We can imagine a million scenarios to try to understand what happened to Jason, but the biggest question isn’t what happened, it’s where is he?
Jason headed home late at night. His estimated time of arrival was in the early hours. I don’t know if he was particularly keen on night driving, but I personally have never set off for my parent’s home very late at night.
He had some cannabis joints on him, do we know whether he had the cannabis at University, or bought some on the way home? If he bought it en route (and rolled some joints so he could sneak out at home for a crafty smoke) and if you’re talking about a fairly small dealer, maybe a friend of a friend, it’s much easier finding them at night than at 10 am. The late drive home may have been arranged around picking up some weed.
In my experience, a large number of cannabis users, particularly those who are younger, experiment with other drugs. Not all, but lots. I think he took some harder drugs, maybe unwittingly and either at University, or possibly when visiting a dealer on his way home.
When someone buys cannabis and you are vaguely familiar with the dealer, it’s usually seen as polite to roll up a joint to share with those you’re with. It’s possible that a joint he was handed was either laced with another hallucinogenic drug, or a very potent cannabis, such as skunk. The people he was with may have thought it amusing not to tell him, or he said he liked skunk, but was nonetheless surprised by its potency.
So he feels a bit odd, so goes via the back roads because he thinks he’s less likely to be spotted by the police. He could be feeling very woozy and tired, even hallucinating, so lost concentration which resulted in the accident.
Realising he would be in massive trouble if caught driving under the influence of illegal drugs, potentially resulting in him being expelled, he decides to leave the scene, intending to return when he’s sobered up. He doesn’t intend to go very far, just far enough to be able to give LE the slip if they discovered the crashed car.
Alternatively, he was injured in the crash, wandered off to find help and succumbed to the cold temperatures. Either way, the area over a very large distance apparently has been checked throughly by various people and organisations.
The placement of the clothes is undoubtedly the strangest thing for me. As no ‘normal’ explanations have solved this mystery, maybe it is something really, really weird. Possibly drug related, possibly head injury related or something so bizarre, none of us have thought of it yet.
But where on earth is he?
