One of the women involved in the Slender Man stabbing will soon appear before the Waukesha County Circuit Court judge who sentenced her to 25 years in a state mental facility to request her release.
Anissa Weier, now 19 years old, has spent the last 3½ years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after a jury found her not criminally responsible due to a mental disease in the stabbing that nearly killed a classmate in a sensationalized crime that gained worldwide coverage.
Weier was 12 when she and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner into the woods, stabbed her 19 times and told police they did so to appease a fictional internet horror character named Slender Man.