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U. of Illinois Ex-Grad Student Is Arrested in Disappearance of Chinese Scholar

A visiting scholar from China who has been missing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for three weeks is believed to be dead, said law-enforcement authorities on Friday as they announced the arrest of a suspect in the scholar’s disappearance, according to The News-Gazette, a local newspaper. The suspect is a UW graduate.