Okay, just pmed this to kmath to add to the confusion:
"By now you've probably seen Ethan's post in the town square. Basically, I was trying a gambit where I gave him a lot of bs information, a little bit of true information, and some actually reasonable advice for his situation, in order to convince him I was mafia. That way, we could do a thing where he got in contact with the other serial killer and passed the info on to (which would be even better than getting him secretly lynched).
I must say I'm kind of surprised at the way in which my plan backfired.
But I can also work with this; in many ways, this is even better, though it comes at the cost of my life (which was going to end soon anyway). In particular, I'm going to post in town square, "Yep, I'm mafia," to hopefully get the REAL serial killers to reveal to me. Then I can pass that info onto you.
Sorry about not telling you about the higher level of plan I had for our plan; it didn't turn out how I expected at all."