Episode 4: Kitty Genovese

Hello and welcome to Sinister the true crime podcast where we discuss the nitty gritty details of the worlds most notorious crimes and general mysteries. 

In today's episode we're discussing the horrific murder of Kitty Genovese.

It was the early hours of the morning on the 16th of March, 1964 and Kitty Genovese was just trying to get home to her girlfriend for their anniversary after spending the night bartending.

What she didn't realise was that a Winston Mosley was also out that night, desperate to cause pain. He had already sexually assaulted and murdered before, he wanted to do it again while his family were sleeping at home.

When he noticed the small Kitty, he knew he had an easy victim and followed her to her apartment building where numerous witnesses heard as she was sexually assaulted and brutally stabbed to death.

Following her death, news articles in the New York Times would report of 38 witnesses who supposedly witnessed this attack and chose not to get involved. But what really happened that night? Were there really 38 eye witnesses to this tragic event? Was there really no one willing to contact police this night? Let's discuss the murder of Kitty Genovese and the role 38 witnesses had in her death. Or the role the media played in sensationalising her tragic death, attempting to blame numerous bystanders for something they likely didn't do.

Now known for the beginning of a phenomenon known as the bystander effect, Kitty will also be known for enhancing the emergency services call system in New York. But did she really have to be murdered to implement a good emergency services phone line system?

I hope you enjoy this episode. 

x Roșie O'Donoghue 

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