Giving Lift To Documents

This strikes me as a good example of how to use records to tell a story.

John Barry and Alexandra Zayas: TAMPA — The Schenecker home in Tampa Palms North appeared, in ways, a portrait of ordinary American family life — kids' Crocs kicked off by the pool, desk calendars jammed with soccer practices, a note board promising "2011, Best Year Ever."

But on Jan. 28, police discovered other layers over this canvas of suburban beige: Blood. Bullets. Pills. A mother in her housecoat, breathing alcohol, mumbling, struggling to stand.

Officers found 50-year-old Julie Schenecker lying on the patio, near an ashtray stuffed with cigarette butts and a Real Simple magazine opened to "9 Easy Ways to Be…