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UW Student Found In New Mexico Died From Self-Immolation

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Medical investigators have determined how a University of Wisconsin-Madison student died in southern New Mexico.

The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator said that Michael Mowers, 22, set himself on fire.

A woman walking her dog found his body last Nov. 21 in a Las Cruces culvert.