Less than a year after being granted conditional release (and just months after cutting off a GPS monitor and fleeing Wisconsin) Slender Man defendant Morgan Geyser wants out again.
Geyser’s attorney filed a new petition for conditional release Tuesday, once again asking a Waukesha County judge to allow the 24-year-old to leave state custody. Geyser was granted conditional release in 2025 following years of unsuccessful attempts to leave the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. She was eventually placed in a Madison group home last September.
It didn’t last long.
Just two months later, Geyser cut off her GPS ankle monitor with scissors, climbed out of a bedroom window and disappeared.
Geyser, who has more recently reportedly identified as a transgender man, fled with Chad “Charly” Mecca, a 43-year-old man Geyser met at church. Mecca identifies as a transgender woman.
Records released after the escape showed the two had developed a close relationship during Geyser’s brief time outside state custody. According to investigators, Mecca had previously climbed through Geyser’s bedroom window to secretly visit after restrictions were placed on their visits.
On Nov. 22, Geyser removed the GPS monitor and met Mecca at a nearby park. The pair traveled through Madison before boarding an overnight bus to Chicago. Records indicate they discussed potentially continuing to Nashville.
Their escape ended the next day in Posen, Illinois, where police found them sleeping outside a gas station after they had run out of money. Both initially provided officers with false names.
Geyser’s conditional release was revoked the following month, returning her to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. A subsequent Wisconsin Department of Corrections investigation into the escape resulted in one employee being fired and two others receiving unpaid suspensions.
Now, just months later, Geyser is asking for another shot at conditional release.
Geyser has spent much of the past decade in state custody for her role in one of Wisconsin’s most notorious crimes. In 2014, Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12 at the time, lured their sixth-grade classmate Payton Leutner into a wooded area near a Waukesha park, where Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times.
The girls told investigators the attack was intended to appease “Slender Man,” a fictional internet character. Leutner survived after crawling out of the woods and being discovered by a passing bicyclist. Geyser later pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was committed to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for up to 40 years.
Her latest petition means a Wisconsin court will once again consider whether Geyser is ready to live outside a secure state facility.
This time, the court won’t have to speculate about how Geyser might handle conditional release. She was already given that opportunity — and within two months, she cut off her GPS monitor, climbed out a window and fled the state.
