⨂CREEPYPASTA RESEARCH⨂

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On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their best friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to become proxies of the Slenderman.

The actual attack took place in a nearby forest (David's Park) during a game of hide-and-seek. Leutner was pinned down and stabbed 19 times in the arms, legs, and torso with a kitchen knife with a five-inch-long (13 cm) blade. Two wounds were to major organs, one missed a major artery of her heart by less than a millimeter, and another went through her diaphragm, cutting into her liver and stomach. Weier and Geyser told Leutner they would find help, but they did not get any upon leaving.Afterwards, Leutner dragged herself to a nearby road where she was found by a cyclist.The cyclist called 911 when he saw her. Weier and Geyser were apprehended near Interstate 94 at Steinhafel's furniture store, after walking 4.9 miles.The knife used in the stabbing was in a bag they carried. While Geyser felt no empathy, Weier was described as feeling guilty for stabbing the victim, but felt that the attack was needed to appease Slender Man.

Leutner left the hospital seven days after the attack. She returned to school in September 2014.
The perpetrators were found not guilty by mental disease or defect and committed to mental health institutions for sentences of 25 (Weier) and 40 years (Geyser), respectively. Geyser was with 15 pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder. Weier was with 15 pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. Weier ,right now 19, request that she wants to be free. The mental institution argues in response to the request that Weier cannot be safely released. The judge has scheduled a hearing June 11.2021.

"I believed that if I didn't go through with it, Slenderman would come and attack and kill myself, my friends and my family," Weier told the court, according to the Associated Press. "Those I cared about the most."
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Update: Weier is now on free feet. The judge released she.
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