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May 2023
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EP11: "Don't Be Afraid [stab]...I'm Only...

Tank Sinatra & Investigator Slater
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On May 31, 2014 in the backwoods of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls violently plunged a kitchen knife into their best friend nineteen times before leaving her alone to bleed out and die.   The young assailants claimed that they were forced to murder "someone they loved" in order to prevent Slenderman - an evil, mythical, online urban legend - from harming their families. In an outrageous and heartbreaking act of premeditated brutality, three young lives were forever changed, causing a seismic shockwave to tear through the nation as people were forced to confront the dangers of the Internet and the frightening capabilities of two children unable to determine fact from fiction.

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