A Waukesha County jury began deliberations shortly after 10 a.m. to decide whether Anissa Weier was mentally ill when she and Morgan Geyser stabbed a classmate, Payton Leutner, 19 times Memorial ...

Anissa Weier The defense is trying to convince jurors that Weier was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the stabbing at a Waukesha park in 2014 and therefore is not criminally responsible.

Anissa Weier is charged along with Morgan Geyser in the attempted murder of their then-sixth grade classmate in the spring of 2014. Investigators say the attack was an attempted sacrifice to the ...

Anissa Weier, 16, will now spend 25 years under a mental health institution’s supervision, with credit for her 1,301 days already spent in incarceration.

WAUKESHA — Anissa Weier, who admitted to participating in the stabbing of a classmate to please the fictional character Slenderman will avoid prison after a jury determined Friday, September ...

The Wisconsin teenager who nearly stabbed her classmate to death seven years ago after becoming obsessed with the internet meme Slender Man is scheduled to be released today.. On Friday, a Waukesha ...

WAUKESHA COUNTY -- Last month, lawyers for Anissa Weier were in court, trying to get the now 13-year-old girl's case moved to children's court. Weier is one of two girls accused of stabbing their ...

Anissa Weier, now 19, is set to be freed on Monday after nearly four years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in Oshkosh Wisconsin, where she had been serving a 25-year sentence.

A judge should deny Anissa Weier's request to be released from a state mental hospital in the Slender Man stabbing case, prosecutors contend. “The state believes she is a danger to others ...

Anissa Weier, one of the 12-year-olds convicted of stabbing their friend in 2014 to "appease Slender Man," has been released. She wasn't due to be released until she was 37.

Anissa Weier, one of the teens sentenced to live in a mental health facility after the 2014 "Slender Man" stabbing, has petitioned a court for her release.

Anissa Weier, 19, is requesting a conditional release following her 2017 conviction in the stabbing of her 12-year-old friend, Payton Leutner. Weier is expected to appear in Waukesha County Circuit ...