Woman who stabbed classmate to please Slender Man cuts off monitoring device, is missing: Police

MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin pistillate who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to decease successful 2014 to delight the online fearfulness quality Slender Man is missing aft she chopped disconnected an physics monitoring instrumentality and near a radical home, authorities said Sunday.

The video successful the subordinate supra is from a erstwhile report.

Madison constabulary issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser, present 23, saying she was past seen astir 8 p.m. Saturday with an big acquaintance.

"If you spot Geyser, delight telephone 911," the alert said, adding that she had chopped disconnected a "Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet."

Geyser was placed successful a radical location this twelvemonth aft being granted conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. She was sent to the psychiatric institute successful 2018 aft pleading blameworthy to attempted first-degree intentional homicide successful a woody with prosecutors to debar prison.

Geyser's attorney, Tony Cotton, did not instantly respond to a connection near Sunday.

Authorities accidental Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were 12 years aged erstwhile they lured their classmate, Payton Leutner, to a suburban Milwaukee parkland aft a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner much than a twelve times portion Weier egged her on. Leutner hardly survived.

The girls aboriginal told investigators that they attacked Leutner to gain the close to beryllium Slender Man's servants and they feared he'd harm their families if they didn't travel through.

Slender Man was created online by Eric Knudson successful 2009 arsenic a mysterious fig photo-edited into mundane images of children astatine play. He grew into a fashionable boogeyman, appearing successful video games, online stories and a 2018 movie.

Weier pleaded blameworthy to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. She was besides sent to the psychiatric halfway and granted merchandise successful 2021.