The woman convicted of brutally stabbing her sixth grade classmate to please the fictional horror character “Slender Man” was apprehended in Illinois after having left her Wisconsin group home, officials said.

A 23-year-old Wisconsin woman who stabbed a classmate in 2014 to please a fictional character called Slender Man has been recaptured in Illinois after leaving a group home, officials say.

The search is now over for 22-year-old Morgan Geyser, the woman at the centre of the ‘Slender Man’ stabbing case.

In a video on social media, Morgan Geyser's attorney Tony Cotton tells his client to turn herself in after Geyser went missing from a group home.

The hours lost after Morgan Geyser’s escape could have been “crucial” in tracking her down, a law enforcement expert says.

Morgan Geyser, one of the attackers convicted of violently stabbing her classmate to please the fictional character “Slender Man” has fled a group home after cutting off her monitoring bracelet, according to police.