guys, this story needs no fictionalize asian. this is non-fiction red meat. would you consider letting me tell your story. the banker says yes. a former armed robert says, you want to tell my story, you come up to a bank or to my house and will talk. so i drove up.

it's a form of very short, web only, fiction. creepypasta is horror fiction. the creepy pasta wiki is literally just a site that compiles different stories about this. some slenderman stories, lots other stories. from the sound of things, you have some very confused girls because there's nothing to the site having to do with slenderman runs this site or anything like that. it's a form of fiction that gets shared a lot on the internet. also worth noting slenderman stories are on probably thousands and thousands of different websites. i do have the statement from creepypasta wiki that i wanted to mention because i think it is important. they reened spoed obvious. they responded obviously by saying the heart goes out to the victim and they say there's a line between fiction and reality and it's up to you to realize where that line is. we're a literature site, not a satanic site. they say this is probably obvious to the vast majority of people who visit the site but obviously you had some very confused girls here. slenderman got his start on a different website in

fact or fiction. if you are in a house you're totally safe from lightning? well, that one is actually a fact. it is true. because a house is safe to be inside if you are in the middle of a thunderstorm, but only if you stay off corded phones, stay off anything electrical wires, tv computers, all of that stuff. stay a which from it and you will be safe. the next one, fact or fiction, rubber tires protect from lightning by insulating you from the grounds. so if in your car you're safe because of the rubber tires. actually myths. actually the metal roof and the metal sides of the car that protect you not the rubber tires. so if you are caught in a thunderstorm, stay away from the doors and you'll be just fine. take a look at one more. lightning never strikes the same place twice. we've heard that one a lot, right, is that fact or is it fiction? that is actually myths. lightning can strike the same place a lot of times. specially if tall point, isolated object. think about there is tall pointy isolated object. that will leads to our weather trivia. okay, weather

his first book was a collection of fiction short stories. this is non-fiction. it is a 11 shorts stories about being a doctor, the challenges of our residents. he is a great doctor. he trained many. he gave up riding in order to practice medicine. he would take it to the extremes of life, showing you what it is like in the emergency room, and an intensive careward and the challenges of the doctor faces to all with extraordinary language. >> our declaration, what is that? >> our declaration is actually coming out in july. daniel allen is a leading philosopher and scholar at the institute for advanced studies at princeton. she feels that we don't know what the declaration of independence is about. we have never studied it. she has done courses on a for adult students call also a talented undergraduates. she says that the declaration is as much about a quality as it is about personal liberty. she has also discovered errors in the version of the declaration that we use, and some of this will be revealed in the next months. and she is an extra very figure. you will h

>> this was science fiction just years ago. we wanted to let our viewers know, you can see more about this pioneering medicine, these patients willing to take chances to get this groundbreaking science off the ground, in meredith's two-hour special report, that's tonight at 8:00, 7:00 central. thanks for visiting us. always a pleasure. >>> we are back in a moment with the big news tonight for millions who are living with diabetes. >>> there is medical news tonight that will be of big interest for millions of americans living with diabetes. late today, the fda approved an inhalable diabetes medication. will be marketed under the name afrezza. a fast-acting form of insulin. starts as a powder. it's meant to be taken before meals to help patients control their blood sugar levels. because this word broke right before airtime, we've put all the information we have on it on our website tonight, nbcnews.com. >>> a very emotional moment during last night's nba draft. it involved isaiah austin, the center from baylor, who would have gon

so we shouldn't blame it all op their activity with this fictional character.eric: another good reason and advice for parents to try and stay on top of the kids. dan, rebecca, thank you so much for your insights. jenna: president obama addressing the controversial release of sergeant beau bergdahl saying he makes no apology for it while lawmakers raise serious concerns about the administration's handling of the prisoner exchange. we're going to have much more on this developing story throughout the day today. >>> also, a terrifying scene as a marine jet slams into a neighborhood. >>> plus, tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the d-day landings. as we honor the sacrifices of so many heroes on that day and others who helped liberate europe and end the second world war. stay with fox for complete coverage of all the events. vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked giants stood tall and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real avo: whatever you can imagin

at it in that literary fiction. no, but i mean that. so, i try to -- and i think that we all do not open up to what you have been reading in college is a very small percentage of what's out there and you have to broaden your own take and you also as an editor especially, you have to learn how to step outside of your own take. passion is one thing that taste is another. so, you have to learn how to sort of read as a civilian for your own personal use and your own personal taste a passion. but also come as a publishing professional and that is not the same thing. there is a diagram and there is an overlap of cours of course bs not the same thing. >> there is no stigma. >> please don't get caught up in the literary bias. ibias. a few of the literary nonfiction and that's what you want to work on, that's great and people will tell you they are very passionate about it. if you love romance and crime fiction, go work in math and to work in the literary works we need to sell all of those categories. we need all of those categories. and don't l

