'Slender Man' stabber to be released as state warns of 'red flags'

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The Wisconsin pistillate who attempted to termination her 12-year-old classmate to appease the fictional quality "Slender Man" volition beryllium released contempt the state’s claims determination are inactive "red flags" concerning her behavior.  

A justice has ruled Morgan Geyser, 22, tin proceed with her planned conditional merchandise from a Wisconsin intelligence wellness institute, rejecting a last-minute petition from the State Department of Health Services asking for her to stay successful custody. 

The determination comes aft failed attempts by Geyser's defence squad to person her released. 

Officials asked Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren to reverse his archetypal determination aft helium ordered Geyser’s merchandise successful January, citing Geyser’s narration with a execution memorabilia collector and her involvement successful convulsive books. 

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'Slender Man' stabber Morgan Geyser appears successful  a Wisconsin courtroom

Morgan Geyser is brought into Waukesha County Circuit Court for a proceeding April 11, 2024.  (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

In 2017, Geyser pleaded blameworthy to attempted first-degree intentional homicide successful the convulsive stabbing of Payton Leutner but claimed she was not liable owed to her intelligence illness. She told investigators she tried to termination Leutner to delight the fearfulness quality Slender Man and was yet recovered not blameworthy by crushed of intelligence defect. 

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

"Being recovered to beryllium mentally sick arsenic the origin of the transgression has a beauteous precocious standard," Dr. Gail Saltz, objective subordinate prof of psychiatry astatine Weill Cornell Medical College, told Fox News Digital. "The modular is an identifiable unwellness that impacts your quality to recognize that what you're doing is incorrect and that you person the capableness to recognize that. That's existent careless of age. So, it is rather a precocious standard." 

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'Slender Man' stabber Morgan Geyser appears successful  a Wisconsin courtroom

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

Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were 12 erstwhile they lured Leutner into a wooded parkland during a sleepover successful May 2014. Geyser, encouraged by Weier, stabbed Leutner 19 times. 

Leutner miraculously survived the attack. 

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Geyser has been successful custody astatine the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for the past 7 years. She was initially sentenced to 40 years successful the psychiatric infirmary and was permitted to inquire the tribunal to see her conditional merchandise each six months. 

The Wisconsin State Department of Health Services did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

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Attorney Anthony Cotton talks with lawsuit   Morgan Geyser

Attorney Anthony Cotton talks with lawsuit Morgan Geyser aft her petition for conditional merchandise was denied successful Waukesha County Circuit Court April 11, 2024. (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Health officials asked Bohren to reconsider, citing Geyser’s narration with a antheral who collects execution memorabilia. Prosecutors besides said Geyser failed to pass her therapy squad astir a convulsive publication she was reading.

Geyser’s defence attorney, Tony Cotton, refuted the claims, telling the tribunal the center's unit members were alert the collector had visited Geyser 3 times successful June 2023 and that she lone work books that were permitted by her attraction team. Cotton added that aft Geyser discovered the antheral was selling items she sent him, she broke things off.

"Morgan is not much unsafe today," Cotton said.

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Abbey Nickolie asking questions during hearing

Waukesha County Deputy District Attorney Abbey Nickolie questions Dr. Brooke Lundbohm, a specializer in psychology, during a question proceeding for Morgan Geyser successful Waukesha County Circuit Court April 10, 2024.  (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Bohren besides listened to grounds from 3 psychologists who initially recommended Geyser beryllium released during her proceeding successful January. 

While Geyser’s evident involvement successful convulsive topics concerns prosecutors, experts accidental immoderate individuals whitethorn gravitate toward materials that connection a controlled mode to indulge successful their morbid curiosity. 

"This is simply a grey portion successful the consciousness that galore radical work convulsive worldly arsenic a mode of partaking and reasoning astir that benignant of phantasy material," Saltz said. "Horror movies beryllium due to the fact that galore humans person sadistic and masochistic urges that are satisfied by speechmaking astir oregon watching worldly of this sort." 

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Judge Michael Bohren presides implicit    the question  hearing

Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren presides implicit the 2nd time of a question proceeding for Morgan Geyser April 11, 2024.  (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

However, bureau officials argued Geyser remains a information to the community, citing the publication "Rent Boy," which features topics specified arsenic execution and selling organs connected the achromatic market. 

Prosecutors told Bohren they believed it was concerning that Geyser reportedly lone disclosed the accusation erstwhile confronted by her attraction team. 

"The authorities has existent concerns these things are, frankly, conscionable reddish flags astatine this point," Waukesha County Deputy District Attorney Abbey Nickolie said during a proceeding past month. 

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'Slender Man' stabber Morgan Geyser appears successful  a Wisconsin courtroom

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

While morbid curiosities whitethorn beryllium mean for some, experts judge those with convulsive pasts could beryllium influenced by materials astir their crimes. 

"Thought does not adjacent behavior," Saltz said. "That being said, [with] idiosyncratic who has committed the behavior, we bash interest that yet that volition summation their impulse to bash thing that they genuinely [want] to bash and pb to a behaviour that is considered a problem." 

Despite the state’s pleas to support Geyser institutionalized, Bohren determined she was nary longer a information to society. Her adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled for April 28, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital. 

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Morgan Geyser appears successful  a Waukesha County courtroom

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

"There are galore radical who perpetrate horrible assaults with the intent to termination and service their clip and the valuation is that they admit their crime, which [Geyser] intelligibly has," Saltz told Fox News Digital. "They autumn nether each the ingredients that person to bash with rehabilitation, who don't adjacent person a uncovering that intelligence unwellness was a origin and were past released into society. So, I’m saying this isn't a wholly unsocial situation." 

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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. 

Attorneys for Weier did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

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"You person to deliberation astir the unfortunate successful this lawsuit too," Saltz said. "The onslaught was unbelievably traumatic. But, astatine the extremity of the day, it's highly antithetic to fundamentally fastener up a 12-year-old for life." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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