The girl once at the center of one of America’s most haunting juvenile crime stories is on the move again — and this time, no one will say where she went. Officials confirmed Wednesday that 23-year-old Morgan Geyser, one of the two Wisconsin preteens who stabbed a classmate in 2014 to appease the fictional horror character Slender Man, is no longer in the Waukesha County Jail.
Where she was taken remains a tightly guarded secret. When pressed, county officials would say only that they could not disclose her new location “at this time.” But the timing coincides with a judge’s order signed Monday approving her transport — one week after Geyser’s attorney requested she be returned to a secure mental health facility.
The move comes on the heels of yet another unsettling chapter in the long-running case. Just weeks ago, Geyser slipped out of a group home on Madison’s southwest side, launching a nationwide search for the woman whose childhood crime still chills the country. The escape ended a day later at a Thorntons gas station in Posen, Illinois, where Geyser and 43-year-old friend Chad Mecca were taken into custody.

According to police, Geyser initially gave a fake name and told officers she had “done something very bad.” When asked to identify herself, she reportedly told them to “Google her name” — an eerie reference to the notoriety that has followed her since age 12.
In 2014, Geyser and classmate Anissa Weier lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times, claiming they believed the online boogeyman Slender Man demanded it. Leutner survived against staggering odds. Both attackers were found not guilty by reason of mental disease three years later and committed to psychiatric institutions.
Weier has since been released under supervision. Geyser’s path has been far more turbulent.
A proposed move to a Sun Prairie group home earlier this year triggered community protests so fierce that she was ultimately denied placement, her attorney Anthony Cotton said. Instead, she bounced between facilities before her Illinois escape led to her arrest and return to Wisconsin.
Now, with her latest relocation shrouded in secrecy, the public is left with familiar questions: Is Geyser stable? Is she supervised? And how much do officials owe communities when managing the movements of someone whose childhood crime became a national nightmare?





