Dear spent time at a small cabin in North Carolina with no electricity or running water about a half-kilometre up a twisty dirt road near Black Mountain, a neighbour said. On Saturday, there was a cross made of twigs on the door of the pale yellow shack.

“You can tell his personality is just off. The way he looked at you, the way he talked, he just seemed off,” said James Russell, who lives a couple hundred metres down the mountain. “If you talked to him, nothing with him was very cognitive — topics all over place.”

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