In a story published Nov. 26, 2025, about the woman involved in the Slender Man stabbing, The Associated Press erroneously reported the spelling of the creator of Slender Man.

A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man and then fled her group home won't fight extradition from Illinois.

Authorities say a Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home.

Authorities say a Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the horror character Slender Man is missing after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home.

A Wisconsin judge has rejected state health officials’ attempt to keep a woman who stabbed her sixth-grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man more than a decade ago committed to a psychiatric hospital.

A Wisconsin woman who admitted to helping stab a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man will be freed Monday from a mental health institution.

Payton Leutner was 12 when she was lured by two girls she thought were her friends into the woods in Waukesh in 2014. Geyser stabbed Payton repeatedly in the arms, legs and torso with a steak knife while Weier urged her to continue, investigators said. The pair told Payton they would get help for her, but instead headed toward Interstate 94, where they were apprehended. Payton dragged herself from the park bathroom where the attack occurred to a nearby path, where she was found by a bicyclist. Unnerved by the disturbing tales of the boogeyman who stalked children, she said she told Geyser she didnt like talking about it and that it scared her.