A Wisconsin woman who confessed to nearly stabbing her classmate to death in 2014 to please the fictional horror character Slender Man has been located in Illinois after she cut off a wearable tracking device and left a group home, authorities said.

The Madison Police Department issued an alert for Morgan Geyser — who is now 23 but was 12 at the time of the stabbing — on Sunday, saying she was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday with an adult man.

Police said Sunday that it only received notification that Geyser was missing about 12 hours after she removed her ankle monitor and left the group home.

The state Department of Corrections received an alert Saturday night that Geyser’s ankle monitor had malfunctioned and issued an apprehension request shortly after midnight. The group home

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