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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:07,833 [ WOMAN SCREAMING ] 2 00:00:13,533 --> 00:00:16,800 Woman: I REMEMBER THAT NIGHT LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,533 [ SCREAMING CONTINUES ] 4 00:00:18,533 --> 00:00:21,933 THOSE SCREAMS STILL ECHO THROUGH MY NIGHTMARES. 5 00:00:21,933 --> 00:00:23,533 [ MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY ] 6 00:00:23,533 --> 00:00:26,000 AND I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE. 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,233 A LOT OF US HEARD THOSE SCREAMS THAT NIGHT, 8 00:00:29,233 --> 00:00:32,133 AND A FEW SAW THE HORROR, TOO. 9 00:00:35,567 --> 00:00:39,300 THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF MURDERS THAT YEAR IN THE CITY, 10 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:43,667 BUT ONLY THIS ONE BECAME FAMOUS ALL THE WORLD OVER. 11 00:00:43,667 --> 00:00:46,300 [ SOBBING ] NOT BECAUSE OF THE VICTIM. 12 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:49,500 NOT BECAUSE OF THE KILLER. 13 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:51,600 BUT BECAUSE OF THE WITNESSES. 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,067 BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE ME. 15 00:00:57,567 --> 00:01:00,633 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 16 00:01:00,633 --> 00:01:03,667 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 17 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,700 YOU KNOW THE KITTY GENOVESE CASE, RIGHT? 18 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:17,300 [ TYPEWRITER CLACKING ] 19 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:19,700 OF COURSE YOU DO. 20 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:22,067 Man: 38 OF HER NEIGHBORS WATCHED A WOMAN DIE. 21 00:01:22,067 --> 00:01:25,400 SHE RECOGNIZED ONE OF THEM AND CALLED TO HIM FOR HELP 22 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,533 WHILE SHE WAS BEING STABBED TO DEATH. 23 00:01:27,533 --> 00:01:28,967 BUT HE NEVER ANSWERED HER. 24 00:01:28,967 --> 00:01:31,967 40 PERSONS HEARD HER SCREAM, BUT NO ONE ACTED. 25 00:01:31,967 --> 00:01:34,867 PEOPLE UP THERE WERE SITTING RIGHT ON TOP OF THE CRIME. 26 00:01:34,867 --> 00:01:37,667 WHEN IT WAS OVER, THEY ALL WENT BACK TO BED. 27 00:01:37,667 --> 00:01:40,200 Woman: KITTY WAS THE GIRL IN NEW YORK CITY 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,533 WHO WAS STABBED TO DEATH BY A MANIAC IN FRONT OF HER HOUSE 29 00:01:43,533 --> 00:01:47,833 WHILE ALL OF HER NEIGHBORS STOOD AROUND AND DID NOTHING. 30 00:01:47,833 --> 00:01:49,833 KITTY GENOVESE REVEALED TO THE WORLD 31 00:01:49,833 --> 00:01:53,367 HOW APATHETIC SOCIETY HAD BECOME. 32 00:01:53,367 --> 00:01:55,367 KITTY GENOVESE SHOWED US 33 00:01:55,367 --> 00:01:59,067 HOW LIVING IN CITIES TURNED US INTO ANIMALS. 34 00:01:59,067 --> 00:02:02,333 KITTY GENOVESE WAS A MODERN MARTYR. 35 00:02:03,633 --> 00:02:07,600 THAT'S THE KITTY GENOVESE CASE, RIGHT? 36 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,567 WRONG. 37 00:02:09,567 --> 00:02:11,100 [ SIREN WAILS ] 38 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:13,333 [ POLICE RADIO CHATTER ] 39 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,767 Pelonero: AT 3:50 A.M. ON MARCH 13th, 40 00:02:19,767 --> 00:02:22,067 THE 102nd PRECINCT RECEIVED A CALL 41 00:02:22,067 --> 00:02:23,267 FROM A MAN WHO SAYS 42 00:02:23,267 --> 00:02:25,900 THAT A WOMAN HAS BEEN ATTACKED IN HIS HALLWAY. 43 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:28,100 [ SIREN WAILS ] 44 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:30,100 TWO MINUTES LATER, 45 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:34,633 PATROLMAN ARRIVES ON SCENE AT A TUDOR-STYLE BUILDING. 46 00:02:36,067 --> 00:02:39,067 OH, IS AN AMBULANCE COMING? 47 00:02:39,067 --> 00:02:40,067 HELP IS ON THE WAY. 48 00:02:40,067 --> 00:02:41,867 SHOULD BE HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. 49 00:02:41,867 --> 00:02:44,067 DO YOU KNOW THIS WOMAN? CATHERINE GENOVESE. 50 00:02:44,067 --> 00:02:47,267 BUT SHE GOES BY "KITTY." STAY WITH US, KITTY. 51 00:02:47,267 --> 00:02:49,200 KITTY'S CLOTHES ARE CUT AND TORN. 52 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,067 SHE HAS MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS IN HER CHEST AND STOMACH, 53 00:02:52,067 --> 00:02:53,933 AND HER THROAT IS SLASHED. 54 00:02:53,933 --> 00:02:56,300 HOW DO YOU KNOW HER? SHE LIVES ACROSS FROM ME. 55 00:02:56,300 --> 00:03:00,100 THE HALLWAY WAS ABSOLUTELY DRENCHED IN BLOOD. 56 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:02,500 HANG IN THERE, KITTY. 57 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:05,933 IT'S A VERY SMALL, CONFINED HALLWAY, 58 00:03:05,933 --> 00:03:09,433 AND A STAIRCASE THAT GOES UP TO TWO MORE APARTMENTS. 59 00:03:09,433 --> 00:03:10,933 THIS WOMAN WAS TRAPPED. 60 00:03:10,933 --> 00:03:12,967 [ GASPING ] BREATHE, KITTY. 61 00:03:15,367 --> 00:03:20,633 De May: IN 1964, YOU DIDN'T CALL 911. IT DID NOT EXIST. 62 00:03:20,633 --> 00:03:24,133 WHAT YOU DID WAS DIAL THE POLICE PRECINCT DIRECTLY. 63 00:03:24,133 --> 00:03:28,433 Hellman: SO IT WAS QUITE SOME TIME BEFORE THE AMBULANCE ARRIVES. 64 00:03:28,433 --> 00:03:30,933 Kitty: [ GASPING ] 65 00:03:33,633 --> 00:03:37,467 THEY TOLD US SHE DIED ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL. 66 00:03:37,467 --> 00:03:40,067 SHE NEVER WOKE UP. 67 00:03:40,067 --> 00:03:43,100 AND NOW OUR LITTLE BLOCK IN QUEENS 68 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:45,700 WAS THE SCENE OF A MURDER. 69 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:47,300 [ FLASH BULB BURSTS ] 70 00:03:51,733 --> 00:03:55,333 Hellman: THERE WAS A TRAIL OF BLOOD ON AUSTIN STREET. 71 00:03:57,867 --> 00:04:01,067 SO, THEY FIGURED OUT THAT KITTY GENOVESE WAS ATTACKED 72 00:04:01,067 --> 00:04:04,533 FIRST IN FRONT OF HER OWN APARTMENT BUILDING. 73 00:04:04,533 --> 00:04:06,567 SO, THERE ARE TWO ATTACKS. 74 00:04:06,567 --> 00:04:08,167 THE POLICE TRIED TO KEEP US AWAY, 75 00:04:08,167 --> 00:04:11,733 BUT IT WAS ALL RIGHT THERE FOR US TO SEE. 76 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:15,700 AND AS IT GOT LATER AND THE SUN CAME UP, 77 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:19,300 IT WAS ALL THE MORE VIVID AND HORRIBLE. 78 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:22,067 Pelonero: THIS WAS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM A 10-STORY BUILDING, 79 00:04:22,067 --> 00:04:24,267 THE MOWBRAY APARTMENT HOUSE. 80 00:04:24,267 --> 00:04:25,700 [ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ] 81 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:29,600 Hellman: AND SO THERE POSSIBLY COULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE AUDIENCE 82 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,400 LOOKING DOWN AT WHERE SHE WAS ATTACKED. 83 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,300 ALL RIGHT. YOU TAKE THE RIGHT. TAKE THE LEFT. 84 00:04:39,933 --> 00:04:42,067 [ KNOCKS ON DOOR ] 85 00:04:42,067 --> 00:04:43,300 [ DOOR HINGES CREAK ] 86 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:45,067 CAN I HELP YOU? EXCUSE ME, MA'AM... 87 00:04:46,433 --> 00:04:49,333 3:20. THAT'S WHEN I HEARD THE FIRST SCREAM. 88 00:04:52,267 --> 00:04:54,733 Pelonero: THE POLICE WERE ABLE TO FIND PEOPLE 89 00:04:54,733 --> 00:04:56,733 WHO TOLD THEM THAT THEY HEARD THESE SCREAMS. 90 00:04:56,733 --> 00:04:59,133 AT FIRST WE COULDN'T SEE HER. 91 00:04:59,133 --> 00:05:01,433 WE JUST HEARD HER YELLING. 92 00:05:03,467 --> 00:05:05,467 Pelonero: SAMUEL KOSHKIN AND HIS WIFE 93 00:05:05,467 --> 00:05:08,167 LIVE IN AN APARTMENT BUILDING CALLED THE WEST VIRGINIA 94 00:05:08,167 --> 00:05:09,833 ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE STREET AS THE TUDOR BUILDING 95 00:05:09,833 --> 00:05:11,800 IN A CORNER APARTMENT. 