Overview

• At a hearing Thursday, Waukesha County Circuit Judge Scott Wagner approved a revised conditional release plan and tasked the Department of Health Services with finalizing her supervised group home placement.
• Geyser has spent the last seven years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after pleading guilty in 2017 to attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
• State health officials raised doubts in March after discovering that Geyser had read a violent novel and exchanged messages with a murder-memorabilia collector without disclosing them to her therapists.
• In January, Judge Michael Bohren found in her favor after testimonies from three psychiatric experts confirmed she had progressed in managing her mental illness.
• The 2014 attack on classmate Payton Leutner to appease the Slender Man myth left her with 19 stab wounds and has prompted ongoing debates over juvenile justice and the impact of digital folklore.