Missing Rice student tells police he wanted to 'disappear'

Rice student called streets home Wilson to face criminal charges after evaluation, authorities say CITY OF BERKELEY POLICE DEPT. Matthew Wilson shaved his beard and cut his hair after mysteriously leaving Houston. Authorities said he originally identified himself at "Colin Lynch." A Rice University computer science student whose disappearance eight months ago made national news was discovered not begging in the streets or roughing it in the wilderness, but using a laptop at the University of California, Berkeley. Matthew Wilson, 21, was arrested late Wednesday and held for psychological evaluation after campus police came across him in a classroom after hours. Some of those involved in the search suspect Wilson got involved with a group that rejects society, instead choosing to live on the streets. The bespectacled Wilson was... [read full story]