“Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser, who escaped a group home Saturday, was released from a psychiatric hospital earlier this year — despite multiple “red flags” raised by prosecutors, including her affinity for torture books and sending graphic sketches to a murder memorabilia collector
Geyser was obsessed with the novel “Rent Boy,” which depicts murder and selling organs on the black market, a fact she allegedly didn’t volunteer to her therapy team, state officials argued at the time of her release, the Associated Press reported.
She was also reportedly communicating with a man who collected murder memorabilia, and had sent him a sketch of her own decapitated body with the words “They crumble as they crawl,” along with a postcard expressing a desire to have sex with him, according to officials.
“The state has real concerns these things are, frankly, just red flags at this point,” Waukesha County prosecutor Abbey Nickolie said at the hearing.
The memorabilia collector visited Geyser three times in June 2023 at the psychiatric hospital, her attorney, Tony Cotton, admitted at the hearing.
Geyser reportedly cut off ties with him after she realized he was selling things she sent him as twisted mementos, Cotton said.
She only told her treatment team about the graphic book and the collector when she was asked, Nickolie said.
In January, a judge ruled Geyser could leave the Winnebago mental health institute where she had spent the last seven years, despite “real concerns” from prosecutors that she was not fit to reenter society.
State Department of Health Services officials in March abruptly asked Judge Michael Bohren to keep her committed in the wake of their fears about her behavior.
The mother of her victim, Payton Leutner, said Geyser’s new group home was just eight miles away from where she lives, and health officials were ordered to come up with a new plan.
Defending Geyser, Cotton said his client’s reading list was approved by staff at the psychiatric home, and that she read a wide range of books, including biographies.
Blasting the state’s request to keep Geyser in the hospital as a “hit job,” he insisted she “is not more dangerous today,” at the hearing.
“I don’t see the risk to the public,” Judge Bohren said in agreement, as he set a near hearing on a release plan for March 21.
Geyser escaped from her group home on Saturday, after cutting off her ankle tag using scissors, and fleeing to Illinois with transgender pal, Chad Mecca. The pair were caught the next day.
Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were just 12 when they lured their classmate Leutner to a park in Waukesha, WI, after a sleepover in 2014.
There, Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier egged her on.
They later claimed they were carrying out their sick crimes on the orders of Slender Man, a fictional internet boogeyman.
The pair said they would earn the right to be Slender Man’s servants and ensure he didn’t hurt them or their families.
Leutner barely survived her injuries after crawling to a nearby cycle lane, where she was spotted by passersby.
In 2018, Judge Bohren committed Geyser to 40 years in a psychiatric hospital, after she pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon, but said she wasn’t responsible because she was mentally ill.
Weier pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon, but also claimed to not be responsible.
She was committed to 25 years in a psychiatric hospital in 2018 by Judge Bohren, but granted release in 2021 after agreeing to live with her father and wear an ankle tag.
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