. >> lin, two birdbaths were deep to come in the process of fact to fiction, which is important that you can do so much research that you overburdened with too much detail and then you start reading it out. how do you vilify these characters? how do you revisit a time when we don't have videotapes of how how they lived in talk. the geography looks the same, but the world is very different otherwise. >> that is a good question. i hope i was able to do that. when i first started the book, i felt very nervous about putting anything to paper because for that reason i didn't know, for instance, as i wrote the first chapter, i didn't know what kind of matchers the boys would be sleeping on. i didn't know what kind of pencils they would have used, what kind of dollar bills denominations they had. all those little details that novelists use for creating a real experience for readers. i felt i didn't have access to those because i was for the first time writing and historical. peace. so i spent a lot of time reading and group only of course, but reading a lot of books and immersing myself in.

i love writing fiction because it is relaxing. get lost in a book when i am writing it. >> can you tell stories here because you could not now and down for reporting -- nail it down for reporting? >> you can speculate and draw them out and imagine how they might work. as a journalist, i do not see into the details of intelligence operations. i see the surface. people tell me stories. i hear a lot, but i am not on the inside of this world. in a sense, that makes it easier. describe what people might do and operations. >> how many of the characters sense, on an some profile of someone you know? >> they are all composites. no one is based on a single person. you said you might know her. theith any character, character in this book, they are people who are like the character and you may know some of them. there is no -- honest, if realried to describe a person, it would be nonfiction. it would be journalism. it is the invention that makes it -- >> you are inspired by things you see. i would assume that you go through your life on an a

>> this was science fiction just years ago. we wanted to let our viewers know, you can see more about this pioneering medicine, these patients willing to take chances to get this groundbreaking science off the ground, in meredith's two-hour special report, that's tonight at 8:00, 7:00 central. thanks for visiting us. always a pleasure. >>> we are back in a moment with the big news tonight for millions who are living with diabetes. [ male announcer ] if you suffer from a dry mouth then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. [ crickets chirping ] but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? [ exhales deeply ] [ male announcer ] well there is biotene. specially formulated with moisturizers and lubricants, biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. [ applause ] biotene -- for people who suffer from dry mouth. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals

it isn't the same as journalism, or non-fiction or research books. it is about real people. i studied with roger who teaches at stony brook south hampton. i studied with him twice. this is like writing a involve except it is about real people and real events and you are the character and many other characters and you have to separate from yourself and write yourself as a character. was >> was that tough? >> but it was fascinating because it was a new way to express myself. learning something new always turns me on. >> you write in daring that you were a late blooming problem drinker? >> yes, i was. >> might surprise some people. >> because of the takeing care f my husband, not being able to work often, and i began walking from the nursing home and stopping in a sports bar and having 2-3 glasses of wine until i realized i was turning into the alcoholic my mother had been and i was always afraid that could happen. so that led me into a 12-step program that is very valuable in my life. >> you don't drink at all today? >> no. happily. >> gale sheehy, as somebody who has been a w

it is true to the star wars fiction that gives lawyers a chance to interact in a different way. our objective is and just to give you a movie game. it's to give you a way to step into the star wars universe. >> you feel more than ever the hollywood model of editing on the franchise.