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,700 SAMUEL KOSHKIN HEARD THE SCREAMS, 97 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:16,567 AND HE HEARD THE WOMAN SAY THAT SHE HAD BEEN STABBED. 98 00:05:18,067 --> 00:05:20,200 Sang: YOU HEAR SCREAMS? 99 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,567 [ French accent ] UM...I GET UP, PEEK, 100 00:05:22,567 --> 00:05:29,467 AND LOOK THROUGH MY WINDOW AND SAW A MAN BEATING A GIRL. 101 00:05:32,567 --> 00:05:35,767 Cook: ANDRE PICQ, A WOMAN WHO LIVED IN THE MOWBRAY, 102 00:05:35,767 --> 00:05:39,767 SAW A MAN STANDING OVER A WOMAN -- STANDING OVER KITTY -- 103 00:05:39,767 --> 00:05:43,067 AND CLEARLY SOMETHING BAD WAS OCCURRING. 104 00:05:43,067 --> 00:05:45,700 SHE DID REACH FOR THE TELEPHONE. 105 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:47,333 Pelonero: ROBERT MOZER AND HIS WIFE 106 00:05:47,333 --> 00:05:50,100 LIVED ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR OF THE MOWBRAY APARTMENT HOUSE, 107 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:52,433 DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM WHERE KITTY WAS ATTACKED. 108 00:05:52,433 --> 00:05:56,067 Kitty: STOP IT! STOP IT! 109 00:05:56,067 --> 00:05:58,467 [ THUD, SCREAMING ] 110 00:05:58,467 --> 00:06:00,967 I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WAS A DOMESTIC SPAT. 111 00:06:03,533 --> 00:06:07,333 HEY! YOU LEAVE THAT GIRL ALONE! 112 00:06:07,333 --> 00:06:09,200 NOW, YOU YELLED FROM WHERE? 113 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,200 FROM OUR APARTMENT, UP THERE. 114 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,400 OKAY. NOW, YOU DIDN'T HEAR HER SCREAMING 115 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,533 THAT SHE'D BEEN STABBED AT ALL? NO. NO. 116 00:06:15,533 --> 00:06:17,067 WHAT DID SHE DO AFTER THAT? 117 00:06:20,067 --> 00:06:22,067 Pelonero: THE MOZERS REMAIN AT THE WINDOW, 118 00:06:22,067 --> 00:06:24,067 AND THEY WATCHED HER WALK BACK DOWN THE STREET. 119 00:06:24,067 --> 00:06:28,400 Austin: SHE'S SLOWLY ZIG-ZAGGING AND WALKING -- 120 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,500 THEY THINK SHE MIGHT BE DRUNK -- 121 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:33,600 AND SHE DISAPPEARS BEHIND THE TUDOR BUILDING. 122 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,433 YOU KNOW THIS WOMAN'S BEING HURT. 123 00:06:37,433 --> 00:06:39,533 WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL THE POLICE? 124 00:06:39,533 --> 00:06:41,067 WELL, I DID. 125 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:44,467 [ TELEPHONE RINGING ] 126 00:06:47,067 --> 00:06:50,067 [ Ringing ] ANDRE CALLS THE POLICE. 127 00:06:51,333 --> 00:06:52,667 102nd. 128 00:06:54,067 --> 00:06:56,367 Hello? 102nd. 129 00:06:56,367 --> 00:06:58,967 AS THE PHONE IS BEING PICKED UP, SHE PANICS. 130 00:06:58,967 --> 00:07:01,400 I don't have time for this. 131 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,733 AND, TO HER GREAT SADNESS AFTERWARD, 132 00:07:04,733 --> 00:07:06,233 PUT THE PHONE BACK DOWN. 133 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:12,400 SO, WHAT DO YOU DO AFTER THAT? 134 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,367 I SAW A MAN RUNNING TO HIS CAR. 135 00:07:18,533 --> 00:07:22,400 Pelonero: SAMUEL KOSHKIN SEES A MAN RUN BACK TO A CAR, 136 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,100 WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS A WHITE COMPACT CAR... 137 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:31,067 ...AND HE BACKS OUT OF VIEW. 138 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:35,067 AND THEN THE MAN CAME BACK... 139 00:07:37,267 --> 00:07:40,733 ...BUT THIS TIME WEARING A FEDORA. 140 00:07:40,733 --> 00:07:43,100 I'M CALLING THE POLICE. 141 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:44,800 YOU CALLED THE POLICE? 142 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,467 I TOLD HIM NOT TO. 143 00:07:46,467 --> 00:07:49,933 I THOUGHT FOR SURE AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE HAD CALLED BEFORE THEN. 144 00:07:49,933 --> 00:07:52,667 I'M GONNA GO OUT. 145 00:07:52,667 --> 00:07:54,300 I PUT MY COAT ON, 146 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:57,333 AND I'M GONNA LOOK FOR THE CAR TO GET THE LICENSE. 147 00:07:57,333 --> 00:07:59,433 BUT SHE WOULDN'T ALLOW IT. 148 00:07:59,433 --> 00:08:01,067 I WAS SCARED FOR HIS LIFE. 149 00:08:01,067 --> 00:08:03,367 I TOLD HIM TO -- TO STAY OUT OF IT 150 00:08:03,367 --> 00:08:05,700 AND JUST WAIT FOR THE POLICE. 151 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:07,633 [ SIGHS ] 152 00:08:07,633 --> 00:08:09,567 Sang: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE MAN? 153 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,500 Cook: SOME OF THE DESCRIPTIONS, IT'S A BLACK MAN. 154 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:15,467 SOME OF THE DESCRIPTIONS, IT'S A WHITE MAN. 155 00:08:15,467 --> 00:08:17,833 SOME OF THE DESCRIPTIONS, IT'S TALLER OR SHORTER. 156 00:08:17,833 --> 00:08:20,467 THERE WERE A COUPLE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THAT IT MIGHT BE A WOMAN, 157 00:08:20,467 --> 00:08:22,433 BUT EVERYONE HAD SAID THAT THE ASSAILANT SEEMED TO BE 158 00:08:22,433 --> 00:08:26,133 A SLENDER PERSON WEARING DARK PANTS. 159 00:08:26,133 --> 00:08:27,700 [ POLICE RADIO CHATTER ] 160 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:29,467 THERE WERE A LOT OF US, 161 00:08:29,467 --> 00:08:32,633 BUT WHEN YOU GOT RIGHT DOWN TO IT, WE HADN'T SEEN THAT MUCH -- 162 00:08:32,633 --> 00:08:34,967 AT LEAST NOT ENOUGH TO GET THE GUY. 163 00:08:34,967 --> 00:08:38,367 BUT EVERYBODY ON THE BLOCK KNEW THAT THERE WERE TWO PEOPLE 164 00:08:38,367 --> 00:08:41,100 WHO PROBABLY WERE IN A POSITION TO KNOW MORE. 165 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,267 SIR, HOW YOU DOING TODAY? 166 00:08:43,267 --> 00:08:46,900 De May: JOSEPH FINK, WHO'S THE DOORMAN AT THE MOWBRAY APARTMENT HOUSE. 167 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:49,767 AT ANY POINT, DID YOU SEE OR HEAR A WOMAN SCREAMING? 168 00:08:49,767 --> 00:08:52,067 Kitty: [ CRYING, SCREAMING ] 169 00:08:52,067 --> 00:08:55,433 De May: MR. FINK WAS ON DUTY THAT NIGHT. 170 00:08:55,433 --> 00:08:57,633 Kitty: HE'S STABBING ME! 171 00:08:57,633 --> 00:09:00,200 I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING. 172 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,267 HE REFUSED TO GIVE THEM ANY INFORMATION. 173 00:09:03,267 --> 00:09:06,067 ALL RIGHT, BUDDY. LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE COMING WITH US. 174 00:09:06,067 --> 00:09:08,933 WELL, THE POLICE WEREN'T GONNA PUT UP WITH THAT. 175 00:09:08,933 --> 00:09:11,900 SO THEY TOOK MR. FINK DOWN TO THE STATION HOUSE. 176 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:15,133 AND THE OTHER PERSON WE ALL THOUGHT 177 00:09:15,133 --> 00:09:19,100 MIGHT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING MORE WAS KARL ROSS. 178 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:24,267 IT WAS HIS STAIRWELL THAT KITTY WOUND UP IN. 179 00:09:24,267 --> 00:09:26,567 IT WAS KARL ROSS WHO CALLED THE POLICE. 180 00:09:26,567 --> 00:09:29,333 Pelonero: THE DETECTIVE HAD VERY STRONG SUSPICIONS 181 00:09:29,333 --> 00:09:32,167 THAT KARL ROSS HAD SEEN AND HEARD MORE OF THE ATTACK 182 00:09:32,167 --> 00:09:35,167 THAN HE WAS LETTING ON. 183 00:09:36,733 --> 00:09:41,500 IT HAD BEEN JUST HOURS AGO THAT THOSE SCREAMS HAD WOKEN ME UP, 184 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:44,933 BUT IT SEEMED LIKE YEARS. 185 00:09:44,933 --> 00:09:47,800 WE ALL WENT OVER IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, 186 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,067 WHAT WE'D HEARD, WHAT WE'D SEEN. 187 00:09:50,067 --> 00:09:51,833 IT WAS A NIGHTMARE. 