Stephen Craig Campbell was accused of planting an explosive device at the doorstep of the boyfriend of his estranged wife. He hid as Walter Lee Coffman, who was dead almost 50 years, the authorities said.

A man who disappeared in 1983 while awaiting trial on attempted murder charges in Wyoming allegedly spent the next four decades living under the identity of a dead classmate before his arrest last month.

Stephen Craig Campbell is accused of using the name of University of Arkansas classmate Walter Lee Coffman, who died in a car accident months after graduating.

A 76-year-old man who went into hiding following a 1982 bombing and allegedly assumed the identity of his dead college classmate was arrested this month at his home in New Mexico after a standoff with law enforcement.

Stephen Craig Campbell’s decades as a fugitive ended in a dramatic arrest in which he “allegedly greeted law enforcement armed with a scoped rifle, positioning himself in an elevated, partially concealed spot,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico said in a Feb. 26 news release.

In a stunning turn of events, the long-forgotten case of a fugitive accused of a 1982 bombing has resurfaced, revealing a tale of deception and intrigue.