He is certainly not denying that he has a de re belief directly about some individual to the effect that he is the murderer, a belief he has acquired by some intimate cognitive rapport with that individual, for suppose Hoover wrestled with the murderer at the scene of the crime, in broad daylight, but has no idea who the person was with whom he wrestled; surely on anyone's causal theory of de re belief, that person is believed by him to be the murderer, but it would be most disingenuous for Hoover to claim to have a suspect.