I was shocked that SS was capable of changing a tire, and now the docs show he had help. Should have known he wouldn't be able to do that by himself. What a loser.
Yes, and I was also surprised that a guy stopped to offer help to what must have looked like a perfectly able-bodied man who one would think would be capable of changing his own tire unassisted. But then in one of those documents, there's a report of a couple who saw him on the side of the road with a flat, this was who reported that there was a redheaded guy helping him. But that man said he saw SS there twice. He saw him there on his way to wherever he was going, and he had the flat then. And he saw him again on his way home, and he still had the flat but he and the other guy were fixing it. I forget how far apart these two sightings were, but it was a LONG time! Hours, IIRC!
So I think this means SS had no clue how to fix the flat, and that it took that long for someone to stop to help him, which isn't surprising, since, like I said, most people would see an able-bodied man with a flat as probably not needing help.
But that also makes me think that maybe he did know this redhead. Since most people wouldn't stop, thinking he was fixing it himself. Maybe SS called people he knew for help and this guy came. May have even come all the way from where he lived when he was at his parents. SS may not have known people where JS lived. So maybe that's why it took so long. But we probably would have heard if he knew this guy.
Perhaps the couple in the police report weren't the only ones who saw that SS had been there for hours w/his flat tire. If someone else (the redhead maybe) had also seen that, there might be better chance of him stopping to help, since who would sit on the side of the road for hours with a flat?
Also, the first part of the time SS was there, he would've been hiding MS in the bamboo, right? Seems like that wouldn't take that long, but Idk. So no one would be stopping to help during that time at least! Maybe that took him a very long time, then he went back to the car and waited for help or called for help. That could have used up all that time he was on the side of the road. He might even have started fixing the tire on his own, or trying to, when the redhead stopped to help, so it's not for sure he had no clue how to do it, now that I think about it. Depends on how long it took him to hide the body and how long total he was on the side of the road.