She vowed she'd never let herself “become a weapon again" and promised to comply with whatever conditions Bohren imposed. When Weier petitioned Bohren for conditional release in March, she said she had exhausted all her treatment options at Winnebago and she needed to rejoin society. They said they thought attacking her would make them his servants and keep him from killing their families. Weier and Geyser told investigators they stabbed Leutner because they thought Slender Man was real. She suffered 19 stab wounds and barely survived. Weier and Geyser left Leutner for dead, but she crawled out of the woods and was found by a passing bicyclist. All three girls were 12 years old at the time. Geyser stabbed Leutner multiple times as Weier encouraged Geyser to inflict the injuries.
The May 2014 stabbing happened after Weier and friend Morgan Geyser lured classmate Payton Leutner into the woods at a Waukesha park following a sleepover. In addition to the conditions of release, Weier will be assigned state Department of Health Services case managers to track her progress until she's 37 years old, the length of her commitment.
Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren gave state officials 60 days to draw up a conditional release plan and sent Weier back to the mental hospital pending another hearing on Sept.
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She won't be allowed to go free immediately, however. She argued in a petition for conditional release that she's no longer a threat to anyone. One scene from the footage shows a wall of drawings that somewhat resemble sketches of Geyser's, while others feature Slender Man following a girl into the woods and another girl stabbing herself.A Wisconsin judge on Thursday ordered the release of a woman who has spent 3 1/2 years in a state mental health facility after being convicted of stabbing her classmate to please the Slender Man character.Īnissa Weier, 19, was sentenced to 25 years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in December 2017. From the trailer alone, it remains unclear whether the film will explicitly explore the Slender Man attack case, though there are a few moments that allude to it. Sony's Slender Man centers on the influence of the titular fictional character, created in 2009 by Eric Knudson, who edited normal photos of children playing to depict the slim and spidery faceless figure looming in the background. Geyser's sentencing is scheduled for February. She entered a deal with prosecutors, who have requested that she serve a minimum of 40 years in a mental institution. She will serve 25 years in a mental hospital. As for Geyser, now aged 15, she plead guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Weier, now 16 years old, recently plead guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. Weier, Geyser, and Leutner were all 12 years old when the attack took place. When questioned about the crime, Weier and Geyser explained to detectives that they believed they had to kill Leutner in order to become Slender Man's "proxies," or servants, and to protect their families from his murderous ways. Leutner survived the attack by crawling to a path outside of the woods a bicyclist later discovered her and she was rushed to the hospital. Though Anissa Weier didn't physically stab Leutner, she did urge Geyser on as she committed the heinous act.