WASHINGTON — A Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 “Slender Man” stabbing has been found in Illinois after she cut off her monitoring bracelet and left a group home, authorities said.

Madison Police Department issued an alert Sunday that 22-year-old Morgan Geyser was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday with an adult acquaintance. She had removed her Department of Corrections monitoring device before leaving. Police released a recent security image and urged anyone who sees her to call 911.

The department issued an update late Sunday that Geyser was taken into custody.

She was found at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, the Posen Police Department confirmed early Monday. Posen is about 25 miles south of Chicago. The community is about 170 miles south of Madison.

Geyser was found with a

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