A Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing has gone โคmissing after leaving a supervised โฃmental health facility,authorities said. Morgan Geyser, now 20, was last seen Monday after authoritiesโข discovered she had cut the GPS monitorโ she was required to wear.
The Department of Correctionsโฃ issued anโ apprehension request justโ after midnight. The Madison police โขDepartmentโค stated they were not alerted to Geyser’s disappearance until the followingโ morning when staff at the group home where she was residing contacted them. The corrections department has โnot yet responded to requests for comment.This incident raises concerns about public safety and the challenges of reintegratingโค individuals with severe mental health issues who have committed violent crimes.
Geyser and her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, both 12 at โฃthe time, โattacked their classmate, Payton leutner, in a suburban Milwaukee park following a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner more than a dozen times while Weier encouraged her.โ Leutner suffered life-threatening injuries but โขsurvived.
The girls told investigators they committed the attack to appease Slender Man,a fictional internet character created in 2009 by Eric Knudson. They believed they neededโ to kill Leutner to becomeโข Slender Man’sโ servants and protect their families from harm. The case gained international attention, highlighting the influence of online mythology and the mental health struggles of the perpetrators.
Weier pleadedโค guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was released fromโ a psychiatric facility in 2021. Geyser was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or โdefectโ and committed to a mental health institution. She wasโข granted โsupervised release in late 2023. Authorities are currently searching for Geyser, and her disappearance prompts questions about the effectiveness of the state’s mental health and โขsupervision systems.
