The Slenderman Crime

Title: The Slenderman Crime  

General Information about item

  • Slenderman 
  • Language: English
  • Washington Post Article 
  • Informant: Marwa Eltagouri
  • Date Collected: 5/23/2020

Informant Data: Marwa Eltagouri is a general assignment reporter out of Washington, DC. She attended Syracuse University where she got her BA in Magazine Journalism and Political Science. Eltagouri worked with the Washington Post until 2018, where she covered several stories on crime. 

Social Context: I found this article on May 23, 2020, through the Washington Post’s website. Eltagouri has written several crime stories so the attempted murder was by Morgan Geyser was of particular interest to her. 

Cultural Context: The Washington post article titled “A teen stabbed her friend to impress ‘Slender Man’ — and will spend 40 years in a mental hospital” depicts a murder attempt from 2014. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier stabbed their classmate Payton Leutner 17 times in an attempt to impress the mythical creature “Slender Man”. The two girls read about Slenderman online and felt compelled to commit the crime in order to protect themselves and their families. 

Item: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/01/a-teen-stabbed-her-friend-to-impress-slender-man-and-will-spend-40-years-in-a-mental-hospital/ 

Collector’s Name: David Gallagher 

Tags/ Keywords:

  • Slenderman 
  • Washington Post 
  • News Article
  • Attempted Murder

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