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. 

Geyser, then 12 years old, along with Anissa Weier, stabbed another girl, Payton Leutner, 19 times to appease the fictional horror character Slender Man back in 2014. 

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. 

Morgan Geyser was taken into custody with blood splatter on her jacket. (Waukesha Police Department)

Geyser was sent to the psychiatric institute because of mental illness after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Weier was also sent to the psychiatric facility after pleading guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. 

Weier was granted conditional release in September 2021 and was required to receive outpatient psychiatric treatment and subjected to GPS monitoring.

Fox News’ Stepheny Price contributed to this report.