MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin’s Afternoon News went In-Depth for an entire hour, looking into the Slenderman Stabber Morgan Geyser, ahead of her next court appearance Tuesday, December 23.
Twelve years ago, Geyser lured her classmate into the woods and stabbed the victim 19 times. She explained to the police she did it all to appease a fictional character named Slenderman. She was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and found not guilty by mental disease. The judge sentenced her in 2018 to 40 years in the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.
Last year, she was granted conditional release and was placed in a group home in September. About two months later, she is accused of cutting off her ankle monitor device, then climbing out of a facility window. She was found less than a day later, 200 miles away in Illinois.
John Mercure and Julia Fello spoke to her defense attorney Anthony Cotton just after a letter was sent to the judge that she would not contest the Wisconsin Department of Health’s request to revoke the terms of her release. Cotton said a court date set for February was been taken off the calendar because Morgan has agreed not to contest her revocation. She will appear next Tuesday morning, December 23. Cotton says Geyser, “Will appear by Zoom. The judge will speak to her directly and make sure she is comfortable making this decision to be revoked from her supervision.”
Cotton said he just spoke to Geyser as recently as a few days ago, “I think she’s in a realistic spot where she understands that the decisions she made was a bad one and as a result of that she’s going to need some further treatment at the hospital,” he added, “She’s regretful and I think also wants to work with the doctors and therapist to help figure out sort of what went wrong with the thought process and why it came to that.”
When asked if Geyser may ever have another chance for conditional release, Cotton replied, “I can’t speak to that, I don’t know what the future will hold. The two questions are, is she a harm to others and is she a danger to herself. I stand by everything I’ve said historically on this case I don’t think she is presently or was a danger to others when they released her. I mean I realize she did a very horrible act to her victim early on, and that’s terrible, but I don’t think she’s a danger to others right now. I think she is more of a danger to herself. Just-this decision to cut off her bracelet, and be off her medication is such a bad decision that I think she needs more treatment.”
Wisconsin’s Afternoon News In-Depth hour on Morgan Geyser got listeners up to date on this case —
Starting where it all began, May 31st, 2014.
We also examined what comes next in a case like this involving mental health and crime, with renowned defense attorney Johnathan LaVoy with Kim & LaVoy LLC.
Finally, we spoke to a criminologist about men who have become obsessed with her case.
Stay with wtmj.com for the latest on this developing story.
