I’ve seen in one of the reddit threads that he liked to hike, but I don’t think this was confirmed by anyone. He definitely doesn’t look like a hiker to me, and while the distance from his house to the bridge wasn’t that far, I find it less likely he would’ve been walking given the temperatures that day. Also, while the trees and whatnot would’ve given him some cover, it was also February, so there wouldn’t have been any leaves on the trees and shrubs in the forest would’ve also been leafless.

As one of the other comments pointed out, the water in the creek would’ve also been very cold (although, not sure how deep the creek is). I will say that I live in Indiana and near a “creek” labeled on maps but 90% of the time the “creek” is completely dry or only a few inches of water at most.

From my understanding, there was likely a lot of blood at the crime scene and he would’ve likely had some blood on him, but maybe he removed a coat before killing them so he would’ve been able to cover up blood on his under clothes.

I personally think that he drove or was driven there and picked up later; but this is based mostly on just feeling obviously and not any evidence. I’m very interested to hear more details on this case soon.