New photos show Slender Man stabber after arrest

New photos have revealed the grim moment when the Slender Man stabber was caught by cops with her older 'lover' after escaping from her group home. Morgan Geyser, 23, was arrested on Monday with Chad Mecca, 43, after a massive manhunt ensued when she ripped off her ankle monitor and fled the home where she had been held on conditional release, according to the Posen Police Department. Geyser escaped the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin , group home on Saturday. Cops believe she took a bus to Illinois before walking 30 miles from Chicago to the small village of Posen.

The two were spotted at a truck stop, and an employee reported them to the police. Geyser and Mecca were found sleeping on a sidewalk and refused to give their names to officers. '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,' the Posen Police Department said. Grim photos of their arrests revealed the two 'lovers' looking exhausted with their hands cuffed behind their backs.

Body cam footage of their arrests revealed the two huddling together and pleading for officers to let them go. Eventually, police confirmed Geyser's identity, and she will face an extradition hearing on Tuesday. Mecca was charged with criminal trespass and obstruction of identification. He has been released from custody.

Mecca, who told local ABC affiliate, WKOW , that he goes by Charly, said the decision to escape was his. 'It was still my choice at the end of the day. I followed what I thought was right,' he told the outlet, adding that he stood by the decision. Mecca revealed that the two met at church and hatched a plan to meet in the parking lot after Geyser escaped. 'She ran because of me,' Mecca added. He explained that Geyser was worried she wouldn't be allowed to visit with Mecca, which motivated her to flee.

Geyser was arrested when she was just 12 years old for her involvement in the horrific Slender Man stabbing. She and a friend, Anissa Weier, who was also 12 at the time, lured their classmate, Payton Leutner, into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. Leutner survived the attack and was found by a cyclist. The girls said they committed the chilling attack to appease a fictional horror character called Slender Man. They believed that the sinister plot would prevent the fictional character from killing their families.

Slender Man was created in 2009 as a faceless figure who became synonymous with the shocking stabbing. Investigators found that Geyser carried out the horrific attack while Weier egged her on. Geyser and Weier were charged with first-degree attempted intentional homicide. Weier later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was found not guilty by mental disease or defect in 2017. Geyser had pleaded guilty but was also found not guilty due to her diagnosis of schizophrenia. A circuit judge ordered her to spend 40 years in a psychiatric hospital, but she was granted conditional release earlier this year and was sent to the group home in September.

Three medical experts supported the terms of Geyser's conditional release, arguing that she was making progress with her diagnosis. 'I think either she was experiencing transient psychotic symptoms, which is to say psychotic symptoms that didn't persist and gradually went away,' Dr Kenneth Robbins explained. 'Or the intensity of her fantasies based on some of the trauma she had experienced were so intense that she believed them to be true.' Dr Brooke Lundbohm also evaluated Geyser and concluded that she no longer had psychosis symptoms that played a role in the violent attack.

During the same hearing, Geyser also came out as transgender, but female pronouns have continued to be used for court consistency. Robbins said Geyser's symptoms aligned with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and autism. Geyser had also claimed she was sexually abused by her father, which her medical team cited as a source of trauma. Her father died in 2023 and reportedly had also been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Geyser's release was met with multiple obstacles, as she was turned away from numerous group homes.

One home that planned to take her sparked outrage from her victim's family because it was only eight miles away from Leutner. Prosecutors also fought against the release, citing a drawing she sent to a man named Jeffrey, who sold murder memorabilia. The man had visited her at the facility, and she sent him a sketch of a decapitated body and a postcard saying she wanted to be intimate with him. Waukesha County District Attorney Lesli Boese said her office would support a motion to revoke Geyser's conditional release. The Department of Health Services must file the petition, since Geyser is under its custody.