JANUARY 1 “DO YOU STILL HEAR THE CRY?”

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment in Queens, with 38 people allegedly ignoring her screams.
The gruesome circumstances of the crime itself made Genovese’s death the kind of urban tragedy that would have garnered headlines anywhere. A pretty and well-liked brunette living in the city, she worked as a bar manager at a local watering hole—making it all the more tragic when, walking home from her car past 3 a.m. one night, she was attacked and stabbed in the back in front of her own Kew Gardens apartment by a knife-wielding stranger.
An injured Genovese screamed for help, then staggered around the corner to the back entrance of the building. There, her attacker, who had briefly run off, came back to finish the job. He stabbed her again and raped her, robbing her of $49 in cash. 
Many of her neighbors witnessed part of the attacks, or heard her screams. At least two of them seemingly knew she had been stabbed and did not intervene—one of whom, prosecutor Charles Skoller informs Bill Genovese, nearly walked in on his sister’s second attack and phoned a girlfriend who advised him not to get involved.
Genovese died in a pool of her own blood, cradled in the arms of the only neighbor who ran to her side, in the hallway of her own building as most of the neighborhood went back to sleep.

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