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Slender Man Stabbing Perpetrator Seeks Release from Mental Institution

Morgan Geyser, who stabbed a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man, has requested her release for the second time.

  • Morgan Geyser, now 21, who was committed to a mental institution after stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man, has asked for her release for the second time.
  • Geyser and her accomplice, Anissa Weier, were 12 years old when they lured their classmate, Payton Leutner, to a park and stabbed her multiple times.
  • Leutner, who suffered 19 stab wounds, was left for dead but managed to crawl onto a bike path where she was found by a passerby.
  • Geyser and Weier told investigators they stabbed Leutner to earn the right to become Slender Man’s servants and protect their families from him.
  • Weier was granted a conditional release in 2021 to live with her father and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor.
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