According to the NYT article summarizing this, the reporters (or PIs hired by them) not only accessed messages in the murder case, they also deleted some to mak

According to the NYT article summarizing this, the reporters (or PIs hired by them) not only accessed messages in the murder case, they also deleted some to make room for more. Assuming this is true, it makes irrelevant a lot of gedanken experiments in the thread here.