The killer tried the first door she wasn't there. By then, Miss Genovese had crawled to the back of the building, where the freshly painted brown doors to the apartment house held out hope of safety. A city bus, Q‐10, the Lefferts Boulevard line to Kennedy International Airport, passed. The assailant got into his car and drove away. Windows were opened again, and lights went on in many apartments. The killer returned to Miss Genovese, now trying to make her way around the side of the building by the parking lot to get to her apartment. The assailant looked up at him, shrugged and walked down Austin Street toward a white sedan parked a short distance away. Miss Genovese screamed: oh, my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me !”įrom one of the upper windown in the apartment house, a man called down: “Let that girl alone !” Windows slid open and voices punctured the early‐morning stillness. Austin Street, which faces the bookstore. Lights went on in the 10‐story apartment house at 82‐67. She got as far as a street light in front of a bookstore before the man grabbed her. At night the quiet neighborhood is shrouded in the slumbering darkness that marks most residential areas. The entrance to the apartment is in the rear of the build- ing because the front is rented to retail stores. She turned off the lights of her car, locked the door and started to walk the 100 feet to the entrance of her apartment at 82‐70 Austin Street, which is in a Tudor building, with stores on the first floor and apartments on the second. Like many residents of the neighborhood, she had parked there day after day since her arrival from Connecticut a year ago, althongh the railroad frowns on the practice. She parked her red Fiat in a lot adjacent to the Kew Gardens Long Island Rail Road Station, facing Mowbray Place. Twenty‐eight‐year‐o1d Catherine Genovese, who was called Kitty by almost everyone in the neighborhood, was returning home from her job as manager of a bar in Hollis. in the staid, middle‐cIass, tree‐lined Austin Street area: This is what the police say happened beginnang at 3:20 A.M. If we had been called when he first attacked, the woman might not be dead now.” “As we have reconstructed the crime,” he said, “the assailant had three chances to kill this woman during a 35‐minute period.
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