Investigators say the two girls had been plotting for months to kill their victim in “dedication” to Slender Man, a fictional horror website character.
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WISN 12 News reporter Nick Bohr said Geyer’s attorney indicated they are considering appealing the judge’s ruling to try them as adults.
The Waukesha girls accused of stabbing a friend 19 times will formally enter pleas in court Friday. The attorneys are considering appealing Bohren’s ruling earlier in August that the case stay in adult court.
The girls each face a charge of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and could spend decades in prison if they’re convicted in the 2014 attack.
They wanted to kill for him, in part, to prove his existence, police documents allege.
According to the Washington Post, they believed the tall, faceless “Slender Man” would reward them by letting them live in his mansion, which they though was in Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin – 300 miles from their home. Despite the attack, she staged what her family called a “miraculous” recovery and was back in school in September, three months after the attack.
The Associated Press is not identifying the girls because an appeal may still move their cases to juvenile court.
An attorney for one of the girls had objected to allowing the media to photograph her client’s face.
The girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, were reportedly silent when asked to enter pleas because “the judge has not yet issued a written order denying their effort to have the cases transferred to the juvenile court system”.
If convicted as adults, the teens face up to 65 years in prison; the trial is scheduled to start October. 15.
However Judge Michael Bohren refused, saying the girls would be released from prison at the age of 18 if they were found guilty with no supervision or mental health treatment.
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They are expected to appear in court for an arraignment hearing Friday.
