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Problem is that the crime didn't fit any of the criteria for federal homicide, so they had to settle for lesser charges if they wanted to pursue it as a federal case. A more strategic DOJ probably would have let the state handle it, since it was by all measures the core of the incident would have been a state crime rather than federal.
The ~~crime~~ charges they had evidence for. The feds fucked up the evidence.
Even with evidence, murder is usually a state matter, with very specific circumstances required for it to be federal. It didn't meet those criteria.