Sara Bates unlocks the church doors on Fridays, so she was the first one to see Roxy Baker — and one of the last to see her alive.
Baker, a 62-year-old woman from Kent, was brushing her hair underneath the eaves of St. Luke’s Episcopal in Ballard. She had slept there since her husband was found dead on the same church property in April. The day before, the homeless woman told Bates that she had cancer.
But Bates didn’t say
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