Morgan Geyser the twelve year old who would stab her best friend in order to appease the fictional character Slenderman has gone missing from her group home in Wisconsin
If you remember the Slenderman case Morgan Geyser and fellow twelve year old Anissa Weier would lure their friend Payton Leutner into the woods where they would stab her multiple times leaving her for dead. Thankfully Payton Leutner was able to crawl out the woods and her life would be saved.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier would be sentenced to a mental health facility. Weier would be released in 2021 to live with her father
Morgan Geyser would be released in July 2025 to a group home in Wisconsin under strict conditions
Now Morgan Geyser has cut off her ankle bracelet and has fled the group home. Police in Madison Wisconsin released the photo above as they search for the now twenty three year old. Geyser who was sentenced to up to forty years in the mental hospital may be heading straight back there when she is taken into custody
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Authorities in Madison are searching for Morgan Geyser, who cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and left a group home Saturday night, Nov. 22.
Geyser was last seen in the area of Kroncke Dr. in Madison around 8 p.m. with an “adult acquaintance.” Her whereabouts are unknown.
The Madison Police Department was notified of her disappearance on Sunday morning and immediately sent out the alert.
Madison police say they are still searching for Morgan Geyser, who remained missing as of 7:25 p.m. Sunday, and released a detailed timeline showing when state officials and group home staff first realized she had removed her GPS monitor and left the facility.
According to the Madison Police Department, Geyser was last seen at her group home around 8:15 p.m. Saturday. About an hour later, at 9:30 p.m., the Wisconsin Department of Corrections received an alert that her GPS monitoring bracelet was malfunctioning.
DOC contacted the group home at 11:30 p.m., and five minutes later staff confirmed Geyser was not there and had taken off the bracelet. Around midnight, DOC issued an apprehension request – but Madison police say that request was never relayed to them.
It wasn’t until 7:46 a.m. Sunday that someone from the group home called 911 to report Geyser as a missing person. Madison police were assigned to the call 12 minutes later and responded to Kroncke Drive, marking the first time the department learned she was gone.
Police say they continue to investigate and are working to determine where Geyser may have gone after leaving the home.
Attorneys weigh in
What they’re saying:
“Turn yourself in. Do not continue to remain on the run like this,” said Anthony Cotton, Geyser’s defense attorney, in an Instagram post Sunday. “We don’t know any of the facts about what happened and who might have assisted her but certainly if there are – or if somebody assisted her – that person will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
A separate attorney, Jonathan LaVoy, who is not involved in the case, said Geyser’s absence raises safety concerns.
“If she was able to commit that level of violence when she was so young – I can understand the community’s concern that she’s out there on the loose and god forbid somebody else gets hurt right now,” he said.
Geyser and co-defendant Anissa Weier were 12 years old in 2014 when they pleaded guilty to stabbing and nearly killing a classmate. They told investigators they acted because of the fictional horror character Slender Man and were later found not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
LaVoy said Geyser had undergone years of treatment and monitoring before her conditional release.
“Is she on the run with her medicine? And if she isn’t, that certainly poses a danger to the community,” LaVoy said. “We can’t keep mentally ill people in the hospital forever particularly if they are showing signs of improvement and stability and she certainly was doing and showing those signs.”
LaVoy said authorities will arrest Geyser once she is located and will likely return her to a state hospital immediately.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office has not commented.
History of the case
The backstory:
Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old in 2014 when they stabbed and nearly killed their classmate, Payton Leutner, reportedly to please the fictional horror character Slender Man. Leutner survived the attack after being found by a cyclist.
Both girls pleaded guilty in the case. But both said they were not responsible because they were mentally ill.
Both girls were then sent to state mental health facilities. Weier was released in 2021 to live with her father and live under GPS monitoring. Geyser has faced hurdles in her own petitions for release.
In April, after Geyser’s conditional release was granted, the victim’s family objected to her placement location because the group home was about eight miles from them.
In July, a judge approved a plan for Geyser to be placed in a Sun Prairie group home.
But records show Sun Prairie’s city attorney filed an objection, and days later, Geyser’s attorney said the facility declined placement because of publicity.
Statement from Leutner’s family
What they’re saying:
A spokesperson for Leutner’s family provided the following statement:
“Payton Leutner and her family [are] aware of the most recent situation regarding Morgan Geyser.
Payton and her family are safe and are working closely with local law enforcement to ensure their continued safety.
The family would like to thank all of the law enforcement entities involved in the efforts to apprehend Morgan.
The Leutner family also wish to thank the outpouring of support from family, friends, and well-wishers who have contacted them during this difficult time.
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Morgan Geyser Found
On a chilly Saturday night, Morgan Geyser left the group home where she was living in Madison, Wisconsin, and met up with an acquaintance on a quiet residential street nearby.
