Police Search for Morgan Geyser After Bracelet Cut

Madison police are searching for Morgan Geyser, a 23-year-old woman committed to mental health treatment following her role in the 2014 stabbing of a classmate in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Geyser cut off her electronic monitoring bracelet and left a group home in the Sun Prairie suburb of Madison on Saturday night, authorities said. She was last seen around 8 p.m. near Kroncke Drive with an adult acquaintance, and her whereabouts remained unknown as of Sunday morning.

Police released a recent security camera image of Geyser and asked the public to call 911 if they spot her. The Madison Police Department was notified of her disappearance early Sunday. Geyser had been granted conditional release in January from Winnebago Mental Health Institute, where she had been held for about seven years, and transferred to the group home to continue treatment for a psychotic spectrum disorder, including schizophrenia.

The case stems from a May 31, 2014, incident when Geyser, then 12, and her friend Anissa Weier, also 12, lured their classmate Payton Leutner, also 12, into a wooded area near a Waukesha park after a sleepover. The girls had played hide-and-seek, during which Weier urged Leutner to...