The Drudge Report hyped it, too. All in all, not a good day at 135 Morrissey Boulevard. Yet, despite Storin's statement, both he and Bradlee continue to insist that they went with the best information they had available, and that they had every reason to believe they had it right. I still believe it was true when it was written. On Friday morning, New Hampshire authorities reported they had matched fingerprints found at the scene with those of Tulloch and Parker.
Investigations are fluid.
We're not talking about a couple of campus cops rolling off the turnip truck. We trust our reporters and we trusted our sources. Storin, for his part, says that without revealing the identity of the sources or the nature of the information they were providing, he can't adequately explain why he felt confident going with a speculative story such as Zuckoff and Murphy's. I believe we have a conversation with our readers, and we needed to come clean with them. And we also had to apologize to the family.