[pandapower2]

>urinating and defecating into a bucket Beckwitt lowered down to him.

Does that mean that he was unable to get out of the tunnel by himself? If the poor guy was trapped in a hole with no way out then you could argue that this goes beyond being a simple accident.

[jccalhoun]

I listened to the Dark net diaries episode mentioned in the thread and according to it, the guy basically lived down there for days at a time.

[teh_infallible]

Yeah, this is where the story took a turn for me as well.