The lawyer representing the woman involved in the infamous 2014 Slender Man stabbing case is requesting that she be relocated to a mental health facility, rather than remain in jail, following her recent escape from a Wisconsin group home.
Morgan Geyser, now 23, is currently detained at the Waukesha County Jail after being extradited from Illinois last week, as reported by FOX 11. Her arrest in Posen, Illinois, occurred after she fled a group home in Madison the previous month.
The attorney contends that incarceration is inappropriate for his client, advocating instead for her placement in a mental health facility.
“Considering she faces no new charges in Waukesha County and was previously judged not guilty due to mental illness or defect concerning the original offense, we believe she should be in a mental health institution, not a penal facility,” Anthony Cotton, her lawyer, expressed in a letter addressed to Waukesha County Judge K. Scott Wagner, as shared by the news outlet.
Geyser was apprehended in Posen, Illinois, on Sunday, November 23, 2025. (Posen Police Department)
Geyser reportedly left the YoYo Quality Care group home on the night of November 22, yet her absence wasn’t reported until the early hours of November 23. Later that day, authorities located both her and 43-year-old Chad Mecca at a truck stop in Illinois.
Geyser is set to remain in custody until Dec. 22, when Wisconsin Department of Health Services officials are expected to discuss a formal revocation of her conditional release, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Geyser was granted conditional release in January and placed in a group home in September, after spending nearly eight years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.
Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha County courtroom on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Additionally, authorities have not yet revealed what – if any – new charges Geyser may be facing following her escape. Officials previously indicated that she may face felony criminal charges since she allegedly cut off her electronic tracking device as she was leaving the group home, the Sentinel reported.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment regarding any potential criminal charges against Geyser.
In 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were having a sleepover with classmate Payton Leutner when the two girls lured Leutner to a local park. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier egged her on, nearly taking her life. All three girls were 12 at the time of the attack.
Morgan Geyser, convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing case, is seen in recent surveillance footage before her escape from a Madison group home. Police say she cut off her monitoring bracelet before fleeing a group home. (Madison Police Department)
Geyser and Weier later admitted to investigators that they tried to kill Leutner to appease fictional horror character Slender Man, and were fearful of him hurting their own families if they did not carry out the attack.
Both girls pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted intentional homicide charges in 2017, but not guilty by reason of mental disease. They were sentenced to mental confinement, with Weier ordered to serve 25 years and Geyser for 40 years.
Geyser’s attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
