CHICAGO, IL – The woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death at age 12 to please the online horror character “Slender Man” will soon be back in Wisconsin after disappearing over the weekend.
Morgan Geyser waived her right to an extradition hearing in a Chicago courtroom November 25, setting the stage for her return to custody in Waukesha County. Officials will have 30 days to bring Geyser back, though a judge expressed a desire for a quicker timeline.
Geyser was found at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, police there confirmed November 24, along with a 43-year-old man identified in a police report obtained by WTMJ as Chad Mecca of Janesville, Wisconsin. Posen is about 25 miles south of Chicago and about 170 miles south of Madison, near where Geyser’s group home is located.
The pair initially gave police fake names, “Stephanie Gries” and “Charles Robertson”, respectively. After both names failed to turn up in police records, Geyser shared her real name, telling an officer to “Google her name” to find out who she was.
According to the report, Geyser and Mecca became acquainted through Good Shepherd Church in Madison. After the state denied Mecca a formal request to visit Geyser at her group home on the city’s south side, he snuck in the home to meet her multiple times “by climbing in her window”, according to the report.
Geyser told police she cut her ankle monitor with a pair of scissors, and that the two had discussed fleeing as far away as Nashville, Tennessee, but ran out of money after first taking a bus from Madison to Chicago, then walking the roughly 25 miles south to Posen.
Mecca was charged with criminal trespassing and obstructing identification and has since been released, Posen police confirmed. His initial appearance in court is scheduled for January 15, 2026, at the Markham Courthouse.
Once Geyser is returned to Waukesha County, it will then be up to the Dane County District Attorney’s Office to decide on pursuing new charges against Geyser. Escaping custody is a felony in Wisconsin.
