Overview
- Judge Scott Wagner signed off Thursday on a conditional release that will allow Morgan Geyser to leave Winnebago Mental Health Institute after nearly seven years of inpatient care.
- The approved plan obliges Geyser to live under supervised placement in a location and schedule finalized by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
- Three court-appointed experts testified in January that Geyser had achieved sustained progress in managing early-onset schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms.
- State health officials and the victim’s mother raised concerns in March and April about Geyser’s undisclosed consumption of violent materials and the proximity of her initial group home to Payton Leutner’s residence.
- Geyser pleaded guilty in 2017 to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing, and her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, was released in 2021 under similar court-supervised conditions.