On a summer evening in July 2009, Teresa Butz and her fiance Jennifer Hopper were resting peacefully in their Seattle home. Disrupting the nighttime stillness, evil arrived at their doorstep and brought their worst nightmare to life. An intense manhunt for a deadly perpetrator ensued, and when he was caught a national conversation about mental health was forced to take place. 

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