Geyser continues to make progress in treatment and advance with her recovery," according to WTMJ-TV. The letter said: "We are requesting that the remaining examinations not be finalized and we will continue to revisit this issue as Ms. After receiving one doctor's report, Geyser and her attorney sent a letter to the judge Tuesday. In June, Geyser, now 20, asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren to order her release as he did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, who spent nearly four years at a mental health facility in Oshkosh.īohren appointed three doctors to evaluate Geyser's mental state.
Geyser, one of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man has withdrawn her petition for release. Morgan Geyser is escorted out of the courtroom following her sentencing on Feb. Weier’s pending release.In June, Morgan Geyser, 20, asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren to order her release as he did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, who spent nearly four years at a mental health facility in Oshkosh. On Thursday evening, a woman who answered the telephone number listed for Ms. Weier, who obtained her high school degree and plans to attend college, has told the court she plans to live with her father upon her release and look for part-time work, the judge said. Weier is “functioning very well” at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, the judge said, citing reports from doctors who had examined her. Weier “had a clean mental health history, if you will.” Currently, Ms. Leutner’s stabbing, Judge Bohren said on Thursday, Ms. Others showed him with powers of mind control. Some depicted Slender Man with tentacles. Images of the character circulated online and the legend grew. The origins of Slender Man, considered one of the internet’s best-known urban legends, can be traced to 2009, when images were posted on an online forum devoted to fake paranormal pictures. Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a psychiatric hospital. Leutner, they would become his “proxies.”
The girls said they believed that Slender Man was real and lived in a mansion in the woods in northern Wisconsin, and that by killing Ms. Leutner because they wanted to please Slender Man, a fictional character generally depicted as a tall, shadowy figure with a blank face. It took months for her to recover from her injuries, and doctors said one of the stab wounds came within a millimeter of hitting an artery, which would have killed her.Īfter their arrests, Ms. Leutner managed to crawl out of the woods and find an adult. “Anissa told her to lie down so she wouldn’t lose blood so quickly, and told her to be quiet,” Ms. Geyser stabbed her 19 times with a kitchen knife as Ms. Geyser lured the victim, Payton Leutner, into the woods where Ms. It “may still make people tremble because it was such a terrible thing to happen,” the judge said, “not only just the physical assault but that it happened among friends who were kids.”
Weier and another friend, Morgan Geyser, committed in 2014, when they and the victim were all sixth graders at Horning Middle School in Waukesha. Weier did not respond to a telephone message seeking comment.Īt the hearing, Judge Bohren acknowledged the gravity of the crime that Ms. Her next court date is scheduled for Sept. Weier back to the institution while Wisconsin officials create her release plan. Weier’s request, agreeing with recommendations from three doctors who evaluated her and said that she did not pose a threat to herself or others.īut the judge ordered Ms. Bohren of Waukesha County Circuit Court granted Ms. In March, she asked the court to release her from the institution.Īt a hearing on Thursday, Judge Michael O. In 2017, the woman, Anissa Weier, pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 25 years in the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The 2014 attack, involving a pair of 12-year-old girls from Waukesha, Wis., who lured a 12-year-old friend to a park and stabbed her 19 times, shocked parents in the upper-middle-class suburb of Milwaukee. A Wisconsin judge on Thursday ordered a 19-year-old woman released from a psychiatric hospital where she has been held for more than three years for her role in the nearly fatal stabbing of a friend, a crime she said was carried out to gain the favor of a sinister fictional character called Slender Man.
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