7 Chilling Revelations From HBO’s New Slenderman Documentary

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7 Chilling Revelations From HBO’s New Slenderman Documentary

January 24, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor

Shock rippled through a small Wisconsin suburb in 2014 when two 12-year-old girls stabbed a young friend. When their story and motive—they said they did it to please a fictive Internet bogeyman called “Slender Man”—became known more widely, the rest of the world was horrified too. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier confessed to luring their 12-year-old friend Payton “Bella” Leutner into the woods near Waukesha and leaving her to die from her 19 stab wounds, police said. The attack had been planned over the course of months. A new documentary, Beware the Slenderman, revisits the case with lengthy interrogation-room footage of the girls and unprecedented access to both their families. The film, which aired on HBO on Jan. 23, explores how an Internet meme helped turn two tweens into possible murderers.

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