One of the women behind the 2014 Slender Man stabbing is now in a Cook County, Illinois jail awaiting extradition back to Wisconsin after escaping from her group home.

Morgan Geyser was placed in a group home early this year after being given conditional release from a mental health facility where she had spent more than a decade. She escaped that group home Saturday night and made her way to the Chicago suburb of Posen, where she was arrested.

Posen Police found Geyser sleeping behind a gas station with a 43-year-old man after receiving a 911 call about someone sleeping at the location. When officers first encountered her, Geyser did not give them her real name.

"She seemed very nervous, and, like I said, she made the spontaneous statement that she had done something bad and didn't wan

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