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EXCERPTS FROM THE CONFESSION OF WINSTON MOSELEY People v. Moseley People's Exhibit 11 | ||
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[Ed.'s Note: At this point in his confession, Moseley has just said that he left his house at about 2:00 A.M. on the morning of March 13, 1964.] By Assistant District Attorney Chetta: | ||
| Q. | What did you do when you left your house? | |
| A. | I got in the car and drove to Queens Boulevard and Yellowstone Avenue and I started cruising the neighborhood looking for a woman alone in a car. About three o'clock I did manage to find one on the street I don't know, say about ten blocks from her house and I followed her. She drove to a parking lot and stopped her car. As soon as she stopped hers I was following her and I stopped mine. While she was getting out of her car I had already gotten out of mine and I ran into the parking lot before she really got out of the car. She got out of the car and she saw me and she was frightened right away and she started to run. I ran after her and stabbed her twice in the back. Somebody yelled and I was frightened so I jumped back into the car, backed the car back to the nearest cross street and backed down this street about half a block. I decided that even though the person had yelled they weren't going to come down to the street to see what had happened to her and I had noticed as I was backing the car back that the woman had gotten up and appeared to be going around the corner, so I came back thinking that I would find her. I came back into the parking lot and thought maybe she had gone to the train station. She wasn't in the train station. It was locked so I said, "Well," to myself, "Well, perhaps she is in one of these hallways. I tried the first door in this row of houses and the door was locked. The second door I tried opened, I opened, and there she was laying on the floor. When she saw me she started screaming again so I stabbed her a few more times. She seemed to quiet down a bit, so she wasn't really struggling with me that hard now . . . . . While this was going on as I mentioned I thought that I heard somebody opening a door upstairs and as a matter of fact I could hear a muffled voice upstairs, but when I looked up the stairs I didn't see anybody and as I thought nobody actually came down the stairs, so I looked up there one more time before I went out the door and I still didn't see anybody and I came out the door and instead of going back through the parking lot I walked around the block and came back on the opposite side of the street. The only thing I saw was a milk truck with a delivery man in it and I walked around to the car and back to the street, parallel to the street that I first followed her car on and I started driving home. . . . . | |
| Q. | You said you went up to her or towards her while she was still in the parking lot? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | And then she ran from you out of the parking lot? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | In relation to the parking lot in running out on what side of the street were you following her on? | |
| A. | What side? | |
| Q. | Yes. How would you describe it? | |
| Q. | Well, if you are looking up a street, this is the right side and this is the left side. | |
| A. | Looking up the street the way the traffic was going it was on the right side. | |
| Q. | How far would you say you ran after her, for how far a distance? | |
| A. | Twenty feet. | |
| Q. | Did you say anything to her? | |
| A. | No. | |
| Q. | Did she say anything? | |
| A. | She called for help. | |
| Q. | And then you said you stabbed her twice while running behind her? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | Did you grab her or hold her? | |
| A. | No, I didn't grab her when I stabbed her in the back. | |
| Q. | Did she fall to the ground when you stabbed her? | |
| A: | Yes. | |
| Q. | What did you then do? | |
| A. | I heard somebody upstairs yelling. I don't know exactly what they said and when they yelled I was frightened and I ran back to the car. I backed the car up this street. It was a one way street. | |
| Q. | Did you look up to see where you heard someone shouting from? | |
| A. | I don't think that I did look up. | |
| Q. | Was it a man or a woman, do you recall? | |
| A. | It sounded like a man. | |
| Q. | When you first got out of your car and approached this woman were you dressed the same way as you described for me that you were dressed when you left your house earlier? | |
| A. | No, instead of a hat I had on a stocking cap. | |
| Q. | How many times did you stab her at that time? | |
| A. | Twice. | |
| Q. | Both times in the back? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | When [sic] this knife I have just showed you? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | And did you talk to her at all at that time? | |
| A. | No. | |
| Q. | Now, you say you looked into a few doorways or one doorway and then the second doorway you found her? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | And she was laying on the floor? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | What would that be in a vestibule or hallway? | |
| A. | A hallway. | |
| Q. | How many doors are there between the street and where she was laying? | |
| A. | I think only one door between the street and where I found her. | |
| Q. | Now, when you observed her, what position was she in? What was she doing, if anything? | |
| A. | She was laying there on her back. | |
| Q. | Flat on the floot? | |
| A. | Flat on the floor, yes. | |
| Q. | When she saw you did she say anything? | |
| A. | She started screaming again. | |
| Q. | Did you say anything? | |
| A. | I may have said to be quiet, I don't remember. | |
| Q. | And you started stabbing her again? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | How many times? | |
| A. | I don't remember. | |
| Q. | Can you give us or give me an approximate idea? | |
| A. | Four or five. | |
| Q. | Did she finally stop screaming? | |
| A. | Yes, I stabbed her once in the throat and she didn't scream after that. | |
| Q. | Did you stab her or cut her throat? | |
| A. |
I would say more I stabbed her.
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| Q. | Now, Winston, would you be willing to accompany me and these detectives here now and go over this scene and the route which you have described to me? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | And you have given me this statement freely and voluntarily of your own free will, is that right? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | And everything you have told me is the truth? | |
| A. | Yes. | |
| Q. | I am going to have this statement typed up by the stenographer at which time I will ask you to read it and make any corrections that might be required and the sign it, all right? | |
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O.K.
WINSTON MOSELEY
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Mitchell S. Sang, Det. #70 John W. Carroll, #1052 QHS Philip J. Chetta Asst. Dist. Atty. Queens Cty. | ||