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 19 , and Morgan , 19 , explaining why they stabbed a friend 12 times . The girls , from Waukesha , Wisconsin , 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 .
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 Waukesha , Wisconsin , 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 .