Morgan Geyser requests psych hospital release 10 years after Slender Man stabbing

Morgan Geyser asked a justice to free her from a psychiatric hospital connected Friday, immoderate 10 years aft she violently stabbed her classmate astatine the behest of net fearfulness fable “Slender Man.”

On May 31, 2014, Geyser and her person Anissa Weier, some of them conscionable 12 years aged astatine the time, invited Payton Leutner implicit for a sleepover and lured her into immoderate woods successful Waukesha, Wisc. Geyser past repeatedly stabbed her classmate portion Weier egged her on.

Both girls aboriginal confessed to carrying retired the attack, during which Leutner suffered 19 stab wounds. They told authorities they hoped that sidesplitting their classmate would earn them the close to beryllium servants for Slender Man.

The spooky character, often depicted arsenic an unrealistically gangly and bladed fig without a face, emerged from net connection boards similar Something Awful and Creepy Pasta and is notorious for stalking children.

Despite suffering 19 stab wounds, including 1 that narrowly missed her heart, Leutner survived the onslaught acknowledgment to a passing bicyclist, who was capable to get her aesculapian assistance successful time.

Geyser was sentenced to 40 years successful a intelligence hospital successful 2018 aft pleading blameworthy to attempted first-degree intentional homicide.

Weier meantime pleaded blameworthy to attempted second-degree homicide and was ordered to walk 25 successful a intelligence hospital. She was granted a release successful 2021 to unrecorded with her begetter and was ordered to deterioration a GPS monitor.

In a one-page petition filed with Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, 22-year-old Geyser requested she excessively beryllium freed from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. It did not connection immoderate arguments for her release. Instead, it cited authorities laws that necessitate Bohren wrong 20 days to name astatine slightest 1 adept to analyse Geyser and nutrient a study wrong 30 days of being appointed.

Bohren acceptable a proceeding for Nov. 1 to code the matter.

The filing marks the 3rd clip Geyser has asked Bohren to fto her retired of the installation successful the past 2 years.

She withdrew her archetypal petition 2 months aft filing it successful 2022. She tried again backmost successful April, but Bohren rejected her request, concluding that she still posed a risk to herself and others.

He said helium was besides troubled by the information that Geyser has changed her communicative successful caller years, attributing the onslaught to her tendency to flight her abusive father, who is present dead.

With News Wire Services