Before she vanished, police say the 23-year-old cut off the monitoring bracelet law enforcement used to track her whereabouts, years after she pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the “Slender Man” stabbing of her 12-year-old classmate.
Payton Leutner was stabbed at Waukesha park in 2014 by Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier, who were also 12 at the time. The girls told investigators the attack was meant to impress the fictitious boogeyman.
Late Sunday, Madison police said they received confirmation that Geyser was taken into custody in Illinois, more than a hundred miles away.
Here’s what we know about the search for Geyser and the internet-created boogeyman that prompted an attack that shocked the nation more than a decade ago.
Slender Man, a menacing, faceless man in a dark suit – sometimes portrayed with octopus-like tentacles – was a crowdsourced internet-created boogeyman that first appeared in an online forum in 2009, according to Shira Chess, an associate professor of entertainment and media studies at the University of Georgia and and co-author of the book “Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man.”
“He falls broadly into a category of fiction that is colloquially referred to as ‘creepypasta,’ or internet legends that have meme-like qualities, typically lack known authorship, and are easily spreadable,” Chess told CNN in an email Sunday.
In June 2009, a Photoshop contest for images that appeared to be paranormal was launched in a forum on the website Something Awful. According to Know Your Meme, a blog that chronicles web culture, the goal of the contest was to create the images and then use them to fool, or “troll,” other web users by submitting them to paranormal websites.
Site member Eric Knudsen (under the screen name “Victor Surge”) submitted two images to the contest, both black-and-white images of children, one of which appeared to show a largely undefined figure lurking in the background.
Many imaginative fans saw Slender Man’s facelessness as a blank canvas in which to reimagine him in any number of ways, Chess added.
Following the stabbing, Geyser and Weier told police they knew the character from the Creepypasta Wiki, a site that compiles such fiction. The site has issued a statement condemning the attack.
Slender Man’s popularity has gone down in recent years, according to Chess, who noted the fandom peaked in the early-to-mid 2010s.
“I can anecdotally say that he still performs the role of boogeyman on playgrounds,” Chess told CNN.
How did the stabbing unfold?
In May 2014, the trio had gone to Geyser’s home for a slumber party to celebrate her birthday, Leutner previously told ABC. During those times, Geyser constantly talked about Slender Man, she added.
“I thought it was odd. It kind of frightened me a little bit,” Leutner said of her friends’ fascination with the character. “But I went along with it. I was supportive because I thought that’s what she liked.”
As the friendship between Geyser and Weier grew, so did the pair’s fixation with Slender Man, Leutner said. While Leutner didn’t know her friends planned to harm her, something felt off that night in retrospect, she said.
“At all of our past sleepovers, (Geyser) always wanted to stay up all night because she could never do that at home,” Leutner said. “But on (the night of) the birthday party, she wanted to go to bed.”
Her friends later told investigators they had planned to kill Leutner in her sleep that night but then decided to do it the next morning at a nearby park.
When she woke up, they were downstairs on the computer so she joined them for doughnuts before heading to the park. While there, they told her the plan was to play hide-and-seek and asked her to lie down under the leaves and sticks as part of the game, she said.
That is when Geyser repeatedly stabbed her with a kitchen knife and the girls left her alone in the woods, bleeding and struggling to get help. After she crawled out of the woods, a passing bicyclist found her and called 911.
Where was Morgan Geyser?
Authorities said Sunday they were searching for Geyser, who was last seen in a residential neighborhood on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin, around 8 p.m. Saturday with an adult acquaintance, police said in a statement.
Police later said in an update that they received confirmation around 10:34 p.m. that Geyser had been taken into custody in Illinois.
Geyser was found sleeping at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, around 150 miles from Madison, Posen police told CNN. She was with another person, whom police did not identify, and the two were taken into custody, police said.
Geyser’s attorney, Tony Cotton, had earlier urged the 23-year-old to turn herself in immediately, saying in a statement: “We worked too hard to secure her freedom for her to continue on this path.”
It is unclear how Geyser broke out of the group home or who helped her, Cotton said in a video posted to social media.
At age 15, Geyser pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors to be placed in a mental institution instead of serving jail time.
Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree homicide due to mental illness or defect as part of a plea agreement. She was committed to 25 years in a mental hospital, The Associated Press reported, but was released in 2021 on condition she live with her father and wear a GPS monitor.
At her sentencing in 2018, Geyser apologized to Leutner and her family.
“I never meant this to happen,” a tearful Geyser said. “I hope that she is doing well.”
In January, a judge ordered Geyser could be released from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, where she spent nearly seven years, the Associated Press reported.
n August, a facility in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, declined to take her due to negative publicity they were receiving about the potential move, according to CNN affiliate WMTV, but Madison police confirmed with the news station Geyser is currently living at a group home in Madison, on the same street where she was last seen.
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