Catherine Susan "Kitty" Genovese

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Catherine Susan "Kitty" Genovese

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Death: March 13, 1964 (28)
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Daughter of Vincent Andronelle Genovese and Rachel Genovese

Managed by: Tommaso Valarani
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About Catherine Susan "Kitty" Genovese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York, United States.[2][3][4] Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article erroneously claiming that thirty-eight witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid.[5] The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect, or "Genovese syndrome",[6] and the murder became a staple of U.S. psychology textbooks for the next four decades.

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