our team of experts separates fact from fiction. plus, if you were riding the hollywood version of this story, is this the bay you would write it? who better to ask than the executive producer of the television series "homeland." we want to know what you think. >>> first, i want to give you mistake on the unfolding controversy over the release of army arrest gent bowe bergdahl. we saw his actual release for ourselves today. squinting, possibly to adjust his eyes to the daylight. the picture of five years in captivity. the video obviously meant to be a propaganda tool for bergdahl's captives. a soldier's life saved. that video got me to thinking about brothers in arms. about how the greatest generation conducted themselves on the battle field, but more importantly, what they did once they returned home, if they were lucky enough to return home. there's been a lot said about ser janet bergdahl. even from some of the men who served alongside them. they have every right to speak out. and maybe they're right, but the official evidence do

contrast that with the return of fictional brody in "homeland."ly via skype. thank you for joining me. people have talked about the similarities here. do you see the similarities between bowe bergdahl and your fictional character brody in "homeland"? >> the reaction to him, a broken man coming back home and whether he's going to get a hero's welcome or court-martialed and the question whether he's turned or not, of course, is on the news every day. so i do think people see similarities, yes. >> you also created israel's prisoners of war release. were you surprised about that and the release of bowe bergdahl? were you surprised by the similarities? >> not so much. i've done extensive research on prisoners of war. there's about 1500 former prisoners of war who lived in israel and i've talked to many of them and their wives and their families and i've watched their coming home and these men always come back very broken, squinting from the sunlight because they are usually kept in dark rooms or cells or holes in the ground. their physical and mental c

i love writing fiction because it's relaxing.get lost in a book when i'm writing it. >> rose: but can you tell stories here you couldn't write about because you couldn't nail it down for reporting with a pretty sure instinct you believe they are. >> you can take things you learn as a journalist and then begin to speculate about them and draw them out and imagine how they might work. as a journalist, i don't really see into the details of intelligence operations, i see the surface.ópeople tell meçt sa lot but i'm not inside of this world and in a sense that makes it easier because i can imagine whole parts of it and describe what people might do. and breaks that the agency might plan. >> rose: how many of the characters like the director here are based in some sense on a profile of someone you know? >> every character, they're all composites. there's no character that's best as a single person. i don't think that would work. >> rose: i just said to you i love ramon and you said no where. >> with anywhere, ramon's character in this

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. >> still ahead, a real life royal on a fictional throne. see queen elizabeth on the set of game of thrones. >>> and we have heard of dumb criminals before, but this has u.s. officialed shaking their heads. a criminal logs into facebook and leave its open for the owner to fin >>> two children are dead after a freak accident in southern pennsylvania. a falling tree landed on a car as it was driving on 403, the children in the backseat were crushed to death and two other kids were hurt, a man driving and a pregnant woman were also injured. the tree came down because it was rotted at the base. >> a police officer is being recognized for his heroism after rescuing a woman that was laying on the railroad tracks while a train was coming. when he pulled up to the tracks the lights came on and the bar came down. he pulled her off the tracks just in time. morale ez is a former marine that has been with the department for just a few months. >> what are we buzzing about today? >> a real life queen and fictional royalty come small business owners this i

guys, this story needs no fictionalize asian. this is non-fiction red meat.ould you consider letting me tell your story. the banker says yes. a former armed robert says, you want to tell my story, you come up to a bank or to my house and will talk. so i drove up. we had a face-to-face. and you know, a kind of felt me out. chickens. i was just off enrolling. that was the genesis of the story. >> host: your book is coming out in the fall of 2014. will there be an hbo series? >> guest: i don't know. i've had a few options. you need to in miracles in order for it to happen. think we're probably about a shy . >> host: of very quick preview of the new book by jake halpern, "bad paper: chasing debt from wall street to the underworld". you are watching book tv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> here is a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. from july 9-12 of th

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are learning how to drive themselves there are other dimensions that are speeding up, it is science fiction. it used to be star trek when people would talk to machines and they answer back, now we take our smartphones a lot of us talk to them, and expect them to understand what we're saying, they are not per if yo perfect e in a 10 or 15 year period where they will listen to us without problem. john: thank you, eric. now, hollywood always imagineed a word with robots, star wars made r2-d2, and c-3po famous, they were kind and helpful, more often robots turned deadly. >> we designed them to be trusted with our homes. >> they kill people, and this raises question, if robots teach themselves they are doing that, might they become a threat to us in real life? patrick tucker, editor at large in magazine the futureist, which we worry? >> robots can become more dangerous, as we ask them to do more and more things. and i think that armed drones actually presents a great opportunity to talk about that. we think of drones now as they flyover foreign countries, they do the work of our military, and th

