Kitty Genovese Research Papers

Kitty Genovese had a job as a bar manager at the Eleventh-Hour Club, a small neighborhood tavern on Jamaica Avenue and 193rd Street in Hollis, Queens. Usually she had to work late, sometimes until the early morning. On March 13, 1964, she had just left work, and was going home in the early morning (Silk). Genovese had arrived in her neighborhood at about 3:15 a. m. She parked her car in the Long Island Railroad parking lot close to her apartment (Silk). Suddenly, someone attacked her. The attacker plunged the knife into her back twice, and she hit the ground crying for help. When the attacker saw lights come on in the building across the street, he then returned to his car to move it. He realized the car was parked where people could see it, so he moved it some distance away (Silk). Unfortunately, he came back to finish what he started. He found Genovese lying in a hallway at the rear of the building (Silk). She was on the floor, bleeding and still crying for help. He resumed his attack. He stabbed her a dozen times before escaping.

In the trial, Winston Mosley pled “not guilty,” though his lawyer changed it afterward to “not guilty by reason of insanity” (McFadden). However, the psychiatrist judged Mosley to be normal. On June 11, 1964, Winston Mosley was found guilty of murder (McFadden). Though initially given the death sentence, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment after the trial went to appeal to New York’s Court of Appeals (McFadden). Winston Moseley died on March 28, 2016 at the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, near the Canadian border. He was