Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20161022144159/@comment-10390252-20161023071440

"Reported Deceased" might be wiser. The context makes Salem the picture in the lexicon next to 'Unreliable Narrator'. She was delivering a considered speech to keep her gang together and she was telling them what she wanted them to believe, not what was necessarily factual. Salem's own monologue at the end of v3e12 suggests that she thinks Ozpin is alive.