Slender Man, Wisconsin
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A woman who pleaded guilty to stabbing her sixth-grade classmate in 2014 is back in custody after Wisconsin police say she vanished from a group home where she lived under supervised release on Saturday night.
The Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing agreed to waive extradition Tuesday in a Cook County courtroom after authorities say she fled a Wisconsin group home and was found in suburban Chicago.
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.
After escaping her supervised home in Madison, Wisconsin, Morgan Geyser signed extradition papers in Cook County Criminal Court on Tuesday, which will return her to Waukesha County.
"Slender Man" stabbing assailant Morgan Geyser is scheduled to appear in an Illinois courtroom on Tuesday for an extradition hearing.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were found not guilty by reason of mental defect in the 2014 near-fatal stabbing of their friend Payton Leutner.
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.
Police say Morgan Geyser, one of the teens involved in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing, cut off her GPS monitor and vanished. She was found more than 150 miles away at an Illinois truck stop.