Originally Posted by
White Knight
For those of you on your High Horses just remember that not everyone can deal with isolation very well.
As his parents say in the article, he's a former Army Ranger and he flew C-17's at McChord and in the Alaska Air Guard. I'd assume he's been to whatever SERE school is called these days. He's been locked in a cage before. But maybe never in a hotel room in Singapore.
From the local articles about the trial it appears that someone dropped a dime on him while he was out shopping. Did the company try to contact him and be told that he was not at the hotel? Did the company notify the authorities or was it the other way around?