The Wisconsin woman who admitted to repeatedly stabbing a sixth-grade classmate to delight the fictional online horror character Slender Man in 2014 has been caught after authorities said she cut off a monitoring bracelet and left her group home .

Morgan Geyser, 23, was found in Posen, Illinois, on Sunday evening, authorities said. Police in Madison, Wisconsin , had issued an alert for Geyser earlier in the day, saying she had last been seen with an adult acquaintance on Saturday evening.

Posen is about 170 miles south of Madison. Police there told CNN that Geyser had been apprehended at a truck stop.

In 2014, when all three girls were 12 years old, Geyer and a friend, Anissa Weier, convinced their classmate Payton Leutner to go with them to a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, during a

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