Why people are so drawn to the scary meme. June 9, 2014— -- A fictional horror creature popularized by Internet memes is now linked to three violent crimes. A week after two 12-year-old Wisconsin ...

The Wisconsin woman, who at age 12 conspired with a friend to brutally stab a classmate to please fictional horror character "Slender Man," is well enough to be released from a psychiatric hospital, a ...

How a child's differs from an adult brain, and why it matters. June 11, 2014— -- A judge today granted a competency evaluation for one of the two 12-year-old girls charged in the Slender Man ...

The Wisconsin woman who attempted to kill her 12-year-old classmate to appease the fictional character “Slender Man” will be released despite the state’s claims there are still “red flags” concerning ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) —A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed her sixth grade classmate nearly to death to please online horror character Slender Man is set to be released from a psychiatric hospital, a ...

Morgan Geyser tried to kill her classmate Peyton Leutner when they were 12 years old Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears in The New York Times, The ...

A Wisconsin judge has agreed to release “Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser from a psychiatric hospital despite desperate last-minute efforts by health officials to keep her committed. Waukesha County ...

(WLUK) -- One of the women convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case will not be released in Northeast Wisconsin. Waukesha County Judge Scott Wagner approved placing Morgan Geyser in a group home in ...

A Wisconsin judge granted an early conditional release Thursday to Morgan Geyser, who was convicted of stabbing her childhood friend more than a decade ago. Geyser, then 12 years old, along with ...

A Wisconsin judge has refused to release from a mental institution a woman who is serving a sentence for brutally stabbing a peer as a child to earn the favor of the fictional horror character Slender ...

A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed her sixth grade classmate nearly to death to please online horror character Slender Man will be released from a psychiatric hospital, a judge ordered Thursday ...

A Wisconsin woman will be released from a mental hospital more than a decade after she nearly stabbed a classmate to death to please the horror character Slender Man, a judge decided Thursday.