With the world shut down that gave us time to go through some of the stuff the last tenant had left behind. The landlord said the guy had died in a car accident and no one came to claim his items, so he ended up selling most of it – leaving just a little bit here and there.
I found a hardhat with his name on it. The urge to google his name had proven to be too great. He did die in a car accident, but it was running from the cops after he had just terrorized his girlfriend at her work. That explains the excessive carving of the sweethearts initials