I remember from watching previous seasons, that Hurt’s wife was ill. From doing an online search I found that she had died in February of 2015. I didn’t care much for him when he was on the show. And although Todd is a dumbass (does he ever do any work?), didn’t Fred sneakily take Todd’s claim away from him?
Yeah he stole the Hoffman’s claim from them the first year. Interestingly, Parker Schnabel’s (SP?) owned it. Fred went crying to the old man and talked him into kicking the Hoffmans off. Probably one reason why crybaby Todd is always badmouthing Parker behind his back.