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911 Call Released in Waukesha 'Slender Man' Stabbings
A 12-year-old girl who was stabbed 19 times in a bizarre and gruesome plot
in the woods of Wisconsin was having trouble breathing and was covered
in dried blood when a bicyclist who found her called 911.
"She said she can take
shallow breaths. She's alert," said Greg Feinberg, the man who found the
young victim of the "Slender Man" stabbing in the Milwaukee suburb of
Waukesha.
The girl had managed to
drag herself to a grassy area of a dead-end road, where Feinberg found
her, after being attacked in the woods. Her alleged attackers, two
12-year-old friends of hers, are charged with attempted murder for
purportedly trying to please an online demonic creature called "Slender
Man" with their plot to kill her.
The 911 operator urged Feinberg to stay with the girl and remain on the phone until an ambulance and police officers arrived.
"Just let me know if she is remaining conscious or not, OK?" the operator said.
He asked the caller if
the girl had blood on her, and if Feinberg could see her stab wounds —
which were on her torso, legs and arms.
"I don't know if I should be rolling her over and checking her or not," Feinberg responded.
Throughout the call,
Feinberg remains calm, explaining to the 911 operator that he was just
passing through the area on his bike when he saw the horrific scene.
At one point, Feinberg is heard comforting the girl.
"They'll be here any
minute. Somebody to help you. Who did that to you? Or don't you want to
talk? OK, if it's better not to talk, then we won't talk. Save your
energy, " he said.
The 911 operator wanted to know if Feinberg saw the attacker or attackers nearby. He said no.
"Let me know immediately if you see anything else suspicious in the area. A car, a person," the operator said.
The call ends when the squad car arrives.
The two girls charged
in the case, also of Waukesha, told investigators they had been planning
for months on killing their friend to please Slender Man, a character
they learned about on a horror website, a criminal complaint says.
The victim was not
named in court documents. One of her stab wounds was a millimeter away
from a major artery in her heart, but on Monday, she was said to be in
stable condition.
Both suspects were
charged Monday as adults with first-degree attempted homicide and face
up to 60 years in prison if convicted. Bail was set at $500,000 cash
each.
"The bad part of me wanted her to die, the good part of me wanted her to live," one girl allegedly told an investigator.
The
girls told investigators that the incident started with a sleepover on
Friday, to which they invited the victim. Their plan, according to the
complaint, was to duct tape their friend's mouth while she was sleeping,
blanket her in covers so it looked like she was sleeping, then run away
to Slender Man's mansion.
Instead, they waited
until Saturday, when they could lure her to a nearby park and stab her
in the bathroom so her blood would trickle down the drain. Armed with a
knife, they convinced her to come to the park and get into the bathroom,
but once in there, neither girl could bring herself to do the stabbing.
After passing the knife between them, they went into the woods, the
complaint said.
At that point, one girl
pushed the victim down and pinned her down by sitting on her. The girls
again traded the knife back and forth before one of them began stabbing
her, according to the complaint.
The suspects, who NBC News is not identifying because of their age, left their blood-covered victim in the woods.
"The bad part of me wanted her to die, the good part of me wanted her to live," one girl allegedly told an investigator.
Waukesha
Police Chief Russell Jack called the incident "extremely disturbing as a
parent and as chief of police" at a news conference Monday.
The Internet meme that
allegedly inspired the bizarre attack appears on the website Creepypasta
Wiki, a collection of fictional horror stories. Nonetheless, the girls
allegedly told police that they believed Slender Man, a tall, faceless figure in a black suit, was real.
One allegedly said they wanted to become "proxies" of the character and would prove their dedication through the killing, reported NBC affiliate WGBA in Green Bay,
and said they would take the victim's body to an area of Wisconsin's
Nicolet National Forest where Slender Man supposedly lives.
Police said the victim screamed, “I hate you. I trusted you,” to her attackers, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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