George Muniz was 23 when he was found murdered in New York City in 1975. His body was discovered inside a metal trash can placed outside 210 West 91st Street on the Upper West Side. Muniz had been stabbed multiple times, with wounds concentrated in the throat and back, and there were no immediate witnesses or a quick break in the investigation.

The case remained unsolved for a time. Attention later focused on a nearby resident, Waldo Grant, after a separate murder prompted police to question him. Grant was questioned intensively in early January 1977 and, following interrogation, admitted to multiple killings, with Muniz’s homicide among those he reportedly acknowledged. On June 30, 1978, a court found Grant guilty of four murders and he received four concurrent life terms.

Are there readers who knew George Muniz or who remember the Upper West Side in 1975 and can offer details that might shed light on his last days?