Yes.. and strange that in my "sleuthing aka snooping" I can only find one phone number.
Most POIs I can dig up multiple old numbers, but only one for him.
Of course, he was in prison for a lot of years, so that might be one reason.
JMO
IMO not even surprised cuz this totally fits with my theory of case - of a piece with inability to ID or locate him.
this is how I see it having played out JMO - MOO - he is homeless bummy dude haunting an area popular with local kids. Recently out of prison. No one knows his name, everyone does their best to ignore his existence. He commits insane criminal atrocity .... packs up whatever trash he may cart around & makes himself scarce.
some people do see him wandering off, but anyone who’s ever even noticed him before is accustomed to the presence of a random unremarkable vagrant & doesn’t necessarily think much of it. When LE asks was anyone spotted nearby, some local kids say well yeah there were a few bums around, or maybe just one bum .... don’t know his name or anything, maybe he was there palling around with the meth-heads? But no, the meth-head bums don’t know his name either - that is, those few who even noticed him.
So all LE has is there may have been an unidentified bum around. ‘Did anyone see a random hitchhiker, person walking by the side of the road, a duffel bag?’ they want to know (paraphrase). Maybe quite a few people did, but no one can say anything about him beyond WMA & ‘think I’ve seen him around before maybe...’
years pass. The bum has no fixed address for any length of time, no phone or utilities, so no way to locate even if they did have a name. He winds up as maybe “POI #1 - bum” in LE notes, but they can’t even ID him let alone investigate. Maybe his name floats up due to mugshot resemblance, but there are SO many WMA in Indiana one could say that about. And unless they head him off at a court appearance (did he even show up for any of those?) no way to track him down anyway. He’s at least crashing at his dad’s house (resulting in forcible eviction in 2020) but maybe never happened to be there if/when LE came knocking.... years pass ....
All MOO - just my speculation, IMO the bizarre, inexplicable puzzle’s missing pieces falling into place when they nabbed this cretin ... JMO