There are reasons to suspect that Fouke did talk to Pelissetti about the encounter that night. The description of the perpetrator could be said to indicate the latter. There are also reasons to believe that Fouke at the very least talked to Pelissetti at some point prior to producing his memo (which is an important point if we’re talking about a possible scenario in which nobody was aware that the encounter had taken place).

There are also good reasons to believe either Fouke or Pelissetti spoke to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter (likely Keith Power), either late on October 11th or early morning on October 12th 1969, because the Chronicle ran an article on October 12th entitled ‘Cabbie Slain in Presidio Hts.’ In this article it describes the suspect as "white, about 40, 170 lbs and a blond crew cut." This is Fouke’s description not the three teenagers, the one he gave in the memorandum a month after the crime, where it described a man aged between 35-45 (mid range 40) and light colored hair.