188 00:09:51,833 --> 00:09:53,733 HOW WERE ANY OF US TO KNOW 189 00:09:53,733 --> 00:09:57,167 THAT THE NIGHTMARE WAS ONLY BEGINNING? 190 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,400 Woman: KITTY GENOVESE, OUR NEIGHBOR, OUR KITTY, WAS DEAD. 191 00:10:10,367 --> 00:10:13,167 MURDERED RIGHT OUTSIDE OF OUR BUILDING. 192 00:10:13,167 --> 00:10:15,833 LOTS OF US HEARD A SHOUT, ME INCLUDED, 193 00:10:15,833 --> 00:10:17,400 AND SOME SAW A SCUFFLE, 194 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,933 BUT NONE OF US EVER IMAGINED WE WERE HEARING A MURDER. 195 00:10:20,933 --> 00:10:23,367 AND, ALSO, WHO WOULD WANT TO KILL KITTY? 196 00:10:23,367 --> 00:10:27,100 EVERYONE LOVED KITTY. SHE WAS A DOLL. 197 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:30,333 [ HAND CLAPS ] * WA-OOH * 198 00:10:30,333 --> 00:10:32,100 Kitty: MY DREAM JOB IN LIKE FIVE YEARS 199 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:34,767 IS TO MAYBE OPEN UP A LITTLE RESTAURANT, LA GATTINA, 200 00:10:34,767 --> 00:10:37,067 WITH MY DAD. OH, THAT WOULD BE LOVELY. 201 00:10:37,067 --> 00:10:39,100 YEAH. I DON'T KNOW. 202 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:40,867 IT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT OF A DREAM. 203 00:10:40,867 --> 00:10:44,367 I LOVE THIS SONG. COME ON, MIKEY. I NEED A DANCE PARTNER. 204 00:10:44,367 --> 00:10:49,533 Pelonero: SHE WAS A VERY, VERY UPBEAT AND VIVACIOUS PERSON. 205 00:10:49,533 --> 00:10:51,200 [ Laughing ] OH, YEAH. 206 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,067 SHE WAS EXTREMELY WELL-READ. 207 00:10:53,067 --> 00:10:55,833 KNEW A LOT ABOUT HISTORY, KEPT UP WITH THE NEWS AND POLITICS. 208 00:10:59,133 --> 00:11:01,333 Cook: SHE COMES FROM A FAMILY IN BROOKLYN. 209 00:11:02,567 --> 00:11:05,433 Pelonero: KITTY TRIED CONNECTICUT FOR A WHILE, 210 00:11:05,433 --> 00:11:08,200 BUT SHE REALLY PREFERRED LIVING IN THE CITY. 211 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,433 WELL, WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD, IT WAS A TWO-FAMILY WALKUP, 212 00:11:12,433 --> 00:11:16,667 AND ONE DOOR WAS OUR FAMILY, AND NEXT DOOR WAS KITTY'S APARTMENT. 213 00:11:16,667 --> 00:11:19,500 OH, THANK YOU, SOPHIE. 214 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:21,833 HOW'S MIKEY? [ SIGHS ] 215 00:11:21,833 --> 00:11:23,267 GETTING DRESSED, I HOPE. 216 00:11:23,267 --> 00:11:26,233 SHE WAS A VERY GENEROUS AND NICE PERSON. 217 00:11:26,233 --> 00:11:29,767 I REMEMBER, I WOULD SHOVEL THE SNOW DURING THE WINTER, 218 00:11:29,767 --> 00:11:31,867 AND SHE WOULD GIVE ME LIKE FIVE BUCKS. 219 00:11:31,867 --> 00:11:33,833 BACK THEN, THAT WAS A LOT OF MONEY. 220 00:11:33,833 --> 00:11:36,233 SHE WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MY MOM. 221 00:11:36,233 --> 00:11:38,333 SO, HOW ARE YOUR PARENTS? THEY GOOD? 222 00:11:38,333 --> 00:11:39,400 YEAH, THEY'RE GOOD. 223 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:40,867 OH. 224 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:43,200 HEY, YOU READY FOR LIFTOFF, PARTNER? 225 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,400 YEAH. YEAH? 226 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,833 SHE USED TO DRIVE MYSELF AND MY SISTER TO SCHOOL 227 00:11:46,833 --> 00:11:48,367 ONCE IN A WHILE. 228 00:11:48,367 --> 00:11:51,667 ALL RIGHT. HAVE A GOOD DAY, YOU TWO. 229 00:11:51,667 --> 00:11:52,967 BYE. 230 00:11:52,967 --> 00:11:54,733 Michael: MY MOM REALLY DID LIKE HER. 231 00:11:54,733 --> 00:11:57,333 BUT SHE WAS A TOUGHIE. MY MOM SAID THAT. 232 00:11:57,333 --> 00:12:00,900 SHE SAYS, "NOBODY GOT AWAY WITH ANYTHING WITH KITTY." 233 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:02,733 SHE COULD TAKE CARE OF HERSELF. 234 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:13,167 Sang: YOU SIT WHERE YOU SIT, 235 00:12:13,167 --> 00:12:15,600 AND YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE A THING? 236 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,967 I SAW NOTHING. 237 00:12:20,133 --> 00:12:23,233 Pelonero: JOSEPH FINK INSISTS THAT HE DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING 238 00:12:23,233 --> 00:12:25,633 BECAUSE HE WAS DOWN IN THE BASEMENT ON A COFFEE BREAK. 239 00:12:25,633 --> 00:12:31,267 COME ON, FINK. JUST COME CLEAN. MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF. 240 00:12:38,633 --> 00:12:40,067 [ SIGHS ] 241 00:12:40,067 --> 00:12:42,600 YEAH, OKAY. YES, I-I SAW IT. 242 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,733 WHAT DID YOU SEE? 243 00:12:45,767 --> 00:12:48,767 Kitty: [ SCREAMS ] 244 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:54,733 HELP! HE'S STABBING ME! 245 00:12:54,733 --> 00:12:56,967 [ CRYING, SCREAMING ] 246 00:12:59,633 --> 00:13:02,900 WHAT'D HE LOOK LIKE? 247 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:06,633 UH, HE WAS -- HE WAS SLENDER. 248 00:13:06,633 --> 00:13:09,733 Pelonero: HE DESCRIBES HIM AS A MAN WHO WAS ABOUT 5'8". 249 00:13:09,733 --> 00:13:12,500 Robert: YOU LEAVE THAT GIRL ALONE! 250 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:15,900 Austin: SAW THE KILLER GET UP AND RUN. 251 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:17,500 [ CRYING ] 252 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:20,067 AND HE SEES KITTY GET UP AND WALK BACK 253 00:13:20,067 --> 00:13:22,667 TOWARDS THE END OF THE TUDOR BUILDING. 254 00:13:27,333 --> 00:13:30,067 JOE FINK SAYS, "WELL, EVERYTHING MUST BE FINE." 255 00:13:30,067 --> 00:13:32,800 AND NOW HE GOES DOWNSTAIRS, AND NOW HE TAKES A NAP. 256 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,367 WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL THE POLICE? 257 00:13:36,367 --> 00:13:37,833 Pelonero: FOR WHATEVER REASON, 258 00:13:37,833 --> 00:13:40,333 HE JUST DID NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN THIS CASE AT ALL. 259 00:13:40,333 --> 00:13:42,367 THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING WE CAN CHARGE HIM WITH. 260 00:13:42,367 --> 00:13:44,833 Carroll: WHAT? FOR BEING A SON OF A BITCH? 261 00:13:44,833 --> 00:13:46,867 WE'D HAVE TO BOOK THE WHOLE CITY. 262 00:13:46,867 --> 00:13:48,233 THERE'S NO LAW IN THE BOOK 263 00:13:48,233 --> 00:13:50,800 SAYING THAT A CITIZEN MUST COME TO THE AID OF ANOTHER. 264 00:14:01,067 --> 00:14:03,733 AND THEN THEY TALKED TO KARL ROSS. 265 00:14:03,733 --> 00:14:05,800 NOW, HE WAS A PIECE OF WORK. 266 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,600 WHAT TIME DID YOU HEAR THE SCREAMS? 267 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,200 UH...WELL... I'D -- I'D BEEN DRINKING. 268 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,100 SO I-I DON'T RECALL HEARING ANYTHING. 269 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:15,733 UH, NO. NO, I-I-I DON'T. 270 00:14:15,733 --> 00:14:18,200 COME ON, KARL. SHE RAN RIGHT UNDER YOUR WINDOW SCREAMING. 271 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:19,867 YOU HEARD HER, DIDN'T YOU? 272 00:14:19,867 --> 00:14:21,367 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS KITTY OUT THERE. 273 00:14:21,367 --> 00:14:24,133 I SWEAR I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS HER. 274 00:14:24,133 --> 00:14:26,300 HIS STORY KEPT CHANGING. 275 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:28,767 SO, YOU HEAR THE SCREAMS. 276 00:14:28,767 --> 00:14:31,067 WHAT DID YOU DO THEN? 277 00:14:33,067 --> 00:14:36,067 Kitty: [ SCREAMS ] [ PANTING ] 278 00:14:41,767 --> 00:14:43,633 Kitty: HELP! 279 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,467 KARL, IT'S KITTY! 280 00:14:47,467 --> 00:14:49,600 KITTY? 281 00:14:53,533 --> 00:14:56,267 Cook: KARL ROSS DITHERED. 282 00:14:56,267 --> 00:14:59,133 HE WAS AFRAID. HE WAS DRUNK. 