While Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide, Weier pleaded guilty in August 2017 to attempted second-degree homicide due to mental illness or defect, and was sentenced to at least three years and up to 25 years in a mental health facility. The now 23-year-old was also sent to the psychiatric center, but was granted release in 2021 to live with her father and ordered to wear a GPS monitor, according to the Associated Press.
As for Leutner, she has attempted to maintain a low profile since her attack, first speaking out publicly about it in a 2019 interview with 20/20. At the time, she shared that she slept with a pair of broken scissors under her pillow “just in case.” But she noted that she was strangely grateful for the ordeal, saying that if she ever spoke to Geyser again she would “probably, initially thank her.”
“Just because of what she did, I have the life I have now,” Leutner explained. “I really, really like it and I have a plan. I didn’t have a plan when I was 12, and now, I do because of everything that I went through. I wouldn’t think that someone who went through what I did would ever say that, but that’s truly how I feel. Without the whole situation, I wouldn’t be who I am.”
(E! and NBC News are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
