12-Year-Old Girls Stab 'Bestie,' Leave Her for Dead, Now Say They're No Longer Threat to Society?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Two girls stab their best friend 19 times. Why? They wanted to appease the fictional horror character, Slender Man. Both girls serve time in a mental health facility.

Anissa Weier was granted conditional release in September 2021. She was required to receive outpatient psychiatric treatment and was subject to GPS monitoring – though the monitoring was waived in September of last year.

Now a Wisconsin judge will hear evidence in April to decide whether to release Morgan Geyser from the mental health facility where she’s being held. The 21-year-old Geyser requested conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute from Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren back in January.

This is similar to a petition that Geyser filed in 2022 for conditional release, but withdrew two months later.

In the latest petition filed on January 16, Geyser is asking Judge Michael O. Bohren to consider whether she is no longer a threat to herself or others — a decision that will be based on a new round of medical exams.

The judge appointed three psychiatric experts — one on behalf of Geyser, one on behalf of prosecutors, and the third as a court appointee — to examine her and produce reports on her current mental condition. Judge Bohren then set a hearing for April 10-11 to consider the reports and possibly rule on the release request.

Joining Nancy Grace to discuss the case:

Troy Slaten – Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers, APC; Twitter/X: @TroySlaten
Dr. Daniel Bober – Forensic Psychiatrist, Chief of Psychiatry Memorial Regional Healthcare Systems, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine; Instagram: drdanielbober
Joe Scott Morgan – Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, “Blood Beneath My Feet,” and Host: “Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;” Twitter/X: @JoScottForensic
Levi Page - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:07.0	Does the name Slim? Does the name Slenderman mean anything to you? Well, I luckily went my entire life with not knowing what
0:21.7	Slenderman was. entire life with not knowing what slender man was until two girls lead their
0:28.2	little best friend out into the woods during a sleepover and stab her multiple times leaving her to bleed out dead.
0:38.8	In a miracle, the little girl lives.
0:42.2	Now why did two seemingly normal young girls from
0:46.7	Wisconsin try to murder stabbing repeatedly their little best friend even going through an elaborate roost to lure her out of the
0:56.6	home because the two of them wanted to go live with the, oh gosh what can I say, nocturnal, mythical, creepy slender
1:11.0	man in his mansion in the woods.
1:15.0	Yes, two seemingly normal students.
1:20.0	Lour their friend, try their best to murder her, each one stabbing her over and over and over as she begged for mercy.
1:29.0	During a sleepover, the whole sleepover was a murder sleepover.
1:33.0	Well, in the last days, one of the two, the oldest,
1:38.0	the Wisconsin girl convicted in the infamous slender man stabbing one. and the being with us here at crime stories and on serious
1:52.5	xm 111 does it never end with these two the cold calculated and callous
2:00.7	stabbing of a little girl just 12 years old at the time she was stabbed nearly
2:07.8	to death.
2:09.5	The case still goes on.
2:11.9	One of the two Wisconsin girls who repeatedly stabbed their
2:14.6	classmate because they claim they were possessed by the fictional horror
2:20.6	character, Slenderman, one of them has just lost their appeal.
2:27.0	Morgan Geiser was just 12 years old when she and her friend, a niece where, attacked Payton Lawner and a Milwaukee suburb in 2014.
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