WISCONSIN — Madison police said Morgan Geyser, one of the two girls convicted in the 2014 stabbing of a classmate in an attempt to please the fictional horror character Slender Man, was found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home.

Madison police issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser , now 23, saying she was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday near Kroncke Drive with an “adult acquaintance.”

The department issued an update late Sunday that Geyser had been taken into custody in Illinois.

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.

Posen Police Department said in a post that it was sent to T

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