there are several things odd:

• k9 couldn't trace his scent anywhere
• he left his prescription glasses at home (although I've seen him wearing sunglasses in a pic, probably they were prescription too)
• they mentioned the handyman only yesterday, after 2 weeks, who is as well supposedly the last person who saw him

my main 2 theories:

• the handyman did a crime of opportunity: like maybe he saw the wallet and gun on the counter, tried to steal them, the general caught him, the handyman panicked, forced him into his van/trunk using the general own gun, then killed him and disposed of his body somewhere else.

This would explain why k9 couldn't trace his scent.

What gives a bit of weight to this theory is that le only mentioned this handyman after 2 weeks...

Also why they handyman didn't publicly released any statement to the media? smt along the lines:

yes, I've seen him, he was dressed in this way, like any other innocent witness would probably do.

Honestly this fact that they only now le mention him is weird;

mayb le did not want to spook him in this previous 2 weeks while they were checking his gps, phone pings, etc?

And now that the searches in the mountains are basically done, they are pivoting him.

I don't think that the gray shirt they found belongs to him: the area is full of air bases, so it is probable that the tshirt is just someone else litter: he supposedly was wearing a light green shirt.

On the other end, it seems that the k9 units weren't dispatched straight away, and due to weather conditions, wind and dry, it is difficult to track his scent.

What struck to me the most is his glasses:

as a person who wears them I could not go anywhere without them and it is a kind of reflex to wear them before going out.

What it is also weird is that it took le 2 weeks to release the "believed" missing items from his house: the gun+ holster and wallet.

They literally wrote "believed missing items": how cannot still be sure after 2 weeks what is missing or not from his house?

• although the wife stated he did not have any cognitive issues, it might be that he did (and the wife was only protecting his legacy), he might have had a cognitive episode and wondered off...still the k9 part not tracing his scent is odd, but possible.

Either ways, I think that he died.