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Gotta say: Ketchum has acknowledged receiving a "steak" sample from the shooting incident. The sample has been analyzed and Dereck has made a statement suggesting that its import is not insignificant. The "steak" sample could not have been taken from a living individual, and was, according to Ketchum, cleanly cut with some sort of tool. It is improbable that a scrap of a dead bigfoot could be found under snow weeks later and still provide the "steak" sample as described. It is highly unlikely that the hunter, with a legal bear tag, would be prosecuted for shooting an unknown animal that he thought was a bear and leaving the body in the forest. It is also unlikely that he would be prosecuted for shooting a second unknown animal that was threatening him. The circumstances may have been different than described above, but no one knows the "truth" other than those who were there. If investigated, all they have to do is make the appropriate statements (thought it was a bear, definitely wasn't human, self-defense in the second case, also definitely wasn't human), and the account is written off. No missing persons reported in the area, no dead human bodies discovered, no foul. Worst case is a slap on the wrist for a hunting accident involving the shooting of something that wasn't a bear, but looked like one. But the hunter/taxidermist wants amnesty according to Silver Fox, and is concerned about prosecution according to others (Dereck?). Why? What has he done to perceive that he requires amnesty, or should be concerned? He must have collected the bodies. The bodies represent both value and liability. "Amnesty" eliminates the liability and allows the hunter to capitalize on his acquisitions. On the other hand, a witch hunt causes the bodies to disappear, eliminating both the liability and the value. Silver Fox has provided information that is said to go beyond the facts of the case. Dereck has provided, as I recall, the "pertinent facts" (a subjective term that also indicates there is more to the story) as related to him by the hunter (this allows Dereck to truthfully report what he knows second hand from someone with reason to be circumspect, and distances him and the Olympic Project from any inconvenient future revelations). The truth is in the Goldilocks zone and isn't likely to be tied up in a pretty bow - nor is it ever likely to be completely revealed. I do, however, believe the bodies will turn up shortly after the peer reviewed paper is published, or some other event occurs that documents to the public's fascination that bigfoot exist. Arguably, their value will peak at this point.