Rashid Aidun last saw the promising engineering student he knew as Justin Phillips a week ago in the material science class he teaches at a college campus in New York ’s North Country.

Nothing appeared out of the ordinary for the student, who had a short list of other schools he hoped to transfer to that included Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Aidun, who was his advisor.

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The next day, authorities announced the student's real name is Anthony Michael Lennon and he'd been captured after more than a decade on the run. Lennon, 44, was accused of staging a bloody abduction scene at an Oklahoma hotel in 2012 and disappearing after he was charged with child pornography, federal authorities said.

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