grace , anointed as the most articulate and significant of the witnesses to the man wolf , s latest attack in mendocino county , made the rounds of the talk shows , convincing the world in reasonable terms of her theory that this unfortunate creature was the victim of a congenital condition or a subsequent illness that had left it physically deformed and mentally challenged , but that it would soon blunder into the hands of authorities and get the confinement and treatment which it required .