Slender Man Stabbing of 2014

== Background ==
=== Slender Man ===
https://www.thecut.com/2014/06/why-kids-love-slender-man.html
Slender Man is a well dressed tall white man with no facial features who chases people in the forest and kills them or (as the movie portrays) fuses them into a tree, he has his on game, movie and fan base.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man
=== Morgan Geyser ===
Morgan appeared to be a normal girl growing up with a big imagination claiming to see ghost in her bedroom, She was considered a social outcast having very few friends including the person she would later stab Payton Leutner and later her associate Anissa Weiner in the 6th grade. Anissa later introduced her to Creepy pasta's a online horror story group where they found Slender Man in 2012. Morgan became obsessed and believed he was real and that she had seen him they later found a post claiming that if you killed someone in the name of Slender Man that you would become a Proxy a worshipper of Slender Man and that he would take you to his mansion so they decided to try to kill their friend Payton. Their plan was to kill her on Morgan's birthday then leave to receive their reward.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNaKjBYrvN8
== The Stabbing ==
On May 31st 2014 in Waukesha, Wisconsin Payton arrived at Morgan's house where they partied then they went to David's Park where they played a game of hide-and-seek, Morgan and Anissa pinned her down by a bush and stabbed her with a kitchen knife 19 times cutting her stomach and liver and almost stabbing her heart, the distance between the blade and Payton's heart was less than a millimeter long. They then left her there but luckily Payton was able to crawl out into a nearby highway where she was picked up and was rushed to the hospital. Morgan and Anissa where later pick up by cops where they confessed everything to them, they were later tried for first degree murder for Morgan and second degree for Anissa which she pleaded guilty to in 2017 and was put in a mental hospital but was released in 2021 with extreme monitoring, as for Morgan it was discovered she had Schizophrenia and was given the max penalty of 40 years in a mental hospital.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing