Her Shocking Murder Became the Stuff of Legend but Everyone Got the Story Wrong (Link) Stephanie Merry for the Washington Post

     Bill Genovese didn’t realize how many people knew his sister’s name until he joined the Marines in 1966. Two years after 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in Queens while 38 neighbors watched and did nothing — or so the story went — he was in line during boot camp, waiting for a piece of equipment. “Genovese, William,” said the man checking names off a list. “Is your sister Kitty?”

      “And I looked at him like, what?” Genovese recalls 50 years later. Read More

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