"....newspaper he had been wrapped in (said it would have melted in the water)..."
Believe you were right on! I remember reading your comments days ago regarding Lee.
Kinda like the kids saying the cookies melted out of the cookie jar, huh? Perhaps he thinks his stature precludes the necessity to question anything he says.
This is off topic, but I've been thinking about Jackie Peterson, trying to look behind her frantic and callous behavior. I've read that she previously had had several (2? 3?) children which she gave up for adoption. Were they newborns or older? Was she ever married to any of the fathers?
I've also read that Mr. Peterson was a married man w/children, but he got a divorce to marry her when she was pregnant w/Scott.
Was this her first marriage? Evidently, Scott is the first child she's had that she actually raised, which may account for her complete blind devotion to him. Promiscuity seems to run in that family.