The Wisconsin woman who stabbed a classmate nearly to death 11 years ago to please the fictional horror character Slender Man was set to appear in court in Chicago on Tuesday.

Morgan Geyser, now 23, was to appear at 11 a.m. at the George N. Leighton Cook County Criminal Courthouse for an extradition hearing on sending her back to Wisconsin.

Geyser was captured in Chicago's south suburbs after cutting off a monitoring bracelet, leaving a group home and going missing, Madison, Wisconsin officials said late Sunday night .

The term "Slender Man" made national headlines repeatedly around 11 years ago when Geyser and another Wisconsin youngster stabbed their friend at a sleepover in Slender Man's honor.

In 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, lured Payton Leutner to a Wauke

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