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How a Seattle murderer slipped through the cracks

William Brangham talks to Eli Sanders for more on his novel, "While the City Slept".

04/27/2016 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

How a Seattle murderer slipped through the cracks

Clip: 4/27/2016 | 9m 23s

William Brangham talks to Eli Sanders for more on his novel, "While the City Slept".

In 2009, Jennifer Hopper and Teresa Butz were attacked and sexually assaulted in their home; Butz did not survive. In “While the City Slept,” Eli Sanders, a Pulitzer winner for his reporting on the case, examines the troubled life of their attacker, a mentally ill man who had repeatedly slipped through the cracks of the mental health and justice systems. William Brangham talks to Sanders for more.

04/27/2016 | Rating NR

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