Woman who stabbed classmate to please slim man files third request for release

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman is accused of stabbing her classmate to please her Horror figure Slender Man More than a decade ago, she again asked a judge Friday to release her from a psychiatric hospital.

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

She withdrew her first petition two months after it was filed in 2022. Drill rejected her second request last April, saying it remained a risk to the public.

The one-page petition contains no arguments for Geyser’s release. Instead, it cites state law that requires drillers to appoint at least one expert to investigate them within 20 days and issue a report within 30 days of their appointment. The petition also asks the judge to schedule a hearing. It is noted that state law requires him to hold a hearing within 30 days of receiving the auditor’s report. Bohren has scheduled the hearing for November 1st.

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

Geyser and Anissa Weier were twelve years old in 2014 when they lured Payton Leutner to a park in Waukesha after a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while 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 premeditated murder and was convicted admitted to psychiatric hospital because of mental illness. Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree premeditated murder and was also committed to a psychiatric hospital. She a release was granted in 2021 to live with her father and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor.