How come articles that start out like this…

PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (AP) — They were often handcuffed, tethered together with plastic ties and allowed to soil themselves, investigators say. They had scars on their wrists. Some had burns. None appeared to have more than a fourth-grade education, not even the adults in their 20s. All were starving. In all, nine teenagers and young adults were held like prisoners in Judith Leekin’s home in what appeared to be a decades-long scheme to line her pockets with the government payments she received for adopting and raising them, police say.

…often end like this:

“You’d think she was your grandmother. There was nothing suspicious at all,” neighbor Jim Hammond said. “We never heard anything from over there, no hollering, no screaming. She was just a nice lady.”

Another example…

BUENA VISTA, Pa. – A 13-year-old girl used a shotgun to fatally shoot her father in the head early Monday in a home overrun with animals and filth, police said.
The girl told investigators she used a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot 34-year-old Matthew Booth in the face while he was in bed, according to a police affidavit.
A police complaint did not identify a motive in the killing, but her mother, Michelle Fazek, who was separated from Booth, said she had complained several times to county child welfare officials that her daughter and her brother, 14, were living in squalor and that her daughter had been abused

…and the end:

“I was totally shocked when it happened,” Brown said.