Woman convicted in Slender Man stabbing taken into custody in Illinois

MADISON (WLUK) — The Madison Police Department says Morgan Geyser was taken into custody Sunday night in Illinois.

Police say just after 10:30 p.m. Sunday, they received information that Geyser was located and there was no longer a need to search for her.

WMTV in Madison says Geyser was located in Posen, Illinois.

She was at a truck stop in the area with another person.

An effort to find Geyser began Saturday after police say she cut off her monitoring bracelet and left her group home.

The Madison Police Department was notified of Geyser’s disappearance on Sunday morning.

Geyser was one of two people convicted in the Slender Man stabbing of Peyton Leutner in Waukesha during a sleepover in 2014.

She pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in 2018 for the incident.

She was sentenced to 40 years in a psychiatric hospital.

Geyser had been held at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute near Oshkosh before being released to the Madison group home.

Details of the release plan are sealed, after a previous plan for her to move into a group home in Sun Prairie fell through due to community backlash.