Some thoughts about JCD
He makes me very sad! I can't pinpoint exactly what it is, but I guess he reminds me of a few people I've known. My gut tells me he was an emotional guy, and maybe a little bit immature. Needy in that sense. Impulsive, maybe? Angry, but also hurting deep down. The Bart Simpson boxers in contrast with his taste in music. There might have been some alcohol involved, but I also don't necessarily think there was. I think he did something bad, but greatly overestimated the consequences. Sort of like a child who steals a pack of crayons and thinks they're going to go to jail. I think that what he was running from (literally) was a single event. I think he got into a fight with his girlfriend and hit her. That was probably the last straw in what had been a turbulent, emotional roller coaster of a relationship, and she declared that was it. She was done, and she was calling the police. JCD stormed out, slamming the door. Maybe she called for him to come back? I think he was probably hoping she would chase him down, but when that didn't happen, he only got sucked deeper into the emotional meltdown he was having. And before he knew it, he'd wound up in the situation described in the article. He was too stubborn to ask for help when he needed it most. The quotes are quite dramatic, and almost read like lines from a movie; I'm imagining this quality might have been what both endeared this woman to JCD, but also exhausted her at the same time.
This theory would explain a number of things, including why there wasn't actually a missing fugitive.
This is obviously a very arbitrary prediction, and I've taken enormous liberties. It is entirely my own opinion, and I don't claim that any of this actually happened. That being said, from the very few puzzle pieces provided to us, he feels so familiar to me. I can so clearly picture something like this having happened to him, and it is heartbreaking. He might have been a handful, but there is someone, somewhere, who loved and misses him dearly.
