12-year-old Mastermind Convicted for Stabbing, Leaving Bestie for Dead to Be Released
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 35 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 decides Morgan Geyser is well enough to be released from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute she has been in for the last seven years. She will be moved to a group home where her mental health will be continue to be monitored. Three medical experts testified that Geyser has made considerable progress, which convinced a judge that she doesn't pose a safety risk outside hospital walls.
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. |
| 0:06.6 | Little Peyton Lawtonner was just 12 years old when she was lured to the woods and stabbed repeatedly in a sickening attack left for dead. |
| 0:20.5 | The two perps, her 12-year-old friends. |
| 0:24.2 | In the last days, a stunning blow to the victim. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:30.8 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:32.0 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:34.1 | That's right. |
| 0:34.8 | In the last days, the Slender Man Stabber, Morgan Geyser, is set to be released from prison despite the little victim Peyton Lawtoner's anguished pleas. |
| 0:49.3 | Geyser and co-defendant, Anisa Weir, just 12, when they attacked their little friend, Peyton Lawner. |
| 0:58.7 | Since that time, Geiser has been in a psychiatric facility, but in the last days, a judge grants her release. |
| 1:18.2 | This over the anguished pleas of the victim and her family. What happened that horrible night? |
| 1:20.2 | She walks down in California, I'm trying over a caller on Big Bend at the dead end, just south of Rivera. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay. |
| 1:27.4 | She's calling from . . . . . came upon a 12-year-old female, just south of Rivera. Okay. She's called from a . |
| 1:28.3 | She appeared to be stabbed. |
| 1:31.3 | She appears to be what? |
| 1:32.3 | Stabbed. |
| 1:33.3 | Correct. |
| 1:34.3 | Okay. |
| 1:35.3 | Sir, you're still there? |
| 1:36.3 | Yes. |
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