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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Slender Man case: woman who stabbed classmate to be released from psychiatric hospital

a law enforcement officer leads a shackled woman into a courtroom
Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha county courtroom in Wisconsin on 9 January 2025. Photograph: Morry Gash/AP

A 22-year-old woman who stabbed a classmate a decade ago believing that the act would earn her the right to be servant of Slender Man, a fictional supernatural character, is set to be released from a Wisconsin psychiatric hospital.

Waukesha county circuit Judge Scott Wagner agreed on Thursday to the conditional release of Morgan Geyser from Winnebago mental health institute, a psychiatric hospital where she has spent the last seven years.

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