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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

'Slender Man' Stabber Granted Early Release From Psychiatric Center

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Fox News

True Crime

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. A woman who stabbed her friend 19 times a decade

0:35.8

ago to impress the fictional character, Slender Man,

0:38.7

is going to be released from a psychiatric center. Morgan Geiser, now 22 years old, requested

0:43.2

early release from her 40-year commitment back in October. Geiser was charged with attempted

0:47.3

first-degree intentional homicide after she and a classmate, Anissa Weir, lured their friend, Peyton

0:52.2

Lightner, into the woods in Waukesha, Wisconsin in May of 2014.

0:55.8

All three girls were 12 at the time. Geyser stabbed Leitner 19 times with a kitchen knife while

1:00.6

Wire watched and egged her on. Lightner managed to crawl away and was found by a cyclist and survived

1:05.5

after months of recovery. Geyser and Wire were caught on their way to a mansion they believed

1:10.0

belonged to Slender Man. He's an internet character shown as a their way to a mansion. They believed belong to Slender Man.

1:11.4

He's an internet character shown as a dark creature in a suit.

1:14.6

They told the two cops they carried out the stabbing to please him.

1:17.6

Wire pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to 25 years in a psychiatric hospital.

1:22.1

She was released in 2021.

1:23.6

There's more on this story at Fox News.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime Podcast.

1:27.3

I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute.

1:30.3

Fox News Audio presents.

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