One of the women involved in the Slender Man stabbing will soon appear before the Waukesha County Circuit Court judge who sentenced her to 25 years in a state mental facility to request her release.
Anissa Weier, now 19 years old, has spent the last 3½ years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after a jury found her not criminally responsible due to a mental disease in the stabbing that nearly killed a classmate in a sensationalized crime that gained worldwide coverage.
Weier was 12 when she and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner into the woods, stabbed her 19 times and told police they did so to appease a fictional internet horror character named Slender Man.
Slender Man stabbing: Anissa Weier requests conditional release
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Slender Man stabbing: Anissa Weier requests conditional release
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Slender Man stabber, 19, will ask to be released from a mental health facility after she and friend lured classmate into the woods and stabbed her when they were 12 to please the fictional horror character
Annisa Weier was 12 years old when she and her friend, Morgan Geyser, also 12 at the time, stabbed classmate Payton Leutner nearly to death in 2014
The girls claimed they carried out the attack to please the fictional horror character Slender Man
Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 25 years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in 2017
She is appearing before the same judge and asking for her conditional release, saying she does not pose a significant risk of harming herself or others
One of the women involved in the Slender Man stabbing will soon appear before the Waukesha County Circuit Court judge who sentenced her to 25 years in a state mental facility to request her release.
Anissa Weier, now 19 years old, has spent the last 3½ years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after a jury found her not criminally responsible due to a mental disease in the stabbing that nearly killed a classmate in a sensationalized crime that gained worldwide coverage.
Weier was 12 when she and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner into the woods, stabbed her 19 times and told police they did so to appease a fictional internet horror character named Slender Man.