Footage from a recently released police body camera captures the moments when officers encountered a missing Wisconsin woman, known for her attempted murder of a sixth-grade classmate to appease the fictional character “Slender Man” nearly ten years ago. She had left a group home over the weekend.
Morgan Geyser, now 23, was discovered at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, about 25 miles south of Chicago, around 9 p.m. on Sunday, according to the Posen Police Department.
Geyser had removed her electronic ankle monitor before leaving her group home in Madison, as reported by the Madison Police Department. She was last seen with an adult companion at approximately 8 p.m. on Saturday.
A video acquired by Fox News Digital shows officers responding to a report of a man and woman loitering behind a truck stop, leading them to find Geyser and a man sleeping on the sidewalk.
The body camera footage reveals the police attempting to identify Geyser. When asked, she shook her head and stated, “I don’t want to give you my name.”
As officers attempted to identify Geyser, she shook her head “no” and told officers, “I don’t want to give you my name.”
The officers attempted to reason with Geyser, with one deputy asking, “You’re not wanted for murder, right?”
Following multiple attempts to identify her, Geyser admitted she didn’t want to tell officers her name because she had “done something really bad” and suggested the officers “just Google” her.
Morgan Geyser was taken into custody in Posen, Ill., Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Posen Police Department)
Geyser then provided the officers with a fake name, and officers confronted her about lying as they asked if the pair were wanted by authorities.
The back-and-forth continued for several minutes before Geyser relented and wrote her name on a piece of paper for the deputies, resulting in her arrest. Dramatic footage showed Geyser pleading with officers to say goodbye to her companion, insisting the individual did not know her name and adding she “will never see her again.”
Geyser was then loaded into the back of a police car, where she remained silent for the duration of the ride.
Chad Mecca, 43, was subsequently released from custody after being charged with criminal trespassing and providing false information to police, according to the Posen Police Department. (Posen Police Department)
The male subject located with Geyser was also taken into custody and was identified as 43-year-old Chad Mecca, according to the Posen Police Department. Mecca was subsequently released from custody after being charged with criminal trespassing and providing false information to police, FOX6 reported.
According to Posen police, the pair took a Greyhound bus from Wisconsin to Chicago before walking to Posen.
“She ran because of me,” Mecca told WKOW.
Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 when they lured fellow sixth-grader Payton Leutner into a Waukesha, Wisconsin, park and stabbed her 19 times to please the horror character “Slender Man” in 2014. Geyser pleaded guilty in 2017 to being a party to attempted first-degree intentional homicide but claimed she was not responsible for the attack because she was mentally ill.
She was initially committed to a psychiatric hospital for 40 years, but a Wisconsin judge permitted her to be released into a group home earlier this year despite prosecutors’ objections.
Geyser’s attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Geyser is expected to appear in court on Tuesday for a hearing on extradition to Wisconsin.
