These are things they claim to have, but aren't actually provided. I would be willing to bet this evidence doesn't really exist anymore, or would be impossible to obtain by prosecutors.

Yes, but the actual evidence isn't there... this article would be easy to fake for clicks/youtube views, and much cheaper, safer, and easier than actually doing the stunt described. Maybe the article would be enough to get a warrant to collect the data, but I'll bet they destroyed all of the data/evidence before uploading the article, and (as another poster mentioned) waited until after the statute of limitations to post it.

It seems to me that there is really a lot of media out there bragging about committing past crimes, and profiting from it. I don't think it's a good thing, but for whatever reason clearly people are able to do that without repercussions.

This reminds me of the California law banning the use of rap lyrics as evidence in crimes. Much of popular rap music is directly bragging about committing specific crimes and getting away with it, yet those people remain free, and make a lot of money off of it.