Author Kathleen Hale “Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls,” (Grove Press) joins the show this hour. Slenderman revisits the seemingly senseless stabbing of a young girl by two of her school friends in the Waukesha, Wisconsin, woods in 2014. It’s a story that made international headlines when it became known that the two 12-year-old perpetrators were under the sway of Slenderman, a fictional Internet demon that they had become convinced was real.
The fascinating tale of this gruesome crime is available online at amazon, good reads, and many other sources.
