OSHKOSH (WLUK) — Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser is back in custody at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in Oshkosh.
It comes two and a half weeks after she escaped from a group home in Madison and was arrested about 170 miles away in Posen, Illinois. Geyser, 23, was then extradited back to Wisconsin and booked at the Waukesha County Jail.
The Madison Police Department has said it was not made aware that Geyser was missing until nearly 12 hours after she cut off her electronic monitoring device and left the group home. According to police, the DOC received an alert the night Geyser escaped that her ankle monitor had malfunctioned, but didn’t contract the group home until about two hours later. That’s when the DOC was told Geyser was not at the home and had removed her bracelet.
Geyser escaped from the Madison group home not long after she was granted conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. In 2018, as part of a deal to avoid prison, Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 40 years at WMHI. She served eight years and petitioned for release four times before a judge finally signed off.
Wisconsin authorities have asked that Geyser’s conditional release be revoked. A motion hearing is set for Dec. 22. After the escape, Geyser’s attorney requested that she be returned to WMHI, rather than a correctional institution.
It was 2014 when Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, lured their classmate, Payton Leutner, to a wooded park area in Waukesha during a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on.
Weier and Geyser claimed they attacked Leutner in order to appease Slender Man — a fictional horror character — and prevent him from killing their families. All three girls were 12 years old and in sixth grade at the time.
Despite being left for dead, Leutner managed to survive by crawling out of the woods, where she was discovered by a passing bicyclist.
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