Morgan Geyser tried to kill her classmate Peyton Leutner when they were 12 years old Morgan Geyser, who at the age of 12 stabbed her classmate to impress the mythical internet figure "Slender Man," will be released from a psychiatric hospital after her latest bid for release.

Morgan Geyser, now 22, was just 12 when she and another friend conspired to stab a schoolmate to appease the fictional horror character.

Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren appreciated Morgan Geyser's "good attitude" after three court-approved doctors submitted their findings.

A judge has ruled that a Wisconsin woman who stabbed her sixth grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man can be released from a psychiatric hospital.

Morgan Geyser was 12 when she and another girl stabbed their classmate 19 times to please the online boogeyman; now 22, Geyser will be released to a group home and reenter society.

The woman, Morgan Geyser, 22, was sentenced to spend 40 years in a psychiatric facility after she stabbed her friend 19 times in 2014 for a sinister internet character.

Morgan Geyser, convicted of stabbing a classmate to please the fictional horror character Slender Man, was granted conditional release.

A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed her sixth grade classmate nearly to death to please online horror character Slender Man will be released from a psychiatric hospital, a judge ordered Thursday after a trio of experts testified that she has made considerable progress battling mental illness.

A Wisconsin judge has ordered the release of a woman convicted in the stabbing of a classmate as a tribute to the fictional character "Slender Man" when she was 10 years old. WTMJ's Rebecca Klopf reports.