You know, Regina could have cast a spell on Belle’s family to make them think she was dead too rather than Rumple and that way he could have gone to check the facts and found them exactly the way she said them to be. I somehow find it more plausible that she spelled them than that she spelled Rumple. I also think he probably doesn’t know she’s alive since I feel like he’d definitely have tried to get her back if he did and he wouldn’t have beaten Moe up like that if he knew he had nothing to do with it :/