Fundamentally, they wanted pictures of her, and wanted to construct a narrative about her, so they sent out a journalist lynch mob to use any mechanism to get that.

Reading about the lengths the media went to to try and get photos of the kids from the Josef Fritzl case is probably the most disgusting example of this.

Literally kids who had never been outside their life, who are basically rotting corpses trying to not only adjust to a lifetime of lies and torture but infinite medical issues, and the journos are stealing uniforms and pulling fucking Mission Impossible tricks to try and sneak photos of them at their most vulnerable just to sell papers.