i made a fictional town for him to say then.did actually change his occupation to reassert extent. i did everything i could to camouflage his identities or he would not have to pay her by telling my half of our story. buy gas, it is something you commit to when you commit to writing. if you are going to write you have to write and so you just find a way to make peace with all of these relationships and how you're handling non-in the story. >> do you feel your work has helped open the conversation up about water? >> yes i think it has been a matter of fact, later this summer i'm going to have an opportunity to talk to kansas legislators about water. i really want to be part of that dialogue so it's giving me an opening. i'm really one of the only people out there that i think it's saying the obvious, which is we need to get the federal government to stop subsidizing through the farm program the growing of crops that are way too thirsty for their preaching. and we need to reverse the ethanol mandate. >> you have written that if th

one millimeter, and they allegedly told police that they did it to prove themselves worthy to a fictionalan, a killer with a plank face that's all over horror web sites. youtube web sites and games online, but the suspects according to what we are learning from reports thought that the character was real. joining me now is ellen gabeler, investigator reporter, and in depth report on what the suspects reportedly told the poli police. thank you so much for your time here, ellen, and a lot of people are trying to wrap their heads around this story, and i have talked to many people who have never heard of this slender man character, but nevertheless, in the article, the police say that the suspect knew what it meant to kill someone, according to what they told police. >> yes, they were absolute ly aware of what they were doing, and they had planned it for months. both of the girls had discussed it on the bus on the way home from school, and they were intending to kill their friend as a way to prove that this character slender man was real. >> and what do you nknow about their back groinds? wh

but 12-year-olds making the leap from fiction to reality? does this have on students in general? >> students and parents, there is a certain amount of fear. are things going to be okay? are students safe? and i can tell you we do have a very safe school. >> reporter: gray, who oversees the school the victim and her alleged perpetrators attend say some parents have kept their kids home. other parents have sought counseling in at the school in dealing with the emotion of the three young classmates involved in such a tragic and frightful incident. >> i have never witnessed anything like this in my 30 years of administration. this is the most horrific thing i've had to deal with. >> reporter: the school has now for now banned the creepy pasta website, from all its computers and ipads pending a review. it's also urging parents to monitor what their kids are accessing online and to talk about it. now, the good news, if there is any good news in this is that the victim has now been upgraded to stable at the hospital here. we understand that she is

version of each one set up against a largely fictional version of the other one and they would head to toe in the public imagination and had almost nothing to do with the real people. a tradition which we have proudly continued ever since. getting all these details with exciting for me. i'm sure you know this living your. henry was not a hermit. he was not hiding out. he was not a monk. he was caught up in the life of the town and his friends and his family, a very doting, adoring son and brother. and he lived most of his life in concord as you know, and he admitted that he considered what he called homeopathic doses of gossip to be as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peaking of world. and so many weird surprises like that were fun to me. you realize gradually because his family had a boarding house that was very rowdy and busy all the time, the cabin boldin was to study was a private workspace and hang out what he did to peace and quiet without hearing some impact in the can of that hearing everything cling in the kitchen and people going up and down the stairs

and science fiction is one of the few intellectual realms in this country where even in the 1950s, it was possible to think about different -- completely different ideas, say, of god. anybody here ever read arthur c. clarke? yeah. childhood's end. the idea of diets or other forces or whether not good or paternal, not loving, who are doing their own thing, they're their own agenda. so i have all these things coming at me and i draw on them to say, i think that there are things, perhaps conscious things, living things, beings, and one of the reasons we don't -- haven't thought about them is science has been so insistents on saying that only human consciousness is the only kind in the world. just about 20 years ago, science began to acknowledge that animals have feelings -- nonhuman animals have feelings, thoughts, make little -- i shouldn't be so cute -- make plans, have cultures even. and most recently -- this is really eerie -- there's beginning a looking into the idea of plant consciousness. do they have feelings? how do they communicate? what is going on with them? i think we have t

year-old girls in wisconsin excused of stabbing a friend and nearly killing her, all to please a fictional demon. it is a bizarre case and wait until you hear what girls told detectives,. >>> dangerous weather in the planes. nebraska, kansas in particular, facing the threat of violent tornadoes today. we'll be watching it. let's get to it. >>> good tuesday afternoon to you. fir, from the fox news deck this afternoon. sergeant bowe bergdahl is said to have left behind a note the night he left his afghan army post, a note that expressed disillusion with the army and the united states. that is according to pentagon sources who debrief soldierses who were there at the time. they say the note did signature that sergeant bergdahl wanted to renounce is u.s. citizen ship and find the taliban. of course, the taliban ended up holding him as a prisoner of war if you will for nearly five years. the questions over bergdahl's disappearance are just part of the controversy surrounding his release. this is complicated. with different parts. this is not a soup of controversy. the obama administration excha

