MADISON, Wis. ( WMTV /Gray News) — Authorities in Wisconsin say a woman who was convicted in a Slender Man stabbing more than 10 years ago has been found and taken into custody the night after she went missing.

A search for Morgan Geyser began after police say she cut off her Department of Corrections GPS monitoring bracelet and left a group home in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday night.

Madison Police confirmed they received notice around 10:34 p.m. Sunday that Geyser had been located and detained by authorities in Illinois.

Geyser is one of two people who were convicted in a stabbing of a female classmate in May 2014. Investigators at the time said the stabbing was motivated by an effort to appease Slender Man, a fictional supernatural character, and to prove he was real.

She has

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