In “The Kitty Genovese Murder: What Really Happened?” and “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” they both are about the Kitty Genovese murder. What is the Kitty Genovese murder you may asked? Kitty Genovese was just your normal girl who lived in New York. She was coming home from work. She parked her car a few apartments down from hers but when she got out of the car Winston Moseley came up to her with his hunting knife. She started to scream and run but Winston caught up with her and stabbed her twice. Then he drove away but not long after that he came back and stole 49$ out of her purse and stabbed her a couple more times before leaving again. She died shortly after on March 13, 1964.
Did you noticed that no one called the police or tried to help her? In “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” that is what the police are trying to figure out is why didn’t anyone call the police. It says in the story that “interviews the other apartment residents explained how they assumed the attack was just a drunken brawl outside, or a spat between spouses – nothing of importance. One was famously quoted in the article: “I didn’t want to get involved.”” That is, it! People didn’t want to get involved or they though that is was a fight between husband and wife.
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It mentions the 37 bystanders and how they could have helped her. The story provides more details about the murder. One thing that it does that the other passage doesn’t is it tells you what time and where everything happens. The passages tells you what day she died and what time all the stabbings happen. In the first paragraph of the passage it says that this murder got everyone thinking about human nature and what you should do in the time of a