Yea, I'm not saying he's some sort of high profile celebrity, tards. But consider it this way. Beforehand, very little was done against Chris and Barb (except small charges for small crimes, minus the backing over of the GP owner with a car) and it hit a niche audience.
But now there's a lot more eyes on the case because of two things. 1) the confusing and sick nature of the crime, and 2) Chris' self-proclaimed trans-ness
The reason I bring these up is that this especially struck a cord with Twitter, (iirc) the most used social media network out there, and also the most self-righteous. It hit most people who were too young or old to know CWC because it's a sick crime, and otherwise it hit the SJW community because Chris says he's trans and a lot of people still refer to him by he (which meant they could show off their moral superiority). It creates a lot of in-fighting, and riles people up for much longer than this case would normally be in the spotlight. Now, of course the government wouldn't normally care about this shit, but remember there's also extremely tense political tensions in the US. If Virginia law enforcement let this one go, especially as a red state, they'd probably be seeing a lot of instability because a lot of young people (aka SJW Twitter users aka people willing to send death threats and perform terrorist actions in the name of "progress") are at the head of this shit. They're more than happy to take the lack of action on this case as general catch-all government incompetence and start another wave of BLMesque riots about cops and the justice system, but this time in the vein of trans-ness. The American government is held together by shoe strings and bubblegum, one sign of incompetence and that house of cards is gonna slowly come crashing down, state by state.
Of course, remember this is an autismofag talking here, it could be very more occams-razor than I make it out to be. But this is just my two-cents as to why it's going the way it is.