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The wounds on the hand were jagged, indicating Kitty had tried to fight off her attacker.
But by that time, her injuries would have left her with little energy to do anything.
Despite the number and severity of stab wounds, the cause of death was listed as bilateral pneumothorax, meaning the air from a punctured lung had filled her chest and compressed her lungs, causing her to suffocate.
After stabbing Kitty repeatedly, the man sexually assaulted her and robbed her of the $49 she had on her and then fled to his car.
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.
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.