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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > street crime in America > history and popular culture of street crime > Kitty Genovese

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Kitty Genovese  

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  • On March 13, 1964, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, a young single woman, was murdered just outside her apartment in the Kew Gardens district of Queens, New York, by a stranger named Winston Moseley, a machine operator who suffered from mental illness. At approximately 3:00 a.m., Kitty had driven home in her red Fiat from her work as manager at a tavern (Eve's Eleventh Hour) and parked her car in a lot next door to her two-story apartment building on Austin Street. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Genovese, Kitty]

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