283 00:14:59,133 --> 00:15:01,967 HE SPENT PRECIOUS MINUTES WONDERING WHAT TO DO. 284 00:15:01,967 --> 00:15:05,633 Kitty: [ SOBS, SCREAMS ] 285 00:15:10,067 --> 00:15:13,167 Pelonero: THEY ASK HIM, "WELL, WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL US RIGHT AWAY?" 286 00:15:13,167 --> 00:15:15,267 Karl: I-I DON'T KNOW. I... 287 00:15:15,267 --> 00:15:18,467 I DIDN'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED. I WAS SCARED. 288 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,767 I'LL BET YOU KARL ROSS REGRETTED SAYING THOSE WORDS 289 00:15:23,767 --> 00:15:25,700 THE MINUTE THEY WERE OUT OF HIS MOUTH. 290 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:28,700 AND IF HE DIDN'T, HE SHOULD HAVE. 291 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,100 LATER THAT DAY, DETECTIVES CAME BACK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD 292 00:15:39,100 --> 00:15:41,333 TO TALK TO KITTY'S ROOMMATE, MARY ANN. 293 00:15:41,333 --> 00:15:43,733 SHE WAS THE ONE WHO HAD TO GO TO THE MORGUE 294 00:15:43,733 --> 00:15:46,100 TO IDENTIFY KITTY'S BODY, POOR THING. 295 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:48,667 THE DETECTIVES THOUGHT THAT, BEING KITTY'S ROOMMATE AND ALL, 296 00:15:48,667 --> 00:15:51,867 SHE MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING THAT COULD HELP. 297 00:15:53,067 --> 00:15:55,933 WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT? 298 00:15:55,933 --> 00:15:59,433 I W-- I WAS OUT BOWLING WITH SOME FRIENDS. 299 00:15:59,433 --> 00:16:02,300 BUT MARY ANN KNEW THE LEAST OF ANYONE. 300 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:05,667 SHE'D SLEPT RIGHT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING. 301 00:16:05,667 --> 00:16:10,867 THE LAST TIME SHE SAW KITTY, SHE WAS LEAVING FOR WORK. 302 00:16:12,067 --> 00:16:13,900 [ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ] 303 00:16:15,533 --> 00:16:18,100 HEY, KITTY. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD. HOW ARE YOU? 304 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:20,733 Pelonero: KITTY WAS WORKING AT A PLACE CALLED EV's 11th HOUR, 305 00:16:20,733 --> 00:16:22,533 AND SHE WAS THE MANAGER THERE. 306 00:16:22,533 --> 00:16:24,567 SHE WAS EXTREMELY WELL-LIKED THERE. 307 00:16:24,567 --> 00:16:25,600 COME ON. YEP. 308 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,267 SOMEONE HAD HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK, 309 00:16:27,267 --> 00:16:30,267 SHE KNEW HOW TO TELL SOMEONE THAT THEY WERE CUT OFF. 310 00:16:30,267 --> 00:16:32,533 HI. 311 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,600 I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR YOU, IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 312 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,433 OF COURSE. ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP. 313 00:16:38,433 --> 00:16:40,500 WHAT EXACTLY DID MISS GENOVESE HAVE PLANNED 314 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:43,067 THE NIGHT OF HER MURDER? 315 00:16:43,067 --> 00:16:44,367 [ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ] 316 00:16:44,367 --> 00:16:46,567 KITTY, YOUR DATE'S HERE. 317 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,667 HEY, JACK. 318 00:16:49,667 --> 00:16:51,700 YOU ALMOST READY? ONE MORE MINUTE. 319 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:53,367 ALL RIGHT. TAKE YOUR TIME. 320 00:16:53,367 --> 00:16:55,600 Pelonero: ON THE NIGHT OF THURSDAY, MARCH 12th, 321 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,133 KITTY HAD A DATE WITH A MAN NAMED JACK TIMMINS, 322 00:16:58,133 --> 00:16:59,500 WHO WAS A PATRON AT EV's. 323 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:02,067 AND THIS WAS A FIRST DATE FOR THEM. 324 00:17:02,067 --> 00:17:03,067 THANK YOU. GOOD NIGHT. 325 00:17:03,067 --> 00:17:05,633 TAKE CARE OF HER, NOW. I WILL. 326 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,133 THE POLICE GO AND THEY PICK JACK TIMMINS UP 327 00:17:15,133 --> 00:17:18,433 AND THEY TAKE HIM TO THE PRECINCT HOUSE FOR QUESTIONING. 328 00:17:18,433 --> 00:17:21,167 WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU AND THE VICTIM DO? 329 00:17:21,167 --> 00:17:23,400 I PICKED KITTY UP AROUND 6:00. 330 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,767 AND THEY WERE GOING TO HIS BROTHER'S HOUSE FOR DINNER. 331 00:17:25,767 --> 00:17:28,433 THEY LEAVE ABOUT 12:30. 332 00:17:28,433 --> 00:17:30,600 THEY STOPPED AT A BAR, HAD A COUPLE DRINKS, 333 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,133 AND THEN JACK TIMMINS DROPPED KITTY OFF BACK AT EV's 334 00:17:33,133 --> 00:17:34,567 ABOUT 2:00 A.M. 335 00:17:34,567 --> 00:17:36,967 THEN, UH, I HAD ANOTHER DATE, SO... 336 00:17:36,967 --> 00:17:40,267 POLICE QUESTIONED TIMMINS' OTHER DATE, 337 00:17:40,267 --> 00:17:42,433 AND SHE VERIFIED THAT HE HAD BEEN AT HER APARTMENT 338 00:17:42,433 --> 00:17:46,067 TILL ABOUT 4:45 A.M., AND THEN HE HAD GONE HOME. 339 00:17:46,067 --> 00:17:47,500 TWO DATES IN ONE NIGHT, HUH? 340 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:50,500 GOT OURSELVES A REAL ROMEO HERE. 341 00:17:52,433 --> 00:17:54,367 I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND. 342 00:17:55,833 --> 00:17:58,200 KITTY DIDN'T LIKE MEN. 343 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:09,467 Hellman: OF COURSE, WE'RE TALKING THE MID-'60s, 344 00:18:09,467 --> 00:18:14,067 AND KITTY AND MARY ANN WERE CLOSETED. 345 00:18:14,067 --> 00:18:17,067 WHAT IS THAT? 346 00:18:17,067 --> 00:18:18,467 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY. 347 00:18:18,467 --> 00:18:21,833 Pelonero: KITTY LOVED FOLK MUSIC. SHE LOVED COFFEE HOUSES. 348 00:18:21,833 --> 00:18:25,200 IN 1963, SHE MEETS MARY ANN ZIELONKO IN GREENWICH VILLAGE. 349 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,367 THEY HIT IT OFF IMMEDIATELY. 350 00:18:27,367 --> 00:18:29,600 ARE YOU SERIOUS? MM-HMM. 351 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,400 OH, MY GOSH. 352 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,233 YOU GOT IT SIGNED?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 353 00:18:34,233 --> 00:18:35,367 MM-HMM. OH. 354 00:18:35,367 --> 00:18:38,067 THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY. 355 00:18:38,067 --> 00:18:42,667 MARY ANN CALLS HERSELF SOMEWHAT RESERVED, BASHFUL, AN AGNOSTIC, 356 00:18:42,667 --> 00:18:47,500 WHILE KITTY WAS MORE EBULLIENT, AND VERY CATHOLIC AT THE TIME. 357 00:18:48,967 --> 00:18:53,633 [ INTRO TO DAVE VAN RONK'S "HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE" PLAYS ] 358 00:18:53,633 --> 00:19:01,333 * HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE * 359 00:19:01,333 --> 00:19:03,800 THEY WERE SOON LOVERS 360 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,133 AND FOUND A PLACE TO LIVE TOGETHER THERE IN KEW GARDENS. 361 00:19:08,133 --> 00:19:12,267 MY MOTHER KNEW THAT THEY WERE LESBIANS. 362 00:19:12,267 --> 00:19:16,433 AND MY MOTHER NEVER MENTIONED TO HER THAT SHE KNEW. 363 00:19:16,433 --> 00:19:19,100 THEY BOTH RESPECTED EACH OTHER. 364 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:27,167 * HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE * 365 00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:29,833 AND WHEN THE POLICE FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS, 366 00:19:29,833 --> 00:19:33,267 THEY HAD A FEW MORE QUESTIONS FOR MARY ANN. 367 00:19:37,367 --> 00:19:42,767 IT SEEMS ODD TO ME THAT TWO WOMEN ARE SHARING ONE BED. 368 00:19:42,767 --> 00:19:44,533 WELL, THAT'S ALL WE COULD AFFORD. 369 00:19:44,533 --> 00:19:46,467 LOOK, I DON'T SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. 370 00:19:46,467 --> 00:19:49,267 THE PROBLEM IS IS THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON 371 00:19:49,267 --> 00:19:50,933 THAT YOU'RE NOT TELLING ME ABOUT. 372 00:19:50,933 --> 00:19:54,567 NOTHING WAS GOING ON. REALLY? 373 00:19:54,567 --> 00:19:56,633 'CAUSE THE NEIGHBORS ARE ALL SAYING THAT YOU AND KITTY 374 00:19:56,633 --> 00:19:58,133 WERE A LOT MORE THAN JUST ROOMMATES. 