What the records say
- When
- 13 Mar 1964
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 40.71° N, 73.83° W
- Description
- 1964 murder in New York City, associated with the bystander effect
Murder of Kitty Genovese
1964 murder in New York City
Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed to death on March 13, 1964, outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City, United States. Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article claiming that thirty-seven witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid.
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