‘Just Google’ me: Slender Man stabber is recaptured after fleeing her group home

‘Just Google’ me: Slender Man stabber is recaptured after fleeing her group home

By Rachel Treisman
Publication Date: 2025-11-24 18:33:00

Morgan Geyser appears in court in January in Waukesha, Wis. Geyser was released from a psychiatric facility to a group home earlier this year.

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Morgan Geyser, one of the perpetrators of the 2014 “Slender Man stabbing,” was taken into custody near Chicago on Sunday, a day after cutting off her ankle monitor and leaving her Wisconsin group home.

Geyser was reported missing on Saturday night after correction officials were notified that her GPS monitoring bracelet was malfunctioning. They contacted the group home and learned that “she was not at the home and that she had removed her GPS bracelet,” according to the…