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SUMMARY:True Crime Book Discussion: "Slenderman" by Kathleen Hale 
LOCATION:Upper Marlboro\nUpper Marlboro
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DESCRIPTION:Discuss a true crime book. This month we are discussing\, â
 €œSlenderman: Online Obsession\, Mental Illness\, and the Violent Crime
  of Two Midwestern Girls" by Kathleen Hale..\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/e
 vent/17257448
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 end-images/editor/pgcmls/slenderman.jpg" width="350" height="547" alt="" s
 tyle="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" /></p>\n<
 p>The first full account of the&nbsp\;Slenderman&nbsp\;stabbing\, a true c
 rime narrative of mental illness\, the American judicial system\, the tria
 ls of adolescence\, and the power of the internet. On May 31\, 2014\, in t
 he Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha\, Wisconsin\, two twelve-year-old girls at
 tempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's
  violence was extreme\, but what seemed even more frightening was that the
 y committed their crime under the influence of a figure born by the intern
 et: the so-called "Slenderman." Yet the even more urgent aspect of the sto
 ry\, that the children involved suffered from undiagnosed mental illnesses
 \, often went overlooked in coverage of the case. "Slenderman: Online Obse
 ssion\, Mental Illness\, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls" te
 lls that full story for the first time in deeply researched detail\, using
  court transcripts\, police reports\, individual reporting\, and exclusive
  interviews. Morgan and Anissa were bound together by their shared love of
  geeky television shows and animals\, and their discovery of the user-uplo
 aded scary stories on the Creepypasta website could have been nothing more
  than a brief phase. But Morgan was suffering from early-onset childhood s
 chizophrenia. She believed that she had been seeing&nbsp\;Slenderman&nbsp\
 ;for many years\, and the only way to stop him from killing her family was
  to bring him a sacrifice: Morgan's best friend Payton "Bella" Leutner\, w
 hom Morgan and Anissa planned to stab to death on the night of Morgan's tw
 elfth birthday. Bella survived the attack\, but was deeply traumatized\, w
 hile Morgan and Anissa were immediately remanded into jail\, and the sever
 ity of their crime meant that they would be prosecuted as adults. There\, 
 as Morgan continued to suffer from worsening mental illness after being de
 nied antipsychotics\, her life became more and more surreal.&nbsp\;Slender
 man&nbsp\;is both a page-turning true crime story and a search for justice
 . &mdash\;From the Catalog.</p>\n<hr />\n<p>Borrow the book from PGCMLS: <
 a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0
 .0.3&amp\;pos=1&amp\;cn=1359402">Print</a>&nbsp\;| <a href="https://catalo
 g.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=2&amp\;c
 n=1366499">eBook</a> |&nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/eve
 nt/17257448
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