Teresa Butz

Teresa Butz (seattlepi.com) Teresa Butz , a 37-year-old Seattle resident, was killed in a random stabbing on Sunday. She, and another victim who was wounded, fled from the house at around 3 am. Butz died shortly after.  Police are still looking for the suspect. Seattlepi.com reported: Butz was a graduate of Bishop DuBourg High in St. Louis, Mo., according to an Internet profile posted by Butz. She attended University of Missouri – St. Louis and worked in Seattle as a general manager of Regus Group, a company that provides office and meeting rooms. Read Full Story

It is imperative for each of us to know the judges that sit on benches in courts in our cities and states. Seattle police arrested Isaiah M. K. Kalebu, 23, in Sunday's knife attack in South Park that left a Teresa Butz dead and her partner wounded. Kalebu was also a suspect in a Pierce County fire earlier this month that killed two people, including his aunt, Rachel Kalebu, 62, and a tenant, 57-year-old John E. Jones. This man has reportedly had a history of mental illness and problems with the police. He faces trial next month for threatening to kill his own mother. ... Read Full Story

Paying Homage to a Murdered Lesbian :: Teresa Butz We get the Seattle news up here in Vancouver, BC and I have recently been totally moved by the story of Teresa Butz, a lesbian who was murdered in her home trying to defend her and her girlfriend against a vicious intruder, who had broken into their home and raped them both. The details are becoming clearer and clearer about what happened that Read Full Story

A little over a week ago I posted about the stabbing of Teresa Butz and her partner in Seattle by a man who climbed through a window while they slept. Butz died of her injuries. Since then, a man has been arrested and it's not clear if there are any hate crime charges to be filed. Read Full Story