Angie Geiser (Morgan's mother)
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Morgan was a very happy child. She was intensely creative. She was always making up songs and stories.
She, in fact, had quite the opposite reaction. And after Bambi's mother was shot, Morgan just said, run, Bambi, run, and had no reaction whatsoever to the mother dying.
Morgan did endure a lot of bullying, especially in the sixth grade by the other students.
What was Anissa like? Anissa was always extremely polite.
That's not my daughter saying those things. It was like looking at a different child? Yes. She appears to have no remorse. She doesn't appear to be frightened.
No, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. No. No. No, I never would have imagined that my daughter was capable of hurting another person.
We did, and she would show us some of the pictures and she would read us some of the stories.
When I was Morgan's age, I was reading Stephen King novels, so I I just thought it was normal for a child of middle school age to be interested in scary stories.
We try to visit at least once a week.
I don't think it's very typical at all.
Why? Just knowing how long she was sick and suffering inside her own head before we had any idea.
Yes. I mean, it was painful. We went months without being able to touch her.
No. I wasn't surprised simply because there is a family history of schizophrenia. Her father? Yes, her father has schizophrenia.
The children have no access to the outdoors or even windows to look out of.
I think it was something that had been building that we both didn't notice and also attributed to the changes she was going through as an adolescent.
I think on some level I'll always feel responsible for not knowing that my daughter wasn't well.
When she started medication? Oh, yes, we saw a dramatic change. All rise.
I mean, to me, it's unthinkable to try a 12-year-old child as an adult, regardless of what they've done.
And there is no physical contact.
I don't think that any of that changes the fact that she was a child. We do everything else possible in our society to protect our children from themselves. For some reason we view that differently within the criminal justice system and that just doesn't make sense to me.
I think that as she got older and she realized that, hey, maybe this isn't normal, that she did make a conscious effort to hide it. A lot of her hallucinations were friends to her, and I don't think that she wanted to lose those friends.
She's sick and she belongs in a mental health facility as opposed to a prison.
On Friday nights, Skateland had free pizza, so the girls went a little early and ate dinner and skated.
Dear Bella, I wish I had words that could make everything better, but I don't, so all I can say is how sorry I am. I can promise you not a day will go by that I don't regret what I did. Stay strong, Morgan.
No, you know, I see on social media my friends and family who have children Morgan's age, and they'll post pictures of them driving a car, you know, going to homecoming. You know, it's...
We're leaving Waukesha.
For a new start. I frequently drive by these places that hold horrible memories, and I just want to get us all away from that.
They played up in Morgan's bedroom with Morgan's dolls. I mean, it was just a normal night.
No, no sign whatsoever. The next morning, Morgan asked if they could go to the park.
While we were actually, believe it or not, pretty strict parents and didn't let Morgan go out on her own very often.
My heart dropped down into my stomach. Not only were there police in my living room, but they were wearing riot gear.
I said, she's at the park with her friends.
They searched the house and I just kept asking, you know, what happened? What's going on? And they wouldn't tell me other than to say there had been an incident at the park and one of the girls was hurt.
Morgan has never heard a fly. It was just unthinkable that Morgan would do anything to hurt someone else.
That's not my daughter saying those things.
I remember talking on the way how we were going to punish Morgan for this. I mean, we just had no idea how serious it was.