User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5Finale - Anti-Climax - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4136655-20180125234424/@comment-25936766-20180125235127

Except that Qrow himself spoke like all of them, were dead.

And he didn't just look for the "trustworthy" ones on his list. He went to the actual mission board, listing multiple Huntsmen, most of which were not on that list. And the status for all of them was "Terminated" if not "Unknown".