the fictional law man what on hand for the dvd promotion and to throw out the first pitch. not bad.o the game. toronto has a 2-1 lead when they get three more off this j.d. martinez homer. the tigers try to claw back, scoring three in the bottom of the ninth but still lose 5-3. >>> world cup favorite brazil made it look easy against panama. check out this no-look pass, which leads to a goal and a celebration dance featuring the macarena from the 1990s. that's a throwback. brazil wins 4-0. >> announcer: "early today" is brought to you by just for men moustache and beard champions of facial hair. >> all right, dara. back to you. >> thank you, betty. just ahead, bill karins is back with a look at what's ahead across america today. . my skin is not perfect. and instead of getting stressed about it, you can just perfect it. new revlon age defying cc cream perfect those little fine lines, the dark spots, the uneven skin tone... correct. protect. perfect. revlon. it's not for colds, it's not for pain, it's just for sleep. because sleep is a beautiful thing™. ♪ zzzquil. the non-habit formin

it is virtually science fiction some of these changes. used to be what star trek when people would talk to their machines and expect them to talk back. now we take our smart phones a lot of us talk to them and expect them to understand what we are saying. they are not perfect. but in this short 10, 15 year period where machines don't understand us and routinely carry out our instructions. that's quite a milestone. >> thank you, eric. >> hollywood always imaged a world with robots. star wars made r2d2 and c3-po famous and they were kind and helpful. probably more often the robots turned deadly. >> we designed them to be trusted with our homes. >> robots cannot harm a human being. >> if robots teach themselves might they become a threat to us in real life? patrick tucker is editor at large of the magazine "the futurist." shoed we worry? >> robots can become much more dangerous. they become more dangerous as we ask them to do more and more things and we are not exactly sure what those things are. armed drones present a great opportunity to t

a series of science fiction books and a few television shows and so forth and so forth.fore get these people, no matter how weird and fascinating new were because they did not do the single great thing, right the single great novel that would keep pan am alive, what is good to bring them back. >> yes. and the thread that runs through it. speaking of the guy who has read a lot of bad writing about jazz, i have to say that the peace by nicholson about be-bop is just about the smartest s.a. about the intricacies, political, social, musical that i have read >> beckham i think he was a lifelong musician. >> i could tell. >> his brother of the monkeys for those of you will not to remember. the first underground artist of wisconsin and the later 1960's, but as a musician he had tried to tease out the complications and contradictions of be-bop, and instead of flattening it into something that was wonderful everybody who loved it was great and everybody you hated it was awful. if what a ahoy but been he a elections when of -- questions stated be bought for taking the game away fr

they tried to impress the fictional character on the website. been charged as adults with this attempted murder. are their lawyers going to try to move it to juvenile court. >> it is most likely they will eventually try to do that. before that happens, we suspect there will be a competency hearing or they will try to test their psychological sensibility. it's man toir because they are 12 that there will be a hearing, but it's a very high bar they have because of the nature of this crime. and the state doesn't want to send the message that other kids that this sort of thing is it okay. >> the statement released today, what did that say? >> a man out of florida, it's just a photograph online that has taken off. it's turned into all sorts of strryes. he released a statement saying he's deeply saddened by the tragedy in wisconsin and his heart goes out to the families. he also says he's not talking to the media at this time. >> you also spoke, i understand, with the school superintendent. what did they say about the three girls? >> nothing in that h

