This is the story Wisconsin never wanted to explain — how the girl who nearly took a child’s life in the infamous Slender Man attack was quietly moved into a suburban neighborhood, supervised by nothing more than a plastic ankle monitor, and somehow slipped across state lines with a grown man before anyone sounded the alarm.
Tonight, we’re taking you through the full timeline of how Morgan Geyser — the attacker in the Slender Man stabbing — went from a secure psychiatric institution to a residential street in Madison. Not because she “served her time,” but because judges, doctors, and state agencies convinced themselves she was ready for “community reintegration,” despite red flags that would stop any other case in its tracks.
We dig into the decisions that opened the door:
• The court rulings that shifted her from a locked facility to a group home.
• The warnings about disturbing reading material and troubling outside contacts.
• The placement that got scrapped after residents found out who was coming.
• The next placement, quietly sealed by the court to avoid public backlash.
• The neighborhood full of families who had no idea she had moved in.
• And the ankle-monitor alert that DOC brushed off as a “device glitch” while she walked freely into the night.
And then — the escape.
A missing GPS signal.
A 12-hour communication delay.
A 42-year-old man by her side.
And a capture behind a truck stop in Illinois after officers realized the woman they found didn’t want to say her name because she’d “done something really bad.”
This isn’t just a story about an escape. It’s a story about a system that trusted a fragile treatment plan more than it trusted the memory of what she had already done. It’s about the gap between courtroom optimism and real-world danger. And it’s about how the people most affected — the victim’s family, the neighbors, and the public — were kept in the dark until everything fell apart.
If you’ve ever wondered how someone with a violent, delusion-driven history ends up living quietly next to families with no warning, this breakdown will answer that — and raise questions Wisconsin will be forced to confront.
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