Attorney requests Morgan Geyser be moved to mental health facility

STREET MAP. LET’S GET TO BREAKING NEWS HERE. AT 5:00, THE SLENDERMAN STABBER COULD BE HEADING BACK TO A MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE TONIGHT, ASKING A JUDGE TO GRANT A TRANSFER FROM THE JAIL TO A HOSPITAL. INVESTIGATORS SAY SHE ADMITTED CUTTING OFF HER ANKLE MONITOR AND ESCAPING A GROUP HOME. HANNAH HILYARD IS OUTSIDE THE WAUKESHA COUNTY JAIL TONIGHT. AND HANNAH, THAT IS WHERE MORGAN GEYSER IS BEING HELD RIGHT NOW. FOR NOW. ALL RIGHT, DEREK AND DEANNA. SO HER ATTORNEY TODAY WRITING THIS, A SHORT LETTER TO THE COURT CLAIMING SINCE SHE IS NOT FACING ANY NEW CRIMINAL CHARGES HERE IN WAUKESHA, SHE SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE COUNTY JAIL TO A MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL AS SHE AWAITS A VERY CRITICAL AND HIGH STAKES DECEMBER 22ND REVOCATION HEARING THAT COULD CHANGE HER FUTURE ENTIRELY. MORGAN GEYSER SPENT MOST OF HER YOUNG ADULT LIFE IN WINNEBAGO’S MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL AFTER STABBING A CLASSMATE 19 TIMES AT THE AGE OF 12 TO PLEASE THE FICTIONAL CHARACTER SLENDERMAN. WE TRIED TO DO WITH HER WHEN HE STABBED HER, KILL HER. I MIGHT AS WELL JUST SAY IT. WE WERE TRYING TO KILL HER. NOW, GEYSER, AT THE AGE OF 23, MAY BE HEADING BACK TO THAT MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY. A WAUKESHA COUNTY JUDGE GRANTED HER CONDITIONAL RELEASE JUST THREE MONTHS AGO, LANDING HER IN THIS GROUP HOME IN MADISON. BUT LAST WEEK, INVESTIGATORS SAY GEYSER CUT OFF HER ANKLE MONITOR AND ESCAPED WITH A 42 YEAR OLD FRIEND. POLICE IN THE CHICAGO SUBURB OF POSEN CAUGHT UP WITH THE PAIR SLEEPING BEHIND A GAS STATION. I DID SOMETHING. WHAT DID YOU DO? I DON’T KNOW WHAT I DID. OKAY. THAT’S FINE. I WANT TO TALK TO YOU OVER HERE. WHAT YOU DID WRONG. NOW, BACK IN WAUKESHA COUNTY CUSTODY. THE STATE IS TRYING TO REVOKE HER CONDITIONAL RELEASE. EXTREMELY CONCERNING THAT YOU WOULD SO BLATANTLY VIOLATE A VERY, VERY SIMPLE CONDITION, WHICH IS TO STAY IN A PLACEMENT AND KEEP A BRACELET ON A COURT DATE SET FOR LATER THIS MONTH. HER ATTORNEY, TONY COTTON, MONDAY, NOW WRITING A LETTER TO THE JUDGE ASKING GEYSER SPEND THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS NOT IN THE WAUKESHA COUNTY JAIL, BUT BACK AT WINNEBAGO’S MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY, CLAIMING SHE, QUOTE, HAS NO NEW CRIMINAL CHARGES AND WAS PREVIOUSLY NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DEFECT FOR THE 2014 ATTACK ON HER CLASSMATE. LEAVE IT TO THE DOCTORS TO REEVALUATE HER AND OFFER THEIR PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DOES THE ACT OF CUTTING OFF ONE’S BRACELET IN AND OF ITSELF MAKE A PERSON MORE, MORE DANGEROUS? AND THAT IS BACK WITH US LIVE TONIGHT, HANNAH. WHAT COMES NEXT? WELL, DEREK, A JUDGE HAS REVIEWED THE LETTER FROM ATTORNEY TONY COTTON AND IS NOW WAITING. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE RESPONSE. WHEN I REACHED OUT TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE EARLIER TODAY, THEY DECLINED TO COMMENT. BUT AGAIN, THAT DECEMBER 22ND REVOCATION HEARING REMAINS ON THE CALENDAR. AS OF RIGHT NOW, IT’S JUST WHERE GEYSER WILL BE LEADING UP TO THAT HEARING, AND AFTER THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE SORTED OUT. HANNAH HILYARD LIVE OUTSIDE THE WAUKESHA COUNTY JAIL, SO LET’S GET YOU CAUGHT UP ON THE RECENT TIMELINE. IN THIS CASE, GUYS ARE ESCAPED FROM THAT GROUP HOME IN MADISON. NOVEMBER 22ND. POLICE ARRESTED HER THE FOLLOWING NIGHT AT A GAS STATION JUST OUTSIDE CHICAGO. TWO DAYS LATER, GEYSER WAIVED EXTRADITION BACK TO WISCONSIN. DURING A HEARING IN A CHICAGO COURTROOM IN COOK COUNTY, JAIL OFFICIALS BROUGHT HER BACK TO THE WAUKESHA COUNTY JA

Attorney requests Morgan Geyser be moved to mental health facility

Geyser is currently in the Waukesha County Jail after escaping from group home in Madison

Updated: 7:39 PM CST Dec 1, 2025

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The attorney for Morgan Geyser, the Waukesha woman who stabbed a middle school classmate to please the fictional character “Slender Man” in 2014, has requested she be moved to the Winnebago Mental Health Facility, where she spent more than seven years before being released in September. Geyser has been in the Waukesha County Jail since Wednesday evening, when she was returned to Wisconsin after escaping from a Madison group home on Nov. 22. She was found in Posen, Illinois, on Nov. 23 at a Thornton’s truck stop.In a letter to Waukesha County Judge Scott Wagner, Attorney Tony Cotton wrote, “Given that she has no new criminal charges in Waukesha County and given that she has been previously found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on the underlying offense, it is our position that she should be housed in a mental health facility, not a correctional institution.” Geyser was sentenced in February 2018 to a maximum 40 years of state mental health supervision for her role in the “Slender Man” stabbing. Top HeadlinesTracking Monday snowfall in SE Wisconsin Buc-ee’s political and economic impact front and center as travel center set to break ground in WIPrairie Farms recalls milk sold at Woodman’s stores in WisconsinWATCH 14 rescued from Sunburst Ski Area chairlift due to Kewaskum power outage

WAUKESHA, Wis. —

The attorney for Morgan Geyser, the Waukesha woman who stabbed a middle school classmate to please the fictional character “Slender Man” in 2014, has requested she be moved to the Winnebago Mental Health Facility, where she spent more than seven years before being released in September.

Geyser has been in the Waukesha County Jail since Wednesday evening, when she was returned to Wisconsin after escaping from a Madison group home on Nov. 22.

She was found in Posen, Illinois, on Nov. 23 at a Thornton’s truck stop.

In a letter to Waukesha County Judge Scott Wagner, Attorney Tony Cotton wrote, “Given that she has no new criminal charges in Waukesha County and given that she has been previously found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on the underlying offense, it is our position that she should be housed in a mental health facility, not a correctional institution.”

Geyser was sentenced in February 2018 to a maximum 40 years of state mental health supervision for her role in the “Slender Man” stabbing.

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