A lady who pleaded responsible to the 2014 stabbing of her sixth-grade classmate is again in custody after Wisconsin police say she vanished from a group house the place she lived underneath supervised launch Saturday night time.
Morgan Geyser, 23, was discovered over 100 miles away roughly 24 hours later in Illinois with an acquaintance.
Geyser’s disappearance comes more than 10 years after investigators say she and a pal, Anissa Weier, stabbed their classmate, Payton Leutner, with the objective of pleasing the fictitious character Slender Man. The ladies had been all 12 years outdated at the time. Here’s what we know.
Geyser will probably be extradited to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, a decide stated Tuesday throughout a listening to in Cook County, Illinois.
Leutner had gone to Geyser’s house for a slumber occasion to rejoice her birthday, she previously informed ABC.
When she wakened the subsequent morning, Leutner stated Geyser and Weier had been downstairs at a pc the place she joined them for doughnuts earlier than heading to the park. They informed her the plan was to play hide-and-seek and requested her to lie down underneath the leaves and sticks as a part of the recreation, she stated.
There in the woods, Geyser repeatedly stabbed her with a kitchen knife, and she or he and Weier left her alone in the woods, bleeding and struggling to get assist. After Leutner crawled out of the woods, a passing bicyclist discovered her and known as 911.
Leutner was stabbed close to her coronary heart, and she or he was “one millimeter away from certain death,” court docket paperwork stated.
When the bicyclist discovered her, the woman pleaded, “Please help me. I’ve been stabbed,” audio from the 911 name revealed.
NCS affiliate WISN reported Geyser was diagnosed with schizophrenia a few months after the attack.
Weier, then 16, pleaded responsible to tried second-degree murder as a consequence of psychological sickness or defect as a part of a comparable plea settlement stipulating she would settle for dedication to institutional care.
Geyser, then 15, entered a responsible plea to a cost of tried first-degree homicide. As a part of the deal, underneath Wisconsin law, Geyser prevented additional jail time and could be dedicated to a psychological establishment.
“It’s a confusing thing to describe because clearly she committed an offense but the law doesn’t treat her as responsible for that crime because of her mental illness,” Anthony Cotton, Geyser’s lawyer, defined to NCS at the time.
In the finish, Cotton stated, Geyser “would not be considered to have a criminal record.”
A Wisconsin decide ordered Weier be dedicated to state psychological look after 25 years.
Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a psychological establishment as an alternative of serving jail time, in line with a decide’s order.
Weier was granted release from a psychological well being facility on the situation she reside together with her father and put on a GPS monitor.
In January, a decide ordered Geyser could possibly be launched from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, the place she spent practically seven years, The Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors tried to dam her launch, alleging she has been quietly studying gory novels and speaking with a man who collects memorabilia from murderers.
However, a Waukesha County Circuit decide later ordered her release after state and county well being officers accomplished a group supervision and housing plan.
Police in Madison, Wisconsin, announced they had been looking for Geyser, who was final seen in a residential neighborhood on the west aspect of the metropolis round 8 p.m. Saturday with an grownup acquaintance.
She had disappeared Saturday night time after chopping off her monitoring bracelet, police stated. Authorities later stated in an update they acquired affirmation round 10:34 p.m. Geyser had been taken into custody in Posen, Illinois.
The pair traveled from Wisconsin by bus, Posen police stated.
On Sunday, officers in Posen responded to a report of individuals loitering behind a truck cease constructing and found a man and a girl sleeping on the sidewalk, police stated.
Geyser initially gave officers a false identify once they confronted her, in line with Posen Police.
“After continued attempts to identify her, she finally stated that she didn’t want to tell officers who she was because she had ‘done something really bad,’ and suggested that officers could ‘just Google’ her name,” police stated.
Lesli Boese, the district lawyer for Waukesha County, stated Monday her “office will not get involved again in this case until a motion to revoke for conditional release is filed,” and Dane County legislation enforcement is investigating Geyser for “leaving her placement.”
Geyser faces no further prices in Illinois, Posen police stated, however will probably be held at Cook County jail to await extradition again to Wisconsin. Her subsequent listening to is scheduled for Tuesday at 11 a.m. CT in Cook County, Illinois.
Correction:
An earlier model of this story misidentified the state the place Geyser was positioned. She was present in Illinois. It additionally misspelled Anissa Weier’s first identify.