Details disputed
but here’s the gist
Queens, New York – March 13, 1964 – 3:15 a.m.
Kitty Genovese gets home from work
Winston Moseley is on the prowl
Winston Moseley stabs Kitty Genovese
Kitty screams
lights go on
one neighbor yells – leave her alone
no one calls the cops
(or the cops don’t respond)
Moseley runs
Kitty crawls, bleeding
no one calls the cops
(or the cops don’t respond)
10 minutes later, Moseley returns
finds Kitty
stabs her some more
rapes her
someone calls the cops
(the cops respond)
she dies in the ambulance
he gets the death penalty
the end
we call it Genovese syndrome
when no one does anything
because of fear or apathy
and we want to vomit
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Bettie practices law and likes to write in her spare time.