I'm assuming he either told you the incorrect amount of corpses (exaggerated it) or found one of his corpses and looted it.. either way... super lame.
I've had sort of a similar experience, though the guy wasted his own time as well - I felt bad for this dude, so I ran him from EC to Qeynos Hills (mid-level bard speed) to find his corpse. Turns out he died in East Karana instead, which, since we RAN to Qeynos Hills, we had actually gone through 15 minutes ago.
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