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Warning: This article contains discussion of violence.
Police previously issued a major alert on Sunday after it was discovered that the woman convicted in 2013 for a horrific Slender Man-related stabbing incident had 'escaped' from her group home after cutting off her electronic monitoring device.
Morgan Geyser, the woman in question, was arrested and charged back in 2018 after she confessed to nearly stabbing a 12-year-old classmate in order to please horror character Slender Man, who originated from a game titled 'Slender: The Eight Pages'.
Slender Man quickly became an incredibly popular character on the internet and social media following the release of The Eight Pages, with his creepy yet simple demeanour striking fear into many who read related stories and played the games.
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The games themselves saw players explore through a dark and misty forest in an attempt to find eight separate pieces of paper, but Slender Man would be stalking them in the process, and you'd be alerted to his presence when static appeared on your screen.
Geyser collaborated with her friend, Anna Weier, to lure their classmate Payton Leutner to a nearby park for a sleepover, where the former stabbed Leutner more than 12 times, with the victim only barely surviving the attack, as per the Independent.
The attacked revealed to investigators that they attacked Leutner in an attempt to become Slender Man's 'servants', fearing that if they didn't follow through with it he would harm their families as a punishment.
Geyser was sent to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in 2018, and was placed in a group home this year after being granted conditional release.
However, she appeared to escape from the group home on Saturday night, with the police issuing an alert that she had cut off an electronic monitoring device that she was given as part of her release.
Thankfully though she was found by police on Sunday night and taken back into custody, being located at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois. Police were not alerted to Geyser's disappearance for at least 12 hours after she was last seen, with an alert being sent about the ankle monitor's malfunction on Saturday night.
They then attempted to speak to the group home where she was staying, and they informed officials that she wasn't there and had since removed the bracelet, escaping from the building.
Tom Cotton, Geyser's attorney, urged his former client to turn herself in after she had escaped, insisting that he did not know anything about what had happed to the 23-year-old before she was later located in Posen.
