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| Anissa Weier and her friend Morgan Geyser, both 12 |
The elder brother of a school girl accused of brutally stabbing a classmate to pay homage to an eerie horror story character has said his little sister could not tell the difference between, 'dreams and reality'.
Anissa Weier and her friend Morgan Geyser, both 12, apparently lured their young victim to a woodland area in their home town of Waukesha, Wisconsin and stabbed her 19 times before leaving her to die.
They both told police they committed the horrendous crime because they wanted to impress a ghoulish fantasy character called Slender Man, who they had become obsessed with after reading a string of scary stories online.
And speaking to MailOnline, William Weier gave a fascinating insight into the troubled mind of his little sister.
He said he was fully aware of her interest in the mythical figure - which she first discovered on ghost story website, Creepypasta - and knew she loved watching online videos about him.
He explained: 'If you looked at my younger sister you'd see a normal happy 12-year-old. She's just got a couple of weird interests. Personally I think she found Slender Man on YouTube, took an interest and then read up on it.'She loved CreepyPasta, she loved the Slender Man stories, just anything a bit creepy. But I don't see why it changed from dream to reality.
'She was very quiet, she kept to herself, but she was happy-go-lucky, so this is completely out of the blue.
'I know she understood what she was doing because she is very intelligent, to the point where by she lacks common sense.
'But she is only a little girl so I don't think she understood the ramifications of what she was doing.'
He went on: 'I know all about Slender Man. He surfaced a few years ago and the internet just seized hold of it and everyone started writing these Creepypasta stories.
The Slender Man is a prevalent internet myth that has been a viral sensation since it emerged online in 2009
'It's all just urban legends and Slender Man has become one of the biggest ones. Several people have made internet movies about him and there are online games as well.
'My sister never played the games, but she liked watching the videos.
'It's been very shocking for our family, but what can we do?
'My stepmother and my father have not been talking about this. My dad has been relatively Stoney faces.
'This was out of character for my sister. I just wish she had enough common sense to tell the difference between what is real and what isn't.
'Obviously something on the internet as blown up as Slender Man is not going to be real, they are just legends.
'I'm shocked like anybody would be if it was their little sister. It does happen, but when it does it's a surprise to everybody.'
William said, despite his sister's love of scary films and stories, there were no red flags or indications that she would take her obsession to such a violent extreme.
He explained: 'This was out of character for my sister. She was relatively quiet, she didn't talk about anything she did at school.
'As far as I knew she just liked being scared. She has dug herself a hell of a hole with this. If she gets out, she will be on lockdown.'
William has only just moved back into the family home, just a few hundred yards from the scene of Saturday's shocking attack.
The first he knew about it, was when he saw a SWAT team outside the front door as he pulled up in a car to start moving his belongings in.
The make-up artists, who works for a local variety show called, 'Dead Man's Carnival', said: 'I only moved here two days ago, but I don't know the other two girls involved.
'My sister and I were moving our stuff into the house and we saw a SWAT team at the door.
'As far as I can tell, her and her friend have been planning this for months and they decided to go through with it. It seems it was just random.'
Earlier on Tuesday we revealed the family of the other alleged attacker, Morgan Geyser also knew about the school girl's interest In Slender Man.
Morgan drew the sinister stickman on a napkin and left it in her family home - just a couple of minutes walk from the Weier's house - while her parents were out for dinner.
But far from being alarmed by the disturbing sketch, Morgan's father Matt seemed to find it amusing and posted it on his social network account.
Beneath the picture he wrote: 'Only Mogo draws Slenderman in crayon on a napkin when we are out to dinner'. He tagged Morgan's mother Angela in the post and four of his friends, 'liked it'
MailOnline can reveal Matt Geyser is a death metal fan, who uses the Instagram name, Deadboy420.
He recently posted a picture of a ticket for a Shadows Fall concert, a group with albums including Of One Blood and The War Within.
His wife Angie has also posted a number of pictures of skulls and one eerie image of a church and grave yard at night on her Instagram page.
Mr Geyser's apparent knowledge of his daughter's obsession with the Slender Man character comes as a worrying new development in the gruesome attack that left thejr 12-year-old victim fighting for her life.
It is also concerning that he recognized the ghostly figure from a simple, stickman sketch, seemingly proving he had prior knowledge of the ghost stories his daughter had started to read.
Questions will also be asked as to why the school girl was allowed to search the internet for tales of the murderous character.
According to police Geyser and Weier had been plotting the crime for months.
Both suspects told police they tried to kill their friend because of their obsession with Slender Man, a character they discovered on a website called Creepypasta Wiki, which is devoted to horror stories.
The ghoulish figure has featured in the mythology of various civilizations for centuries.
In an official police report Weier said Slender Man is the 'leader' of Creepypasta, and she needed to kill to show their loyalty.
She explained Geyser told her they needed to become 'proxies' of Slender Man — a paranormal character with tentacle-like arms, who wears a black suit and prays on children.
Proxies apparently feature heavily in the Slender Man online video games.
They believed the only way to prove themselves to him was to slaughter their friend.
Weier told police she was shocked by Geyser's evil suggestion, but excited to prove skeptics wrong and show that Slender Man really did exist.
The suspects were convinced 'Slender,' as Weier called him, lived in a mansion in the Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin. They planned to kill the unnamed victim and walk to the mansion.
Geyser was allowed to have two friends over each year for her birthday. Weier and her decided to try to kill their friend during a sleepover on Friday night.
After class at Horning Middle School, Waukesha on Friday, Weier told police, she and Geyser went to her house, so she could pack a backpack with clothes, granola bars, water bottles and a picture of her mother, father and siblings.
She said she didn't want to forget what her family looked like after leaving for Slender's mansion.
The girls then went to Geyser's house. Matt Geyser gave them a lift to pick up the victim and they all went to a skate park, before coming home around 9:30 p.m. and going to sleep in Geyser's room.
Geyser and Weier had originally planned to kill their victim at 2 a.m. Saturday, according to the criminal complaint.
They decided to duct tape their victim's mouth, stab her in the neck and pull the covers up to make it look like she was sleeping, before running to Slender Man's mansion.
But they changed their plans on Friday night and decided to kill her in a bathroom at a nearby park the next morning. Weier told police she knew there was a drain in the floor for the blood to go down.
As they left for the park the next morning, Geyser lifted up the left side of her jacket; the knife was tucked in her waistband.
When asked by police what that meant, Weier said, 'I thought, dear God, this was really happening.'
When they got to the park bathroom, Geyser handed Weier the knife, and Weier said Geyser tried to restrain the victim, but Geyser had a 'nervous breakdown' and Weier had to calm her down.
Weier then said they should go for a walk in the woods. They planned to play hide and seek with the victim and then kill her when they were out of sight, in the trees.
Weier and the victim went to hide, but when the school girl told her, 'friend' to lie facedown in the dirt, she refused.
At that point Weier pushed the victim and sat on her, thinking Geyser could stab her.
But the victim started to shout and scream that she couldn't breathe so much, Weier had to get off.
Geyser gave Weier the knife, but Weier said she told Geyser she couldn't go through with it and gave it back.
Weier said once Geyser got the knife back, She said, 'I'm not going to until you tell me to.' Weier said she started walking away from Geyser and then told her, 'Go ballistic, go crazy.' Geyser said she would go ballistic, and Weier said, 'Now.'
Geyser then apparently tackled the victim and started frantically stabbing her.
Psalm 37:
1Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Isaiah 40:
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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