I. “The deeper you go, the stranger it gets.”The day before he would take off his clothes and vanish into the rural countryside on a frigid night—defying logic, devastating those who loved him, and baffling some of the best criminal investigators in Texas—Jason Landry was thinking about socks. Not just any socks, but a colorful pair that featured an image of a monkey in a suit and tie holding a briefcase in one hand and a banana in the other, with the words “monkey business” stitched across each ankle. Socks were the highlight of an extensive, bullet-pointed Christmas list that Jason texted to his mother, Lisa, on Saturday, December 12, 2020. He preferred “wacky and cool socks,” he noted, not basic ones with “tacos or dogs…