1.   Even today, little is out of place in their elegant beige house set on a wooded acre south of Seattle.

2.   There is nothing special about the beige house with the burgundy door, except of course to its owner, Shari Crittendon.

3.   Welfare reform has blown into the tired three-story beige house where she lives like an unexpected mistral, bearing good and bad.

4.   Because the adults refused to cooperate, it took three months for police to unravel what went on inside the modest beige house.