This is going to knock absolutely everything else out of the news for 2 weeks, maybe a month.
North Korea could nuke Seoul and Good Morning America would break into coverage of that for their "exclusive interview" with one of the kidnapped women.
No way. If the accused were non-hispanic and white, it might be different. This, contrary to mass shooting cases and some child abduction cases, will be treated as a local issue by DC, and mostly ignored.