Internet horror meme “Slenderman” sends two 12 year old girls off the rails in brutal stabbing of pal in the woods, Wisconsin cops say.
Two Waukesa, Wisconsin preteens Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier charged with stabbing their 12-year-old friend are sorry for the attack and called it "wrong," police said.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier invited their intended victim to a sleepover. When the three girls played hide-and-go-seek the next morning, cops say that Geyser and Weier attacked.
The girls allegedly stabbed their classmate 19 times in an act of allegiance to Slenderman, a mythic monster meme online.
The girls told cops they saw the character on creepypasta.wikia.com. They planned to kill the girl and then run away to Slenderman's imaginary mansion in a lush forest.
NBC Chicago reported the two Waukesha 12-year-olds told police that they struggled to decide who would be the one to wield the knife.