Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Kitty Genovese Murder Case on Investigation Discovery Channel Tonight!

 

Murder victim Catherine “Kitty” Genovese
 

Mug shots of serial killer Winston Moseley
 

By David in TN

The Investigation Discovery channel premieres an episode on the Kitty Genovese murder at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday night on their "A Crime to Remember" show. ID describes the episode as:

"38 Witnesses." An analysis of the 1964 rape and murder of Kitty Genovese and whether it truly exemplifies the psychological phenomenon known as "bystander effect."

 
[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:

The Original New York Times Story on the Kitty Genovese Murder-Rape;

“The Kitty Genovese Hoax”; and

“Philadelphia: Vicious, Black-on-White Gang Attack + Racial Epithets = No Hate Crime” (On the so-called “bystander effect.”)]

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The one item from the Genovese case I always remember most is the elderly couple who argued for forty-five minutes just whether or not THEY SHOULD CALL THE POLICE. I guess they concluded they should not call.

They listened to Kitty scream and call for help and know there was trouble and again argued between the two for forty-five minutes whether or not they should merely call the police.

Anonymous said...

Not a bad show, but not enough about Moseley, including his 1968 prison escape and the crime spree he perpetrated then.

Ironically, the story would have been long forgotten but for A.M. Rosenthal's famous article, which had an ironic result in my opinion.

We know that Winston Moseley is the longest-serving convict in the New York prison system. The main reason is not so much the nature of the crime, but the attention it received.

Without the heat put on the story by Rosenthal and the "38 witnesses," Moseley would have likely been released long ago.

David In TN

Anonymous said...

Through the years the shock of this case was always the apathy and lack of action on the part of neighbors. I did not know until viewing the episode that the perverted, predator and perpetrator just happened to be a black male. My oh my,how the Marxist media magically forgets the details.