375 00:19:58,133 --> 00:20:01,300 OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE'S JUST TRYING TO CAUSE A LITTLE BIT OF TROUBLE. 376 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:04,167 YOU'RE GONNA FIND YOURSELF IN A LOT OF TROUBLE IF YOU KEEP LYING TO US. 377 00:20:06,233 --> 00:20:08,167 DID YOU HAVE A LESBIAN RELATIONSHIP 378 00:20:08,167 --> 00:20:09,967 WITH KITTY GENOVESE? 379 00:20:11,133 --> 00:20:13,233 DID YOU? 380 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:15,733 MM-HMM. 381 00:20:21,033 --> 00:20:26,100 THE DETECTIVES INTERROGATED MARY ANN ZIELONKO FOR SIX HOURS. 382 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:28,633 Pelonero: IT WAS PERFECTLY LEGAL AT THIS TIME 383 00:20:28,633 --> 00:20:30,633 FOR POLICE TO HARASS HOMOSEXUALS. 384 00:20:30,633 --> 00:20:32,767 THIS IS NOT THE NYPD's FINEST HOUR. 385 00:20:32,767 --> 00:20:37,067 MARY ANN LEFT, LIKE, A WEEK LATER. 386 00:20:37,067 --> 00:20:39,867 IT WAS A SAD THING. 387 00:20:43,733 --> 00:20:45,867 NEXT. 388 00:20:47,233 --> 00:20:48,433 NEXT. 389 00:20:48,433 --> 00:20:50,500 THERE WERE A LOT OF WITNESSES, 390 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:52,500 BUT ALL THE POLICE REALLY KNEW 391 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,367 WAS THAT THE KILLER WAS A SLENDER MAN WEARING A FEDORA 392 00:20:55,367 --> 00:20:58,033 WHO WAS BRAZEN ENOUGH TO COME BACK FOR KITTY 393 00:20:58,033 --> 00:20:59,867 EVEN AFTER HE WAS SPOTTED ONCE. 394 00:21:01,933 --> 00:21:04,067 IT WAS STRANGE ALL RIGHT, 395 00:21:04,067 --> 00:21:06,767 BUT IT WASN'T ANY WAY TO CATCH SOMEONE. 396 00:21:08,067 --> 00:21:10,367 WAIT A MINUTE. WAIT A MINUTE. WAIT A MINUTE. 397 00:21:10,367 --> 00:21:12,400 Austin: DOING WHAT GOOD DETECTIVES DO, 398 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,367 THEY FIND OUT WHO WOULD BE IN THE AREA 399 00:21:15,367 --> 00:21:17,500 BETWEEN 3:00 A.M. AND 4:00 A.M... 400 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:20,533 SO, SIR, FOR THE RECORD, WHAT IS YOUR NAME? 401 00:21:20,533 --> 00:21:22,267 EDWARD FIESLER. 402 00:21:22,267 --> 00:21:23,767 ...AND THEY MANAGED TO FIND A MILKMAN. 403 00:21:23,767 --> 00:21:27,667 DID YOU HAPPEN TO SEE ANYBODY OUT AT THAT HOUR? 404 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,100 Hellman: AS HE'S CARRYING HIS MILK TO THIS DOOR... 405 00:21:35,433 --> 00:21:39,500 ...A YOUNG GUY PASSES RIGHT BY HIM. 406 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:42,800 WELL, CAN YOU DESCRIBE HIM? 407 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:49,233 YEAH, I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE. 408 00:21:50,767 --> 00:21:53,300 ALL RIGHT, EDWARD, WHAT ELSE CAN YOU TELL US? 409 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:57,133 Austin: THE MILKMAN SAYS HE'S GOT A FEDORA, HE'S GOT A TRENCH COAT, 410 00:21:57,133 --> 00:22:02,167 HE'S ABOUT 5'8", MAYBE 140 POUNDS. 411 00:22:02,167 --> 00:22:06,133 AND HE'S A LIGHT-SKINNED BLACK MAN. 412 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:10,533 YEAH, THAT'S HIM. 413 00:22:10,533 --> 00:22:13,500 BUT AS GOOD AS THIS DESCRIPTION WAS, 414 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:15,300 IT COULD HAVE MATCHED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. 415 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:17,933 THIS WAS NEW YORK CITY, AFTER ALL. 416 00:22:17,933 --> 00:22:20,733 Austin: THE DETECTIVES WERE GONNA HAVE TO WAIT 417 00:22:20,733 --> 00:22:22,467 UNTIL THIS GUY SLIPPED UP SOMEHOW. 418 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,233 LIKE I SAID BEFORE, YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW 419 00:22:27,233 --> 00:22:30,833 ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT THE KITTY GENOVESE MURDER. 420 00:22:30,833 --> 00:22:33,633 HEARD IT DOZENS OF TIMES, RIGHT? 421 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,667 BUT I GOT NEWS FOR YOU -- YOU DON'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT. 422 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,700 [ POLICE RADIO CHATTER ] 423 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:57,467 Woman: KITTY GENOVESE HAD BEEN STABBED TO DEATH 424 00:22:57,467 --> 00:23:00,200 OUTSIDE HER APARTMENT IN QUEENS, 425 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,667 AND THE MANIAC WHO KILLED HER HAD GOTTEN AWAY. 426 00:23:02,667 --> 00:23:04,733 IT REALLY WASN'T THAT SURPRISING. 427 00:23:04,733 --> 00:23:07,500 THE SAD TRUTH WAS LOTS OF MURDERS WENT UNSOLVED 428 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:08,867 IN NEW YORK EVERY YEAR. 429 00:23:08,867 --> 00:23:13,667 WHAT WAS SURPRISING WAS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. 430 00:23:17,967 --> 00:23:19,567 Austin: FIVE DAYS LATER. 431 00:23:19,567 --> 00:23:22,900 WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITY -- JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS. 432 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:25,267 THIS ONE GUY SEES 433 00:23:25,267 --> 00:23:27,433 WHAT APPEARS TO BE A BURGLARY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. 434 00:23:27,433 --> 00:23:29,300 HEY, THERE. UH... 435 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,300 WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE BANNISTERS' HOUSE? 436 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:36,233 HEY. IT'S OKAY. I'M...JUST HELPING THEM MOVE. 437 00:23:38,367 --> 00:23:40,867 Pelonero: THIS DIDN'T SOUND RIGHT TO HIM. 438 00:23:40,867 --> 00:23:43,267 SO HE CONSULTED ANOTHER NEIGHBOR, 439 00:23:43,267 --> 00:23:45,067 AND HE SAID, "DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM MOVING?" 440 00:23:45,067 --> 00:23:46,600 AND HE SAID, "NO, I'M SURE THEY'RE NOT MOVING." 441 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,933 THEY WERE A LITTLE CONFUSED. 442 00:23:48,933 --> 00:23:51,533 IF THIS MAN WAS A BURGLAR, 443 00:23:51,533 --> 00:23:53,567 WHY DIDN'T HE TAKE OFF AS SOON AS HE WAS CONFRONTED? 444 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,300 Austin: THEY GET THE BRAINY IDEA 445 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:05,667 TO PLAY AROUND INSIDE HIS CAR AND CALL THE POLICE. 446 00:24:07,267 --> 00:24:09,733 NOW THE GUY COMES OUT OF THE HOUSE. 447 00:24:09,733 --> 00:24:11,933 [ ENGINE SPUTTERS ] 448 00:24:11,933 --> 00:24:13,933 CAR DOESN'T GO. 449 00:24:19,967 --> 00:24:21,567 De May: HE DIDN'T PANIC. 450 00:24:21,567 --> 00:24:26,200 HE SIMPLY GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND STARTED WALKING. 451 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,633 TWO POLICE OFFICERS COME, AND THEY ARREST HIM. 452 00:24:28,633 --> 00:24:33,700 HIS NAME IS WINSTON MOSELEY. HE'S 29 YEARS OLD. 453 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:37,067 THEY TAKE MR. MOSELEY TO SEE DETECTIVE JOHN TARTAGLIA. 454 00:24:50,667 --> 00:24:52,400 [ LIGHTER CLICKS ] 455 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,067 YOU DON'T MIND IF I SMOKE, DO YOU? 456 00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:03,967 NO. 457 00:25:03,967 --> 00:25:06,733 Austin: HE WAS A SECOND-GRADE DETECTIVE, WORLD WAR II VET. 458 00:25:06,733 --> 00:25:08,067 A VERY, VERY BRIGHT GUY. 459 00:25:08,067 --> 00:25:10,067 SO, LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT -- 460 00:25:10,067 --> 00:25:12,933 YOU WERE BURGLARIZING THAT HOME IN EAST ELMHURST. 461 00:25:17,267 --> 00:25:18,733 YEAH, I GUESS SO. 462 00:25:28,867 --> 00:25:30,600 WHERE YOU FROM? 463 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,367 I'M FROM SOUTH OZONE PARK. 464 00:25:32,367 --> 00:25:34,267 YOU MARRIED? YEAH, I AM. 465 00:25:34,267 --> 00:25:36,600 SO, WHERE DO YOU WORK? WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? 466 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,700 RAYGRAM CORPORATION. 