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‘Slender Man’ knifer scuttles release bid

WAUKESHA, Wis. — One of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man has withdrawn her petition for release.

Morgan Geyser, 20, had asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren to order her release as he did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, who spent nearly four years at a mental health facility in Oshkosh.

Bohren appointed three doctors to evaluate Geyser’s mental state. After receiving one doctor’s report, Geyser and her attorney sent a letter to the judge Tuesday.

The letter said: “We are requesting that the remaining examinations not be finalized and we will continue to revisit this issue as Ms. Geyser continues to make progress in treatment and advance with her recovery,” according to WTMJ-TV.

Prosecutors said Geyser and Weier lured Payton Leutner to the woods in a Waukesha park following a sleepover, and that Geyser repeatedly stabbed Leutner while Weier urged her on. All three girls were 12.

Geyser and Weier left Leutner for dead, but she managed to crawl out of the woods and was discovered by a bicyclist. She had suffered 19 stab wounds and barely survived, medical staffers said.

Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and Weier pleaded guilty to the same crime in the second degree. In September, Weier was granted conditional release to live with her father while wearing a GPS monitor.

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