Too often the victims are just appendages to the scum who torture and kill them.
Absolutely. Robbed of life, all that promise, all their hopes, feelings, dreams, all they would have been and experienced taken; so often reduced to the status of "victim" and as you say remembered only through the beyond abhorrent people who committed such horrendous crimes against them.
Though I understand the sentiment, it's difficult to see this as positive in that it's their families who have the life sentence (sorry for the cliché) and have to live with the immense pain and suffering caused. Hopefully the coverage this will inevitably receive will remember those whose lives were robbed first and foremost. It's they who should be spoken of.