‘Slender Man’ attacker captured after fleeing Wisconsin group home

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00:00A high-profile case out of Wisconsin is over this morning.

00:06Police say Morgan Geyser, one of the two girls who stabbed a classmate in 2015

00:10to please the fictional character Slenderman, is back in custody.

00:15Geyser cut off her state-issued monitoring bracelet Saturday night

00:19and walked away from a Madison group home months after a judge granted her

00:23a conditional release from a mental health facility.

00:25She was last seen with an adult companion and sparked a multi-state search this weekend.

00:31Police say they found her late Sunday at a truck stop outside Chicago

00:35and took her into custody without incident.

00:38Geyser was 12 years old when she and a friend lured Peyton Lutner into the woods

00:43and stabbed her 19 times, a crime that shocked the country.

00:47Lutner survived.

00:48Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree homicide

00:51and spent seven years in a secure psychiatric facility before her release.

00:55Police are looking into how she escaped and who might have helped her.