Wisconsin corrections officials did not follow normal protocol notifying police that a convicted stabber was on the loose, keeping them in the dark for an entire night, the Madison Police Department (MPD) told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Police in Posen, Ill., found Morgan Geyser sleeping on the sidewalk near a store and took her into custody Sunday, around 24 hours after she removed a GPS monitoring bracelet and went missing from her court-mandated group home in Madison, Wis., the Posen Police Department said Monday. The MPD told the DCNF that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) did not call the police about the Saturday disappearance of Geyser, who was convicted of attempted murder for stabbing a girl 19 times in a forest when they were both 12 years old.
The Evers administration knew for HOURS that a dangerous attempted murderer was on the loose… and never told local police. pic.twitter.com/yGubKbI7Ue
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“We can’t be faulted for a task we did not know existed,” MPD spokesperson Stephanie Fryer said about capturing Geyser. The MPD was not aware she disappeared until the next morning, when someone from the group home called police around 8 a.m. and officers arrived at the scene to investigate, she said.
“I am trying to think of an analogy here to best explain this,” Fryer told the DCNF. “Your uncle has a reservation at a restaurant. You would not know this, unless he or someone in your family tells you about it.”
The state would not speak directly about Geyser’s case when the DCNF reached out to the DOC. Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services (DHS), responding on behalf of the DOC, said it could not reveal detailed information about Geyser’s disappearance due to privacy laws protecting medical patients. The DHS oversees group homes like Geyser’s.
The DOC issued an apprehension warrant “for a client” around midnight after Geyser’s reported disappearance, the DHS said.
The warrant “is an official notification to local and state law enforcement agencies that an individual cannot be located, has absconded, and must be apprehended,” the DHS said. “Once a warrant is issued, local and state law enforcement agencies and agents are on notice to apprehend the individual upon any engagement or interaction with law enforcement.”
“We can also share that the DOC and the DHS both actively worked to support local law enforcement efforts to apprehend the individual who was the subject of the above warrant,” the DHS said. The state also sought a nationwide warrant “as soon as possible, in partnership with Waukesha County law enforcement,” the agency told the DCNF.
Creating the warrant, however, is not enough to give the police a proper heads-up, Fryer said. “A warrant can be entered into a system at any time and no electronic notification occurs,” she told the DCNF.
“In our many dealings with the DOC, it is very common for them to call us when someone has a warrant,” she told the DCNF. “We get called to probation and parole offices all the time across the city at their request to take people into custody. We do not know they have a warrant until DOC tells us.”
Geyser and a co-defendant lured their victim into a Waukesha park before Geyser stabbed her repeatedly while her accomplice encouraged her, according to FOX 6. All three girls were 12 at the time, and the two attackers said they believed they were fulfilling the demands of the fictional horror video game character, “Slender Man.” Geyser spent seven years in a psychiatric hospital until a judge released her to a group home over the objections of prosecutors.
The convict told treatment staff on May 31, 2024 — the 10-year anniversary of her crime — that she identifies as a transgender man, a psychologist told the court in January.
Geyser’s victim and her family also were not notified of Geyser’s escape until the head of Waukesha County’s Victim Witness Assistance Program informed them Sunday afternoon, Waukesha County District Attorney Lesli Boese said in a press conference. Boese called the delay “very concerning” and said the DHS should have told them promptly.
Wisconsin officials are waiting for Geyser to be extradited back to Wisconsin, and if she damaged her GPS bracelet then she would have committed another crime, Boese told reporters. The D.A. also slammed a defense attorney for Geyser who previously claimed that the group home would properly supervise her.
“Obviously, he was misstating the nature of the monitoring that was taking place,” Boese said.
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