The friend of a Wisconsin woman who stabbed a classmate to please the fictional horror character Slender Man​ has been charged with obstruction after the pair were captured in Illinois, following Morgan Geyser's escape from a group home in Wisconsin​.

Authorities say a Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home.