Samira Asma-Sadeque ... Published on July 17, 2025 12:54PM EDT 30 Comments Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha County courtroom Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Waukesha, Wis. Credit : AP Photo/Morry Gash ...

A judge ruled Morgan Geyser, who stabbed her friend 19 times in the notorious "Slender Man" case as a 12-year-old, can be conditionally released after psychiatric treatment.

Geyser and Weier later confessed they committed the crime in order to please the fictional "Slender Man" character said to attack children with long tendrils sprouting from his back.

Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha County courtroom, Jan. 9, 2025, in Waukesha, Wis. Credit: AP/Morry Gash By The Associated Press Updated July 17, 2025 10:35 am ...

Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier egged her on. All three girls were 12 years old at the time. Geyser and Weier fled after the attack but were arrested as they were walking on Interstate 94.

After eight years in a psychiatric institution, 22-year-old Morgan Geyser will be released after her involvement in the 2014 "Slender Man" attack that shocked Wisconsin.

Morgan Geyser Won’t Be Free from Mental Hospital Just Yet: Why Judge Stayed Slenderman Stabber’s Release The Wisconsin psychiatric hospital where Geyser has been housed since her 2017 ...

Morgan Geyser, convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing, was recently granted conditional release from a mental health facility, but officials are now seeking to revoke that decision.

Morgan Geyser will return to living outside a state mental health institution under a conditional release plan discussed and tentatively approved July 17. Under the plan reviewed by Waukesha ...

Morgan Geyser, now 22, admitted in 2017 to stabbing her best friend Peyton Leutner in 2014, in a plan she hatched with co-defendant Anissa Weier to please an online mythical creature known as the ...

Morgan Geyser, now 22, admitted in 2017 to stabbing her best friend Peyton Leutner in 2014, in a plan she hatched with co-defendant Anissa Weier to please an online mythical creature known as the ...