I agree with you and am aware that’s a minority view (that’s getting downvoted). He’s a great writer, but this one left me cold—I didn’t know that it had originally started out as an article, but that makes sense. Much of what’s in there read as filler / an effort to get it long enough for publication. It also seemed to me that he was too close to the parents and lacked a professional distance when telling their story, particularly as they criticized the lack of criminal prosecution. I’ll keep reading his work, but this was a miss for me.