The Bravest Woman In Seattle

Warning: This is disturbing. Sickening even. But let's talk about this. What do you think of it? Is it too much? How would you have written this story?

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,…