Morgan Geyser, who stabbed a classmate as a 12-year-old, fled after a decade being raised by state institutions
The haunting apparition of “Slender Man” reappeared last week when Morgan Geyser, a central character in an 11-year-old attempted murder case, briefly absconded from a Wisconsin care home to which she had been transferred after being released from a psychiatric institution over the summer.
Geyser was 12 in 2014 when she pleaded guilty to stabbing a sixth-grade classmate to appease the mythical Slender Man.
Geyser, now 23, was picked up 24 hours later 100 miles away at a truck stop outside Chicago in the company of 43-year-old Chad “Charley” Mecca, a transgender woman. She had cut off her monitoring ankle bracelet. Mecca said in a phone call to the Wisconsin news outlet WKOW, “she ran because of me.” It later transpired that Mecca and Geyser feared they would no longer be able to visit each other and were potentially trying to make it to Nashville, Tennessee, when they were stopped by police.
Now Geyser faces being returned to the psychiatric institution to which she was sentenced after pleading guilty to stabbing Leutner with a kitchen knife, allegedly at the behest of another schoolfriend, Anissa Weier, and all in service of appeasing the fictional horror character Slender Man.
