I don't know if this has been reported before, but I've noticed a possible bug concerning npcs becoming hostile when I incur a bounty in a hold and then I kill the last witness and the game removes my bounty. One example: I encountered two vigilants of stendarr fighting a vampire nightlord in the wilderness in Falkreath Hold. I decided to join in to try to kill the vampire, but accidently hit one of the vigilants in the process, which gave me a 40 gold bounty. I killed the vampire and was forced to kill the vigilants also because they turned hostile when I hit them with my sword on mistake. Like I said, my 40 gold bounty was removed, but all of the guards in the town of Falkreath are hostile plus a hunter with his dog in the wilderness near Lake Illinalta attacked me on sight afterwards as well as three stormcloak soldiers in a nearby area in Falkreath hold. The only way to solve this issue seems to be to purposely commit another crime in the hold and pay the bounty. Anyone else experience this? It seems to happen in every hold when the last witness is killed and the bounty is supposedly removed. Note: this is not a new issue since patch 1.8 was released, I think it may go back to even before 1.6 or maybe 1.5.