Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20150626172312/@comment-26234227-20150626181144

telling them he was alive and having them try to save him, if he was alive, would be much better for Cora because they would have tried to rescue him and "wasted their time". He's dead. The people who write those articles write a lot of other articles. They probably don't even watch the show. They report the information they get.