How do people get access to non pay walled versions of these articles? I've seen people post wayback machine links, how does one do that?

Go to https://archive.ph/ and paste in the original URL.

Archive.is, plug in the link, get a new URL and come back here and post it for the rest of us.

Extension:

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Bookmark:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(docume...))

There can’t be that many men who are married with one child, are roughly that height, had cause to be in the 12k population city and were gone overnight around the time that this was claimed and publicized.

120k* population.

Wears a yellow costume head-to-toe and assumes a different name. Then announces that he always picks the same lottery numbers. Facepalm.