A Wisconsin judge has mandated that Morgan Geyser, who was convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing incident, return to a state psychiatric hospital following her escape from a group home last November.

Judge K. Scott Wagner of the Waukesha County Circuit Court has acceded to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ request to rescind Geyser’s release privileges. The 23-year-old had been detained at the Waukesha County Jail after being extradited from Illinois, subsequent to her disappearance from the YoYo Quality Care group home on November 22. Her absence was only noted in the early hours of November 23.

Geyser was later located at an Illinois truck stop, accompanied by 43-year-old Chad Mecca.

In a letter addressed to Judge Wagner, Anthony Cotton, Geyser’s attorney, argued that his client belongs in a mental health facility rather than a jail.

Footage from police body cameras captures the moment authorities confronted Morgan Geyser, the missing individual from the Slender Man case, after she left a group home in Madison, Wisconsin over the weekend. (Posen Police Department)

“Given that she has no new criminal charges in Waukesha County and given that she has been previously found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on the underlying offense, it is our position that she should be housed in a mental health facility, not a correctional institution,” Cotton wrote, according to FOX 11.

Geyser was granted conditional release in January after she spent nearly eight years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. 

Police body camera video shows authorities confronting missing Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser after she left a group home in Madison, Wisconsin over the weekend.  (Posen Police Department)

Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha County courtroom Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

In 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were at a sleepover with Payton Leutner, who was lured to a local park by the two other girls. Geyser would go on to stab Leutner 19 times while Weier was egging her on.

The three girls were 12 when the attack happened.

Morgan Geyser was taken into custody in Posen, Illinois on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.  (Posen Police Department)

After the attack, both Geyser and Weier admitted they were trying to kill Leutner in order to appease fictional horror character Slender Man. The girls claimed they were fearful of Slender Man hurting their own families if the attack didn’t happen.

In 2017, both girls pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted intentional homicide, but not guilty by reason of mental disease. Both girls were sentenced to mental confinement. 

Weier was ordered to serve 25 years and Geyser was ordered to serve 40 years.