Something similiar happened to my cousin years ago. He literally ripped the front door off the hinges, walked out and disappeared. His wife called us in case he showed up, but he turned up in FL a couple of weeks later (1000 miles away from where he lived.) Cops talked to him because he seemed to be living on the beach. No shoes, no ID, no idea how he’d even gotten to FL. Turned out to be a bipolar episode. There’d been some little things over the past year, but nothing that added up to anything, until then. We saw him at Christmas and he was on the ‘up’ then, I remember my parents remarking how ‘bouncing off the ceiling’ he was that day and how unusual it was. The ‘down’ episode was about a month later.
Also happened to a former coworker, disappeared in Germany while on vacation and they found him hiding in an abandoned basement, no memory of how he got there or what had happened in the interim. Both men are on meds now and have not had any episodes like those since. Perhaps this is what happened to the pastor. You can’t look at someone’s non-existent criminal history and find stress or mental illness notes, for cryin’ out loud.
A complete mental disconnect, I can see and understand.
This pastor’s romp seems to be cut from an altogether different cloth, if you’ll pardon the pun. This seems more of an oat-sowing escapade, rather than him losing control of his mental faculties. I think the disconnect here was moral, not mental.