EP279: The Slender Man Stabbing

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods during a sleepover… and stabbed her 19 times to prove their loyalty to Slender Man—a fictional internet character created on Creepypasta.This horrifying true crime case shocked the world. How did 6th graders become attempted murderers? Why did they believe Slender Man was REAL? And how did the victim survive one of the most brutal child-on-child attacks in history? This isn’t just a story about a fictional monster. It’s about friendship, manipulation, mental illness, and the dark side of internet culture.

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:21.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:33.8	Hi, I'm Shannon.
0:35.9	Hi, I'm Tanya.
0:37.0	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast.
0:43.9	Hey, Shannon.
0:45.2	Hey, Tanya.
0:46.1	How are you?
0:46.9	I'm doing pretty good.
0:48.4	How are you?
0:49.2	Good.
0:50.0	I did want to ask you a question.
0:52.5	Yes.
0:52.8	That's why I had to look it up before we started recording.
0:56.0	You know, there's a new Keanu Reeves movie coming out.
0:58.6	Have you seen the trailer for it?
1:01.7	It's called only going to be in theaters the weekend, I guess, of the 17th, October 17th.
1:08.1	And it's called Good Fortune.
1:10.0	Seth Rogan's in it. Okay.
1:11.6	Premise looks like that Keanu is playing a well-meaning but anept angel named Gabriel, and he meddles in the lives of struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist.
1:24.6	Oh. And who's not sponsored, by the way, everyone.
1:28.6	No, this is not sponsored.
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