Leutner survived by crawling to a nearby path where someone saw her and called 911. Both Geyser and Weier were arrested and confessed to trying to kill her. They later claimed that the fictional horror character, the Slender Man, had told them to kill Leutner as his "proxies."

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.

CHICAGO — Morgan Geyser, one of the perpetrators of the 2014 Slender Man stabbing, waived her extradition to Wisconsin at the George N. Leighton Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago

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.

In a statement, the Leutner family said they are safe and working with local law enforcement after Morgan Geyser cut off her monitoring device.

Payton Leutner, who survived a brutal stabbing in 2014, is safe. Authorities are searching for Morgan Geyser, one of her attackers, who escaped from a group home. Geyser was previously released from a psychiatric hospital.

Authorities say a Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the horror character Slender Man is missing after she cut off an electronic monitoring device a

The Wisconsin woman convicted in the Slender Man stabbing incident, who had been missing, was found and taken into custody Sunday night in Illinois. In 2014, at the age of 12,

A woman who stabbed a classmate 19 times to impress a character from a video game has been recaptured after escaping from a psychiatric institution in Wisconsin. Morgan Geyser was sentenced to 40 years to life in psychiatric care after she and accomplice Anissa Weier lured classmate Payton Leutner to a park in suburban Milwaukee in 2014,

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.