{"id":50039,"date":"2025-11-24T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50039\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:55:07","slug":"slender-man-stabber-morgan-geyser-captured-following-nationwide-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50039\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slender Man\u2019 stabber Morgan Geyser captured following nationwide manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/23\/us-news\/slender-man-stabber-morgan-geyser-escapes-group-home-cuts-off-ankle-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">nationwide manhunt\u00a0for Morgan Geyser<\/a>, the Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/02\/01\/moms-never-imagined-their-daughters-capable-of-slender-man-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Slender Man<\/a>\u201d stabbing, has come to an end, authorities announced Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Madison Police Department confirmed Geyser was taken into custody in Illinois at approximately 10:34 p.m., ending the intense search.<\/p>\n<p>Geyser escaped after she cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and fled a Madison group home Saturday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Madison police announced her escape in a social media post on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorgan Geyser was last seen in the area of Kroncke Dr. around 8 p.m. with an adult acquaintance. Her whereabouts are unknown as of Sunday morning,\u201d the department wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Madison Police Department was notified of\u00a0her disappearance\u00a0Sunday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Geyser, the Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 \u201cSlender Man\u201d stabbing, has been caught by authorities. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA recent image of Geyser, captured on security video from this past month, is attached below. If you see her, please call 911,\u201d police added.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Geyser pleaded guilty to\u00a0attempted first-degree intentional homicide\u00a0in the violent stabbing of Payton Leutner, but claimed she was not responsible due to her mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>She told investigators she tried to kill Leutner to please the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/07\/us-news\/judge-agrees-to-release-slender-man-stabber-from-mental-health-facility-despite-red-flags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> horror character Slender Man<\/a> and was ultimately found not guilty by reason of mental defect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Geyser was last seen in the area of Kroncke Dr. around 8 p.m. with an adult acquaintance. Madison Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were 12 when they lured Leutner into a wooded park during a sleepover in May 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Geyser, encouraged by Weier,\u00a0stabbed Leutner 19 times.<\/p>\n<p>Leutner miraculously survived the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Notebooks from Morgan Geyser show drawings depicting the character Slender Man with a stick figure, with a large head with no eyes, sometimes with tentacles coming out of the back of his body. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn images<\/p>\n<p>Payton Leutner in an undated family photo. Family handout<\/p>\n<p>Geyser has been in custody at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for the last seven years.<\/p>\n<p>She was initially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/02\/01\/teen-in-slender-man-stabbing-gets-40-years-in-mental-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sentenced to 40 years\u00a0in the psychiatric hospital <\/a>and was permitted to ask the court to consider her conditional release every six months.<\/p>\n<p>Police told local outlet WMTV that Geyser was staying at a group home in Madison before she disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital\u2019s Julia Bonavita contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0nationwide manhunt\u00a0for Morgan Geyser, the Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 \u201cSlender Man\u201d stabbing, has come to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[303,12193,9,11,10,27928,58,27929],"class_list":{"0":"post-50039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-manhunts","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-slender-man","14":"tag-us-news","15":"tag-wisconsin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}