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Weier's commitment order at sentencing was for 25 years, since she pleaded to a lesser charge than Geyser, whose plea was to attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Weier, who experts testified was not as ill as Geyser but had come under her influence, agreed to not seek release from institutional commitment for three years Bohren granted it last year. Leutner survived 19 stab wounds and was discovered by a passing bicyclist after she had crawled to the edge of woods at a Waukesha park where the attack occurred.Ĭharged as adults, the girls' case spawned international headlines and documentaries before they each pleaded guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
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Geyser and Anissa Weier, also 12 at the time, plotted the stabbing death of their sixth grade friend and classmate Payton Leutner in May 2014 to appease or impress Slender Man, a fictional internet character. RELATED - Why no help for schizophrenic girl in Slender Man stabbing? The condition was discovered during competency reviews in the early stages of the infamous case. Geyser spoke only briefly with her attorney, Anthony Cotton, and did not address the court before she was taken out of the courtroom to be returned Thursday to the mental health institute. She has been held at the Waukesha County Jail since Tuesday and was not doing well there, her mother Angie Geyser said.įor nearly seven years, Geyser has been getting the kind of psychiatric treatment she should have started when she was an undiagnosed schizophrenic 12-year-old. If not, Bohren said he would ask Brooke Lundbohm, who also has prior experience in the case.Īssistant District Attorney Ted Szczupakiewicz appeared for the state. Bohren said Rawski is no longer taking appointments, but that he would reach out to him about doing so for Geyser.