Wisconsin woman in 2014 Slender Man stabbing is found a day after walking away from group home

MADISON Wis AP A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death at age to please the online horror character Slender Man has been located in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home personnel explained Madison police issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser now saying she was last seen around p m Saturday with an adult acquaintance The department issued an update late Sunday that Geyser was taken into custody in Illinois She was uncovered at a truck stop in Posen Illinois the Posen Police Department substantiated early Monday Posen is about miles kilometers south of Chicago The society is about miles kilometers south of Madison Geyser was identified with a -year-old man who was charged with criminal trespassing and obstructing identification Posen police authenticated He has since been disclosed from custody Geyser was placed in a group home this year after being granted conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Physical condition Institute She was sent to the psychiatric institute in after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison The stabbing happened in Geyser s attorney Tony Cotton declared Sunday that he did not know what happened with his client and urged Geyser to turn herself in The Madison Police Department commented Sunday that it was not made aware that Geyser was missing until nearly hours after she left the group home The state Department of Corrections received an alert Saturday night that Geyser s ankle monitor had malfunctioned The department contacted the group home where she lived about two hours later and was explained she was not there and had removed the bracelet Madison police explained The Department of Corrections issued an apprehension request just after midnight The Madison Police Department stated it did not learn Geyser was missing until someone from the group home called the next morning The corrections department did not directly respond to an email seeking comment Officials say Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier also lured their classmate Payton Leutner to a suburban Milwaukee park after a sleepover Geyser stabbed Leutner more than a dozen times while Weier egged her on Leutner barely survived The girls later advised investigators that they attacked Leutner to earn the right to be Slender Man s servants and they feared he d harm their families if they didn t follow through Slender Man was created online by Eric Knudson in as a mysterious figure photo-edited into everyday images of children at play He grew into a popular boogeyman appearing in video games online stories and a movie Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide She was also sent to the psychiatric center and granted release in Source