According to police, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier stabbed their middle-school classmate Saturday morning. They told police they wanted to please Slender Man, a creature they learned about in online horror stories.
Geyser and Weier were charged as adults with attempted first-degree murder on Monday. They’re being held on $500,000 bail each.
The criminal complaint says the girls had been plotting to kill since December. They believed they needed to kill someone in order to win the creature's favor, police said.
Weier believed so deeply that she thought she would never go home after the attack and placed a picture of her family in her backpack so she wouldn't forget them, according to the complaint.
