A Wisconsin judge agreed to release “Slenderman” Stubber Morgan Geiser from a mental hospital despite desperate efforts by health officials.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Boren signed up for his 22-year-old release from the Winneba Gogol Mental Health Institute on Thursday.
The judge initially agreed to release Geyser from the facility in January, but state health officials last week demanded that she commit “red flags” to her actions.
They included keeping secrets from her health team who read “Rent Boy,” a novel about murder and organ sales on the black market.
Geiser also communicated with the man who collected murder memorabilia. He then sent him a sketch of his body, which he appointed him to have a sketch of himself of a decapitated body that she insists she wanted to be close to him, health officials said.
“There's a real concern in the state that these things are frankly, and that there's just a red flag at this point,” Nicoley, the Waukesha County Deputy District Attorney Abbey, said at a hearing Thursday.
Geiser's lawyer Tony Cotton claimed Geiser had called the state's request to keep her in the hospital “a hit job.”
He claimed that Geyser only read what the staff at the psychiatric facility allow, and that Winnebago staff knew that in 2023 a collector of murder memorabilia had visited her three times.
“Morgan isn't that dangerous today,” Cotton told the judge.
Judge Bollen ultimately maintained his initial decision to allow Geiser conditional release, saying, “I have not seen the risk in the general public.”
Geiser and her friend Anissa Wire were both 12 when they lured Peyton Reutner to Waukesha Park after a sleepover in May 2014.
Geiser stabbed Lautner 19 times, but Weir cheered her on.
Leutner survived the attack by dragging himself out of the forest and flagging his bike.
When interviewed by police, Geyser and Wire claimed that they attacked their friends and appease the fictional character Slenderman.
She pleaded guilty to a first-degree intentional murder attempt and was sent to the psychiatric lab for mental illness.
Weier pleaded guilty to a second-degree intentional murder attempt and was also sent to a psychiatric centre. She was allowed to release in 2021 to live with her father and ordered to wear a GPS monitor.
A new hearing for Geiser's release plan is scheduled for March 21st.
With post wire
