I watched some of Gray Hughes' video the other day, enough to watch SR's rambling speech, and I was as confused as many others. As I believe Gray stated, there are enough (seemingly) factual details strewn throughout it to make viewers believe that he may actually be telling the truth. But I also believe the lines between truth and fiction are there. It's not a straight line and it's fuzzy and gray and zig-zags and loops thru his story. There may even be places where he himself isn't sure where that line is drawn. He jumps back and forth in his viewpoint of LC as he paints a picture for us where he wants us to see him doing everything he can for LC, but also understand his frustration for how she seems to fight him at every turn. He says he wants to help her learn to raise K in a better fashion, but details her behavior as she doesn't always listen to him. He tells us he trusts her as a survivor and a fighter would be qualified to go out into the everglades with him, but details how he doesn't trust that the truck she has can even make the trip to FL or why it would take her days to get there or now believe that she even came to FL just to meet him or that she ever had a title to the truck.
He knows he's telling this story to many people who are angry with him and who may hold LC to be some more angelic person that she actually was. So he walks us thru this story where he is innocently just trying to help LC & K out and wants us to believe how much he cares for them and see how hard it was for him to do so. By doing so, he slowly raises many people perception's of him, and also shows them the (mostly?) innocent shortcomings in LC that they may not have wanted to accept before.
In my opinion, he's very crafty, very skilled in the arts of deception, and is one heck of a (dangerous) huckster. I can't say that I fully 100% believe he's the cause for LC to be missing, but he well may be. Regardless, I think he's the pivotal center point of the case at the moment. He has info LE needs/wants. LE may have been able to confirm parts of his story, in which case they may be pursuing other POI. Or LE may have been able to disprove SR's details and are actively searching for him. Either way, he could do more to resolve this case with very little effort - and he's not doing that. Personally, I don't understand how he could have been trying to help LC & K over the last years - but now that she's in danger, he just runs away and quits answering questions and doesn't make an ounce of effort to spread the word about her being missing. (Although I suppose if he did make an effort to have her found, and she weren't found, perhaps his followers might start to doubt his "spiritual" abilities?)
I think I did notice another theme in SR's story though that might provide a clue as well. From the beginning of his story when LC & Kam show up at his place in a storm in the middle of the night (I got that correct didn't I? Didn't he say it was late & it was storming when they knocked on his door?), he wanted to help this person and her little child. When he noticed K's bad teeth and LC feeding him junk food, he wanted to help her learn to raise this child in a better way. When he cited instances of LC dropping K, he expressed concern for the child at LC's hands. I believe there were other instances as well where he repeatedly painted his picture along the lines of how much SR cared for Kam and wanted to see Kam be safe and taken care of and raised in a safe environment. At the same time, he also backhandedly let us know that LC seemed to be the source of his concerns for Kam's safety and well-being. I don't think his feelings along those lines ever wavered. So now when I think of what a "miracle" it seemed to have been that little K was found wandering in a safe area by people who jumped in quickly to care for him when he may have been in this middle of some dreadful scenario playing out where LC came to harm, I kind of wonder if maybe SR wasn't responsible for that little "miracle" as well. Perhaps it was his last act of helping that little child.
Obviously, all MOO.
