From an interview with WM’s grandmother (the person with the property adjacent to the pond).
Search for missing 15-month-old TN girl at NC pond ‘inconclusive’
“McCloud’s grandmother lives next to the pond and told Channel 9 the two showed up at her home in Traphill asking for money to get out of North Carolina.
She said her grandson was wet and explained why.
“That he had been at a motel and the pipe burst and he got his feet wet and somebody stole his money and he needed money to get back to Bristol,” Mary McCloud said.
Channel 9 asked if she thought her grandson could have had any involvement in baby Evelyn’s disappearance.
“I don’t know. He’s devious enough. His record from youth up, he’s been devious enough to be involved in something,” she said.”