It can make you insane, I think.”Ī 17-year-old from Waukesha named Jenny said that grown-ups in the area want to see Weier and Geyser punished more than teenagers do. I think it depends on how mentally strong you are, and how much you can take.

“Middle school is where it really starts. “Girls are just mean when they’re in middle school,” Eliza, a 15-year-old from the same county, told me over the phone. “It’s a terrible time, and it would drive anybody crazy.” “Middle school sucks,” Bethany, a 16-year-old from Waukesha, said, munching Oreos. According to teenage girls, feeling inclined to stab someone is common at their age. They have a lot to say about girl-on-girl violence, for starters, and are patently unsurprised by the fact that Geyser and Weier concocted their stabbing plan while still in middle school. Twelve-year-old girls say “I hate you” constantly, but in this particular case, the utterance seems justified.īut in contrast to their parents, teenage girls in Wisconsin want to talk about the case. “I hate you,” the victim allegedly screamed, according to New York magazine. Instead, with a game of hide-and-seek, the girls allegedly coaxed their friend to the woods, where they stabbed her 19 times with a five-inch blade. According to NBC News, the girls planned to execute her in the David’s Park public restroom because it had a drain in the floor that would be good for the blood to pour into. The bathroom where Geyser and Weier first considered stabbing their friend reeked of weed when I visited Wisconsin a few weeks ago. Instead of talking about the crime, locals sell candles out of their backyards and cut hearts out of construction paper for a shrine built on the side of the road where Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier’s victim dragged her body to safety. At another intersection, a restaurant marquee declares: “THE BONEYARD! WHERE CHILDREN EAT FOR FREE!“ Inadvertently macabre billboards line the highways leading to the crime scene.

The slender man stabbing