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 ...

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 will be released from a psychiatric hospital, a ...

Morgan Geyser, the now-22-year-old who was committed to a Wisconsin psychiatric facility following the stabbing of her best friend in 2014, is set to be granted conditional release from the Winnebago ...

Spooky season is about to begin, and Netflix is getting ready for the march towards Halloween by adding several new horror movies to its roster in October. One of those movies is Slender Man, the 2018 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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.