Everything you need to know about the upcoming Slenderman trial and the girls who stabbed their best friend 19 times

tips

news  • 

Everything you need to know about the upcoming Slenderman trial and the girls who stabbed their best friend 19 times

They are being tried as adults

In May 2014, 12-year-old Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier left their friend, Peyton Leutner, for dead in the woods after stabbing her 19 times.

The pair allegedly attacked her in the name of Slenderman, a mythical man with extremely long, slender arms and legs. He often appears to have long, black tentacles sprouting from his back, though not everybody agrees on this.

Anissa (left), Morgan (right)

“Anissa said that we had to,” Morgan told detectives when they questioned the two girls after finding them on the side of the road, wearing blood-splattered clothing. “She said that he’d kill our families.”

After spending too much time on the Slenderman Creepypasta Wiki Page, Morgan and Anissa allegedly convinced themselves that in order to go live with him, they needed to kill their best friend friend.

They would then leave her to bleed out, and attempt to walk what is the equivalent of a six hour drive to his imaginary home, where they could live with the other children who had “followed him as well.” Luckily police found them before they got too far on their journey.

“Whether he absorbs, kills, or merely takes his victims to an undisclosed location or dimension is unknown,” the Wiki page explains about the mythical man. “There are never any bodies or evidence left behind in his wake to deduce a definite conclusion.”

Peyton survived because she crawled to a nearby bike path where she was spotted by a passerby, but one of the knife wounds was just centimeters away from a major artery.

bizarre fan art

“We never thought she could possibly believe it was real,” Morgan mother says in the HBO documentary about it, despite drawings like this one all over Morgan’s room.

Morgan’s art

The pair have been charged as adults for attempted first-degree intentional homicide.

Since their arrests May 31, 2014, Weier has been held on $500,000 bail at a juvenile detention center in West Bend where most juveniles spent less than a week. Gyser was diagnosed with early onset schizophrenia, and has been held at the state-run Winnebago Mental Health Institution since. This diagnosis will likely play a large part in her actual sentencing.

Her parents claim that even at a young age she was entirely void of empathy. They would watch a movie like “Bambi” where his mom dies, and Morgan would yell, “Run, Bambi run. Get out of there. Save yourself.”

“She wasn’t sad about it,” her mom says.

“She needed to prove that Slenderman existed, and would be able to do that by killing somebody,” says one of the detectives who questioned Morgan said in the original hearing.

“She lifts up her jacket and shows me the handle of the knife,”Anissa told the same detective the day of the event. “What were you thinking?” the detective asked. “Dear God,” Anissa says, “This is really happening.”

Anissa will be tried on Sept. 11, and Morgan’s trial is scheduled for Oct. 2.

Babe will be following the trials.

@carolinephinney