The writer's are hoping that the viewer will NOT remember that the fullest extent and the doctor's obsession leads to total insanity with faking the girl's death by burning a deceased hospital patient in her car with everyone thinking that the young girl is dead, while he has tied her up.
I don't think he would have been found not guilty of kidnapping!!
I don't think any university would have hired him to teach anything!!
I think he would have learned to make license plates in prison somewhere or he would have been sitting on death row in some prison.