Alexandra Clinton
Correspondent for The Capital Times â?? 4/15/2008 12:39 pm
The mystery surrounding the death of the University of Wisconsin-Madison student found fatally burned in southern New Mexico in November was solved recently in an autopsy report ruling the death a suicide.
The student, Michael J. Mowers, 22, was found burned Nov. 21 in a culvert near a canal in Las Cruces, N.M. The Office of the Medical Examiner in Albuquerque said Mowers committed suicide by setting himself on fire, according to stories in Monday’s and today’s edition of the Las Cruces Sun News.