Talk:Ernesto de la Cruz/@comment-35890770-20180615224802

I often see a lot of comments asking how Miguel convinced people Ernesto was a murderer in the living world without looking crazy. Well, think about it like this.

Santa Cecilia is a small place, and everyone has to know that the Rivera family is a family that hates music because of a man that walked out on the family and never came back, supposedly because of his dreams of stardom (which we know now isn't true---Hector probably had dreams of stardom when he went on a tour, but had no intention of walking out!).

Now imagine the child of that man suddenly produces a picture of him holding "Ernesto de la Cruz's" guitar, dated letters containing lyrics to all of Ernesto's songs, including his biggest hits, written around the time he went missing....which is also around the time Ernesto became famous. That would spread like wildfire. Not only that, Hector probably had some information in the letters about cities he was staying at. I doubt any authorities ever found him, but if that evidence that Ernesto was at the very least a sham isn't damning enough to his reputation, everything else adds up to make someone suspect him of foul play. "Uh huh, suuuure he just happened to go missing and you just happened to have those lyrics and his guitar...".

Honestly, I'm sure that if Miguel also confided to his family that he went on a journey to The Land of the Dead and figured all of this out, they'd believe him. The serendipity was too great.