Analysis Of Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder By Martin Gansberg

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In "Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder" by Martin Gansberg, the neighbors of Kitty Genovese watched as she was stabbed three times. Genovese was returning home from her job as a manager at a bar. As she exited her car she noticed a man, Winston Moseley, at the end of the lot. She walked toward a call box to call the police. However, before she made it to the call box Moseley grabbed and stabbed her. A man yelled at him and Moseley left. He returned to stab her again after the man turned his lights off. As more people began to turn on their lights he got in his car and left again. Once everyone lights went off he came back to stab Genovese for the last time. The last stab actually killed Genovese. Her neighbor finally called the police.

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