Globe Ahead on the Samuels Murder

Published May 03 2006, 02:59 PM by webteam

Back in March, the Herald deservedly got credit for besting the Globe when it came to coverage of the brutal Imette St. Guillen murder case. But now it's time to give the Globe its due on what seems certain to be another horrifying, high-profile murder case, with 19-year-old Dominique Samuels as the victim.

Yesterday, while the tabloid was running a bare-bones story buried on page 5, the Globe had a major page 1 piece correctly identfiying the badly burned victim whose body was found in Franklin Park. Today, the Herald is back in the game with a three-piece package splashed on page 1. But the Globe has this Metro front piece suggesting something was amiss in the life of the well-liked teenager. (That piece of news is sourced to a Samuels friend.) So thus far, credit the broadsheet with being out of the blocks quicker on this one.