The so-called ‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser threw a tantrum and demanded she be allowed to ‘say goodbye’ to her transgender lover as the pair were arrested.
Geyser, 23, sparked a multi-state manhunt after she fled her care home in Wisconsin on Saturday night.
The killer was seen on bodycam footage refusing to give her name to officers who approached her in Posen, Illinois on Sunday.
Geyser was with her partner Chad ‘Charly’ Mecca, 43, when she was confronted and told police that Mecca had no clue about her criminal past.
Geyser was just 12-years-old when she brutally stabbed her classmate in a shocking crime that captured national headlines.
‘She doesn’t know what I did,’ Geyser told cops, at one point telling officers to ‘just Google me’.
‘I did something really wrong,’ she added as she begged officers to let her partner go.
One of the officers responded that ‘it can’t be that serious’, without realizing Geyser was the person who shot to infamy as the ‘Slender Man’ stabber.
Bodycam footage captured the moment the ‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser threw a tantrum as she was arrested with her transgender lover after cutting off her ankle monitor
Geyser, 23, was arrested after fleeing her group home in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday and sparking a multi-state manhunt
Geyser was found with her partner Chad ‘Charly’ Mecca, 43, who told cops that Geyser fled because her group home was preventing them from seeing each other
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Geyser earned the moniker in 2014 when she told investigators she and her friend Anissa Weier lured their sixth-grade classmate Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times to appease the fictional horror character.
She appeared afraid to tell the officers in Illinois her real identity because of the vicious crime, and after eventually giving her name, said of Mecca: ‘I promise you she did not know.’
Geyser then went to try and speak to Mecca but when officers stopped her, the 23-year-old grew emotional as she said if she couldn’t say goodbye, she ‘will never see her again.’
As officer assured her she would see Mecca at the police station, she responded: ‘No, I won’t … because I did something bad. Let me say goodbye.’
Police said that when they got the pair to the station, Mecca told officers that Geyser cut off her ankle monitor and fled her group home because she facility was preventing them from seeing each other.
She reportedly told cops: ‘The end of the day, I followed what I thought was right. I stand by it.’
Mecca was given a citation for criminal trespassing and obstructing identification, and was released.
Geyser was hauled back into court on Tuesday to sign extradition papers to return her to Wisconsin, and officials said she would lose her conditional release once there.
Geyser seen in the custody of Posen, Illinois police after her arrest over the weekend
Mecca was given a citation for criminal trespassing and obstructing identification and was released, telling officers she ‘stood by’ their escape attempt
Geyser was seen in the bodycam refusing to give her name to officers, and at one point telling them to ‘just Google me’ because of her shocking history
‘Her alleged actions this past weekend only reinforce our position that a conditional release is not appropriate at this time,’ Waukesha County District Attorney Lesli Boese told Spectrum News.
Geyser pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide in 2018, four years after the attack on Leutner, in a plea deal that spared her lengthy prison time.
The deal landed her in a Wisconsin psychiatric ward, but she served only a fraction of her 40-year sentence when she was controversially granted conditional release in July.
She was fitted with an ankle monitor, which Mecca said was cut off with scissors as the pair fled the group home and took a bus south.
They said they were intending to end up in Nashville, Tennessee, but their arrest came after locals in Posen called 911 to report them loitering outside a building.
Geyser has been in some form of custody since she was arrested aged 12 following the attack on Leutner, in which she and Weier hatched a plot to perform a ritualistic murder for the ‘Slender Man.’
Geyser carried out the stabbing of their friend while Weier cheered on, police said at the time.
The sinister duo then abandoned Leutner – leaving her to die – but she miraculously survived. She managed to crawl out of the woods, where a cyclist found her.
The girls told detectives that they had to kill Leutner to become Slender Man’s ‘proxies’, and said they thought the character would kill their families if they did not comply.
They were both charged in adult court with first-degree attempted intentional homicide.
Anissa Weier, pictured after the attack, cheered on Geyser as she stabbed their helpless victim
Geyser, pictured at age 12, stabbed her friend 19 times as a sacrifice to Slender Man
Weier pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of attempted second-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime, but the jury found her to be not guilty by mental disease or defect in 2017.
Geyser, who has schizophrenia, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, but was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in 2018 as part of her plea deal.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, who has since retired, sent her to a psychiatric hospital for 40 years before her release just 25 percent into the sentence.
Bohren went against the wishes of prosecutors in January when he ruled that Geyser could be released and placed in her group home, after three experts testified that she was making progress battling her mental illness.
During the same hearing, Geyser also came out as transgender, but female pronouns have continued to be used for court consistency, Dr Brooke Lundbohm, who psych-evaluated Geyser, explained.
At the time, Dr Kenneth Robbins claimed that Geyser no longer had the psychosis symptoms that played a significant role in the violent assault she committed.
Lundbohm’s treatment team came to the same conclusion.
‘I think either she was experiencing transient psychotic symptoms, which is to say psychotic symptoms that didn’t persist and gradually went away,’ 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.’
Geyser, seen in 2017, was placed in a psychiatric ward in 2018 when she struck a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid prison and in July she was released into the group home against warnings from prosecutors
In March, state health officials argued that Geyser was in no condition to walk free from the institution after evidence emerged of an unsettling correspondence she was having with an ‘older man’ called Jeffrey – including this sketch of a decapitated body and a postcard saying she wanted to be intimate with him
The trauma Robbins referred to was Geyser’s claims of sexual abuse by her father, who died in 2023.
Geyser’s father had also reportedly been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Stacie Leutner told ABC.
But Geyser’s symptoms more closely align with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and autism, Robbins said at the hearing.
While Bohren agreed to Geyser’s release to a group home – effectively slashing her sentence by about three decades – the plan had to be reworked several times.
The judge approved it in July, but the process to remove Geyser from the secure mental hospital was difficult, as multiple group homes had turned her away.
One plan also would have seen Geyser moved to a home just eight miles from Leutner, sparking outrage from her family.
In March, state health officials argued that Geyser was in no condition to walk free from the institution after evidence emerged of an unsettling correspondence she was having with an ‘older man’ called Jeffrey, who sold murder memorabilia.
The man first visited her in June 2023, and in their twisted correspondence, Geyser had sent him her own sketch of a decapitated body and a postcard saying she wanted to be intimate with him.
The drawings were described as ‘horror’ art. Jeffrey was reportedly selling the pieces that Geyser sent him.
The Madison Police Department said Sunday that it was not made aware that Geyser was missing until nearly 12 hours after she left the group home.
Authorities said ‘Jeffrey’ was not the same man that Geyser escaped her group home with over the weekend.
