A woman who stabbed her classmate 19 times to ‘please Slender Man’ escaped from her Wisconsin group home this weekend. 23-year-old Morgan Geyser was on the run, and luckily, she was found on Sunday. This is how she managed to escape.
In 2014, a Milwaukee suburb woke up to a horrific crime happening. Morgan Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier, both 12 at the time, had lured their classmate, Payton Leutner, into the woods when they were playing hide-and-seek during a sleepover. Geyser went on to stab Leutner 19 times while Weier cheered her on.
Luckily, Leutner survived. He managed to crawl into a nearby bike path and was rescued by someone who happened to be passing by. Geyser and Weier both admitted to having committed the heinous crime. They explained they wanted to please Slender Man, an illustrated supernatural character from 2009, whom they believed was real.
Both Geyser and Wiher were tried as adults and were charged with first-degree intentional homicide. Later, they were found not guilty due to the reason of mental disease or defect was called upon, and they were placed in psychiatric facilities.
Geiser has lived at a Wisconsin group home, but last week, she was suddenly gone. The Madison Police Department (MPD) shared in a statement that Geyser had cut off her Department of Corrections (DOC) monitoring bracelet and fled. She was last seen at 8 pm local time in the area of Kroncke Dr, “with an adult acquaintance.”
The woman who escaped custody after stabbinher g classmate 19 times is found
Luckily, she wasn’t on the run for long. On Sunday, the MPD said Morgan Geyser had been taken into custody in Illinois, roughly 20 miles south of Chicago, according to Posen police, who told CNN.
“There is no longer a need to search for Morgan Geyser at this time,” police said.
Geyser was found Sunday night at a Thonrton’s truck stop. She was with another person, a 42-year-old man. The police say the person is now charged with criminal trespass and obstruction of identification. He was released but remained at the police station,
Geyser will be held until transfer to Cook County for an extradition hearing at the Criminal Court Administration Building in Chicago.
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