Curate, connect, and discover
Wait.
Imagine Dee died in a fire, that he started in a rundown abandoned building, and it collapsed and went up in flames. Dee didn't come home that morning, ofc the family was worried and everything, and once the police were able to investigate the building, they found his DNA.
It was right beside a big pile of concrete and medal from where the building fell, and supposably under it as well. They thought that he got caught under it and then died, the fire getting rid of what was left of his body.
So, he was trapped and burned alive.
But what really happened, is that he got stuck but managed to escape- not without burning half his body though. When he got out he was in excruciating pain, then proceeded to pass out. Somehow, he woke up before the cops could get there and went to another building he knew no one would look in.
Trying to pull out his phone, he saw that it was unable to be recovered, and he honestly doesn't know how he's survived, but he did. When he was walking, he heard the news report.
Knowing he was presumably dead, he has a fuck ton of more freedom. Run. Was what came to his mind first. Start a whole new life. Was what followed it.