Gansberg

One evening, Catherine Genovese came home from work as she did every night. She parked her car and started walking to her apartment door, about 100 feet away. As she was walking she was grabbed and stabbed by a man she had noticed before she began walking from her car. Her screams alarmed several neighbors, one of whom shouted at her attacker who walked off. She got up and continued towards her apartment. As she was walking she was attacked again by the same man. Again her screams alerted the neighbors who turned on their lights which scared away the attacker. This time crawling to try to make it home her attacker found her and delivered the final blow. There were thirty-eight people who had witnessed the attack and none of them did anything. One man called the police but it was very much too late.