

Anissa braced her by the arm (both of them were small) and she and Morgan led her deeper into the trees, farther away from the trail. By the time Morgan stopped, she had stabbed her 19 times.īella, screaming, rose up, but she couldn’t walk straight. Then she stabbed her again, and again, and again – in her arms, in her leg, near her heart.

There, just a few feet beyond the tree line, Morgan, on Anissa’s cue, stabbed Bella in the chest. Anissa was not surprised they had talked about this moment for months.Īfter some time on the swings, Anissa suggested they play hide-and-seek in the suburban woods at the park’s edge.

Morgan got her mother’s permission to walk to the small park nearby.Īs they headed to the playground, Bella in the lead, Morgan lifted her plaid jacket to show Anissa what she had tucked into her waistband: a steak knife from the kitchen.
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They role-played for a while – as the android from Star Trek and a troll and a princess – then ate a breakfast of doughnuts and strawberries. In the morning, the girls made a game out of hurling clumps of Silly Putty up at the ceiling. When they got back to the birthday girl’s house, they greeted the cats, played games on their tablets, and then headed to Morgan’s bedroom, where they finally fell asleep, all three together in a puppy pile in the twin-size loft bed. Anissa, who had almost no other friends, had moved down the block after her parents’ recent divorce. Morgan cast herself as a creative weirdo, and she related to her new friend Anissa on this level, through science fiction. They were three not-so-popular girls at Horning Middle School, a little more childish than the others, a little more obsessed with fantasy and video games and making up scary stories. They skated for hours under the disco lights at the roller rink: tame, mousy-haired Payton Leutner, known as Bella Anissa Weier, with her shaggy brown mop top and Morgan, the “best friend” they had in common, with her moon of a face, big glasses and long blond hair. O n a Friday night in late spring of 2014, in the small, drab city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a trio of sixth-grade girls got together to celebrate Morgan Geyser’s birthday.
