Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser is back in custody after cutting off her ankle monitor and escaping from a group home.
The 23-year-old fled the facility, located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin a suburb of Madison, on Saturday night, according to authorities.
She was last seen near the home with an adult acquaintance, and police in Posen, Illinois confirmed to WISN that Geyser and another individual were found at a Thornton’s truck stop.
They apparently took a bus to Posen – about 25 miles south of Chicago – and were both taken into custody.
It now remains unclear what will become of Geyser, after she was granted conditional release from a mental institution earlier this year and sent to the group home to continue treatment for a psychotic spectrum disorder.
She was just 12 years old she and Anissa Weier lured their friend, Peyton Leutner, into the woods of Waukesha during a sleepover and stabbed her 19 times.
During the vicious attack, Geyser carried out the stabbing while Weier, who was also 12, cheered on the cold-hearted act of violence.
The sinister duo then abandoned Leutner – leaving her to die – but she miraculously survived. She managed to crawl out of the woods, where a cyclist found her.
Weier and Geyser had conspired for months to slaughter Leutner in the name of the fictional horror character Slender Man.
Morgan Geyser appeared in court in January, when a judge ruled that she could be released if three experts testified that she was making progress in her battle against mental illness. She is now back in custody after cutting off her ankle monitor and fleeing her group home
Peyton Leutner, pictured as a child, miraculously crawled her way out of the woods and survived after Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier lured Leutner for a sleepover and stabbed her 19 times
The pre-teens told detectives they had to kill Leutner to become Slender Man’s ‘proxies,’ or servants, and that the character would kill their families if they did not comply.
They were both charged in adult court with first-degree attempted intentional homicide.
Slender Man is a fictional horror character
Weier had pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of attempted second-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime, but the jury found her to be not guilty by mental disease or defect in 2017.
Geyser, who has schizophrenia, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, but as part of her plea deal, was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in 2018.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, who has since retired, had committed her to a psychiatric hospital for 40 years – a sentence she only served about 25 percent of.
In January, Bohren said Geyser could be released after three experts testified that she was making progress battling her mental illness.
Geyser, pictured at age 12, stabbed her friend 19 times as a sacrifice to Slender Man
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