Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20161101150057/@comment-24674051-20161122180729

Yes, the report that David got from Rumple showed that they found Papa C's body. and that matches with David's story regarding his Father's demise from White Out. But there are numerous ways of masking the identity of a body in the EF should one desire (and have the means of possessing one of those ways). A simple Glamour spell would fool most people, unless they knew to look for it or could otherwise sense the magic involved. So, at least in this case, I'm not even trusting that we have a reported body as an indication of Papa's death. (although I will agree that somebody died.)

personal headcanon for this episode (at least until it airs) is that Papa C goes to Rumple to get James back. Rumple tells Papa where James is, Papa tries to get James and runs afoul of George. Papa escapes back to Rumple and begs for help (Since George is now out to kill him). Rumple gives Papa the means to glamour a corpse and a key to the LoUS (in order to fake his death and escape), in exchange for Papa murdering someone that Rumple wanted dead (maybe this Francisco character).

I'm probably way off base, but there's my guess for the backstory.