I know this man....
Five years after the SF, still probably a hermit, still wifeless, still grumpy, still with a bad case of arthritis...
If Jolee's wife did survive, which I doubt, then I think Jolee would have found her, and after he killed her, said, "That's what I told the b!tch. That's what I did and told the b!tch..."
Sounds like Jolee to me...