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Catherine Susan "Kitty" Genovese (July 7, 1935 – March 13, 1964) was a New York City woman who was stabbed to death by Winston Moseley near her home in Kew Gardens, a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, on March 13, 1964. Two weeks later, a newspaper article reported the circumstances of Genovese's murder and the supposed lack of reaction from numerous neighbors during the stabbing. This common portrayal of her neighbors as being fully aware of what was transpiring but completely unresponsive went on to become a psychological paradigm and an urban legend, but has since been criticized as inaccurate. The portrayal, erroneous though it was, prompted investigation into the social psychological phenomenon that has become known as the bystander effect or "Genovese syndrome", especially diffusion of responsibility. Moseley was arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death on June 15, 1964. That sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment on the grounds that he had not been allowed to argue during the trial that he was "medically insane". Moseley committed another series of crimes when he escaped from custody on March 18, 1968 and then fled to a nearby vacant house, where he held the owners hostage. On March 22, he broke into another house and took a woman and her daughter hostage before surrendering to police. Moseley received two additional 15-year sentences for his 1968 crime spree. Moseley, who was denied parole for an eighteenth time in November 2015, remains in prison aged 80 at the time of his most recent parole hearing, he is currently one of the longest serving inmates in New York State. ==Life== Born in New York City to Rachel (née Giordano) and Vincent Andronelle Genovese, Kitty was the eldest of five children in a lower-middle-class Italian American family and was raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn. After Rachel witnessed a murder in the city, the family moved to Connecticut in 1954. Genovese, 19 at the time and a recent graduate of Prospect Heights High School in Brooklyn, chose to remain in the city, where she had lived for nine years. At the time of her death, she was working as a bar manager at Ev's Eleventh Hour Sports Bar on Jamaica Avenue and 193rd Street in Hollis, Queens. She shared her Kew Gardens apartment at 82-70 Austin Street with her romantic partner Mary Ann Zielonko.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Kitty Genovese」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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