Woman who stabbed classmate to please Slender Man files third release request

WAUKESHA, Wis. — A Wisconsin woman accused of stabbing her classmate to please horror character Slender Man More than ten years ago, the judge asked again on Friday to release her from a psychiatric hospital.

Morgan Geyser, who is now 22 years old, has filed a petition with Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, requesting her release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The petition marks the third time in the past two years that she has asked Bohren to release her from the facility.

She withdrew her first petition two months after filing it in 2022. Bohren rejected her second request last April, saying she remains a risk to the public.

Geyser’s attorney, Anthony Cotton, did not immediately respond to email and phone messages Friday morning.

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 as Weier egged her on. Leutner barely survived.

The girls later told investigators that 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 did not carry out the attack.

Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide, which was true sent to the psychiatric institute due to mental illness. Weier pleaded guilty to attempted intentional murder in the second degree and was also sent to the psychiatric center. She was granted release moved in with her father in 2021 and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor.