“Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser told police officers to “just Google” them after escaping from a psychiatric facility and was apprehended in Illinois. The 23-year-old transgender man, convicted of stabbing a friend 19 times, triggered an alert with the Bureau of Corrections after cutting off an ankle monitor over the weekend and fleeing the group home in Wisconsin they had been living at with the help of an accomplice, 43-year-old Chad Mecca. The pair was picked up by police in Posen, Illinois but refused to give their real names during questioning. Eventually, Geyser told officers they didn’t want to tell them their real name because she’d “done something really bad,” and instead told them to “just Google” their name, adding, “That’s my name. Trust me, I didn’t want to give it to you; you’ll see why in a second.” Geyser was later released without incident. Geyser and their friend, Anissa Weier, were charged as adults and pleaded guilty to the stabbing of classmate Payton Leutner in 2014, when all three were just 12 years old. The friends believed that killing Leutner was necessary to please “Slender Man,” a fictional horror character. In 2017, Geyser was convicted of first-degree attempted murder and sentenced to 40 years in psychiatric care, but was cleared for release to a group home earlier this year.
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