Morgan Geyser Found at Illinois Truck Stop with Adult Acquaintance, Police Say

Morgan Geyser, the woman who was found not guilty by mental disease or defect for the 2014 Slenderman attempted murder stabbing and committed to 40 years of mental confinement, has been found in Illinois after she allegedly cut off her ankle monitor and escaped from her Madison group home, Madison Police Department confirmed Sunday night. Posen, Ill., police say she was with an unnamed adult acquaintance at an Illinois truck stop.

According to Madison PD, Geyser cut her monitor and escaped Saturday night around 8 p.m., though DOC was not alerted to the GPS bracelet malfunctioning until around 9:30 p.m. The report further says that DOC issues an apprehension request to Madison PD around 11:35 p.m. but that request was never relayed to the Police Department. As a result, reports show that Madison PD was not alerted of the escape until just before 8 a.m. Sunday morning, nearly 12 hours after Geyser’s escape. 

Back in 2017, according to Wisconsin Circuit Court records, per Wisconsin state statue, Geyser was found “guilty of committing the crime(s) charged, but was also found not to be legally responsible.” Geyser was committed to 40 years of mentally confinement and was originally moved to a Winnebago area facility. According to reporting by USA Today, Geyser was moved to a Sun Prairie group home in October  with the location undisclosed by court records.

There are no injuries or further crimes reported by Madison PD related to this alleged escape, and it remains unclear who the adult acquaintance seen and found with Geyser is. 

Posen police wrote in a news release that they responded to a “report of a male and female loitering behind the building” Thornton’s Truck Stop at 14840 Western Avenue.

When officers arrived, “they located both subjects sleeping on the sidewalk. The female repeatedly refused to provide her real name and initially gave a false one,” police wrote. “After continued attempts to identify her, she finally stated that she didn’t want to tell officers who she was because she had ‘done something really bad,’ and suggested that officers could ‘just Google’ her name.”

“Once she provided her true identity, officers confirmed she was Morgan Geyser, who was wanted out of Wisconsin for escape after walking away from a group home where she had been placed,” police wrote.

For background, wrote police, “Geyser was one of the two juveniles involved in the 2014 ‘Slender Man stabbing,’ a case that received national attention,” wrote police, who added that she was “later assigned to a secure residential facility, from which she recently absconded.”

“The male subject with her was also taken into custody. Both individuals were safely detained without incident by Posen officers,” added police.