'Slenderman' stabbing convict Morgan Geyser captured after escaping group home

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00:00The 23-year-old Wisconsin woman known as the Slender Man Stabber has been captured

00:04after slicing off her court-mandated ankle monitor, escaping her group home,

00:09and leading police on a nationwide manhunt. Morgan Geyser was notoriously

00:14known for viciously ambushing and hacking a classmate 19 times in 2014 when

00:20she was 12 years old in an effort to please a made-up internet boogeyman

00:24called the Slender Man. Then on November 22nd of this year she vanished from her

00:29group home in Madison, Wisconsin. According to NBC News, the Madison Police

00:34Department said Geyser was last spotted at the home at around 8.15 p.m. on

00:38November 22nd. About an hour later the state's Department of Corrections was

00:42notified that Geyser's location tracker on her ankle monitor had malfunctioned, but

00:47it wasn't until the next morning at nearly 8 a.m. that the group home called

00:51911 to report Geyser missing, leading police on a desperate manhunt to find

00:56the twisted attacker. Geyser's attorney Tony Cotton even put out a video on

01:00Instagram issuing a desperate plea for Geyser to turn herself in to the

01:05authorities immediately. Turn yourself in. Do not continue to remain on the run

01:11like this. It is not in your best interest to handle this matter that way.

01:15Police were initially clueless on Geyser's whereabouts, but a loitering

01:19report imposed in Illinois on November 23rd led to a surprising breakthrough in

01:24the search. After a nearly 24-hour manhunt, Geyser was spotted sleeping on a

01:28sidewalk behind a truck stop more than 150 miles from the group home and was then

01:33arrested by police. According to CBS News, Geyser initially refused to give her

01:38real name to the cops but relented, telling officers to quote, just Google

01:43her to find out who she was because she had quote, done something really bad. But

01:48in a surprising twist, police didn't find Geyser alone. A 42-year-old woman was

01:53also busted sleeping on the sidewalk with the convicted stabber. The unidentified

01:57woman claimed to CBS News that the pair were best friends and said she didn't want

02:02Geyser to be alone when she cut off her ankle tag and escaped the group home. The

02:06mystery pal claimed the two had taken a bus to Chicago before walking 20 miles

02:11south to Posen, where they were forced to stop when Geyser injured her foot. The

02:15middle-aged woman was arrested and released, charged with obstructing

02:18identity. CBS reported that Geyser is scheduled to be in court on November 24th.

02:23In 2014, Geyser, along with her friend Anissa Weyer, made headlines when the

02:28friends lured fellow 6th grader Peyton Leutner into a Waukesha, Wisconsin park and

02:34stabbed her 19 times in an effort to impress Slender Man, a tall, slim, faceless

02:40creature that was first developed in online forums and was said to lurk in

02:44forests, traumatizing children. Miraculously, Leutner survived the horrifying assault, crawling

02:50her way to safety until she was found by a passing bicyclist. Geyser, as a 15-year-old,

02:55pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in a deal that would see her put in

02:59a mental institution instead of serving jail time. She spent nearly seven years in

03:04the Winnebago Mental Health Institute before a judge ordered her release in

03:07January, despite several, quote, red flags. In March, Waukesha County Deputy District

03:13Attorney Abby Nicoli said the state had real concerns, after state health officials

03:18became aware that Geyser had read Rentboy, a novel about murder and selling organs on

03:23the black market, and had been communicating with a man who collects murder memorabilia.

03:28Health officials also discovered that Geyser even sent the man a sketch of a

03:31decapitated body with a postcard claiming she wanted to be intimate with him.

03:36Cotton, Geyser's attorney, argued his client hadn't done anything wrong,

03:40calling the state's request to keep her in the hospital a, quote,

03:43hit job. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bourne ultimately kept to the initial decision

03:48to allow Geyser's conditional release, saying,

03:50I don't see the risk to the public. WIRE, Geyser's accomplice in the vicious stabbing,

03:55pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was also sent to a psychiatric center.

04:01She was granted release in 2021 to live with her father and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor.

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