This is roughly what I envisioned when I saw the half-assed attempt to spray paint the car.
I don't think the SUV broke down. I think they decided to try to make it less conspicuous, pulled onto a quiet rural road to stop and spray it, but it soon became clear it was going to take a lot of time and many cans of paint and still look pretty obviously orange underneath. But what other plan could they try?
Then maybe a car approached, and VW and CW decided to carjack the passing car and simply abandon the orange SUV and the painting project.
They could have lured the approaching driver to stop by pretending to need help. Obviously no dead body has been found at the site where the SUV was abandoned, but that doesn't mean they didn't kidnap and kill the driver and dump the body somewhere it hasn't yet been found or at least not tied to a missing vehicle from that vicinity.
Crazy, but not any less so than this whole story.
MOO