First descriptions of the last archive include a corridor of the mind, shelves stuffed with proof

Faint sount of light footsteps in the background; sense that Lepore is walking somewhere

Lepore is describing the archive as if it is a physical space - items are cluttered, and some roll away under the shelf so she has to bend to pick them up

Footsteps are not only faint, but are creaking

Primary goal: to uncover how we know what we know

Sound of a door opening as Lepore introduces 'the last archive'

Harold Jackson discovers body, gasps, and runs to inform a policeman

Very vivid descriptions - Lucina's body is described as laying "pale and animal" against the grass

Lucina described as a kill, something hunted, a fox in a trap, a fish on a hook, a bird on a spit

Crowd of people gathered around the dead body; prolonged scream

Pointing to the stereotypes of so many murder mysteries

Using Lucina's case and other examples to ask the question "Who killed truth?"

Very faint sound of thunder in background?

Sound of camera flashbulb going off

Lepore describes the visceral physical reaction she has to discovering the photo of Lucina's corpse

Lepore is intent on describing Lucina as a silenced woman - she wants to make Lucina "speak"

Lepore imagines the way a reporter would have sounded - she instills her own understandings/perspective into the "investigation"

Reporter's voice reading aloud what he is typing down about the case; note that Lepore is stating that this is how she imagines reporters talked

Lepore notes that the style of reporting used in the local newspaper resembles true crime fads of the time

Clacking typewriter keys

Rhythmic ticking sound - very likely the ticking of a clock

Hooves clopping

Historians are coroners too - Lepore compares her investigation to an autopsy

A man's voice dramatically reading the options provided on a bill of mortality

Odd insistence of the poetry surrounding a "bill of mortality" - is Lepore doing the same type of romanticizing that she somewhat criticizes in true crime content?

Medical examiner reading out options from cause of death list; reading in a much more monotone voice

Dramatic voice returns for what Lepore would have chosen from the bill of mortality

Monotone voice of medical examiner returns for Lucina's listed cause of death

Phone ringing

Introduction of James R. Wood, the outside detective hired to investigate Lucina's case

Sounds of a train chugging

Lepore first mentions James R. Wood's detective notebook; most of what his re-enacted voice says comes from the notebook itself

Labeling a clue as a type of fact - are they always the same?

James R. Wood's voice recounting some of the clues he wrote down in his notebook

Any time Lepore wants to recall something from James R. Wood's notebook, "his" voice is used

Lucina Broadwell's "voice" used to read out a portion of a letter that she wrote to Grace Grimes

Assurance that we know something was said if it was written in the historical document - does this leave room for human error in recording what was said?

Why does Lepore choose to re-enact something that we don't technically have firsthand knowledge of (i.e., the letter)?

Sounds of footsteps in hotel room

Re-creation of moments from James Wood's interrogation of George Long

Sounds of shuffling paper

Continued use of creaking foostep sounds

Very faint sounds of a crowded room?

Sounds of typewriters clacking and a gavel hitting

Recreation of moments from George Long's trial; specifically, George long being questioned and giving testimony

The court calls James Wood to the stand to testify about his interrogation of Long

James Wood is questioned by Long's lawyer about keeping Long for a four-day interrogation at the Barre Hotel

Jury reading out their verdict

Gavel banging and sounds of murmured surprise from crowd

Clacking typewriter

The assumption that the trial transcripts would be buried deep in the Vermont State Archives - upholding the idea of archives as buried treasure

Background sounds of driving to the Vermont State Archives

Creaking doors and shuffling - but unlike other sound effects, these are left-in background noises from Lepore's actual visit to the state archives

The state archivist discusses the moment of discovery when you unearth something lost

Recreation of a portion of the interrogation between James Wood and George Long that could not be printed because it involves the use of birth control

Lepore making an observation about what could be printed - details of the murder were not obscene, but details about birth control were

Archivist describing Barre as being weighted with history

Poignant moment where Lepore visits the site where Lucina's corpse was discovered

Lepore discusses the fact that, for a long time, only men could serve on juries - only men could decide matters of fact

Women in Vermont were not allowed to jurors until 1943

Lepore discusses Maude Wood Park - "like me, she couldn't stand the thought of silenced women"

Lepore repeatedly describes Lucina's corpse as "animal"