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Be forewarned. This is a hard story to read. However, as was stated in the article, if this woman could testify and the relatives listen, we all should bear witness to the horror and the bravery. I don't know how she made it through the trial.
The Bravest Woman in Seattle
By Eli Sanders
The prosecutor wanted to know about window coverings. He asked: Which windows in the house on South Rose Street, the house where you woke up to him standing over you with a knife that nightwhich windows had curtains that blocked out the rest of the world and which did not?
She answered the prosecutor's questions, pointing to a map of the small South Park home she used to share with her partner, Teresa Butz, a downtown Seattle property manager. When the two of them lived in this house, it was red, a bit run-down, much loved, filled with their lives together, typical of the neighborhood. Now it was a two-dimensional schematic, State's Exhibit 2, set on an easel next to the witness stand. She narrated with a red laser pointer for the prosecutor and the jury: These windows had curtains that couldn't be seen through. These windows had just a sheer fabric.
Would your silhouettes have been visible through that sheer fabric at night?
Probably. She didn't know for sure. When she and her partner lived in the house, she noted, "I didn't spend a lot of time staring in my own windows."
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The rest: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-bravest-woman-in-seattle/Content?oid=8640991
No words............
TrogL
(32,818 posts)hlthe2b
(102,104 posts)Incredible. May she find future happiness and peace.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)K&R for Butz's partner - her strength, courage, bravery, hope. I hope she's found some peace and comfort in seeing justice done.....
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)...I live in Seattle, and well remember the horror those two women were put through.
Eli Sanders wrote several articles about this, and deserves the Pulitzer for being able to convey what Teresa Butz experienced without being exploitive or sensationalist.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I could not read the entire story. But I skipped down to the bottom to make sure this monster got what he deserved. Some of you here do not believe in the death penalty, but he sure deserves it.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)The far-end server is sending a tcp reset, e.g., it's killing the attempted connection from the far side.
RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Suspect in Seattle stabbings admits attack
...A man charged in a brutal rape and stabbing attack on a lesbian couple in Seattle two summers ago has admitted to the attack in court, saying God told him to do it.
I was told by my God, the God of Abraham, Isaiah and Jacob, to attack my enemies, and I did so, he said under questioning from one of his lawyers.
http://seattle-wa-satellite-tv.com/tag/teresa-butz/
Another has details about her life, prior to the trial:
South Park stabbing victim had "taste for life"
The woman killed in a brutal attack in South Park early Sunday held her own in a family with eight brothers, whether it was a game of softball, tennis, or a family football game, her brother said today.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009511055_webstabfolo21m.html
I hadn't heard a word about this until today.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts).
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)There are some people in whom it's difficult to see any humanity at all. I will never understand stories like this.
Texasgal
(17,037 posts)What a horrific story. I am speechless.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Dear Readers,
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