She and her friend, Dee Guarnieri, were fined $50 each and she lost her job. In August 1961, she was briefly arrested for bookmaking, as she had been taking bets on horse races from bar patrons. By the late 1950s, she had accepted a position as a bartender. Īfter moving into an apartment in Brooklyn, Genovese worked in clerical jobs, which she found unappealing. Later that year, the couple wed, but the marriage was annulled near the end of 1954. After her mother witnessed a murder, Genovese's family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1954, while Genovese, who had recently graduated from high school, remained in Brooklyn with her grandparents to prepare for her upcoming marriage. In her teenage years, Genovese attended the all-girl Prospect Heights High School, where she was recalled as being "self-assured beyond her years" and having a "sunny disposition". John's Place in Park Slope, a western Brooklyn neighborhood populated mainly by families of Italian and Irish heritage. She was raised Catholic, living in a brownstone residence at 29 St. Murder ( asphyxiation from stab to lung) Ĭatherine Susan "Kitty" Genovese (J – March 13, 1964) was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the eldest of five children of Italian-American parents Rachel ( née Giordano) and Vincent Andronelle Genovese. Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. Moseley died in prison on March 28, 2016, at the age of 81, having served 52 years. At his trial, Moseley was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death this sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. While in custody, he confessed to killing Genovese. Winston Moseley, a 29-year-old Manhattan native, was arrested during a house burglary six days after the murder. In 2016, the Times called its own reporting "flawed", stating that the original story "grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived". In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found "no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive". Reporters at a competing news organization discovered in 1964 that the Times article was inconsistent with the facts, but they were unwilling at the time to challenge Times editor Abe Rosenthal. Police interviews revealed that some witnesses had attempted to call the police. However, researchers have since uncovered major inaccuracies in the New York Times article. psychology textbooks for the next four decades. The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect, or "Genovese syndrome", and the murder became a staple of U.S. Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article erroneously claiming that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid. In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, New York, US 1964 murder in New York City, associated with the "bystander effect"