Slender Man stabber’s lawyer demands she be freed from jail, returned to mental facility after escape: report

The lawyer for the pistillate convicted successful the 2014 Slender Man stabbing lawsuit who precocious escaped a Wisconsin radical location is asking a justice to instrumentality his lawsuit to a intelligence wellness facility, alternatively of keeping her successful jail. 

Morgan Geyser, 23, is being held successful the Waukesha County Jail pursuing her extradition from Illinois past week, according to FOX 11. Geyser landed herself down bars aft she was arrested successful Posen, Illinois, pursuing her flight from a Madison radical location past month. 

However, her lawyer is arguing that his lawsuit is champion suited surviving successful a intelligence wellness installation – not jail. 

"Given that she has nary caller transgression charges successful Waukesha County and fixed that she has been antecedently recovered not blameworthy by crushed of intelligence illness oregon defect connected the underlying offense, it is our presumption that she should beryllium housed successful a intelligence wellness facility, not a correctional institution," lawyer Anthony Cotton wrote successful a missive to Waukesha County Judge K. Scott Wagner obtained by the outlet.

SLENDER MAN STABBER’S ESCAPE PROVES SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN RELEASED, EXPERT SAYS

Morgan Geyser was taken into custody successful Posen, Illinois, connected Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.  (Posen Police Department)

Geyser allegedly fled the YoYo Quality Care radical location connected the evening of Nov. 22, but she was not reported missing by officials until the aboriginal greeting hours of Nov. 23. She and 43-year-old Chad Mecca were recovered by authorities astatine an Illinois motortruck halt aboriginal that day. 

Geyser is acceptable to stay successful custody until Dec. 22, erstwhile Wisconsin Department of Health Services officials are expected to sermon a ceremonial revocation of her conditional release, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 

Geyser was granted conditional merchandise successful January and placed successful a radical location successful September, aft spending astir 8 years astatine the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.

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Morgan Geyser appears successful a Waukesha County courtroom connected Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, successful Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Additionally, authorities person not yet revealed what – if immoderate – caller charges Geyser whitethorn beryllium facing pursuing her escape. Officials antecedently indicated that she whitethorn look felony transgression charges since she allegedly chopped disconnected her physics tracking instrumentality arsenic she was leaving the radical home, the Sentinel reported. 

The Dane County District Attorney’s Office did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for remark regarding immoderate imaginable transgression charges against Geyser. 

In 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were having a sleepover with classmate Payton Leutner erstwhile the 2 girls lured Leutner to a section park. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times portion Weier egged her on, astir taking her life. All 3 girls were 12 astatine the clip of the attack. 

SLENDER MAN STABBER CAPTURED FOLLOWING NATIONWIDE MANHUNT

Morgan Geyser, convicted successful the 2014 Slender Man stabbing case, is seen successful caller surveillance footage earlier her flight from a Madison radical home. Police accidental she chopped disconnected her monitoring bracelet earlier fleeing a radical home. (Madison Police Department)

Geyser and Weier aboriginal admitted to investigators that they tried to termination Leutner to appease fictional fearfulness quality Slender Man, and were fearful of him hurting their ain families if they did not transportation retired the attack.

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Both girls pleaded blameworthy to being a enactment to attempted intentional homicide charges successful 2017, but not blameworthy by crushed of intelligence disease. They were sentenced to intelligence confinement, with Weier ordered to service 25 years and Geyser for 40 years. 

Geyser’s lawyer did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.