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bin woolf liberates the text of the fictional character and demands that liberty for themselves. and is always celebrating the liberation but to go beyond the familiar escape into the broader world. the demand for the liberation is from the as additional things men do and now due to attach full freedom to geographic regions and that she recognizes requires various practical forms of freedom and power. and as an argument with universities of so whole world to fight to a miserable tale. she to get no trading in a craft but the streets at midnight is of crucial element of freedom. >> [inaudible] >> of course, senate there is us secret person back there. the streets at midnight with the crucial elements of freedom to peruse it and find your work. flipping from one gender's to another and in unconsciousness the identity but professions for women which describes with ferocity the business to killed the angel in the house that day other need expectations of not their own. i did my best to kill her to be in a court of law and acted in self-defense. it was part of an occupation of the wom

but anyway, the second thing is the motive behind their crime was they said this fictional character them to commit this crime because if they didn't try to kill this young girl, that fictional character was going to kill their families. so they might have an insanity defense down the road and an incoi incompetency going on. >> the judge makes the decision? >> the judge makes the decision where they can understand the charges against them. if you're a defendant, whether you're 10, 12 or 82, you have to be able to know what's going on in a court of law, be able to respond to your attorneys, answer the questions -- they may have to take the stand. if you're ever seen a child on the stand, the judge says, do you know the difference between right and wrong? >> will they school these defendants on how to respond -- >> do we coach our clients? the defense attorneys have to get the information from them, whether or not that comes out in the trial, it may or may not. but what a judge is going to have to determine is what do they coggive nitively understan about this -- >> a lot of people say

. >> so the guy who created the fictional character that the girls were trying to impress, released aent. what does he say? >> yes, he created this back in 2009. it is just a photograph. it has taken off and turned into all sorts of stories. he released the following story saying he is deeply saddened by the tragedy in wisconsin, his heart goes out he's also not talking to the media at this time. anderson? >> you also spoke with the school superintendent. what did they say about the three girls? >> nothing that he knew at that time. nothing in their record or past indicated that they would be capable of something like this. that said, he also said that parents of some students have kept their students away from school. other students in class have asked for counseling at the school because they are concerned. they are concerned about other students that may be involved with this, may be taking this seriously. parents want to know that everything is cool at their school before they let them go back in this idealistic suburban town can get back to normal. >> are police sticking with the

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from what you know of the case, did the suspects have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction?ppears that, based on their internet usage, the web sites that they were on, that they had some difficulty with distinguishing that and, thus, they carried out these acts. >> reporter: according to the criminal complaint, the girls wanted to kill their friend as an act of devotion to a horror character called slender man, whose exploits are distributed on a web site called creepypasta. someone identified as the web site's administrator wrote, "only a small minority of people, mostly newcomers on the site, truly believe what they read here. adding, "something like this was bound to happen, considering the size of the creepypasta community." slender man videos have millions of views on youtube. there's even a video game. >> for a lot of people, the real world and the internet world are essentially the same thing. >> reporter: lindsey turrentine with technology web site cnet says slender man stories are the downside of going viral. >> they're very short. they're very easy to copy and past

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that just seems sort of fictional it's so incredible. >> it truly is. and i've seen it. is a couple of different ways you can get it there can be a conglomerate which means a number glue themselves together. or as the storm goes up and down, up and down, they get a coating of ice. if you cut the stones in half you would see like rings on a tree. the stone would fall down. it would get sucked back up by an updraft of 100 miles per hour and fall back through, get sucked up again. and around and around and around until you get enough rings in the hailstone that it turns that big. eventually the storm can't hold it anymore. and it has to fall out. >> all right, chad, thank you. >>> and now kids trying to kill kids. this is a bizarre shocking story out of wisconsin. two 12-year-old friends allegedly lure their friend into the woods after a sleepover and then stab her 19 times. police say that the two suspects were fascinated by slenderman, a fictional online character they were looking to impress with the brutal attack. miguel marquez is "outfront" in waukesha, wisconsin. >>

you do it especially in fictional as opposed to non-fictional writing, but having the moments, the pausesnd inflections and tone of voice in conversations, for instance, that -- >> charlie: you can't do -- you can't do in magazine writing. you can't convey that this real sense of what this rapport or loolack of rapport is really lie in writing, because, also, the description required to convey it in writing would be greater than the thing itself, whereas the spoken word is just -- it's this conversation. it's this highly edit, constructed conversation, but nevertheless a conversation in which the listener can sense exactly what's going on if you do your job well. >> what are you most proud of that you created for radio? >> it's not a particular show. it's just -- like, when i started the show almost 20 years ago, i don't think -- i didn't have the power to imagine what it would be today that i would be working with a dozen producers who are so skilled and interesting. like, other people weren't doing these kinds of stories and every person who i hired -- like i started the show with three