'The Bravest Woman in Seattle' (Just won the Pulitzer Prize. A haunting read) [View all]
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 night—which 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............
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