If he keeps this up, he's going to have the press eating out of his hand. They'll be out there rain or shine, in case he shows. He needs to use the element of surprise, it's called random reinforcement, very effective at behavior training.
I dunno, it sounds fake to me.
When he died, my first thought was that they took him out because he was making breakthroughs in reactivating and regenerating nerve tissue. I had thought she died of a broken heart, but maybe she planned to carry on the research.