(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s prison managers say it took them a couple of hours to deal with the Slenderman Stabber’s broken ankle bracelet because they had hundreds of other calls that night.
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections wrote to state lawmakers this week, explaining that the same night that Morgan Geyser cut her GPS ankle bracelet and ran from a Madison group home, they had 297 other alarms in just three hours.
“As you know, DOC takes very seriously our obligation to ensure to the policies and procedures we have in place, which are an important part of public safety. The results of that investigation will determine any further disciplinary actions that are necessary and, if so, how severe,” DOC Secretary Jared Hoy wrote to the lawmakers.
Three DOC workers have been placed on leave, though Hoy would not say if more could be.
Hoy said more than 250 of the alarms on the night that Geyser escaped were marked as “high priority.”
Hoy added that Geyser cut her ankle bracelet at 9:38 pm. He said it wasn’t until 11:34 pm that DOC staffers called the group home to see if Geyser was still there. However, it wasn’t until about 12 hours later that police in Madison were notified about her disappearance.
Geyser was missing for almost a full day before police in Illinois caught up with her behind a gas station.
Geyser was quickly arrested and brought back to Wisconsin. But where she is, for now, remains unclear.
Jail records in Waukesha County Wednesday showed that she is no longer being held there.
Geyser’s lawyer had asked the judge in her case to return her to the state mental hospital where she spent nearly a decade for the Slenderman Stabbing.
The state’s Department of Health Services, which runs the mental hospital, has not yet confirmed if Geyser is there.
Geyser was originally sentenced to 40 years in the mental hospital for the Slenderman Stabbing, after her escape it remains unclear as to whether she will have to finish that full sentence.
