‘Slender Man’ stabber’s escape proves she ‘should never have been released,’ expert says

The lawsuit involving 2 Wisconsin women convicted of brutally stabbing their sixth-grade classmate implicit a decennary agone to appease fearfulness quality Slender Man has continued to unravel aft 1 of the perpetrators escaped from a radical location past weekend. 

In 2014, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, some 12 astatine the time, were charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide aft prosecutors revealed the brace executed a planned onslaught to effort to termination their mediate schoolhouse classmate, Payton Leutner. 

The brutal onslaught played retired the greeting of May 31, 2014, aft Leutner and Weier slept implicit astatine Geyser’s location to observe her birthday. When the 3 girls awoke, Geyser and Weier lured Leutner into a suburban park, wherever Geyser stabbed the miss 19 times arsenic Weier egged her on. 

Leutner hardly survived the attack.

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Morgan Geyser, convicted successful the 2014 "Slender Man" stabbing, is seen successful caller surveillance footage earlier her flight from a Madison radical home. Police accidental she chopped disconnected her monitoring bracelet Saturday night. (Madison Police Department)

The brace aboriginal admitted to investigators that they carried retired the onslaught successful bid to go 1 of Slender Man’s servants and due to the fact that they were acrophobic helium would wounded their families if they did not termination Leutner. 

"Internet mythology, similar Slender Man, tin lend to distorted perceptions of reality, arsenic it did successful this case," Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist, told Fox News Digital. "Children and aboriginal adolescents are peculiarly susceptible to specified characters."

Geyser subsequently pleaded blameworthy to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was ordered to walk 40 years successful a psychiatric institute successful 2018, aft being diagnosed with schizophrenia. 

Her co-defendant, Weier, besides pleaded blameworthy to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, and was initially sent to a psychiatric halfway until she was granted merchandise successful 2021. She lives with her begetter and wears a GPS monitor. 

However, earlier this year, a Wisconsin justice determined Geyser was mentally acceptable to beryllium released from the halfway and ordered her to unrecorded successful a radical home, located successful adjacent Madison, pursuing aggregate failed attempts by Geyser’s ineligible squad to unafraid her freedom.

The determination came aft 3 doctors progressive successful Geyser’s attraction testified that she had made important advancement and should beryllium released, pointing to reports that she had suffered nary symptoms aft being weaned disconnected her antipsychotic medicine and that she had improved her coping skills, according to The Associated Press.

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Morgan Geyser was taken into custody successful Posen, Illinois, connected Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, aft escaping from a radical location successful Wisconsin.  (Posen Police Department)

Dr. Ken Robbins testified that Geyser could really go much unsafe if she remained confined to the center, saying that it is imaginable for her to go defeated with her attraction and suffer hope. 

"The longer she’s there, astatine this point, the harder it’s going to beryllium to re-integrate," Robbins said. 

The determination came aft important protestation from the prosecution, arsenic Waukesha County Assistant District Attorney Ted Szczupakiewicz argued Geyser antecedently claimed that she faked her delusions regarding Slender Man and really attempted to termination Leutner to flight her abusive father. 

"Geyser was particularly susceptible to Slender Man due to the fact that she was [abused] by her father," Lieberman said. "In her schizophrenic state, with altered perceptions of reality, she saw Slender Man, who was gangly with tons of agelong hands, arsenic an embodiment of her father, due to the fact that that’s what a begetter would person looked similar to a small kid being abused. She whitethorn good person believed that if she killed Payton, and gave her to Slender Man arsenic an offering, her existent beingness begetter would halt abusing her." 

Prosecutors besides pointed to a erstwhile incidental successful which Geyser failed to uncover to her attraction squad that she was speechmaking a caller astir black-market organ income and murder. Additionally, prosecutors alleged that Geyser was corresponding with a antheral who is simply a execution memorabilia collector and antecedently sent him a sketch of a decapitated assemblage on with a postcard revealing she wanted to beryllium intimate with him. 

However, the justice yet determined that it is not uncommon for intelligence unwellness diagnoses to germinate and released Geyser into a radical home.

