The News & Observer’s reporting on Adam Sapikowski, the Chapel Hill teenager who admitted murdering his parents, has been largely OK. But one piece of information the paper keeps reporting is that Adam “might (emphasis mine) have held a small post-prom party” at his home after the murders, while his parents bodies were in a barricaded bathroom. How macabre, if true.
But it’s really unnecessary, unsubstantiated reporting — and for sensationalistic reasons, it appears. After all, if Adam might have held that party, then he might have done a lot of other things worthy of reporting, right? In fact, he might just be responsible for all the unsolved murders in North Carolina for that matter.
