This is a deeply weird story with no clear answers as of yet:

A man who vanished from Connecticut nearly 10 years ago and whose high-profile disappearance was featured on television has been found dead in upstate New York, where he apparently lived under a different name.

Robert Hoagland was last seen the morning of July 28, 2013, at a gas station in Newtown, Connecticut, local police said. ...

On Monday, the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office in New York contacted Newtown police saying that they responded to "an untimely death" of a man at a residence in Rock Hill, New York, and that, while they couldn't identify him initially, they found papers bearing the name Robert Hoagland.

Just to be clear, those two locations are not far apart at all — ninety minutes with average traffic, according to Google:

So what leads a man to abandon his family, drive an hour and a half a way, and live there without telling anybody? Nobody really knows:

The discovery of Hoagland after all these years came as a shock to his family, who were left with more questions than answers.

"It's pretty confusing. We're trying to handle it right now to be honest. Haven't really figured out any details," Christopher Hoagland, Robert's son, said Thursday.

Christopher, who lives in Minnesota, will travel to Connecticut or New York soon to meet with his family, adding that they don't know what motivated Hoagland to leave.

Sometimes I guess you just gotta get away?