Let me get this straight! So while a noblewoman is brutally murdered, a high ranking officer dies on the road, two cooks found dead, a double of the emperor murdered in Solitude and a strangely malevolent cave in Falkreath burns...Amaund Motierre decides to cut his ponytail and and grow some facial hair. Was he trying to look like his distant relative to appease the Dark Brotherhood?

The other man was more than likely just a double.

And; "A naughty, naughty boy!"