I'm with you Jan. I feel the same way. I'm hoping he just didn't want to be caught in the middle of The Bickersons. Sounds like with going to court all the time, no matter who he was with, he heard about it. Maybe he just got sick of it and decided to take off.
If he grew up there, he would probably know all the cool places to go, to hide to not be found. I wondered about old mines maybe, or seasonal cabins. There are still places he could be if he felt desperate enough to escape. And maybe he just doesn't know how to come back or has fear about coming back so he stays hidden. I would love for it to be anything besides an abduction/murder type of thing.
raying: