Summary of While the City Slept: by Eli Sanders | Includes Analysis

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781945048418

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While the City Slept by Eli Sanders is a journalistic work portraying the series of events that led up to a sexual assault and homicide in an outlying neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The victims were Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who lived in a peripheral neighborhood called South Park. Isaiah Kalebu was convicted for the murder.

Teresa grew up in a family of ten other siblings in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents were very religious. She became involved in sports and developed close friendships while in religious schools. Teresa went to college at Truman State University in 1988 but struggled to fit in. She transferred to University of Missouri at Columbia, then to the University of Missouri-St. Louis. After she graduated, she went to work as a cleaner for a cruise line in Alaska. Teresa witnessed a fatal gangway collapse and was fired soon after, so she returned to St. Louis and worked on a Mississippi River cruise boat. During this time she discovered her attraction to women, and had her first long-term relationship. Teresa went to work for her brother Tom in Seattle, then lived in New York City to look after the children of her brother Norbert Butz Jr. while he toured with a musical theater production. After the tour, Teresa moved back to Seattle and bought a condominium, then experienced a difficult breakup with a girlfriend and was arrested for driving while intoxicated. She sold her condominium and purchased