Authorities in Wisconsin are desperately searching for Morgan Geyser — the once-notorious sixth grader who stabbed a classmate in 2014 to please the fictional internet monster “Slender Man.” Now 23 and living in a supervised group home, Geyser reportedly sliced off a GPS tracking bracelet and disappeared into the night over the weekend.
Police in Madison say Geyser was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday with an unidentified adult acquaintance. She has not been heard from since.
“This is a serious public safety concern,” a law enforcement source told local reporters. “She’s supposed to remain under strict supervision for decades — and she’s now gone.”
The Slender Man stabbing shocked America more than ten years ago. In May 2014, Geyser and classmate Anissa Weier lured their 12-year-old friend Payton Leutner into the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin, and stabbed her 19 times. Miraculously, Leutner crawled to safety and was found by a passing cyclist.
When questioned, both girls said they attacked their friend to prove their loyalty to Slender Man — a fictional horror character that originated from online creepypasta stories. They believed he would harm their families if they didn’t kill.
Geyser later pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted homicide and was committed to a psychiatric institution for 40 years. Weier was sentenced separately and released under supervision in 2021.
In July, a judge controversially granted Geyser conditional release from Winnebago Mental Health Institute. Staff objected, warning that Geyser had been reading a “dark novel” and secretly communicating with a man outside the facility.
“She still struggles with fantasy and reality,” one psychiatric staffer said in court filings. “We are not confident she can safely reintegrate.”
Despite those warnings, Geyser was moved to a Madison group home, where she was expected to live under strict monitoring until 2058.
That monitoring ended abruptly this weekend when she allegedly cut off her ankle bracelet and vanished.
The Madison Police Department confirmed they were notified of her disappearance Sunday morning. Officers have issued an alert but have not said whether they believe Geyser poses a direct threat to others.
Residents in the area are urged to contact police if they spot anyone matching Geyser’s description.
“The past cannot be ignored,” one former Waukesha detective told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “When someone with that history walks away from supervision, it’s impossible not to worry.”
As the search intensifies, many are left asking whether the system failed again — and if the young woman once consumed by an online horror fantasy could now be living out a darker one in real life.
Source: Madison Police Department; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; court records.
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Other sources have said she’s been found and is back in custody…That “judge” needs a checkup from the neck up himself! The staff of the hospital told him that she’s still mentally ill, but he didn’t listen to them. I guess that he thought he knew better than the staff of the mental hospital.