467 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:43,200 Pelonero: DETECTIVE TARTAGLIA'S REALLY PERPLEXED BY THIS MAN. 468 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,067 HE'S MARRIED, HE HAS A FAMILY, HE OWNS A HOUSE, HAS A GOOD JOB. 469 00:25:47,067 --> 00:25:49,367 Pelonero: HE HAD NO PRIOR ARREST RECORD. 470 00:25:49,367 --> 00:25:50,867 IN OTHER WORDS, THIS MAN 471 00:25:50,867 --> 00:25:53,333 IS ABOUT THE LAST PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO SHOULD BE A BURGLAR. 472 00:25:53,333 --> 00:25:56,667 HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OTHER BURGLARIES? 473 00:25:56,667 --> 00:25:58,467 YES, I HAVE. 474 00:25:58,467 --> 00:26:01,200 OH, YEAH? HOW MANY? 475 00:26:03,567 --> 00:26:05,067 30 TO 40. 476 00:26:06,367 --> 00:26:10,100 Pelonero: THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY EERIE ABOUT HIS DEMEANOR. 477 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:13,500 SO THIS IMMEDIATELY GETS THE DETECTIVE THINKING, 478 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:15,300 "I WONDER WHAT ELSE HE COULD HAVE DONE." 479 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:16,967 WINSTON, WHY DON'T YOU COME WITH ME? 480 00:26:16,967 --> 00:26:20,167 SO HE KEEPS HIM TALKING... 481 00:26:20,167 --> 00:26:22,300 IT'S GONNA BE A LONG NIGHT. 482 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:26,267 ...AND THEY EVENTUALLY START TALKING ABOUT ASSAULTS. 483 00:26:27,867 --> 00:26:29,433 Tartaglia: JANUARY 31st. 484 00:26:29,433 --> 00:26:31,867 YOU PUT A SCREWDRIVER UP TO A WOMAN'S NECK, 485 00:26:31,867 --> 00:26:33,800 YOU FORCE HER INTO A VACANT LOT, 486 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,633 AND YOU MADE HER SUCK YOU. 487 00:26:35,633 --> 00:26:37,133 DIDN'T YOU? 488 00:26:37,133 --> 00:26:39,533 THEN ON FEBRUARY 15th, 489 00:26:39,533 --> 00:26:43,433 YOU SNUCK INTO A WOMAN'S BEDROOM AND YOU TRIED TO RAPE HER. 490 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,800 I DIDN'T DO ANY OF THAT STUFF. 491 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,300 SURE ABOUT THAT? 492 00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:53,500 'CAUSE I'LL BRING THOSE WOMEN DOWN HERE, 493 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:56,500 AND THEY'RE GONNA IDENTIFY YOU FASTER THAN YOU CAN BLINK. 494 00:27:03,067 --> 00:27:04,533 YES, I DID THAT. 495 00:27:06,833 --> 00:27:08,367 MOSELEY WAS JUST ON A ROLL, CONFESSING. 496 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,833 Austin: WHAT THEY WERE WEARING, WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE, WHAT HE DID. 497 00:27:14,833 --> 00:27:17,667 HE'S FESSING UP TO EVERYTHING IN A VERY CRUEL DEMEANOR. 498 00:27:17,667 --> 00:27:20,733 THAT'S EVERYTHING NOW. 499 00:27:20,733 --> 00:27:22,267 IT REALLY IS. 500 00:27:24,533 --> 00:27:27,900 Pelonero: TARTAGLIA REMEMBERS THAT MOSELEY WAS CAPTURED 501 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:31,467 DRIVING A WHITE COMPACT CAR, A CHEVY CORVAIR. 502 00:27:31,467 --> 00:27:33,233 [ TYPEWRITER CLACKING ] 503 00:27:33,233 --> 00:27:37,633 AND HE THINKS OF THE MURDER OF KITTY GENOVESE. 504 00:27:40,633 --> 00:27:42,667 AND THE STORY GOES 505 00:27:42,667 --> 00:27:44,967 THAT DETECTIVE TARTAGLIA PLAYED A HUNCH. 506 00:27:44,967 --> 00:27:47,333 IT'S THE STRANGEST THING. 507 00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:49,667 HE CALLED THE DETECTIVES FROM KEW GARDENS, 508 00:27:49,667 --> 00:27:52,567 THE ONES WORKING ON KITTY'S CASE. 509 00:27:52,567 --> 00:27:54,633 Carroll: TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. 510 00:27:54,633 --> 00:27:56,500 I HAVE THIS GUY DOWNSTAIRS RIGHT NOW. 511 00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:58,267 YOU'RE JOKING. LET'S GO. 512 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:10,433 WINSTON, THIS IS DETECTIVE SANG 513 00:28:10,433 --> 00:28:11,933 AND DETECTIVE CARROLL WITH HOMICIDE. 514 00:28:15,333 --> 00:28:18,467 Sang: WHAT ARE THOSE CUTS ON YOUR HAND? WHERE'D YOU GET THEM? 515 00:28:18,467 --> 00:28:20,200 THIS? 516 00:28:21,567 --> 00:28:23,533 I-I-I SCRATCHED THEM WORKING AROUND THE HOUSE. 517 00:28:23,533 --> 00:28:25,333 I SCRATCHED THEM WORKING AROUND THE HOUSE. 518 00:28:25,333 --> 00:28:27,367 NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. 519 00:28:27,367 --> 00:28:29,067 YOU GOT THOSE FROM KITTY GENOVESE 520 00:28:29,067 --> 00:28:31,733 WHEN YOU WERE STABBING HER IN THE THROAT. 521 00:28:38,333 --> 00:28:40,867 DID YOU KILL KITTY GENOVESE? 522 00:28:52,433 --> 00:28:55,200 Sang: DID YOU KILL KITTY GENOVESE? 523 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:00,533 OKAY. 524 00:29:02,067 --> 00:29:03,400 I KILLED HER. 525 00:29:06,233 --> 00:29:10,467 ALMOST WITH A SHRUG, AS THOUGH HE WERE ADMITTING TO JAYWALKING, 526 00:29:10,467 --> 00:29:12,700 HE SAID, "YEAH, I KILLED HER." 527 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:16,867 TELL US WHAT HAPPENED. START FROM THE BEGINNING. 528 00:29:18,933 --> 00:29:24,433 I CAME HOME AROUND 9:00 P.M. 529 00:29:24,433 --> 00:29:27,400 FED MY DOG. 530 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:32,067 MY WIFE WORKS THE NIGHT SHIFT, SO I-I KISSED HER GOODBYE. 531 00:29:33,967 --> 00:29:38,367 AND THEN I GOT THE IDEA TO GO FIND A GIRL TO KILL. 532 00:29:40,067 --> 00:29:43,633 SO I GOT IN MY CAR, AND I WENT LOOKING FOR ONE. 533 00:29:50,167 --> 00:29:52,367 HE WAS OUT HUNTING FOR HOURS. 534 00:29:56,067 --> 00:30:00,567 HE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO MURDER AND RAPE, IN THAT ORDER. 535 00:30:08,733 --> 00:30:10,967 HE WAS CLOSE TO GIVING IT UP FOR THAT NIGHT 536 00:30:10,967 --> 00:30:13,367 WHEN HE FOUND KITTY GENOVESE. 537 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,233 [ CAR DOOR CLOSES ] 538 00:30:32,567 --> 00:30:34,067 Pelonero: SHE SEES HIM. 539 00:30:37,833 --> 00:30:41,200 AND, AS HE DESCRIBED IT, SHE WAS FRIGHTENED RIGHT AWAY. 540 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,667 Kitty: [ SCREAMING ] 541 00:30:56,733 --> 00:30:59,267 [ KNIFE PLUNGES ] 542 00:30:59,267 --> 00:31:01,167 [ SCREAMING CONTINUES ] 543 00:31:01,167 --> 00:31:06,067 Cook: HE ATTACKS HER AND STABS HER MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE BACK, 544 00:31:06,067 --> 00:31:09,633 DEEPLY ENOUGH TO PUNCTURE ONE OF HER LUNGS. 545 00:31:09,633 --> 00:31:12,067 [ SCREAMING CONTINUES ] 546 00:31:12,067 --> 00:31:14,367 [ THUDDING ] 547 00:31:14,367 --> 00:31:17,400 JOSEPH FINK SEES THE FIRST ATTACK. 548 00:31:19,467 --> 00:31:22,267 Cook: ROBERT MOZER LIFTS HIS WINDOW AND YELLS... 549 00:31:22,267 --> 00:31:25,433 HEY! YOU LEAVE THAT GIRL ALONE! 550 00:31:27,367 --> 00:31:30,100 [ ENGINE TURNS OVER ] 551 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:32,300 Pelonero: SO, HE RUNS BACK TO HIS CAR, 552 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:35,067 HE BACKS IT DOWN THE STREET, AND HE WAITS. 553 00:31:36,867 --> 00:31:38,067 THEN... 554 00:31:43,433 --> 00:31:46,367 ...I SAW THE GIRL GET UP. 555 00:31:46,367 --> 00:31:52,200 SO I WAITED FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES FOR THE LIGHTS TO TURN ON. 556 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,467 YOU DIDN'T WONDER IF ANYONE WAS GONNA CALL THE COPS? 557 00:31:55,467 --> 00:31:57,133 OH, I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T. 558 00:31:57,133 --> 00:31:59,633 PEOPLE DON'T DO THAT STUFF LATE AT NIGHT. 559 00:31:59,633 --> 00:32:04,233 THEY -- THEY JUST GO BACK TO SLEEP. 560 00:32:04,233 --> 00:32:06,233 Kitty: [ SOBBING ] 561 00:32:06,233 --> 00:32:09,800 Cook: SHE'S NOT FATALLY INJURED, BUT SHE DOES HAVE A PUNCTURED LUNG. 562 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,633 SHE CAN'T MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS SHE WAS ABLE TO BEFORE. 563 00:32:12,633 --> 00:32:15,067 SHE'S STAGGERING AROUND THE CORNER... 564 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,400 ...WHERE SHE IS NO LONGER VISIBLE 565 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,667 TO ALL THE PEOPLE LOOKING OUT THEIR WINDOWS. 