Ash Kelley

Garbage.

Just moments after the attacker fled the scene, her next door neighbor, Sophia Farrar, got a phone call from one of the other residents in the building.

The frantic neighbor told Farrar that Kitty had been attacked and was outside by the vestibule.

Without hesitating, Sophia dropped the phone and ran down the back stairs.

When she reached the door, she found that it wouldn't budge because Kitty was slumped against it.

A moment later, Sophia was able to get the door open and found Kitty quote, in a pool of blood, moaning and gurgling and barely conscious.

Sophia shouted for someone to call an ambulance, then held the gravely wounded Kitty in her arms, whispering to her that help was on the way.

I'm so glad she wasn't alone throughout all of that, but she was alone through so much of that.

It's true.

And in a 2016 interview, Farrar said, I only hope that she knew it was me that she wasn't alone.

What happened next remains pretty unclear with some details kind of like lost through time.

And others, because one thing that you should know about this is that the myths and untruths surrounding this case are aplenty.

Yeah, it's heavily debated.

It's very difficult to ascertain fact from fiction.

in what's been told through a game of telephone for a long time.

Now, several people in the building called the police at various points during the attack, but because no one could tell what exactly was happening, they couldn't adequately convey the emergency.

In the most charitable interpretation, it appears the police dispatcher, there was no 911 system at the time, which is wild to think about, was under the impression that Kitty had been beaten up or robbed, so the report wasn't given the highest priority, which, whoa.

By the time the real nature of the attack had been reported, nearly 40 minutes had passed and it would be another half hour before the ambulance arrived at 4.15 a.m.

By then it was too late.

Kitty had died from her injuries on the way to the hospital.