LD an issue in press coverage of murder

This one’s hard to resolve. The Cincinnati Enquirer of 29 May carried a letter to the editor objecting to press references to an individual’s Learning Disability. In the letter, Carolyn Cowgill wrote about the coverage of a young man who was accused of murdering his brother.

What was disturbing to me was the way the media felt compelled to make such a point of revealing over and over that the accused “did have a learning disability,” as if this was a reason for doing what he did.

This sent me to the Cincinnati Enquirer to find the original. However, I couldn’t find mention of a disability when searching the Cincinnati press. Currently available copies of the Enquirer’s initial report of the homicide, its fuller coverage a day later, its story about attorneys representing the accused boy, and a follow-along story do not identify the boy as having LD. I wonder why I can’t find it. Has the published version been sanitized?

Link to Cowgill’s letter to the editor.