Slender Man Escape: How Wisconsin Set The Stage For More Horror
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This wasn’t a locked facility. This wasn’t a secure psychiatric placement. This was a quiet residential street with families and kids — none of whom were told she was there.
Tonight, we dig into the dangerous illusion of “stability” in cases like this. For years, Morgan lived in the tightly controlled structure of an institution. But structure can mask fragility. Compliance is not recovery. And what looked like stability to officials has now erupted into an interstate escape, a severed GPS bracelet, a fake name, and a bizarre “Google me” exchange with police.
Shavaun walks us through the psychological landmines:
• What her original violent delusion reveals about long-term risk
• Why institutional calm can lull clinicians into false confidence
• The overlooked red flags: dark material, troubling adult contacts
• Why placing her in an unsecure group home was a catastrophic risk
• What attachment to a much older man signals clinically
• How quickly delusion-based distortions can return
• The massive danger created when addresses are sealed from the public
• Why relapse in psychosis can be invisible until it’s explosive
And then there’s the system failure:
When Morgan cut her GPS bracelet, the alert came in around 9:30 p.m. Police weren’t notified until nearly 12 hours later.
For victims like Payton Leutner, this is a nightmare come back to life. For the public, it’s a warning about how dangerously optimistic the system can be when evaluating violent, delusion-based offenders.
This episode pulls the curtain back on the psychology — and the failures — behind a case that never should have been allowed to unfold this way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.1 | I want to move now on to another case. |
| 0:13.0 | This is another disturbing one. |
| 0:14.9 | This is out of Wisconsin. |
| 0:16.1 | It's the Slender Man attempted murderer. |
| 0:19.6 | This case is disturbing on a level that goes far beyond a simple escape. |
| 0:25.4 | What we're looking at here is the breakdown of every safeguard put in place to protect the public from a violent offender whose crime was rooted in delusion, psychosis, and a complete loss of reality. |
| 0:38.5 | Morgan Geiser didn't just wander away from a group home. |
| 0:41.8 | She cut off her ankle monitor, left a state-supervised placement, |
| 0:45.5 | crossed into another state with a 42-year-old man, |
| 0:48.7 | and was found because local police stumbled onto her |
| 0:52.2 | behind a truck stop in Illinois, south of Chicago. |
| 0:55.4 | And the part that's raising every alarm bell right now is how she got into that neighborhood in the first place. |
| 1:00.8 | Because this wasn't a halfway house with secure doors. |
| 1:04.2 | This wasn't locked psychiatric settings. |
| 1:06.5 | This was a residential street with families and children who were never told she was living there. |
| 1:12.6 | This is someone who stabbed a classmate 19 times under the belief that a fictional internet creature demanded it, |
| 1:20.1 | placed quietly into a community, with a sealed addressed and supervised nothing more than by a GPS bracelet that she removed in minutes. And they put her there |
| 1:31.0 | because the last community that they were supposed to move her into found out about it and said, |
| 1:34.9 | hell no. So the system said, okay, we just won't tell anybody this time. So today with Chavon |
| 1:42.5 | Scott, psychotherapist and author, I want to spend some time on the psychological |
| 1:46.5 | side of this, not just the crime, not just the escape, but the thinking behind these release |
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