A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please horror villain Slender Man and then fled a group home won’t fight the state’s attempt to revoke her release privileges.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Scott Wagner signed off on a plan in July to release 23-year-old Morgan Geyser from a state psychiatric hospital where she had spent the last seven years and place her in a Madison group home on GPS monitoring.
The state Department of Health Services opposed her release, arguing that Geyser couldn’t be trusted. Authorities say she cut her GPS monitor off on Nov. 22 and fled the state with a 43-year-old companion. Police arrested them the next day at a truck stop outside Chicago, about 170 miles (274 kilometers) south of Madison.
State health officials filed a sealed petition with Wagner on Nov. 25 asking him to revoke Geyser’s release privileges. Geyser’s attorney, Tony Cotton, sent a letter to the judge on Tuesday saying that he had discussed “the allegations in detail” with her and she has decided to to contest the petition and he had notified prosecutors. He did not elaborate further and declined to comment when reached via email on Wednesday.
The decision clears the way for Wagner to send Geyser back to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The state Department of Health Services runs the institute.
