Reading the series of events leading up to the actual killing of the other person was quite chilling. The biggest thing for me was that there was no emotion in these little girls. It was like a robot was telling me the story and describing to me how something so horrific could be done without a shred of remorse. At first I thought that Anissa was going to be the victim considering that Morgan and Bella were friends for a longer period of time. It wasn’t even stressed in the article that the girls had issues growing up. Therefore, the fact that they would commit murder for an imaginative figure was shocking. Even the way they were arrested was interesting because they didn’t really run. They weren’t planning on escaping law enforcement, they were just wandering until the “Slender Man” was going to pick them up.
Honestly, its hard for me to react to a murder case like this because I’m shocked in general and I don’t know how I could even react. I don’t even feel bad for Morgan and Anissa because they fully believed in everything that they were doing. I’m not sure if they should’ve been tried as adults because even though they knew the difference between their imagination and real life, they might not have fully been able to process consequences. On the other hand, morally, I don’t think there is any excuse for knowing that shoving a knife in their friend is wrong and illegal. Also, not to judge a book by its cover but when I got to the part of their mugshots, they literally look like little psychopaths. These girls don’t have any emotion neither do they pretend to act like they do. Furthermore, throughout the whole interrogation process, their so bland and don’t seem to regret anything let alone care about Bella.