Overview
- Morgan Geyser cut off her GPS monitor and left a Madison group home on Nov. 22 before police arrested her the next night near Chicago, about 170 miles away.
- Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections filed to revoke her conditional release, and a Waukesha County judge ordered the petition sealed.
- After she did not contest extradition in a Chicago court, Wisconsin authorities have 30 days to retrieve her from Cook County Jail.
- Officials say she could be returned to the state mental institution and may face additional charges related to the escape.
- Posen police and local reports identified her 43-year-old companion as Chad Mecca, who was charged with trespassing and providing false information and later released.