“Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser’s decision to flee her Wisconsin group home was “not well thought out” and was “impulsive,” her lawyer admitted after an extradition hearing in Illinois Tuesday.
Geyser, 23, escaped her home in Madison after removing a GPS ankle monitor Saturday night and wasn’t caught by cops until Sunday, 150 miles away in Posen, Ill.
She appeared in a Cook County courthouse in Chicago Tuesday morning — wearing a blue jail jumpsuit — for a 10-minute hearing where she agreed to be extradited back to Waukesha County, Wis.
Judge Luciano Panici said Wisconsin authorities have 30 days to bring her back to the Badger State but added, “hopefully it’ll be much quicker than that and you can get back there and get this matter resolved,” according to a report by WISN.
After, Geyser’s lawyer Tony Cotton said he believed his client made a spur of the moment decision to flee, noting it was “not well thought out,” according to a report by CBS 58 News.
“It was probably just one of these sort of impulsive decisions and impulsive nonviolent decision to just experience freedom, if you will, for a brief period of time,” Cotton said. “And obviously I say it’s short-sighted because the consequences are bad for her.”
The lawyer admitted this was “a setback” for his client but insisted it showed that she is “not a violent person.”
“She didn’t do anything violent and didn’t have any weapons on her,” Cotton said. “The doctors will have to evaluate her and reach their own conclusion about whether cutting off an ankle bracelet makes somebody violent. If they see that as a violent act, I would be surprised, or if they think that increases her risk level, I’d be surprised on that as well.”
Geyser was busted Sunday in the Prairie State alongside her transgender friend Chad “Charly” Mecca, 43, after they were reported for loitering behind a truck stop. Geyser could be seen on body camera footage pleading with cops not to arrest the pal.
“I did something wrong, she didn’t,” Geyser said of Mecca.
Mecca was issued a citation for criminal trespassing and obstructing identification and released.
The duo met a few months ago at a church in Madison and had potential plans to head to Nashville, Tenn., according to a police report.
Geyser broke out of the group home because she was upset they wouldn’t let her spend time with her new best friend Mecca, the trans friend claimed.
In May 2014, when Geyser was 12, she and her friend Anissa Weier infamously lured a classmate from their sixth-grade class, Payton Leutner, to a Waukesha park and stabbed her nearly 20 times to impress the fictional internet horror character “Slender Man.” Leutner miraculously survived.
Geyser in 2017 entered into a plea deal with prosecutors where she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent to a hospital.
A judge earlier in September released her to a group home with electronic monitoring.
