Jan. 9 (UPI) — A Wisconsin woman who stabbed a classmate in the 2014 “Slender Man” case will be released from a mental health facility, a court ruled Thursday.
Morgan Geyser, now 22, was 12 and one of two girls who lured a school classmate into the woods and stabbed her 19 times as part of a plot to please a fictional online supernatural character called Slender Man, according to authorities.
Geyser and Anissa Weier stabbed their friend Payton Leutner multiple times, nearly killing her. Despite sustaining life-threatening injuries, Leutner survived. Geyser and Weier were charged in adult court with first-degree attempted intentional homicide.
Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a mental health facility and had been living there since the stabbing. Weier was released from a mental health facility in 2021…