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Missing SIUC Student Safe at Home
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) -- A student who disappeared from Southern Illinois University's campus in Carbondale has turned up safe at his parents' home in suburban Chicago.

University spokesman Rod Sievers tells WSIU Radio that 18-year-old Michael Wiechmann ended up on a train early Sunday and called his parents from the train station in Elgin.

Wiechmann's parents had contacted authorities at SIUC on Wednesday night. They indicated their son sent them a handwritten letter from Anna, postmarked April 18, in which he said school wasn't for him.

Officials had been searching for Wiechmann through the heavy rains and storms that pounded southern Illinois. He had reportedly taken off on his bike after researching wilderness survival techniques and emptying his bank accounts.

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04 25 11 by Newsroom
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