After returning home after her shift at a Hollis bar at 3:20 A.M. on March 13th, 1964, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese parked in the Kew Gardens LIRR station parking lot adjacent to her apartment complex (1). Noticing a man in the lot, she left the lot and headed along Austin Street toward a police call box. The man followed and attacked her, stabbing her twice in the back (2), but he left after some neighbors came to their windows. She stumbled around the corner, the neighbors ignored her screams for help, and he returned and attacked her again (3)(disputed), and again (4), killing her in the vestibule of her own building.
Kitty Genovese killer blames his wife-beating father for vicious murder (Daily News)
Board again denies parole for Kitty Genovese’s killer (Times Ledger)
A Cry in the Night: The Kitty Genovese Murder (Crime Library)
Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police (NY Times)
Kitty Genovese: What you think you know about the case might not be true (OldKewGardens.com)
Kitty, 40 Years Later (NY Times-Article Reprint)
