You missed the point. Howard is someone who had a grand plot in mind (a story line if you will) for how things were to progress in the ANS story he planned to sell to ET (and others). Think of it as a screenplay if that helps.
Foreshadowing is a key tool writers use to make the story more interesting to the audience. You might read many books where you don’t pay attention to the tools writers use to advance the story but that doesn’t mean those tools aren’t employed deliberately by the writer.
In no way do I think anything HKS was doing...especially WRT to videos and publicity releases was an accident including that comment about whether ANS’ baby was *still* alive. Everything he was doing was to advance public interest and to make the maximum amount of money from the production of his devious plot line and story.
In the case of the dead baby...HKS added a surprise twist to his ugly story. One might guess from ANS’physical condition on the Clown Video tape that DL might be the baby who would not live...but I believe HKS already knew which baby was really going to die in the next chapter.
I have no idea why you think you are so superior that the only dialog you can manage is to be nasty. That alone shows ignorance. Just because you don’t agree with MY OPIONION is not reason for you caustic lack of civilitiy. Try Crimelibrary where I suspect you will fit in.
You don’t know anymore than anyone else .. your’s like mine is nothing more than opinion! Unless you ARE HKS. The distored ego is similiar.