The letter to the supervisors was delivered on January 22, 1997. It took awhile but a way to disinform the public was found. The man featured in the article is related to one of the supervisors at the time.

What is confounding is that this information contradicts the information of the plaque located on Anapamu street since 1983 containing text written by an anthropologist and the newspaper had to know it. Compulsion! Notice the first paragraph concerning Valerio Joseph, "magical powers".