"MADISON, Wis. (AP) A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death at age 12 to please the online horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home, authorities said. Madison police issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser, now 23, saying she was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday with an adult acquaintance."
"Geyser was placed in a group home this year after being granted conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. She was sent to the psychiatric institute in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison. The stabbing happened in 2014. Geyser's attorney, Tony Cotton, said Sunday that he did not know what happened with his client and urged Geyser to turn herself in."
Morgan Geyser, 23, was found at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, after cutting off an electronic ankle monitor and leaving a group home. She was located with a 42-year-old man who faced charges of criminal trespassing and obstructing identification; he was later released. Geyser entered a group home after being granted conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute earlier this year. She had been sent to the psychiatric institute in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a plea deal to avoid prison for a 2014 stabbing motivated by the online horror character Slender Man. Authorities issued alerts after a monitor malfunction and an apprehension request followed.
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