Morgan Geyser

One of the girls has appealed their 40-year sentence.

I believe it is Morgan Geyser, and I'll go ahead and put the link to the article about that in the show notes, so you can check that out.

There's definitely going to be some appeals on this.

40 years seems like a long time.

It's just, it's sad.

Her T-shirt's just really, really bloody, and there's blood everywhere.

And then there's also pictures of some of the drawings from Morgan Geyser, and then they're just creepy and weird, and she's-- you can just tell she's in this own little world, in her own little psychosis.

And when I did see those pictures, that led me farther down the rabbit hole of w- who sees Slenderman? What kind of person does he come to? Does he come to anybody, or is there a certain kind of pathology or sociopathy or history or background that you have to come from in order to see him? Um, go ahead and check that out and let me know what you think in the comments.

The night before, three 12-year-old girls had a sleepover.

The next morning, two of them, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured the third, their friend Payton Leutner, into the woods of a local park.

There, Morgan stabbed Payton 19 times while Anissa urged her on.

Their explanation, given to investigators in chilling detail, they believed they had to kill for Slender Man, that if they did, they would become his servants, and he would spare their families.

A monster invented on a forum on a Tuesday afternoon had produced a real attempted murder five years later in the hands of children, not because Slender Man had any power, because the belief did.

So here's where it gets even more complicated.

In the court proceedings that followed, it was documented that Morgan Geyser had early onset childhood schizophrenia.

She'd been experiencing hallucinations for much of her life.

More on that from reporter Raymond Neupert.

Appearing by video from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, Morgan Geyser told an Outagamie County judge she's been harassed by Jeffrey Pagle, a South Milwaukee man who is a, quote, "true crime collector." Pagle allegedly sold memorabilia related to the Slender Man stabbing and had been contacting Geyser for more.

The restraining order will prevent contact for four years.

Pagle did not appear for the Wednesday hearing.

This guy, Parker Bell, did not fit that description, but he gets to go to a mental health facility anyway.

What happens in those facilities, as we saw with the Slenderman suspect, Morgan Geyser, who gets released from a mental health facility, goes to essentially a halfway home in Madison, and about a year ago escapes with her weird 40-year-old cosplaying possibly trans boyfriend slash girlfriend.

They eventually get arrested in Illinois about a day or so later after their great escape, and she's right back in the mental health facility.

What happens is the doctors have a vested interest, especially in a high-profile case like Darion Parker Bell or Morgan Geyser or the other Slenderman suspect, because they want to be able to say, "Hey, look, my treatment works.

The, the job that I did made it so this person who is so dangerous that she stabbed her friend a whole bunch of times to appease the fictional character Slenderman, or this guy walked into a police station and for no reason whatsoever just started shooting even though he told his reason." I- this is the other thing.

How can this judge, how can Kashyap be so incompetent, be such a horrible judge that she can't see...