[FourPeas]

“We exchanged e-mails on an irregular basis, several in the last month, and nothing seemed out the ordinary,” the father told The Associated Press.

[snip]

“He was a very intelligent, very private individual who somehow lost the confidence that his life would be a good one,” the elder Hinrichs said.

Seems odd: nothing out of the ordinary and "somehow lost the confidence that his life would be a good one".

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

' Seems odd: nothing out of the ordinary and "somehow lost the confidence that his life would be a good one". '

Might sound odd to most FReepers, but I know what it's like to hear a lot of negativity. Strange as it sounds, negativity is normal in some lives.

[visualops]

somehow lost the confidence that his life would be a good one,

That sounds like conjecture as to why.