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Payton Leutner was stabbed 19 times by her friends, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, in 2014

Geyser and Weier both claimed that they were told to murder Leutner by the mythical horror figure, the Slender Man

Leutner survived the attack and has gone on to attend high school and college to pursue a career in the medical field

Payton Leutner was just 12 years old when she was brutally stabbed by her close friends, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier .

On May 31, 2014, Geyser and Weier lured Leutner into the woods in Waukesha, Wisc., and stabbed her 19 times. Although Leutner was left alone and abandoned in the woods, she pulled herself to a path where a local cyclist found her and got her medical attention. Leutner miraculously survived after hours of surgery.

Police later app

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