Kitty Genovese and “Bystander Apathy”
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The Importance of Time in the History of Murder
In 1964, there were 636 murders in New York City. And this is the one, this is the only one that we remember. Winston mostly killed a black woman shortly before he murdered Kitty. So his first victim, Annie Mae Johnson, has been completely erased from public memory. In my head, it was at like 9 p.m. when everybody would have been sort of watching TV.
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