“He’s the maniac who’s been doing this,” Sayoc’s cousin, who asked to remain anonymous, in an extensive interview with Newsweek...“He took a lot of steroids and he also danced as a male stripper…. He was dancing at clubs.”...The cousin explained that Sayoc also adopted the Italian surname “Altieri” because while he was half-Filipino and half-Italian he leaned toward his late grandfather's roots on his mother’s side.