{"id":207198,"date":"2025-11-24T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/slender-man-stabber-morgan-geyser-apprehended-in-illinois-after-fleeing-wisconsin-group-home\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:18:52","slug":"slender-man-stabber-morgan-geyser-apprehended-in-illinois-after-fleeing-wisconsin-group-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/slender-man-stabber-morgan-geyser-apprehended-in-illinois-after-fleeing-wisconsin-group-home\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Slender Man Stabber&#8217; Morgan Geyser Apprehended In Illinois After Fleeing Wisconsin Group Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, Morgan Geyser confessed to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehollywoodgossip.com\/2014\/06\/slender-man-internet-meme-results-in-stabbing-of-12-year-old-gir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stabbing her friend 19 times<\/a>, telling authorities that she sought to appease Slender Man, a fictional character who\u2019s inspired countless memes.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Geyser removed her ankle monitor and fled the Wisconsin group home where she had been living.<\/p>\n<p>Police were not notified until 12 hours later, and as news of the 23-year-old\u2019s disappearance spread across social media, many began to fear the worst.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM-1024x573.png\" alt=\"'Slender Man Stabber' Morgan Geyser has been found after removing her ankle monitor and fleeing the state.\" class=\"wp-image-541184 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM-960x537.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM-1080x604.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM-1200x671.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM.png 1974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-24-at-2.41.29-PM.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u2018Slender Man Stabber\u2019 Morgan Geyser has been found after removing her ankle monitor and fleeing the state.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Authorities in Madison say they eventually learned of the disappearance, but only after they were contacted by the corrections officers who were in charge of monitoring Geyser\u2019s device.<\/p>\n<p>They were informed that \u201cshe was not at the home and that she had removed her GPS bracelet.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, authorities located in Illinois Geyser on Sunday night \u2014 nearly 200 miles from where she had disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>To their surprise, Geyser had crossed state lines with the help of a friend. <\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a call about a man and woman loitering near a truck stop, but they were initially unaware that they\u2019d found the subject of a multi-state search party. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Slender Man&#039; stabbing assailant Morgan Geyser found after fleeing: Police\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opTttNJajrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAfter continued attempts to identify her, she finally stated that she didn\u2019t want to tell officers who she was because she had \u2018done something really bad,\u2019 and suggested that officers could \u2018just Google\u2019 her name,\u201d police said in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce she provided her true identity, officers confirmed she was Morgan Geyser, who was wanted out of Wisconsin for escape after walking away from a group home where she had been placed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many who were close to Geyser publicly urged her to turn herself in to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>One person who attempted to send that message to Geyser was her attorney, Tony Cotton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not continue to remain on the run like this,\u201d Cotton said in a video posted to Facebook. \u201cIt is not in your best interest to handle this matter that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geyser\u2019s resaons for fleeing the group home remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, she and an accomplice named Anissa E. Weier lured their friend Payton Isabella Leutner into a wooded area of a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin and stabbed her 19 times before leaving her for dead.<\/p>\n<p>Leutner survived after being found by a bicyclist. Geyser and Weier were both found not guilty by mental disease or defect.<\/p>\n<p>We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/11\/slender-man-stabber-morgan-geyser-apprehended-in-illinois-after-fleeing-wisconsin-group-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in 2014, Morgan Geyser confessed to stabbing her friend 19 times, telling authorities that she sought to appease Slender Man, a fictional character who\u2019s inspired countless memes. Last week, Geyser removed her ankle monitor and fled the Wisconsin group home where she had been living. 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