A Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 stabbing of a sixth-grade classmate, purportedly to appease the fictional horror character “Slenderman,” was apprehended on Sunday after fleeing from a group home without authorization, police said.

Morgan Geyser, 22, was taken into custody about 200 miles away in Posen, Illinois. A day earlier she allegedly escaped from the home in Madison, Wisconsin, after cutting off her Department of Corrections monitoring ankle bracelet, police said on social media.

Geyser was found behind a truck stop with a 42-year-old man, whose name was not released by the Posen Police Department. He was also taken into custody, police said. It was unclear on Monday when an extradition hearing to take her from Illinois to Wisconsin might be held. A Posen Police Department

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