'Slender Man' stabber release hits roadblock after learning victim would live 8 miles away

One of the 2 teens convicted successful the "Slender Man" stabbing lawsuit has had her merchandise delayed erstwhile again aft a justice recovered an contented with the proximity of her surviving quarters to the victim. 

It's been implicit a decennary since Morgan Geyser, present 22, on with Anissa Waeier, astir stabbed their sixth-grade friend, Payton Leutner, to decease aft telling constabulary that a fictional quality known arsenic "Slender Man" instructed them to termination Leutner. 

Geyser appeared successful tribunal connected Monday to finalize her conditional release, but the program was diverted aft prosecutors noted that her planned radical location would lone beryllium 8 miles distant from wherever Leutner present lives. 

"We person a ample problem," Waukesha County Assistant District Attorney Ted Szczupakiewicz said, according to grounds shown connected Court TV. "The full authorities of Wisconsin, judge, and we person a program that has her 8 miles away!"

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Morgan Geyser is led retired of Waukesha County Circuit Court aft her petition for conditional merchandise was denied connected April 11, 2024. (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

"The authors of the program ne'er consulted with the unfortunate successful this case," Szczupakiewicz continued. 

Leutner’s mother, Stacie, expressed that her household was "very concerned" astir Geyser surviving successful specified adjacent proximity, speaking via Zoom to the court. 

"What information has been fixed to Payton’s rights and her needs for safety?" Stacie Leutner asked the court. "They made nary effort to ascertain details of Payton’s regular beingness that would beryllium pertinent to this planning."

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"Payton has worked incredibly hard to heal from the profound trauma she endured," Stacie Leutner continued. "She deserves the close to prosecute successful mundane activities, specified arsenic market buying oregon visiting the library, without the agonizing fearfulness of encountering the idiosyncratic who held her down and stabbed her 19 times erstwhile she was conscionable 12 years old."

Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren shared his vexation that this was not discussed anterior to the proceeding and ordered officials to find a caller radical location for Geyser, giving them a 30-day deadline.

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Morgan Geyser is brought into Waukesha County Circuit Court for a question proceeding connected April 10, 2024. (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

"This is what immoderate radical whitethorn notation to arsenic a high-profile lawsuit wherever t's are to beryllium crossed and i's are dotted to beryllium definite each rights are protected," Bohren said.

Geyser is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal for different merchandise proceeding successful aboriginal June, marking the 3rd clip her merchandise has been delayed.

Geyser’s defence squad and the state’s prosecuting lawyer did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

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Prosecutors said Geyser and Weier lured Leutner to a wooded country successful Waukesha aft a sleepover successful May 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner repeatedly arsenic Weier urged her on, prosecutors said. 

Both Weier and Geyser told authorities they felt they had to termination Leutner to go Slender Man's "proxies," oregon servants, and support their families from him.

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Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren presides implicit a question proceeding for Morgan Geyser connected April 11, 2024. (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Leutner was near for dormant but miraculously survived the onslaught aft she crawled retired of the woods and was recovered by a bicyclist. 

"Slender Man" started with an online station successful 2009, arsenic a mysterious specter whose representation radical edit into mundane scenes of children astatine play. He is typically depicted arsenic a spidery fig successful a achromatic suit with a featureless achromatic face. He was regarded by his devotees arsenic alternately a sinister unit and an avenging angel.

In 2017, Geyser pleaded blameworthy to attempted first-degree intentional homicide successful Leutner's onslaught but claimed she was not liable owed to her intelligence illness. She was sentenced successful 2018 to a maximum of 40 years of authorities intelligence wellness supervision.

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Geyser has been astatine the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for astir a decade, but was permitted to inquire the tribunal to see her conditional merchandise each six months. 

Despite the state’s pleas to support Geyser institutionalized, Bohren determined she was nary longer a information to society.

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Weier besides pleaded blameworthy to being a enactment to attempted second-degree intentional homicide with a unsafe limb and was sentenced to 25 years successful a intelligence hospital. In 2021, she was released connected the information she indispensable unrecorded with her begetter and deterioration a GPS monitor. 

Fox News Digital's Julia Bonavita and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist transgression cases, amerciable immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to [email protected]