(Crankers) Here’s one of those crime stories that you might turn into a documentary on Netflix one day.
One of the women convicted in the infamous 2014 “Slender Man” stabbing case escaped from a Wisconsin group home and people were freaking out about it. However, she was eventually apprehended in Illinois.
Morgan Geyser, now 23 years old, was placed in a supervised group-home setting in Madison after being conditionally released from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute earlier this year. She was originally sentenced for up to 40 years in a psychiatric institution, but got out early after only about ten years. Yeah, she did this as a teenager which is the really terrifying thing about it.
Wisconsin authorities say Geyser removed her GPS monitoring bracelet and left the facility in the company of an adult acquaintance.
Police discovered the bracelet had malfunctioned around 9:30 p.m., and a missing-person alert was issued the next morning when she failed to return.
Geyser was found late Sunday night in Posen, Illinois, about 170 miles from Madison, after law-enforcement officers responded to a loitering complaint at a truck stop. She initially gave a false name but later admitted her identity. She was apprehended.
In May 2014, when Geyser was 12, she and her friend Anissa Weier lured their classmate Payton Leutner into a wooded area in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and stabbed her 19 times. The girls said they believed the fictional Slender Man figure would harm their families unless they carried out the attack.
Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide but was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. She was committed to a psychiatric facility and later approved for conditional release. Weier was similarly committed and released in 2021.
Geyser’s escape has raised questions about supervision and coordination among the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, the mental-health facility, and local law enforcement. The Madison Police Department reportedly was not notified of her escape until the following morning, raising concerns about notification protocols.
She now faces extradition back to Wisconsin and possible re-commitment to a psychiatric facility.
Here’s the news video of the Slender Man stabbing convict: