US woman behind Slender Man stabbing is missing after leaving group home | Wisconsin
A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing her classmate to death in 2014 to please online horror character Slender Man went missing after cutting off her electronic monitoring device and leaving a group home, authorities said Sunday.
Madison police issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser, now 23, reporting that she was last seen with an adult acquaintance around 8 p.m. Saturday evening.
The warning said, “If you see the geyser, please call 911” and stated that he had cut off his “Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet.”
Geyser was placed in a group home this year after being paroled from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. He was sent to a psychiatric institution in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree premeditated murder in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison.
Geyser’s lawyer, Tony Cotton, said Sunday he did not know what happened to his client and urged Geyser to surrender.
“It is in his best interest to surrender immediately and not continue this action,” Cotton said in an Instagram video post in which he occasionally addressed Geyser directly. “We don’t know any facts about what happened or who might have helped him.”
Authorities say Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier were 12 when they took their classmate Payton Leutner to a park in suburban Milwaukee after a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner more than a dozen times as Weier provoked him. Leutner barely survived.
The girls later told investigators that they attacked Leutner to gain the right to become Slender Man’s servants and that they feared he would harm their family if they did not.
Slender Man was created online by Eric Knudsen in 2009 as a mysterious figure transformed into everyday images of children at play. He has become a popular bogeyman, appearing in video games, online stories, and a 2018 movie.
Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. He was also sent to a psychiatric facility and was released in 2021.
