Kitty Genovese

Crime & Public Safety

The Kitty Genovese case refers to the murder of Catherine Susan Genovese in Queens, New York, on March 13–14, 1964, and the subsequent investigation and trial. It became widel...

true-crime

Kitty Genovese was the victim of a murder in Queens, New York in 1964 that became widely cited in social psychology as an example of bystander inaction. Mary Ann Zielonko was Ge...