566 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,933 [ SOBBING CONTINUES ] 567 00:32:24,933 --> 00:32:27,067 [ DOOR HANDLE RATTLES ] 568 00:32:32,167 --> 00:32:36,100 AT THAT POINT, HE TAKES OFF THE STOCKING CAP HE WAS WEARING 569 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:38,533 AND PUTS ON A FEDORA. 570 00:32:38,533 --> 00:32:40,200 HE WANTED TO FINISH THE JOB. 571 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,067 KITTY GETS TO 8262 AUSTIN STREET. 572 00:32:45,067 --> 00:32:48,367 [ Sobbing ] PLEASE, KARL! 573 00:32:48,367 --> 00:32:52,233 KARL, IT'S KITTY! I'VE BEEN STABBED! 574 00:32:52,233 --> 00:32:55,733 Pelonero: AND SHE KNOWS KARL ROSS LIVES UP THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, 575 00:32:55,733 --> 00:32:57,067 AND SHE'S CALLING TO HIM. 576 00:32:57,067 --> 00:32:59,900 [ SOBBING ] 577 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:01,433 [ THUD ] 578 00:33:01,433 --> 00:33:04,133 [ DOOR OPENS ] 579 00:33:04,133 --> 00:33:07,133 [ SCREAMS ] OH, GOD! HELP! 580 00:33:07,133 --> 00:33:09,833 Cook: AND THEN THE MONSTER APPEARS AGAIN. 581 00:33:09,833 --> 00:33:13,267 NO! NO! KARL! 582 00:33:13,267 --> 00:33:17,067 Pelonero: AND HE POUNCES DOWN ON HER, AND HE STABS HER FIRST IN THE THROAT 583 00:33:17,067 --> 00:33:18,400 TO STOP HER FROM SCREAMING. 584 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,200 THEN HE STABS HER SEVERAL MORE TIMES. 585 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:23,733 [ SCREAMING CONTINUES ] 586 00:33:23,733 --> 00:33:25,733 AND HE PROCEEDS TO RAPE KITTY. 587 00:33:25,733 --> 00:33:28,067 [ KNIFE PLUNGING ] Kitty: [ SOBBING ] 588 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:41,833 Sang: AND NO ONE SAW YOU IN THE VESTIBULE WITH HER? 589 00:33:41,833 --> 00:33:44,767 THAT LITTLE MAN WHO LIVED UP ON TO OF THE STAIRS DID. 590 00:33:49,567 --> 00:33:52,100 [ DOOR OPENS, HINGES CREAK ] I HEARD THE DOOR OPEN. 591 00:33:56,433 --> 00:33:58,300 I LOOKED UP AT HIM. 592 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,700 [ GASPS ] 593 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:02,933 HE SHUT THE DOOR REAL QUICK. 594 00:34:10,933 --> 00:34:13,133 [ MUFFLED SOBBING ] 595 00:34:18,167 --> 00:34:20,700 I WASN'T WORRIED. HE WASN'T GONNA DO NOTHING. 596 00:34:26,667 --> 00:34:29,200 SIX DAYS AFTER KITTY WAS MURDERED, 597 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,300 THE NYPD HAD FOUND HER KILLER AND GOTTEN A FULL CONFESSION. 598 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:34,567 PRETTY FAST, RIGHT? 599 00:34:34,567 --> 00:34:36,967 AT THIS POINT, THE STORY HADN'T GONE MUCH 600 00:34:36,967 --> 00:34:38,467 BEYOND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN QUEENS. 601 00:34:38,467 --> 00:34:41,900 AND LIKE I SAID, THIS WAS ONE OF HUNDREDS OF MURDERS 602 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,667 IN NEW YORK CITY THAT YEAR. 603 00:34:55,467 --> 00:34:59,333 SO, WHY WAS IT THAT EIGHT MORE DAYS PASSED 604 00:34:59,333 --> 00:35:01,267 AND THEN KITTY GENOVESE'S NAME 605 00:35:01,267 --> 00:35:03,633 IS ON THE LIPS OF THE ENTIRE CITY? 606 00:35:03,633 --> 00:35:05,567 [ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ] 607 00:35:05,567 --> 00:35:10,500 WELL, THAT'S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD. 608 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,067 CHIEF. ROSENTHAL. 609 00:35:13,067 --> 00:35:15,067 HOW ARE YOU? DOING WELL. YOURSELF? 610 00:35:15,067 --> 00:35:16,467 GOOD, GOOD. 611 00:35:16,467 --> 00:35:17,900 AND IT ALL BEGAN 612 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:22,700 WITH A QUIET MEETING BETWEEN TWO VERY POWERFUL MEN. 613 00:35:27,567 --> 00:35:31,400 Woman: KITTY GENOVESE WAS MURDERED, 614 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,233 AND HER KILLER WAS CAUGHT SIX DAYS LATER. 615 00:35:33,233 --> 00:35:36,800 AND NEW YORK CITY HARDLY NOTICED. 616 00:35:39,833 --> 00:35:41,400 BUT TWO WEEKS AFTER THAT, 617 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:46,133 SHE WAS THE MOST FAMOUS MURDER VICTIM IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 618 00:35:46,133 --> 00:35:48,200 10 DAYS AFTER THE MURDER, 619 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,367 THE METROPOLITAN EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, 620 00:35:51,367 --> 00:35:53,267 ABE ROSENTHAL, GOES TO LUNCH 621 00:35:53,267 --> 00:35:55,767 WITH THE POLICE COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 622 00:35:55,767 --> 00:35:56,767 MICHAEL MURPHY. 623 00:35:56,767 --> 00:35:58,067 ROSENTHAL BEGINS TO ASK 624 00:35:58,067 --> 00:36:00,833 ABOUT ANOTHER MURDER CASE THAT HE WAS INTERESTED IN... 625 00:36:00,833 --> 00:36:03,433 I WAS WONDERING WHAT YOU COULD TELL ME ABOUT THAT. 626 00:36:03,433 --> 00:36:06,067 ...AND THE POLICE COMMISSIONER 627 00:36:06,067 --> 00:36:08,467 WASN'T READY TO TALK ABOUT THAT CASE. 628 00:36:08,467 --> 00:36:10,267 TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT, HE SAID, 629 00:36:10,267 --> 00:36:12,767 "BOY, WE HAD A DOOZY OF A CASE OUT IN QUEENS." 630 00:36:12,767 --> 00:36:16,433 38 WITNESSES WATCHED A GIRL GET KILLED... 631 00:36:16,433 --> 00:36:19,100 AND NOBODY TRIED TO SAVE HER. 632 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:23,067 ROSENTHAL FELT THE HACKLES ON THE BACK OF HIS NECK RISE UP. 633 00:36:23,067 --> 00:36:24,700 HE KNEW INSTANTLY 634 00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:29,067 THAT THIS WAS A STORY THAT HE WANTED TO PLAY UP. 635 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:34,133 Man: HER NEIGHBORS WATCHED A WOMAN DIE. 636 00:36:34,133 --> 00:36:37,267 SHE RECOGNIZED ONE OF THEM AND CALLED TO HIM FOR HELP 637 00:36:37,267 --> 00:36:39,167 WHILE SHE WAS BEING STABBED TO DEATH. 638 00:36:39,167 --> 00:36:40,633 BUT NO ONE ACTED. 639 00:36:40,633 --> 00:36:44,133 Pelonero: ON FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1964, 640 00:36:44,133 --> 00:36:47,200 THE NEW YORK TIMES PRINTED A STORY ON THEIR FRONT PAGE. 641 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:48,833 De May: AND THE HEADLINE READ, 642 00:36:48,833 --> 00:36:51,767 "37 WHO SAW MURDER DID NOT CALL THE POLICE." 643 00:36:51,767 --> 00:36:54,633 Woman: THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN 38, BUT EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES 644 00:36:54,633 --> 00:36:58,767 HAD TO ADMIT THAT KARL ROSS HAD CALLED THE POLICE...EVENTUALLY. 645 00:36:58,767 --> 00:37:00,733 Pelonero: IT SAID "FOR MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR, 646 00:37:00,733 --> 00:37:03,200 "38 RESPECTABLE, LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS WATCHED 647 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,233 "AS A WOMAN WAS STALKED AND STABBED 648 00:37:05,233 --> 00:37:06,533 ON THE STREET WHERE SHE LIVED." 649 00:37:06,533 --> 00:37:09,067 IMMEDIATELY, IT WAS PICKED UP BY OTHER NEWSPAPERS, 650 00:37:09,067 --> 00:37:10,400 AND IT WENT AROUND THE WORLD. 651 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,933 LIFE MAGAZINE SENT A REPORTER. 652 00:37:12,933 --> 00:37:16,567 MIKE WALLACE DID A RADIO SPECIAL CALLED "THE APATHETIC AMERICAN." 653 00:37:16,567 --> 00:37:18,167 THE IMAGE THAT WAS PORTRAYED, 654 00:37:18,167 --> 00:37:21,167 BOTH OF NEW YORK CITY AND OF KEW GARDENS IN PARTICULAR, 655 00:37:21,167 --> 00:37:22,933 WERE PEOPLE HAD BECOME SO HARDENED 656 00:37:22,933 --> 00:37:24,667 THAT THEY WERE NO LONGER AFFECTED 657 00:37:24,667 --> 00:37:26,833 BY ORDINARY HUMAN SUFFERING. 658 00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:34,367 BUT IT WAS WRONG. IT WASN'T THE WHOLE STORY. 659 00:37:35,433 --> 00:37:39,067 38 RESPECTABLE, LAW-ABIDING PEOPLE DID NOT WATCH 660 00:37:39,067 --> 00:37:42,200 A WOMAN BE STALKED AND STABBED FOR 30 MINUTES. 