How A Wisconsin Judge HELPED The Slender Man Attacker ESCAPE!
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Tonight, we’re taking you through the full timeline of how Morgan Geyser — the attacker in the Slender Man stabbing — went from a secure psychiatric institution to a residential street in Madison. Not because she “served her time,” but because judges, doctors, and state agencies convinced themselves she was ready for “community reintegration,” despite red flags that would stop any other case in its tracks.
We dig into the decisions that opened the door:
• The court rulings that shifted her from a locked facility to a group home.
• The warnings about disturbing reading material and troubling outside contacts.
• The placement that got scrapped after residents found out who was coming.
• The next placement, quietly sealed by the court to avoid public backlash.
• The neighborhood full of families who had no idea she had moved in.
• And the ankle-monitor alert that DOC brushed off as a “device glitch” while she walked freely into the night.
And then — the escape.
A missing GPS signal.
A 12-hour communication delay.
A 42-year-old man by her side.
And a capture behind a truck stop in Illinois after officers realized the woman they found didn’t want to say her name because she’d “done something really bad.”
This isn’t just a story about an escape. It’s a story about a system that trusted a fragile treatment plan more than it trusted the memory of what she had already done. It’s about the gap between courtroom optimism and real-world danger. And it’s about how the people most affected — the victim’s family, the neighbors, and the public — were kept in the dark until everything fell apart.
If you’ve ever wondered how someone with a violent, delusion-driven history ends up living quietly next to families with no warning, this breakdown will answer that — and raise questions Wisconsin will be forced to confront.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:08.1 | Let's talk about how in the hell a girl who nearly murdered her best friend in the woods to impress a fictional monster. |
| 0:17.7 | Somehow ended up in a quiet Madison neighborhood, unsupervised enough to just walk out the door, cut off her ankle monitor, and vanish across state lines with a 42-year-old man. |
| 0:27.7 | Because this isn't just a story about an escape. |
| 0:30.5 | This is a story about how the system built the runaway she used to walk away. |
| 0:39.3 | And every decision along that path, every judge, every agency, every treatment milestone, |
| 0:46.8 | every sealed placement, every missed red flag, every bureaucratic shrug stacked up until the outcome was inevitable. |
| 0:56.5 | But to understand how grotesquely predictable this was, you have to go all the way back. |
| 1:04.3 | Let's go way back. |
| 1:06.9 | Because none of this makes any sense unless you understand the original crime in all of its horror |
| 1:13.2 | and it should be horrifying it should be unforgettable unforgettable it should never fade into some |
| 1:19.4 | abstract she was sick footnote in 2014 in waukishaw w, three sixth grade girls had a sleepover. |
| 1:28.3 | They were 12. |
| 1:29.6 | They painted their nails. |
| 1:31.2 | They watched movies and they did what 12-year-old girls do. |
| 1:33.9 | And then two of them, Morgan Geiser and her friend Anisa Weir lured their friend Peyton |
| 1:38.8 | Lautner into the woods at David's Park under the most common, innocent premise in the world. |
| 1:43.7 | Let's play hide and seek. |
| 1:47.1 | Peyton trusted them. |
| 1:48.7 | That's what makes the whole thing |
| 1:49.9 | land in your gut. |
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