Seven shocking reveals in HBO's new ‘Beware the Slenderman’ documentary
On May 31, 2014, 12-year-olds Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their friend Payton "Bella" Leutner into the woods where they stabbed her 19 times.
Geyser and Weier did this so they could be servants of Slenderman, an urban legend depicted as a tall man in a black suit with a featureless white face.
"Beware the Slenderman," which premieres Monday night on HBO at 10 p.m., will give viewers a look at the background of both Geysey and Weier, the struggles their parents now face and a peek inside the ongoing court case where they will be tried as adults.
Although you don't get to learn much more about the victim (Leutner's family did not participate in documentary), there was plenty of videos, pictures and other shocking details of the case that were shown.
Here's a look at seven stunning moments from Irene Taylor Brodsky's Slenderman documentary.
“Lionesses chasing down a zebra"
Anissa Weier (l.) and Morgan Geyser (r.) stabbed their friend Payton Leutner so they could become servants of urban myth Slenderman.
Some of the most shocking and intriguing parts of "Beware the Slenderman" was the footage of Geyser and Weier speaking with detectives just hours after the stabbing. It's extremely chilling to see just how calm Geyser was about what she had just done and Weier describing the many advanced plans they had for trying to kill Leutner.
Geyser is emotionless, speaking matter-of-factly when describing what happened. She never once cries or shows any signs of regret. Meanwhile, Weier cries multiple times throughout her interview, but she holds nothing back when describing why and how they went about trying to kill one of their best friends. At one point she refers to the time prior to the stabbing as "like lionesses chasing down a zebra."
Geyser's notebooks and dolls
Slenderman is an urban myth that was created in 2009.
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When a private investigator was on the stand, he showed the court photos of disturbing drawings found in notebooks inside of Geyser's room. There were several drawn pictures of Slenderman along with notes saying "he will find you," "I want to die," "the pain is inside" and one that reads "come back you are missed" with a picture of Slenderman underneath.
The investigator also shares photos of Barbie dolls found in her room that Geyser colored all over. She used different colored markers to markup to dolls, many of which were stripped down. Some of the dolls were even covered with odd symbols. These showed Geyser clearly had a lot of darkness going on in her mind.
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