I honestly think everyone is focusing too much on his chats. I think we need to focus on the incidents that happened to the other boys on campus that got picked up by the 4 men and made to do things they they didn't want to do. I'm almost sold on the theory Josh got picked up by this same group of men and it went wrong. Especially the two bags of garbage they found. Josh didn't wanna play their game and I believe Josh studying to be a lawyer didn't back down and probably said a line like " Your going to regret this". His x-girlfriend even said he was very confident. I think they got scared and did something to him.