Slender Man, Morgan Geyser
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Payton Leutner was 12 years old when she was stabbed by friends Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, who claimed that they were sent by the fictional character Slender Man. Here's everything to know about where Payton Leutner is now.
Authorities said Geyser removed her GPS monitoring bracelet on Saturday night and ran away from the group home in Madison, Wisconsin, accompanied by a 43-year-old. She was located by police on Sunday night outside Chicago, about 170 miles (274 kilometers) from Madison.
In 2014, Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier lured their classmate Payton Leutner into the woods during a sleepover while playing a game of hide and seek in their Milwaukee suburb. Geyser then stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier cheered her on.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin woman who won release from a mental institution after almost killing her sixth grade classmate in the name of horror villain Slender Man only to flee the state weeks later won’t fight extradition from Illinois.
Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser told police officers to “just Google” them after escaping from a psychiatric facility and was apprehended in Illinois. The 23-year-old transgender man, convicted of stabbing a friend 19 times,
Morgan Geyser escaped supervision in Wisconsin and was later found with a man in Illinois; new body cam footage shows the moments of her arrest.