Woman who stabbed classmate to please ‘Slender Man’ won’t be released from psychiatric hospital

Published April 11, 2024 2:29 PM

By ED WHITE
Associated Press

A judge has turned down a request to release a Wisconsin woman from a psychiatric hospital, a decade after she nearly killed a girl at age 12. Morgan Geyser is now 21 and no longer takes antipsychotic medicine. She and another girl confessed quickly after the stabbing in 2014, saying they attacked a friend to please the online horror character Slender Man. Judge Michael Bohren says Geyser has a credibility problem after lately reporting that she attacked the girl for a reason other than Slender Man. Geyser’s attorney says he can file another petition for release in six months. Geyser’s accomplice was released from the hospital in 2021.

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