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Your long post is thought-provoking. I wonder about the relationship between media and audience, like chicken and egg. Do the media focus on certain aspects and then feed it to the public, or is it the public who are only interested in certain aspects and that shapes the media's focus? The Sarah Everard news is certainly horrific and sad regardless.
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Indeed I should probably say "mediagenic" rather than "photogenic".
What are the triggers that turn an adult missing persons case into news? Is it reliant on media picking it up or is it also to do with police categorising it in a certain way, making an appeal etc. Is it just the number of days? I see missing persons appeals on social media quite often and sometimes they even have police case numbers attached but rarely make the news.