Send us a text On a cold March night in 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her Queens apartment. What followed wasn’t just a crime—it awakened a national sense of responsibility. The headline said thirty-seven people watched and did nothing, but the truth was far more complex. This episode uncovers what really happened on Austin Street—and how one woman’s death sparked the creation of the emergency number that still saves lives today: 911.
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Send us a text On a cold March night in 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her Queens apartment. What followed wasn’t just a crime—it awakened a national sense of responsibility. The headline said thirty-seven people watched and did nothing, but the truth was far more complex. This episode uncovers what really happened on Austin Street—and how one woman’s death sparked the creation of the emergency number that still saves lives today: 911.
The Stephanie Roper Case: The murder that gave victims a voice.
A Crime's Ripple Effect
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The Stephanie Roper Case: The murder that gave victims a voice.
Send us a text April 3, 1982. A 22-year-old college senior's car breaks down on a dark rural road in Maryland. What happens next doesn't just destroy one family—it exposes a shocking truth about American justice that will change everything. Stephanie Roper was weeks away from graduating magna cum laude from Frostburg State University. She was talented, beloved, and full of promise. But when two strangers offered to help her that night, her trust became her undoing. The brutal crime that follo...
A Crime's Ripple Effect
Send us a text On a cold March night in 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her Queens apartment. What followed wasn’t just a crime—it awakened a national sense of responsibility. The headline said thirty-seven people watched and did nothing, but the truth was far more complex. This episode uncovers what really happened on Austin Street—and how one woman’s death sparked the creation of the emergency number that still saves lives today: 911.
