Sometimes omissions are for a good reason. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they actually have much more basis for confirming she actually made the posts, than what's included in the article. For one thing, the specifics of the 5 posts that were still available when I pulled them up last night, suggested to me that there had been other posts which she (or possibly KATU) had deleted. Those may have contained previously nonpublic information that could only have been known by Terri or someone she was directly communicating with (unlike the post about what was wrong with the truck, which would have been known by a bunch of mechanics at the service center it was towed to).
Also, given that these posts were made during a period when LE was doing frequent press conferences and press releases begging the general public to call in any and all tips that could conceivably be related to the case, I think we can be 100% certain that these posts were quickly brought to the attention of the LE, and that LE asked KATU to cooperate in verifying the source of the posts. But very likely, LE also asked KATU not to disclose any information about LE investigation of the posts.
There was a *long* delay between the date she started posting, and the date KATU put out this story, and that suggests to me that there was a lot going on behind the scenes. For KATU to trace the registration e-mail account to the publicly posted internet profile was a 5 minute job at most. It's not like they discovered the posts and then just made a sudden, poorly thought out decision to publish this article about them.
