illyana
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This is a genuine mystery.
The fact that his car was never found either limits the possibilities. Any theory has to account for that. Still, there are enough scenarios involving accident, suicide and foul play that we may never know. A few scenarios:
* Both JH and his VW are in the Pacific due to accident, homicide, or maybe even suicide (unlikely as that choice may be).
* JH gives away his VW to a hitchhiker before a suicide where his body is never found (swimming into the ocean). The hitchhiker takes the car into LA and it ends up in chop shops.
* JH takes off for LA, Mexico, SF or elsewhere. He meets foul play there, his body is never found or identified. Car is stolen or simply abandoned, never claimed, and destroyed without proper record-keeping.
* JH meets foul play in Oxnard. The killer or killers are able to conceal the body and car somehow (in the ocean, in a mineshaft, buried on a ranch, etc.) This suggests a local killer or killers who knows the area. I don't buy the LA serial killer visiting Oxnard idea because what did the serial killer do with the car?
If JH was running out on his family obligations, joining a cult or a commune, dodging the Vietnam War draft, or taking off for Mexico or beyond, it's unlikely he would never, ever contact his father, son, or twin brother again. It's possible, especially if drug addiction and/or mental illness are involved, but unlikely.
But even in that unlikely case, he probably still has some post-disappearance contact with authorities in mental health or police which could be discovered by detectives looking at the case. That never came up and never stopped a death certificate getting issued, so it seems he vanished from all official records too.
For that reason, I don't believe he's alive and probably died that night in a scenario like one of the above.
The fact that his car was never found either limits the possibilities. Any theory has to account for that. Still, there are enough scenarios involving accident, suicide and foul play that we may never know. A few scenarios:
* Both JH and his VW are in the Pacific due to accident, homicide, or maybe even suicide (unlikely as that choice may be).
* JH gives away his VW to a hitchhiker before a suicide where his body is never found (swimming into the ocean). The hitchhiker takes the car into LA and it ends up in chop shops.
* JH takes off for LA, Mexico, SF or elsewhere. He meets foul play there, his body is never found or identified. Car is stolen or simply abandoned, never claimed, and destroyed without proper record-keeping.
* JH meets foul play in Oxnard. The killer or killers are able to conceal the body and car somehow (in the ocean, in a mineshaft, buried on a ranch, etc.) This suggests a local killer or killers who knows the area. I don't buy the LA serial killer visiting Oxnard idea because what did the serial killer do with the car?
If JH was running out on his family obligations, joining a cult or a commune, dodging the Vietnam War draft, or taking off for Mexico or beyond, it's unlikely he would never, ever contact his father, son, or twin brother again. It's possible, especially if drug addiction and/or mental illness are involved, but unlikely.
But even in that unlikely case, he probably still has some post-disappearance contact with authorities in mental health or police which could be discovered by detectives looking at the case. That never came up and never stopped a death certificate getting issued, so it seems he vanished from all official records too.
For that reason, I don't believe he's alive and probably died that night in a scenario like one of the above.