Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser arrest video released
Video shows arrest of Morgan Geyser
Morgan Geyser, the woman involved in the Slender Man stabbing case in Waukesha back in 2014, will be in court for an extradition hearing on Tuesday.
POSEN, Ill. - The Posen Police Department released body-worn camera footage that shows the Monday arrest of Morgan Geyser in Illinois.
Geyser missing
The backstory:
Geyser, one of two people convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing, left a Madison group home after cutting off her Wisconsin Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet on Saturday night.
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Geyser was found and taken back into custody late Sunday night at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois. Posen is about 25 miles south of Chicago.
Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser waives extradition in Illinois
Morgan Geyser remains jailed in Illinois after she cut off her monitoring bracelet and left Wisconsin. But she may be back in the state soon.
Geyser detained
Dig deeper:
On Sunday night, Posen police officers were dispatched to the Thornton’s Truck Stop on Western Avenue for a report of a male and female loitering behind the building.
A post on the Posen Police Department Facebook page said:
"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. 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."
Chad Mecca (Credit: Posen Police Department)
Once Geyser provided her identity to officers, they "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."
Officials said the male subject with Geyser, since identified as 43-year-old Chad Mecca, was also taken into custody. He was charged with criminal trespassing and providing false information to police and was later released from custody.
Posen police said Geyser and Mecca took a Greyhound bus from Wisconsin to Chicago and then walked to Posen.
Full bodycam video
Body cam footage: Morgan Geyser arrested
The Posen Police Department released body camera footage showing the arrest of Morgan Geyser.
The Source: Information in this post was provided by the Posen Police Department as well as previous FOX6 News coverage.