37 Who Saw Murder

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The article, “37 Who saw murder didn't call the police” by Martin Gansberg talks about a 28-year old woman,Catherine Genovese who was stabbed to death in Kew Gardens, Queens in the view of 37 people who saw the murder occurring. The appalling part about this article is that no one tried to report it at the moment. She screamed her lungs out for help, but not a single person tried to call the cops and just one witness communicated the police after the woman was dead. The occurrence of the murderer to stab the woman was noticed three times. After interrogating the witnesses who saw the murder happening, and being asked, why nobody tried to call the police, some of them said they didn’t wanted to get involved because it was none of their business,

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