Judge Sets April Hearing on Release Request From Woman Involved in Slender Man Attack as a Child

Morgan Geyser enters a Waukesha County courtroom for a status hearing in Waukesha, Wis., on Sept. 29, 2017. Michael Sears/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool

WAUKESHA, Wis.—A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing in April to determine whether the second of two women who nearly stabbed their sixth-grade classmate to death in 2014 to please online horror character Slender Man should be released from a psychiatric hospital.

Morgan Geyser, 21, asked Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren on Jan. 16 to grant her conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. Geyser made a similar request for conditional release in 2022 but withdrew the petition two months after filing it.