Slender Man Escape: How Wisconsin Set The Stage For More Horror

In this episode of Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to unpack the disturbing psychology and systemic collapse behind the escape of Morgan Geyser — the now-23-year-old woman who attempted a ritualistic Slender Man killing as a child, and who recently slipped out of a state-approved group home with a 42-year-old man after cutting off her GPS monitor.

This wasn’t a locked facility. This wasn’t a secure psychiatric placement. This was a quiet residential street with families and kids — none of whom were told she was there.

Tonight, we dig into the dangerous illusion of “stability” in cases like this. For years, Morgan lived in the tightly controlled structure of an institution. But structure can mask fragility. Compliance is not recovery. And what looked like stability to officials has now erupted into an interstate escape, a severed GPS bracelet, a fake name, and a bizarre “Google me” exchange with police.

Shavaun walks us through the psychological landmines:
• What her original violent delusion reveals about long-term risk
• Why institutional calm can lull clinicians into false confidence
• The overlooked red flags: dark material, troubling adult contacts
• Why placing her in an unsecure group home was a catastrophic risk
• What attachment to a much older man signals clinically
• How quickly delusion-based distortions can return
• The massive danger created when addresses are sealed from the public
• Why relapse in psychosis can be invisible until it’s explosive

And then there’s the system failure:
When Morgan cut her GPS bracelet, the alert came in around 9:30 p.m. Police weren’t notified until nearly 12 hours later.

For victims like Payton Leutner, this is a nightmare come back to life. For the public, it’s a warning about how dangerously optimistic the system can be when evaluating violent, delusion-based offenders.

This episode pulls the curtain back on the psychology — and the failures — behind a case that never should have been allowed to unfold this way.

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