- ABC News reported that "Morgan's father has schizophrenia" and was "hospitalized at least four times as a teenager to treat his own schizophrenia. "When they told us what had happened and that she had done it because she believes Slender Man is real ... that's where my mind went, is that she must be sick," Angie Geyser, Morgan's mother, said, according to ABC.
- There is a Facebook page called Support Morgan Geyser. The page reads, "Despite popular belief, we don't support the fact that she tried to murder someone. In fact we think thats the most heinous thing, however, we support the fact that she must not have been well mentally so she needs help. We don't support Morgan's alleged crime. We support her getting well and being given a second chance.".
- It was revealed in court that Geyser has schizophrenia. According to USA Today, an expert told the court during her 2018 sentencing that "after her psychotropic medications were adjusted... Geyser has not shown any symptoms of psychosis and is open about treatment, never resists taking her medication and has never been violent or aggressive.".
- Morgan was "suffering from an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness. She had no prior experience with the criminal justice system and seven needed tutoring three weeks after the interrogation to understand how various legal concepts applied to her situation.".
- Daughter of Angie Geyser.
- Morgan is serving a term of 40 years.
- Morgan Geyser was born on May 16, 2002. That means the Slender Man suspect from Waukesha, Wisconsin, was only 12 years old when she was accused in the stabbing of a middle school classmate in the woods. Today, in October 2019, that makes Geyser 17 years old.
- According to Courthouse News and Wisconsin appellate court records, Geyser's attorneys filed a 46-page brief on her behalf with Wisconsin state appellate courts in 2019. "The juvenile court, not the adult court, had exclusive jurisdiction over her crime, and the circuit court should have discharged her adult-court case following her preliminary hearing.,".
- In 2009, the Juvenile Law Center, Center for Juvenile Law & Policy and Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth filed a brief with Wisconsin appellate courts arguing on Geyser's behalf.
- However, a psychologist for the state told the judge she wouldn't support conditional release for Geyser because she had recently heard "the voice of Maggie, a hallucinatory voice she had been hearing for years.".
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