Morgan Geyser, the teenager behind the infamous “Slender Man” stabbing, snuck out of her group home last Saturday after having been released from a psychiatric facility earlier this year. Prosecutors warned that her release was risky: she’s a huge fan of torture‑themed literature and once sent graphic drawings to a man who collects murder memorabilia. She was especially drawn to the novel Rent Boy, which tells the story of murders and illegal organ sales—a detail she never mentioned to her treatment team until she was asked. During her stay at the Winnebago mental‑health institute, she communicated with a collector who visited her three times in June 2023, and she had sent him a sketch of her own decapitated body with the line “They crumble as they crawl,” plus a postcard offering a sexual proposition. After learning the collector was selling her twisted souvenirs, she cut off the relationship. She only disclosed the book and the collector when prompted by her attorneys’ counsel, Tony Cotton. In January, a judge granted her release from the hospital, despite prosecutor Abbey Nickolie’s concerns that she was still a danger in society. By March, state health officials pushed Judge Bohren to keep her committed, citing fears about her behavior. The victim’s mother pointed out that Geyser’s new group home was just eight miles away, forcing officials to devise a new safety plan. Cotton defended Geyser’s reading choices, noting that staff had approved her books, which ranged from biographies to the graphic novel Rent Boy. He called the state’s request to re‑imprison her a “hit job” and argued she had not become more dangerous. Judge Bohren agreed, stating he saw no public risk, and set a near‑future hearing on a release plan for March 21. Geyser escaped by cutting her ankle monitor and fled to Illinois with transgender friend Chad Mecca; the pair were apprehended the following day. The original stabbing took place in 2014 when Geyser—then 12—lured classmate Payton Leutner to a park after a school sleepover, stabbing her 19 times while friend Anissa Weier cheered her on. Both teenagers claimed they were acting on orders from Slender Man, a fictional internet boogeyman, to serve him and avoid harm to themselves or their families. Leutner survived by crawling into a nearby bike lane, where passersby discovered her. In 2018, Judge Bohren sentenced Geyser to 40 years in a psychiatric hospital for attempted second‑degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon, noting her mental illness as a mitigating factor. Weier received a 25‑year commitment but was released in 2021 after agreeing to live with her father and wear an ankle tag.
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