{"id":401522,"date":"2025-11-24T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401522\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:01:22","slug":"wisconsin-woman-in-2014-slender-man-stabbing-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401522\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin woman in 2014 Slender Man stabbing found"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death<\/a> at age 12 to please the online horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device<\/a> and left a group home, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Madison police issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser<\/a>, now 23, saying she was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday with an adult acquaintance.<\/p>\n

Geyser was found at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, the Posen Police Department said early Monday. Posen is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Chicago and about 170 miles (274 kilometers) south of Madison.<\/p>\n

Geyser was found with a 42-year-old man who was charged with criminal trespassing and obstructing identification, Posen police said. He has since been released from custody.<\/p>\n

Geyser was placed in a group home this year after being granted conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. She was sent to the psychiatric institute <\/a> in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison. The stabbing happened in 2014.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors had urged the judge<\/a> not to approve the release of Geyser from the mental health institute, saying that she couldn\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n

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Geyser\u2019s attorney, Tony Cotton, had said that he did not know what happened with his client. He told The Associated Press in an email Monday morning that he had not yet spoken with Geyser and did not know what the circumstances of her departure were.<\/p>\n

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The Madison Police Department said Sunday that it was not made aware that Geyser was missing until nearly 12 hours after she left the group home. The state Department of Corrections received an alert Saturday night that Geyser\u2019s ankle monitor had malfunctioned. The department contacted the group home where she lived about two hours later and was told she was not there and had removed the bracelet, Madison police said.<\/p>\n

The Department of Corrections issued an apprehension request just after midnight. The Madison Police Department said it did not learn Geyser was missing until someone from the group home called the next morning. The corrections department did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n

State health officials tried to block<\/a> her release in March, telling the judge that Geyser didn\u2019t volunteer to her therapy team that she had read \u201cRent Boy,\u201d a novel about murder and selling organs on the black market. They also alleged that she has been communicating with a man who collects murder memorabilia, and has sent him her own sketch of a decapitated body and a postcard saying she wants to be intimate with him.<\/p>\n

Cotton, Geyser\u2019s attorney, defended her actions, saying she only reads what staff allows and Geyser cut off communication with the collector last year. Prior to that, he had visited her three times, Cotton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMorgan is not more dangerous today,\u201d Cotton said at the March court hearing.<\/p>\n

The judge concluded that Geyser wasn\u2019t trying to hide anything and proceeded with her release.<\/p>\n

Authorities say Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, also 12, 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.<\/p>\n

The girls later told investigators that they attacked Leutner to earn the right to be Slender Man\u2019s servants and they feared he\u2019d harm their families if they didn\u2019t follow through.<\/p>\n

Slender Man was created online by Eric Knudson in 2009 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 2018 movie.<\/a><\/p>\n

Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. She was also sent to the psychiatric center and granted release in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death at age…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":400770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[189572,960,4219,189785,57,4221,1819,1818,2936,181121,189578,50,189786,189784,61,67,132,68,8572,14831,1398],"class_list":{"0":"post-401522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-anissa-weier","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-eric-knudson","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-homicide","15":"tag-il-state-wire","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-law-enforcement","18":"tag-local-news-for-apple","19":"tag-morgan-geyser","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-payton-leutner","22":"tag-tony-cotton","23":"tag-u-s-news","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-violence","28":"tag-wi-state-wire","29":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115605281002414601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}