‘Slender Man’ stabber granted early release by judge after multiple failed attempts
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A Wisconsin judge granted an early conditional release Thursday to Morgan Geyser, who was convicted of stabbing her childhood friend more than a decade ago.
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The now-22-year-old was originally committed to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute to a maximum 40 years of state mental health supervision after she was found not guilty by reason of mental disease in 2018.
Geyser was back in court on Thursday, seeking to be released from a state psychiatric hospital after her previous request was denied in April. Geyser's latest petition for release is the fourth time in the past two years she has asked to be let out of the facility, though she withdrew her first two petitions.
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