It's mentioned that he said to "meet at Benson." Presumably because he wasn't good at directions, which might be the case. It's also possible he wasn't good with directions AND wanted to go somewhere first. He may have had a plan to meet someone later that day, and being called into work upended that. As a responsible and courteous guy, he then went to that person's home or place of work to quickly say, "plans changed, I won't be able to make it at X o' clock, so see you late tonight/tmrw/whenever." Maybe someone didn't like that. Or, if it was an irregular time for him to pop by wherever he went that morning, maybe in arriving unannounced he surprised someone and/or saw something he shouldn't have. Likely somewhere he was familiar with, and may have had more than one, open, entrance.
Earlier on this thread (or a previous one), there was speculation that JJ's vanishing had something to do with his evening walks. Initially, I didn't think so - but now don't know what to think.
When I first started looking into this case last year, I didn't believe that JJ would make any side-trips on his way to the school - due to being in a hurry to get there. Remember, he was always planning on going to work
on that particular day. So, if he did have plans with someone (that he had to break, due to going to work earlier than scheduled) - the plans would
probably originally have been sometime that day - before his scheduled work shift that late afternoon/evening.
However, while I don't think he would have made an unscheduled stop somewhere to help someone move something (as I mentioned in an earlier post) - I guess it's possible that he stopped off @ someone's home to tell them something re: his plans having changed.
That being said, why couldn't he have just called this person(s) and told them about this change of plans over the phone?! That would have been a lot easier than physically stopping @ their home.
That also being said, if he didn't have their phone # and/or couldn't get through to them via the phone - I can see why he may have stopped by their home.
I wanted to ask about the fact that, when called to come into work early, he had originally planned to walk the "over 4 miles" to work. I know he enjoyed walking but that sounds a very long distance to walk; how long would that take and would he have even arrived any earlier after walking such a distance? Again, if he was willing to do this, it suggests he was very committed and diligent.
Good question. I remember hearing about this too. I don't know how long it would have taken him to actually walk to work from his home (not being from that area, I don't have a good sense of distances between locations). However, it appears that the walk to work would have taken him significantly?! longer than the walk to the H.S. - or else he wouldn't have bothered with setting up the pick-up by the co-worker.