Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser found 170 miles from group home with man, 42, who she is ‘in a relationship with’
One of the two people convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing has been found and taken into custody after she went missing over the weekend, police have confirmed to The Independent.
Morgan Geyser, who was granted conditional release earlier this year, cut off her monitoring bracelet and fled a group home in Sun Prairie, a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin, police said. She was seen with an adult acquaintance around 8 p.m. Saturday.
She was later found with another person at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, more than 170 miles from the home, police said. The Madison Police Department said they received notice at 10:34 p.m. Sunday that authorities in Illinois had detained Geyser.
The man, 42, is alleged to be in a relationship with Geyser, reports ABC Chicago. The pair is believed to have traveled by bus to Posen. He has been released from custody.
Geyser, now 23, was placed in the group home to continue treatment for a psychotic spectrum disorder. Along with co-defendant Anissa Weier, she was charged with attempted homicide in the 2014 stabbing attack of their friend, Payton Leutner.
In 2014, when Geyser and Weier were both 12 years old, they lured Leutner, also 12, into a wooded area in Waukesha, not far from Milwaukee, and stabbed her 19 times. The girls said they carried out the stabbing to appease the fictional character Slender Man.
Meanwhile, residents in Sun Prairie expressed concerns about Geyser’s placement in the group home.
“I felt like this was done without resident knowledge, when, obviously, Sun Prairie did get the knowledge,” one resident, who did not want to be named, told WKOW.
“I think everyone deserves a chance to get into society and live their life. But we also deserve the knowledge of, hey, maybe take a second look. You know, when you lock your doors at night,” said another resident.
Neighbours also noted that she had gone missing at 8 p.m. on Saturday, and Madison police were not notified until the following Sunday morning.
“It’s mostly anger that we weren’t told. And it feels like Meadowood neighborhood a lot of times gets a bad rap, but it’s a great neighborhood,” another said.
During the attack, the Geyser and Weier forced Leutner to lie down on the ground. Using a kitchen knife she brought from home, Geyser repeatedly stabbed Leutner while Weier egged her on.
Leutner barely survived the attack, according to medical staff who treated her at the time.
Geyser and Weier were arrested later that day as they walked on Interstate 94. They told investigators that they attacked Leutner to earn the right to be Slender Man’s servants and feared he would hurt their families if they didn’t follow through.
