A judge has rejected a motion for conditional release from one of the two young women convicted in the 2014 Slender Man case. Classmate stabbed to death In Wisconsin.
Thursday’s ruling came after two days of testimony regarding Morgan Geyser’s mental health.
Geyser, 21, was found not guilty by reason of insanity and originally sentenced in 2018 to up to 40 years of state mental health supervision.
Geyser has been in the facility for nearly a decade, but despite Thursday’s ruling, her attorney Anthony Cotton said Geyser will be retried in six months.
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FILE: Morgan Geyser is escorted from the courtroom after his sentencing in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on February 1, 2018. (Rick Wood/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via AP, Pool)
Geyser asked, according to court records. washington county judge He was scheduled to be released, but withdrew an earlier petition for early release with commitments for 2023 and 2022.
Geyser’s attorney is now asking for her to be moved to a group home. Mr. Geyser, the facility’s director, now agrees with the lawyers’ opinion.
“At this time, we think it’s important to transition her into the community to help with her ongoing development,” Winnebago Mental Health Institute Director Kayla Pope told FOX6 Milwaukee.
But other witnesses said Geyser told doctors she had lied about her mental illness and claimed she had been sexually abused as a child.
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Morgan Geyser, 15, left, appears before her sentencing before Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bolen. Geyser is one of the two girls who tried to kill their classmates with a knife to appease the fictional horror character Slender Man, right? (AP)
Doctors testified that Geyser had not been violent toward others since the stabbing. She has also stopped taking her antipsychotic medication since December 2022. told FOX6 Milwaukee There was nothing wrong with her.
“Morgan has improved so dramatically,” says Dr. Kenneth Robbins. He explained.
Medical experts also diagnosed Geyser with schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder.
“The victim’s family vehemently opposes the release of Morgan Geyser,” prosecutor Ted Szpakiewicz countered.
Ultimately, Waukesha County Judge Michael Bolen agreed with prosecutors, calling Geyser’s credibility questionable and putting the public at risk if he left the 24/7 care he currently receives. He said he thought it would be possible.
“In the circumstances, the court is satisfied that the scales tip in favor of the public, and there is clear and convincing evidence that it does so,” the judge ruled.
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Anissa Weir listens to testimony from former teachers during a trial at the Waukesha County Courthouse in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in September 2017. (AP/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
In 2014, Geyser and Anissa Weir were just 12 years old when they stabbed another girl, Peyton Leutner, to appease the fictional horror character Slender Man.
Prosecutors said Mr. Geyser and Mr. Weier seduced Mr. Leutner. waukesha woodland Prosecutors said Geyser stabbed Leutner repeatedly at Weier’s urging.
Weier and Geyser told authorities that they had become Slender Man’s “agents,” or servants, and felt they had to kill Leutner to protect their families from him.
Leutner was left for dead, but survived when he was found crawling out of the woods and riding his bicycle.
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Weier, who was previously charged with an assault in 2017, was granted conditional release in September 2021, requiring outpatient psychiatric treatment and GPS monitoring.
“Slender Man” began as an online post in 2009, when people treated the image as a mysterious ghost and edited it into everyday scenes of children playing. He is usually depicted as a spider-like figure with a featureless white face and wearing a black suit. To his followers he was alternately seen as an evil force and an avenging angel.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
