Books like Slow Death

This has got to be the most bizarre true crime book I've ever read. It's about 200 pages too long, but apparently the authors felt that absolutely every detail remotely related to the crime or the perpetrator needed to be included, down to messages posted on a forum about the killer's daughter years after his death.While the crimes of David Parker Ray, who tortured women in an excessively outfitted trailer called "The Toy Box" were horrifying, the constant adulations of the teenage reporter who covered the case were almost more disturbing. Was the author, presumably a much-older man, in love with this kid who worked at the local paper? Or was the prosecutor, who always seemed to be giving the teen inside info about the case? It is truly off-putting how much of this book is dedicated to gushing about a seventeen-year-old reporter and committing every word she spoke and wrote to paper. Perhaps she should have written this book.The descriptions included were strange as well. Is it important to contrast that the prosecutor, while younger, was balding, while the sixty-something killer had a "full head of hair"? I'm not sure where the editor was in this project, but it needed a good one.