I've been following this thread for a few days, not read all the posts (so many!) but some random things I've been thinking are:
- CB moving to that area in the first place was definitely for a reason, not just a random move. Some connection led him there. Also he needs money - maybe he believes he will be able to make money there, or that he will connect with people?
- The house that was used to rehabilitate troubled young people from Germany sounds very strange/not right. If it received funding how did it secure that funding and was it ever checked? And wasn't CB a troubled young person from Germany?
- If the comment about having a horrible/terrible job to do the next day that would lead to a a big change can be relied on, this to me means a planned job, and could mean that it was a job for someone else - maybe not for money but for something else - to pay off a debt? to free him from something? something that he had been ordered to do? And mentioning that he might not be around for a while - why, was he planning on going somewhere? Can his phone calls over the next few weeks be traced?
- there is a post a couple of pages back which mentions RH also being in the area and having a camper van (a campervan - or just a van?). Strange that he should also be in the area at the time - what if it were the same VW? Is it somehow shared? (no evidence of this though). Do CB, MN, RH all know each other?
- If CB was dealing drugs / drug running to Germany (I seem to recall reading?) there must have been people that he was getting them from, or dealing on behalf of - who were they?
- there are reports of him having a gun in a holster and people being afraid of him. Sounds like he is behaving like some kind of mafia - are there others behind him? Or is he scared and feels the need to protect himself, put on a show of bravado?
I also can't get my head round the idea that this person who seems to live from day to day, sometimes with nowhere to live, takes drugs and drinks a lot by all accounts can come across as smartly dressed, and could be organised enough to leave barely any evidence at the scene of the rape that he was found guilty of. Seems like an odd contradiction - a chaotic lifestyle but extreme control over certain aspects? The idea that he might be a fall guy doesn't sound impossible. Just my opinions. Based on what I've read in tabloids and on this site.