kitty-genovese

Winston Moseley, the Man Who Killed Kitty Genovese, Dies in Prison

Jeff Ihaza · 04/04/16 05:40PM

Generations of first-year psych students know ‘Winston Moseley’ as the man whose savage murder and rape of Kitty Genovese in 1964 was witnessed by dozens of neighbors rendered powerless by a phenomenon called “bystander effect.” That tale, as neat and compact as it is, is incomplete.