator of the Creepypasta Wiki,[22] further argued that the stabbing was an isolated incident that did not accurately represent the creepypasta community. Sloshedtrained also argued that the Creepypasta Wiki was a literary website and that they did not condone murder or satanic rituals.[23]

Members of the creepypasta community held a twenty-four-hour live stream on YouTube from June 13 to June 14, 2014, to raise money for the stabbing victim. Joe Jozwowski, an administrator on a creepypasta website, stated that members of the community wanted to help the victim and to demonstrate that they were not horrible people just because they liked scary stories.[25]

On August 12, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker issued a proclamation declaring Wednesday, August 13, 2015 “Purple Hearts for Healing Day” and encouraged the people of Wisconsin to wear purple on that day to honor the victim of the stabbing. Additionally, he praised the strength and determination exhibited by the victim during her recovery.[26]

A documentary on the incident called Beware the Slenderman was released by HBO Films in March 2016.[27]

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The Plan

The Slenderman OP: totally worth killing for

The plan to become the proxies of Slenderman was simple:

Duct tape Bella's mouth. This would do two things: be a nightmare to get off and prove that duct tape is the solution to everything.
Stab her a bunch of times; creating massive amounts of red food colouring.
Run and find "Slenderman's Mansion" which is probably somewhere near Voldemort's Lair just past Narnia in Middle Earth.
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PROFIT!

The Stabbing

On May 31, 2014 Morgan and Anissa put their genius plan into action. They first halfheartedly tried assaulting Bella in a public park restroom; those ones where closeted homos sneak off to at night for a blowjob from a 16-year-old runaway boy. Now, while most people would have run away screaming after an being attacked in a restroom, Bella--in a truly Facepalmingly-worthy moment of idiocy--decided that despite being accosted in the Toilet of Terror she would continue on with these two burgeoning psychopaths into the freaking woods of all places to play hide-and-seek. Unfortunately for Bella, the other two girls were, in reality, furries who quickly changed into their fursonas--that of homicidal cats--and spoke the following words before attacking her with a knife:

	“	Kitty now. Go ballistic. Go crazy	„
	—Anissa Weier

	“	Don’t be afraid, I’m only a little kitty cat.	„
	—Morgan Geyser

Bella was then stabbed 19 times while crying, "I hate you! I trusted you!" (Interestingly enough, this is what a good deal of Encyclopedia Dramatica users end up eventually screaming at the site prior to ragequitting). The two would-be murderers wandered around aimlessly with no real plan (much like players do in the game where Anissa was first introduced to Slenderman). It was at this point that Morgan revealed the telepathic conversations that she had with Slenderman in which she promised that if they didn't go through with the murder then he could murder their families. Despite believing that they were going to spend the rest of their lives with Slenderman, they were soon picked up by police near the overpass. Why Slenderman hasn't shown up to break them out of the Wisconsin juvenile correctional facility where the girls are being held is unknown. Maybe he's still pissed that he couldn't get a starring role in Marble Hornets.