What happened to Payton Leutner? During the evil attack by her school friends Leutner was pinned down and stabbed 19 times in the arms, legs, and torso with a … Leutner was stabbed 19 times, with one of the wounds just missing her heart by a fraction of an inch, WISN reported. Part 1: Payton Leutner doesn't return home the morning after a birthday sleepover with her friends. Payton Leutner says she has "come to accept" all of the scars that she has because it's now "just a part of me." It is what drove Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser to stab their friend Payton Leutner 19 times in May 2014 in Wisconsin. The girls invited Payton Leutner, also 12, to a sleepover then lured her to a wooded area and knifed her 19 times. Payton survived the attack and managed to crawl out of the woods where she was found by a cyclist with stab wounds to her chest, abdomen and arms. "I said, 'You're gonna be OK. On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to become proxies of the fictional character Slender Man.. The girls feared their own families would die if … More than five years after she was nearly stabbed to … Payton Leutner was attacked in a wooded park in late May following a sleepover to celebrate her best friend's 12th birthday. Watch the full 20/20 episode at www.abc.go.com The victim crawled to a road where she was found, and recovered after six days in the hospital. Stabbing victim Payton Leutner, 12, has remained anonymous until tonight She was left for dead in a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in May after … Payton Leutner undergoes surgery in the hospital At the hospital, she told Muir, she remembers seeing her mother as nurses counted her wounds. In the video, one of the girls wipes away tears as she explains how they hoped to please Slender Man by killing