Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.168.187.175-20141001072747/@comment-25457754-20141001091158

MetallicaNLC wrote: When you do this quest, tell him you'll spare him, kill the hunters with him, then leave the cave and receive the ring of hircine. Then go back in and kill sindig and skin him and you will also receive the saviors hide

no i think he means he killed him when he saw him in the jail cell, before starting Ill Met By Moonlight.