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- Morgan Geyser, who stabbed her friend 19 times in 2014, was apprehended after she escaped a group home facility in Wisconsin
- Geyser’s alleged escape accomplice Charly Mecca told WKOW that Geyser “ran because of me”
- Geyser was released from a psychiatric facility earlier this year and was moved into the group home
The friend accused of helping Morgan Geyser — one of attackers in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing — flee a group home facility claimed to be the reason Geyer escaped.
Geyser, 22, was taken into custody in Illinois on Sunday, Nov. 23, a day after she escaped the group home in Madison, Wis., according to the Madison Police Department.
Police said Geyser cut off her monitoring bracelet before fleeing and was last seen with “with an adult acquaintance.”
WKOW reported that the alleged acquaintance, Charly Mecca, 34, called into the station and provided an account if what happened.
“She ran because of me,” Mecca told the station, saying that the two took public transportation to Cook County, Ill.
Mecca and Geyser had become friends, according to the outlet, and the former said Geyser was worried the home wouldn’t let them see each other anymore.
“It was still my choice at the end of the day,” Mecca told WKOW. “I followed what I thought was right. I stand by it.”
WKOW, WISN and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Geyser’s acquaintance was charged with criminal trespassing and obstructing identification and has been released from custody.
Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old when they lured their classmate Payton Leutner into the woods during a sleepover. Geyser then stabbed Leutner 19 times.
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Leutner survived the attack and was rescued by a passerby.
Geyser and Weier confessed to the crime and said they wanted to please the fictional supernatural character Slender Man, believing he was real at the time.
Geyser and Weier were found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Geyser has been in a psychiatric facility until a judge released her to a group home, though she was required to wear a monitoring bracelet as part of the release conditions, according to ABC News.
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