Caroline Rose Isenberg (October , - December , ) was an actress and
Harvard graduate, class of , whose murder in Manhattan in received
national coverage.Isenberg was born October , in Brookline,
Massachusetts, attended the Brimmer and May School, and was an
undergraduate at Harvard College, where she lived in Currier House.
During her senior year, she was chosen to act in First Affair, a
made-for-TV movie set and filmed at Harvard. Although numerous other
undergraduates were included as extras, she was the only student who
had a speaking part.After graduation, she moved to Manhattan, took an
apartment at West End Avenue on the Upper West Side with her best
friend Sea Glassman, and began to take drama classes at Neighborhood
Playhouse School of the Theater.In the early hours of December , ,
after returning from a Broadway show, she was attacked, dragged to the
roof of her apartment building and stabbed. Her calls for help were
quite specific and made reference to her name and apartment number,
something that in classes on women's safety she had learned could
increase the chance that others would intervene to help. This in fact
succeeded in getting neighbors to summon the police. She was taken to
the hospital where she managed to give the police a statement on her
attacker, but died early that morning. Several days later, nearly one
thousand people attended her funeral in Brookline, Massachusetts and
her burial in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Harvard graduate, class of , whose murder in Manhattan in received
national coverage.Isenberg was born October , in Brookline,
Massachusetts, attended the Brimmer and May School, and was an
undergraduate at Harvard College, where she lived in Currier House.
During her senior year, she was chosen to act in First Affair, a
made-for-TV movie set and filmed at Harvard. Although numerous other
undergraduates were included as extras, she was the only student who
had a speaking part.After graduation, she moved to Manhattan, took an
apartment at West End Avenue on the Upper West Side with her best
friend Sea Glassman, and began to take drama classes at Neighborhood
Playhouse School of the Theater.In the early hours of December , ,
after returning from a Broadway show, she was attacked, dragged to the
roof of her apartment building and stabbed. Her calls for help were
quite specific and made reference to her name and apartment number,
something that in classes on women's safety she had learned could
increase the chance that others would intervene to help. This in fact
succeeded in getting neighbors to summon the police. She was taken to
the hospital where she managed to give the police a statement on her
attacker, but died early that morning. Several days later, nearly one
thousand people attended her funeral in Brookline, Massachusetts and
her burial in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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