Overview
- Police said Geyser, 23, was taken into custody late Sunday at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, and Madison authorities ended the public search after receiving confirmation at about 10:34 p.m.
- Geyser had removed her Wisconsin Department of Corrections GPS bracelet Saturday night and left a Madison-area group home after being last seen around 8 p.m. near Kroncke Drive with an adult acquaintance.
- Posen police reported she was found with a 42-year-old man who was charged with obstructing identification and criminal trespass before being released.
- A preliminary timeline from Madison police shows the DOC received a monitor malfunction alert around 9:30 p.m. Saturday and issued an apprehension request near midnight, yet local police were first notified Sunday morning via a 911 call from the group home.
- Geyser was granted conditional release earlier in 2025 after years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute; she and Anissa Weier were adjudicated not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in the 2014 stabbing of classmate Payton Leutner, who survived, and Leutner’s family coordinated with law enforcement during the incident.