Episode 227 - The Slenderman Stabbing

RedHanded

True Crime

4.5 • 19.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their best friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times.
They claimed it was in an attempt to become proxies of the fictional character Slender Man.
It was a case that gained the attention of the press internationally, bringing children's internet usage and "creepypastas" to the forefront of public attention. But what really happened in the woods that day?
Text sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/21/slender-man-case-anissa-weier-sentenced https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42913133 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27776894#:~:text=The%20Slender%20Man%20meme%20began,with%20which%20to%20terrify%20people.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man https://hazlitt.net/longreads/living-slenderman https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK541211/#:~:text=Shared%20psychotic%20disorder%20(Folie%20a%20deux)%20is%20an%20unusual%20mental,secondary)%20with%20a%20specific%20belief.https://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2017/10/out-came-girls Video Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dgwJxVQpLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXsB5lLgeH8 Beware The Slender Man - Amazon Prime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJzKcxhJII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmjbfq1dUA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8arxEC_6Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9p3jLeDblg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbP1wUx8mYw

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0:07.6	Hello, sausages, happy new year. We have returned from our Christmas commute back to our family home
0:15.4	stead and we are now back. However, you will notice that this is a slight change in the original
0:23.5	programming. We work in a kickoff the new year with the two-part on Scientology. We're still going to do
0:28.6	but it will be next week because unfortunately, Sirus had a bit of an accident. She's fine,
0:33.6	but she is stuck at home and cannot get in to record anything and we wanted to do the episode justice
0:41.7	so we're just going to wait a week until she's back on her feet. Please don't worry about it. She's
0:45.0	absolutely fine. So what we've decided to do because we didn't want to let you down completely.
0:50.8	This is a Patreon bonus episode from a few months ago on The Slender Man Killings. So I hope you
0:57.4	enjoy what you're about to hear and we'll be back next week. As soon as we possibly can, we're
1:03.6	incredibly sorry but we promise we'll make it up to you next week. So here we are.
1:17.3	I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti and welcome to your July bonus episode. I can't believe it's July.
1:27.5	It's summer. It's... It's happened. It's happening. Yep. It's almost the end by the time you're listening
1:33.6	to this. Look at out. It's like the 19th of July. Oh my god. Madness. This whole year has just been so
1:40.3	like... Obviously last year was just totally suspended animation but this one feels kind of the same.
1:45.2	I feel like it's so like stop-stars. It's like, oh, is it... Can we... Is it... No, are we back to...
1:49.7	No, fine. But we're rolling with it. Who knows? Maybe by the time this goes out, the restrictions
1:56.2	will have ended. Who knows anything is possible. By the time this goes out, the creepy pasta that
2:02.0	inspired the story might be relevant again. Who knows? I mean, by the time this comes out, Dr
2:08.4	Phil might be president. We have no idea. We haven't got a clue. We haven't got a clue. I did
2:14.3	actually watch, I mean, please don't anybody do this. I know I'm starting to give away what we're
2:19.1	talking about. Not that you haven't already seen the title or read the copy. I did actually watch
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