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Join Siera and Kayley, two friends who are applying their professional writing degrees to research the motivation, perpetration, and investigation of true crime cases.
In the early morning of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was attacked and stabbed to death while she was walking home from work.
The brutality of the murder was made more sensational by reports that thirty eight people stood at their windows and watched while she was murdered. Reportedly, out of these thirty eight people, no one attempted to help or call the police. Was this a case of the worst of human apathy? Or did bad reportage lead to moralistic outrage surrounding an already tragic case? Join us this week as we delve into the bystander effect and the death of Kitty Genovese.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/crime/kitty-genovese
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/her-shocking-murder-became-the-stuff-of-legend-but-everyone-got-the-story-wrong/2016/06/29/544916d8-3952-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/insider/1964-how-many-witnessed-the-murder-of-kitty-genovese.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/nyregion/sophia-farrar-dead.html
True Crime and Punishment
Join Siera and Kayley, two friends who are applying their professional writing degrees to research the motivation, perpetration, and investigation of true crime cases.
