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Ramon Antonio Vargas and agencies

US woman behind Slender Man stabbing caught after escaping from group home

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Morgan Geyser in court in January 2025 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Photograph: Morry Gash/AP

The Wisconsin woman who admitted to repeatedly stabbing a middle school classmate to delight the fictional online horror character Slender Man in 2014 has been caught after authorities said she cut off a monitoring bracelet and left her group home.

Morgan Geyser, 23, was found in Posen, Illinois, on Sunday evening, authorities said. Police in Madison, Wisconsin, had issued an alert for Geyser earlier in the day, saying she had last been seen with an adult acquaintance on Saturday evening.

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