Morgan Geyser, defendant in the Slender Man stabbing case granted conditional release this year, was taken into custody in Illinois late Sunday.

Illinois police captured Morgan Geyser, who was convicted in the 2014 stabbing of a classmate to appease Slender Man, an online character, after she fled a group home in neighbouring Wisconsin where s...

Geyser was last seen at around 8 p.m. CST Saturday with an " adult acquaintance " in the area of Kroncke Dr., the same street where hte group home is located, police said.