By RYAN MILLS, Scripps Howard News Service

Tales of swinging and domestic abuse surround a murder-suicide case in Florida that has left friends stunned.

The troubled couple met on the beach in Miami years ago, and eventually married. But their violent marriage ended last week, one month after the wife called police for help.

Police discovered the couple's blood-covered bodies, after breaking into their Naples home.

NAPLES, Fla. - Florida state attorneys working the case of 13-year-old Jonathan Rowles, who is accused of accidentally shooting his mother in the head and killing her in late August, face a delicate quandary.

NAPLES, Fla. - Light-headed and drooling after sucking on a can of dust remover last summer, Tim Maisner looked over at his fiancee, and she looked back at him.

NAPLES, Fla. - Every day they fall from the sky -- golf balls adorned with the logos of banks, country clubs and Fortune 500 companies.

Hundreds of dimpled balls -- Titleist, Maxfli, Top Flight and even yellow range balls -- that come from neighboring Stonebridge Country Club every year.

NAPLES, Fla. - He was stalked by a panther. He was sucked in neck-deep in a patch of quicksand, and only got free by ditching his clothes and much of his gear in the muck. He survived four days on raw catfish and bullfrogs.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - The New Testament instructs Christians to love their enemies.

Now a Lehigh Acres, Fla. man says he is attracting the attention of the FBI after he followed those instructions, attempting to send a dozen roses to the suspected gunman in the recent massacre at Fort Hood in Texas.

With her pacemaker and frail body, few would describe Christa Taft-Mueller as an intimidating woman.
But the 69-year-old widow is no pushover when she's packing her pink-handled Walther P22 semi-automatic handgun. Just ask a local handyman.

NAPLES, Fla. -- After years of waiting, Steven Mielke and his wife Monique celebrated in February upon learning they would finally have a bundle of joy to call their own.For nearly three years the Naples couple had been working with Heart of Adoptions Inc. to adopt a baby, a process Steven originally thought would be much easier than it was.