(NewsNation) — Slender Man stabbing assailant Morgan Geyser told officers to “just Google” her after she was captured following an escape from a group home, Illinois police said.
“The female repeatedly refused to provide her real name and initially gave a false one,” the Posen Police Department said. “After continued attempts to identify her, she finally stated that she didn’t want to tell officers who she was because she had ‘done something really bad,’ and suggested that officers could ‘just Google’ her name.”
Geyser, 23, was located on Sunday, after she cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and left her group home Saturday night, according to the Madison Police Department. She was last seen with another adult around 8 p.m. local time.
Local authorities did not alert the public until Sunday morning that Geyser was missing. She was captured by police in Posen, Illinois, around 10:30 p.m. local time Sunday, nearly 24 hours after the escape.
Geyser and another woman, Anissa Weier, were 12 years old when they lured classmate Payton Leutner to the wooded area of a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 2014. Police said Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier encouraged her to do so.
Both girls later told investigators they believed the stabbing would earn them the right to become the servants of “Slender Man,” a supernatural internet, movie and video game character. Geyser and Weier also said they committed the attack to protect their families from the character.
The pair was found not guilty due to mental disease or defect and committed to mental institutions, according to reports. Weier was granted a conditional release from a psychiatric facility to live with her father in 2021.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Geyser was sent to a group home earlier this fall, where she was continuing treatment for a psychotic spectrum disorder.
NewsNation’s Jordan Perkins contributed to this report.