It’s not a good sign when you are relieved to come to the end of the story of the “good guy”, whose stunning list of personal failures takes up about half the story. I understand the intent here – to counter the backlash to true crime as making money by revictimizing the victims. Therefore, this story is almost entirely a multi-generational tale of the victim’s family. The problem is that the victim in this crime is random. Though their family has a very long tale of woe, it is completely irrelevant to the crime, and ultimately just not interesting. For a good story of multi-generational struggling Americans, go read Big Rock Candy Mountain instead.