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On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their friend Payton Leutner into a wooded area of a local park and stabbed her 19 times to appease the fictional character Slender Man. Weier and Geyser were both found not guilty by mental disease or defect and committed to mental health institutions. Weier received a sentence of 25 years to life and Geyser was sentenced to 40 years to life. After seven years in custody, Weier was granted early release and will be under supervision until age 37. Background Slender Man is a fictional entity created on Something Awful, an online forum, for a 2009 paranormal image Photoshop contest. The Slender Man myth was subsequently expanded online with fan fiction and visual art depicting the entity. Slender Man is an unnaturally tall and thin character with a white, featureless head. He is depicted wearing a black suit, black tie, black shoes, and white collared shirt. He is sometimes shown with tentacles growing out of his back. In the Slender Man mythos, the entity causes amnesia, bouts of coughing, and paranoid behavior in his victims. He is often depicted hiding in forests. Events of the attack The stabbing took place on May 31, 2014, during a game of hide-and-seek in heavily wooded Davids Park near Waukesha, Wisconsin. The perpetrators, Anissa Weier (b. November 10, 2001) and Morgan Geyser (b. May 16, 2002), pinned down Payton Isabella Leutner (also known as Bella, a nickname used at the time of the crime) and stabbed her nineteen times in the arms, legs, and torso with a five-inch-long (13 cm) blade. Two wounds were to major organs. One stab wound missed a major artery by less than a millimeter and another went through her diaphragm, cutting into her liver and stomach. After the attack, Weier and Geyser told Leutner to lie down while they found help, which they did not do. Afterwards, Leutner dragged herself to a nearby road where she was found by a cyclist who called emergency services. Surgeons operated for six hours to repair critical trauma to organs and tissue in her torso and abdomen. Five hours after the attack, Weier and Geyser were apprehended by police near Steinhafel's Furniture Store on Interstate 94, approximately 4.9 miles (7.9 km) from the attack location. They were in possession of the knife used in the stabbing, which was found by police in a bag they carried. They said they were traveling to meet Slender Man at his home, called Slender Mansion, in the Nicolet National Forest, 200 miles (320 km) from where they were apprehended. During their interrogations, which were not conducted with a legal guardian or counsel, Geyser was described as displaying no empathy and Weier was described as displaying guilt for stabbing Leutner, although both stated that the attack was necessary to appease Slender Man. Leutner left the hospital seven days after the attack. She returned to school in September 2014. Geyser's mental state During the police investigation and pre-trial psychiatric evaluations, Morgan Geyser disclosed life-long visual and auditory hallucinations beginning in early childhood. These hallucinations typically included figures she interpreted as ghosts, colors melting down walls, and imaginary friends named Maggie and Sev. One recurring hallucination was a man Geyser named "It", whose body she described as the color of smoke and ink. She would perceive him as standing behind her in mirrors or shifting around corners. After Geyser's arrest, her mother, Angie Geyser, described her as becoming "floridly psychotic." Correctional officers reported Geyser frequently talking to herself, pretending to be a cat, and keeping ants as pets. She reported seeing unicorns and believed she was having ongoing conversations with Slender Man and other fictional characters, such as Severus Snape. In the fall of 2014, Geyser was relocated to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute to determine if she was competent to stand trial. On October 22, 2014, Geyser was diagnosed with early-onset childhood schizophrenia. Geyser's treatment for schizophrenia was erratic and inadequate for nineteen months, which is believed to have exacerbated her cyclic regressions into psychosis and reduced her ability to recognize delusions against reality. In December 2015 she began a consistent, long-term regimen of antipsychotic medication, which enabled Geyser to understand what she had done and display appropriate feelings related to her crime, such as guilt and remorse. On March 23, 2016, Geyser was returned to the county jail to await trial. Although she was appropriately medicated, Geyser's mental health deteriorated. Her deterioration was linked to stressors on her already fragile mental health that are typical to forced confinement and incarceration. During trial, Geyser was committed to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, where she was the youngest patient. Court case and negotiations Geyser was charged with attempted, first-degree homicide, a Class A felony, and Weier was charged with attempted second-degree homicide, a Class B felony. Due to the nature of the offenses, both Weier and Geyser were waived out of juvenile court to be tried as adults. In 2017, Weier pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree homicide. A jury then found her "not guilty by mental disease or defect." Geyser accepted a plea offer that stipulated she would not undergo a trial if she pleaded guilty and agreed to further evaluation by psychiatrists to determine appropriate duration of commitment to a forensic psychiatric hospital. She later pleaded guilty as arranged by the plea offer, but was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect due to a final diagnosis of schizophrenia by court-appointed psychiatrists. Weier was sentenced to 25 years to life, an indeterminate sentence requiring at least three years confinement and involuntary treatment in a state forensic psychiatric institute, followed by communal supervision until age 37. Geyser was given the maximum sentence, 40 years to life, an indeterminate sentence requiring at least three years confinement in addition to involuntary treatment in a state forensic psychiatric institute until complete resolution of symptoms or until age 53, whichever may happen first. If released, she will remain under communal supervision and undergo periodic reevaluations intended to identify need for reinstitution and/or further treatment as required by the sentence imposed. At a hearing on March 10, 2021, Weier, who was then 19 years old, submitted a letter to the court stating that she was "sorry and deeply regretful for the agony, pain, and fear I have caused," not just to Leutner, but to "my community as well." Weier stated that, "I hate my actions from May 31, 2014, but through countless hours of therapy, I no longer hate myself for them." On July 1, 2021, Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren ordered Weier released from the.... Discover the First District Court Of Appeal Of Florid popular books. Find the top 100 most popular First District Court Of Appeal Of Florid books.