Take it from someone who knows, meth addicts make the best liars.
I still say he knew this woman beforehand. He was jonesing for drugs and on the lam and he knew where to find them. Her story was full of holes then as it is now. She help him hide a car when she could have called the cops, gave him meth and made him pancakes. He surrendered because he wanted to, not because she converted him. A nice tale was spun by two junkies.
Nah ..... politicians. They can do it equally well straight, drunk or high.