That looked like chaff to me. When the guy was first identified, you could find social media pics of him, including--not cross-dressing--but in make-up with hair and nails done in a feminine style. Then as the whole story blew up, some other pics started flooding the net, of someone cross-dressing that looked nothing like the dude you could see picture of earlier. Then some guy tweeted "THIS IS ME GUYS AND I'M NOT THE GUY STAHP STAHP," and screenshots of that tweet went viral as well, and the whole thing melted into noise.

I'm not positive that the initial pictures were legit, but it looked to me like some amount of concerted effort went forth to clutter the possibility with easily debooonked nonsense.