SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (WKOW) -- One of the women who authorities say stabbed her friend 19 times to appease the fictional character, Slender Man, will no longer be placed at a group home in Sun Prairie .

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were found guilty but not guilty due to mental disease or defect in the 2014 attempted homicide of Peyton Leutner in Waukesha.

A judge approved a plan to release Geyser, 23, from Winnebago Mental Health Institute, a psychiatric hospital where she has been for the past seven years. The Department of Health Services (DHS) placed her at a group home in Sun Prairie.

A letter from Geyser's attorneys submitted to the Waukesha County Court on Friday said, "due to the publicity surrounding that placement [in Sun Prairie], the facility has now declined to receive Ms.

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