WAUKESHA, Wis. (CN) — A Waukesha County Circuit Court judge on Monday sent Wisconsin back to the drawing board on the conditional release plan of a woman who said Slender Man told her to stab her best friend 19 times in 2014.
Morgan Geyser, 22, has been incarcerated at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for the last decade for her part in the premeditated stabbing of her friend, Payton Leutner. The bloody attack drew global attention at the time, as Geyser testified that at 12 years old, a murderous horror character instructed her to kill her best friend.
Judge Michael Bohren, who also presided over the original proceedings in 2014, granted Geyser conditional release in January and instructed the state to begin coming up with a plan that would balance the public’s safety with Geyser’s reintegration into society…