A Wisconsin woman's brief disappearance from a group home has reignited public interest in the so-called Slender Man stabbing case of which she was a perpetrator.
Morgan Geyser was taken into custody in Illinois on Nov. 23 after escaping a group home a day prior. She went missing after cutting off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet, according to police in Madison, Wisconsin.
Geyser, who is now 23, was charged with attempted homicide at age 12 after stabbing her friend, Payton Leutner, and leaving her for dead in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Geyser and co-defendant Anissa Weier claimed they perpetrated the stabbing to appease the fictional Slender Man character.
They were both found not guilty by reason of mental defect in 2017 and sentenced to mental confinement.
Geyser is one of two perpetrators in the 2014 attempted murder stabbing of Leutner. Geyser and Weier admitted to the crime but told police they believed they were doing the bidding of Slender Man.
