Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser files another release request
WAUKESHA, Wis. - A Wisconsin woman accused of stabbing her classmate to please horror character Slender Man more than a decade ago asked a judge again on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, to release her from a psychiatric hospital.
Morgan Geyser, who is now 22 years old, filed a petition with Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren seeking her release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The petition marks the fourth time in the last two years she has asked Bohren to let her out of the facility.
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She withdrew her first petition two months after filing it in 2022. Bohren denied her second request this past April, saying she remains a risk to the public.
Geyser's attorney, Anthony Cotton, didn't immediately respond to email and telephone messages Friday morning.
Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser conditional release denied
A Waukesha County judge denied on Thursday, April 11 Morgan Geyser's petition for conditional release.
Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 in 2014 when they lured Payton Leutner to a Waukesha park after a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier egged her on. Leutner barely survived.
The girls later told investigators they wanted to earn the right to be servants of the fictional Slender Man and that they feared he would harm their families if they didn’t carry out the attack.
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Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was sent to the psychiatric institute because of mental illness. Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was also sent to the psychiatric center. She was granted a release in 2021 to live with her father and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor.
A hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 1.