Local News in Brief : Killer Let Out of Hospital
Arlyne Louise Genger, who was declared insane after she killed her mother and slashed her daughter’s throat with a razor eight years ago, won her release from a state psychiatric hospital Tuesday.
Over a prosecutor’s objections, Van Nuys Superior Court Judge C. Bernard Kaufman granted Genger’s plea for freedom, her third since she was committed to Patton State Hospital in 1981, and ordered her release to an outpatient community treatment program.
Reading from his 12-page decision, Kaufman said that Genger, 44, has demonstrated that she no longer poses a threat to the community.
Genger had admitted that on New Year’s Day, 1980, she stabbed her mother more than 20 times and cut her daughter’s throat and wrist with a razor in the family’s North Hollywood apartment. Her daughter, Selena, then 13, survived the attack.
In January, 1981, a Superior Court judge found Genger not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered her committed to Patton, in San Bernardino County, for life or until she was determined by a court to be rehabilitated.
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