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Morgan Geyser appears successful tribunal arsenic a Wisconsin justice approves her conditional merchandise from a psychiatric installation pursuing the 2014 "Slender Man" stabbing case. (Getty Images)

"Geyser should ne'er person been released from the psychiatric infirmary she was in," Lieberman told Fox News Digital. "There were galore signs that her schizophrenia had not yet been sufficiently treated." 

Lieberman went connected to constituent to the evident informing signs that Geyser had not been afloat rehabilitated. 

"These were each signs – and determination were undoubtedly much – that she was inactive wrestling with who she was and needed much treatment," Lieberman said. 

Less than 1 twelvemonth aft her merchandise to a radical home, Geyser removed her GPS monitoring instrumentality and snuck retired of the Wisconsin radical home, the Madison Police Department said. 

According to authorities, Geyser was past seen alongside a antheral companion astatine astir 8 p.m. connected Saturday, Nov. 22. Her flight prompted a multi-state manhunt, with authorities releasing caller photos of her successful an effort to way her down. 

One time later, authorities successful Posen, Illinois – located astir 25 miles southbound of Chicago – received a study regarding a antheral and pistillate loitering down a motortruck stop.

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Police assemblage camera footage shows authorities confronting missing Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser aft she near a radical location successful Madison, Wisconsin, implicit the weekend.  (Posen Police Department)

Body camera video obtained by Fox News Digital shows officers approaching the 2 individuals and attempting to place them. 

However, a defiant Geyser initially refused to uncover her identity, telling them, "I don’t privation to springiness you my name." 

The officers attempted to crushed with Geyser, with 1 lawman asking, "You’re not wanted for murder, right?"

Following aggregate attempts to place her, Geyser admitted she didn’t privation to archer officers her sanction due to the fact that she had "done thing truly bad" and suggested the officers "just Google" her.

She past provided authorities with a fake name.

After a abbreviated back-and-forth, Geyser could beryllium seen penning her sanction down connected a portion of paper, which yet led to authorities taking her into custody. As she was being handcuffed, Geyser could beryllium heard making an affectional plea to the officers to accidental goodbye to her companion, insisting that the idiosyncratic did not cognize who she was and that she "will ne'er spot her again."

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Chad Mecca, 43, was subsequently released from custody aft being charged with transgression trespassing and providing mendacious accusation to police, according to the Posen Police Department.  (Posen Police Department)

Additional video shows Geyser sitting successful the backmost of a constabulary cruiser and remaining soundless for the duration of the ride. 

As the brace were escorted to the vehicles, an serviceman could beryllium heard saying, "I anticipation she didn’t perpetrate a homicide. The mode she’s talking, she’s saying it’s really, truly bad." Authorities besides discovered a publication titled "Homeless Couples Guidebook" among Geyser’s belongings arsenic she was being arrested. 

The antheral taxable located with Geyser was besides taken into custody and was identified arsenic 43-year-old Chad Mecca, according to the Posen Police Department. Mecca was subsequently released from custody aft being charged with transgression trespassing and providing mendacious accusation to police, FOX6 reported.  

Morgan Geyser appears successful a Waukesha County courtroom Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, successful Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

According to Posen police, the brace took a Greyhound autobus from Wisconsin to Chicago earlier walking to Posen. 

"She ran due to the fact that of me," Mecca told WKOW aft calling the station. Mecca reportedly added that the brace had met astatine religion and had seen each different connected a regular ground for the past month. 

In a Tuesday tribunal hearing, Geyser agreed not to contention her transportation from an Illinois jailhouse to Wisconsin, the Associated Press reported. Authorities successful Wisconsin present person a 30-day deadline to prime her up from the Cook County Jail. 

Geyser’s lawyer did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

As a effect of her escape, authorities could determine to revoke her conditional merchandise and property caller charges, according to the AP.

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However, the incidental has near Lieberman wondering astir the interaction connected Geyser’s victim, Leutner. 

"Leutner was undoubtedly re-traumatized by this ill-conceived and flawed program to merchandise Geyser," Lieberman told Fox News Digital.

"At 1 of the hearings, the infirmary was primitively readying to nonstop Geyser to a radical location that was precise adjacent to wherever Leutner lived, which would person been highly dangerous. The quality of Geyser’s flight re-traumatized Leutner by reminding her of however retired of power Geyser is and by terrifying her that Geyser would effort to decorativeness her off."