Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser detained by police in Illinois

POSEN, Ill. - A Wisconsin escape and Illinois capture is making national headlines. Morgan Geyser, the woman involved in the Slender Man stabbing case in Waukesha back in 2014, escaped a Madison group home after cutting off her monitoring bracelet on Saturday. 

On Monday, the Posen, Illinois Police Department released news information regarding the case.

Officials said Geyser cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and left a Madison group home Saturday night, Nov. 22. Geyser was taken back into custody late Sunday. Posen is about 25 miles south of Chicago.

Waukesha County District Attorney Lesli Boese said her office has been in contact with Gov. Tony Evers to get Geyser back to Wisconsin for additional charges. 

Detained in Posen, IL

What we know:

On Sunday evening, Posen 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 says, "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."

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."

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Officials said the male subject with Geyser was also taken into custody. He has since been identified as 43-year-old Chad Mecca. 

Mecca was charged with criminal trespassing and providing false information to police. He was later released from custody. 

How they got to Posen, IL

Dig deeper:

Posen police said Geyser and Mecca took a Greyhound bus from Wisconsin to Chicago and then walked to Posen. 

District Attorney Boese said on Monday that Waukesha County is waiting to see if the Department of Health Services (DHS) will petition to revoke Geyser's conditional release. Boese's office supports that decision. 

In Wisconsin, people are committed to DHS custody if they are found not guilty due to mental disease or defect. 

Geyser's plan and placement were finalized in September, moving Geyser from the Winnebago Mental health Institute to a group home. 

What they're saying:

Boese said the county's victim witness department reached out to victim Payton Leutner and her family to notify them about Geyser's escape. Boese said the family had not previously been notified by the state or any other agency. 

"While she was on the loose, we were very concerned about the safety of the victim and her family as well as the community.  We are continuing to assist them in this process. But that certainly was a concern that they were not notified of this in a more prompt manner," Boese said. 

Extradition process begins

What's next:

Geyser is in a Cook County facility as of Monday evening, Nov. 24. She will be in front of a judge on Tuesday for an extradition hearing. 

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FOX6 News reached out to the Leutner family spokesperson, but have not heard back. 

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