starting the upcoming school year with a welcoming atmosphere in the community that has “rallied around her.” WATCH: 'Slender Man<' Stabbing Victim Returns Home Why Did 12-Year-Olds Stab ...

Stephen Lyons says the girl has been eager to go back to school in Waukesha ... to kill the girl to curry favor with a fictional Slender Man character they read about online.

Article continues below The Slender Man character originated in a ... The three girls attended Horning Middle School in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. Leutner initially befriended ...

Slender Man went viral on Creepypasta sites ... Weier and Leutner were all students at Horning Middle School in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wis. Leutner and Geyser had actually become ...

Geyser and Weier claimed they committed the brutal act to curry favor with a fictional horror character found online known as “Slender Man,” which helped thrust the case into the national spotlight.

was 12 and one of two girls who lured a school classmate into the woods and stabbed her 19 times as part of a plot to please a fictional online supernatural character called Slender Man ...

Geyser then stabbed Leutner 19 times with a kitchen knife while Weier cheered her, as part the pair’s obsession with a made-up boogeyman known as “Slender Man.” The three girls were all just 12 ...

They told investigators that they stabbed Leutner to earn the right to become Slender Man’s servants and protect their families from him. Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree ...