Two 12yr old girls stab classmate 19 times to prove 'Slender Man' myth was real

Two 12 year old girls, Anissa Weier (pictured left) and Morgan Geyser
(pictured right) 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; 'SlenderMan
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. Read the
full story after the cut...

From UK Daily Mail
Mythical figure 'Slender Man' picturedove abTwo 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 pierced 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.

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.

Morgan
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.

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.

Police survey the woods where the victim emerged

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.