38 Witnesses Watched Her Die, Except They Didn't: The Kitty Genovese Case
38 Witnesses Watched Her Die, Except They Didn't
In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, was stalked and stabbed to death outside her Kew Gardens, Queens apartment. Two weeks later, a front-page story claimed 38 neighbors watched and did nothing, a number that was wrong in the headline, wrong in the text, and false at its core. So who actually shouted the killer away? Who called the police before 911 existed? And who was holding Kitty Genovese in her arms when the ambulance finally came?
In this episode, we follow the Kitty Genovese case from her real…
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