The two young girls who stabbed one of their classmates and left her for dead are now facing 65 years in prison . A judge has ruled that Anissa Weier , 13 , and her friend Morgan Geyser , 12 , of Waukesha , Wisconsin , will be tried as adults as they stand trial for their attack on Peyton Leutner , 12 , who nearly died . Both girls have been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide . Now , defense attorneys for the girls have scheduled hearings in hopes of moving their cases back to juvenile court . Scroll down for video . Morgan Geyser ( left ) and Anissa Weier ( right ) will be tried as adults for stabbing a classmate . Peyton Lautner ( above ) was stabbed 19 times in the woods on May 31 , 2014 . Morgan is seen with blood on her shirt during the interrogation ( above ) This as recent interrogation video of Anissa , then 12 , and Morgan 12 , released last month showed the two calm and collected as they spoke with authorities . Morgan describes seeing the fantasy character in her dreams , while Anissa claims she saw him in real life after they stabbed their classmate , Peyton 19 times before leaving her in the woods on May 31 , 2014 . Peyton was saved when she was able to crawl out and get help from a passing bicyclist . In a video , obtained by WISN , the girls both say they told Peyton they wanted to go bird watching , this after planning their attack on the school bus . 'People who trust you become very gullible , ' Morgan told police . 'And it was sort of sad . ' Anissa is more emotional during her interview , wiping away tears at one point . 'We told her we were going to get help , ' she told police about the moments after the two stabbed Peyton. `` 'But we were n't . We were going to run and let her pass away . So we ran . ' The girls were running off to find Slender Man , and were later picked up walking along a highway off-ramp , and Morgan had a knife in her backpack . In the interrogation video , Morgan can also been seen with blood on her shirt , which she has photographed at one point . She also begins singing to herself at one point during the six-hour interview , and told police of her plan ; 'You have no idea how difficult it was not to tell anyone . I knew we 'd get in trouble . ' When she described the actually stabbing , she said ; 'It just sort of happened . It did n't feel like anything . It was like air . ' Anissa said at one point Slender Man would kill their families if they did not kill Peyton . Morgan and Anissa said they stabbed their friend to appease the Slender Man . As for Slender Man , Morgan described him as a man with 'tendrils that are very sharp . ' ' I see him in my dreams , ' she told police , . Anissa said in her interview that she did not have the same visions as Morgan , but knew she had to kill her friend for the Slender Man . ' I decided to go along , tag along , to prove the skeptics wrong , ' she said . Then , when asked if she saw the Slender Man , she told police ; 'Uh huh , after Morgan stabbed [ Peyton ] . ' She also revealed that Morgan said to her ; ' I kinda sorta made a deal with Slender saying that if I did n't , if we did n't kill Peyton that he would , would either or could kill our families and everything we love . '
Anissa Weier and her friend Morgan Geyser will stand trial as adults for stabbing a fellow classmate and are facing 65 years in prison . This as police interrogation video recently released showed Anissa , then 12 , and Morgan , 12 , explaining why they stabbed a friend 19 times . The girls , from Wisconsin , Waukesha , attacked Peyton Lautner to appease the Slender Man , planning out their actions on the school bus . Peyton survived the attack , and the girls were picked up a few hours later walking along a highway off-ramp . In the video , Morgan said she saw Slender Man in her dreams , while Anissa said she saw him when Morgan stabbed Anissa . Both girls face a count of being a party to attempted first-degree intentional homicide .