The Ronks shed business on harvest road might be the key. As I said before, he must have had some connection to it because it’s not a place you’d randomly stumble across. By my count smoker visited there three times:
- 1, his cell phone pings there on Father’s Day, the day of the kidnapping
- 2, two days later when he’s spotted peering in windows
- 3, later that same day, when his car is seen parked there again (Backed into a space) and the business owner calls the police/takes pictures
Dollars to donuts he was out burying things in the wooded area behind that site during visit 3, when the property owner called it in. The distance would explain why the guy felt comfortable snooping around. The owner probably thought it was petty theft, vandalism, drug use, etc. And the answer to the question why he was taking pics of the car’s interior is easy: he saw something either identifying, suspicious, or both inside that car. He just didn’t realize what the crime he might have helped solve was.