661 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,400 Pelonero: GANSBERG WROTE THAT THERE WERE THREE ATTACKS UPON KITTY. 662 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,300 Hellman: THERE WERE TWO ATTACKS. 663 00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:50,633 BUT THE REALLY TROUBLING THING, FROM AN ACCURACY POINT OF VIEW, 664 00:37:50,633 --> 00:37:52,267 IS THE 38 WITNESSES. 665 00:37:52,267 --> 00:37:54,333 EXACTLY WHAT IS A WITNESS? 666 00:37:54,333 --> 00:37:57,533 IS IT SOMEBODY WHO ACTUALLY SAW THE ATTACK? 667 00:37:57,533 --> 00:37:59,467 Cook: MANY OF THE "EAR WITNESSES," 668 00:37:59,467 --> 00:38:01,667 THEY GOT UP AND LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW. 669 00:38:01,667 --> 00:38:03,333 BY THAT TIME, THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE. 670 00:38:03,333 --> 00:38:08,400 AND THERE IS THE FALSE SPECIFICITY OF THE NUMBER 38. 671 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,967 NO ONE HAS KNOWN PRECISELY WHERE IT CAME FROM FOR HALF A CENTURY. 672 00:38:11,967 --> 00:38:13,733 I BELIEVE I FOUND THE DOCUMENT. 673 00:38:25,767 --> 00:38:31,067 IT IS A COLLECTION OF THE INITIAL INTERVIEWS. 674 00:38:31,067 --> 00:38:32,967 THERE ARE 38 ENTRIES, 675 00:38:32,967 --> 00:38:36,067 AND I BELIEVE THAT SOME HARRIED CIVIL SERVANT 676 00:38:36,067 --> 00:38:38,633 GAVE THAT NUMBER TO COMMISSIONER MURPHY, 677 00:38:38,633 --> 00:38:39,900 WHO GAVE IT TO THE TIMES, 678 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,967 AND IT ENTERS AMERICAN HISTORY FROM THERE. 679 00:38:44,633 --> 00:38:46,167 Kitty: HELP ME! 680 00:38:46,167 --> 00:38:47,633 THE STORY MADE IT SOUND 681 00:38:47,633 --> 00:38:50,100 AS IF WE ALL STOOD AROUND WATCHING KITTY GET KILLED, 682 00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:53,700 LIKE IT WAS PRESENTED TO US ON A STAGE UNDER A SPOTLIGHT 683 00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:57,067 AND WE TURNED OUR BACKS, BUT THAT'S NOT HOW IT WAS. 684 00:38:57,067 --> 00:39:00,400 Cook: IN 1964, YOU'RE NOT CALLING 911. 685 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,300 YOU'RE CALLING AND GETTING SOME DESK SERGEANT, 686 00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:05,100 AND YOU MAY WELL BE INVITED TO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. 687 00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:06,967 SERGEANT: I don't have time for this. 688 00:39:06,967 --> 00:39:08,367 THE 911 EMERGENCY-PHONE SYSTEM 689 00:39:08,367 --> 00:39:11,600 GREW FROM THE OUTCRY OVER KITTY'S MURDER. 690 00:39:14,133 --> 00:39:16,100 AND THEN THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE THE KOSHKINS. 691 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:17,367 THEY WANTED TO HELP 692 00:39:17,367 --> 00:39:19,600 BUT THOUGHT SURELY SOMEONE ELSE ALREADY DID. 693 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,267 I'M CALLING THE POLICE. 694 00:39:21,267 --> 00:39:24,767 De May: IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING, A NUMBER OF SPECIALISTS BEGAN STUDIES 695 00:39:24,767 --> 00:39:26,367 TO DETERMINE WHAT EXACTLY 696 00:39:26,367 --> 00:39:28,300 WOULD CAUSE BYSTANDERS TO FAIL TO INTERVENE. 697 00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:31,300 AND THE THEORIES THAT DEVELOPED FROM THOSE STUDIES 698 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:33,867 CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE BYSTANDER EFFECT, 699 00:39:33,867 --> 00:39:35,833 ALSO KNOWN AS THE GENOVESE SYNDROME. 700 00:39:35,833 --> 00:39:39,533 THE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESENT WHEN A PERSON IS IN PERIL, 701 00:39:39,533 --> 00:39:42,400 THE LESS CHANCE THAT PERSON HAS OF BEING HELPED. 702 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,967 De May: THE IDEA IS THAT "SOMEONE WILL CALL THE POLICE. 703 00:39:44,967 --> 00:39:46,200 IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ME." 704 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,733 AND PEOPLE HAVE A TENDENCY TO THINK 705 00:39:48,733 --> 00:39:50,400 THAT IF NO ONE ELSE IS HELPING, 706 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,767 MAYBE THE PERSON REALLY DOESN'T NEED HELP. 707 00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:58,067 SO, IT'S MUCH MORE ABOUT SOCIAL INHIBITION 708 00:39:58,067 --> 00:39:59,367 THAN IT IS ABOUT APATHY. 709 00:40:00,967 --> 00:40:03,833 IT WAS THE DESPICABLE BEHAVIOR OF TWO MEN 710 00:40:03,833 --> 00:40:05,500 THAT WE ALL GOT BLAMED FOR. 711 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:09,367 AND EVEN THEN, IF YOU LOOK AT IT FROM ANOTHER ANGLE, 712 00:40:09,367 --> 00:40:13,167 KARL ROSS' BEHAVIOR MADE A KIND OF SENSE. 713 00:40:13,167 --> 00:40:14,833 IT'S LIKELY THAT KARL ROSS WAS GAY. 714 00:40:14,833 --> 00:40:17,067 THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE A REASON 715 00:40:17,067 --> 00:40:18,967 NOT TO WANT TO CALL THE POLICE. 716 00:40:18,967 --> 00:40:21,667 Austin: THE POLICE HARASSED THE HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY. 717 00:40:21,667 --> 00:40:22,867 Kitty: [ SOBBING ] 718 00:40:22,867 --> 00:40:24,800 SO HE'S AFRAID TO TALK TO ANYBODY. 719 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,267 [ SOBBING, SCREAMING ] 720 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,767 AND THE REAL INSULT TO ALL OF US 721 00:40:34,767 --> 00:40:38,300 WAS THE ONE PERSON THE PAPER DIDN'T MENTION. 722 00:40:42,133 --> 00:40:45,533 THE PHONE RINGS, AND IT WAS A NEIGHBOR. 723 00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:58,000 MY MOM STARTED TO RUN PAST ME SAYING THAT KITTY WAS BLEEDING. 724 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,767 SOPHIE FARRAR, WHO IS ALL OF 4'11" TALL -- 725 00:41:01,767 --> 00:41:04,333 FOR ALL SHE KNOWS, THERE IS A MURDER IN PROGRESS 726 00:41:04,333 --> 00:41:06,233 AND SHE'S RUNNING STRAIGHT TO IT. 727 00:41:06,233 --> 00:41:09,967 HER HUSBAND IS STILL TRYING TO GET HIS PANTS ON AND FOLLOW HER. 728 00:41:09,967 --> 00:41:11,267 SHE DIDN'T HESITATE. 729 00:41:11,267 --> 00:41:14,700 OH, MY GOD. KITTY, WHAT HAPPENED? KITTY? 730 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:16,767 [ SOBBING ] IT'S -- IT'S SOPHIE. I'M HERE. 731 00:41:16,767 --> 00:41:20,367 WHEN SOPHIE FARRAR LEANS DOWN AND PUTS HER ARMS AROUND KITTY, 732 00:41:20,367 --> 00:41:22,700 KITTY, IN HER LAST MOMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 733 00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:25,933 IS WAVING HER HANDS, STILL TRYING TO FIGHT HER OFF. 734 00:41:25,933 --> 00:41:29,567 Sophie: KARL! KARL! 735 00:41:29,567 --> 00:41:33,067 [ Sobbing ] KARL, ARE YOU UP THERE? 736 00:41:33,067 --> 00:41:34,200 CALL THE POLICE! 737 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,233 SOPHIE? 738 00:41:36,233 --> 00:41:39,733 De May: SHE ORDERED KARL ROSS TO CALL THE POLICE. 739 00:41:41,367 --> 00:41:43,400 AND THAT WAS WHAT FINALLY MADE HIM DO SO. 740 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,167 I'M HERE. SOPHIE'S HERE. SOPHIE'S HERE. IT'S OKAY. 741 00:41:48,167 --> 00:41:52,333 Michael: MY MOM WAS CRADLING HER UNTIL THE AMBULANCE ARRIVED. 742 00:41:54,333 --> 00:41:56,367 [ SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE ] 743 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,900 [ INTRO TO DAVE VAN RONK'S "HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE" PLAYS ] 744 00:42:02,900 --> 00:42:06,100 Cook: KITTY GENOVESE FITS THE ROLE AS URBAN MARTYR. 745 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:09,933 THAT SOMEHOW TEACHES SOCIETY A LESSON ABOUT APATHY -- 746 00:42:09,933 --> 00:42:11,700 LET'S NOT BE APATHETIC. 747 00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:13,933 I DON'T BELIEVE 748 00:42:13,933 --> 00:42:17,467 THAT KITTY GENOVESE HAS TO BE SYMBOLIC OF SOMETHING. 749 00:42:17,467 --> 00:42:20,633 I DON'T THINK SHE DIED TO TEACH THE REST OF US A LESSON. 750 00:42:20,633 --> 00:42:24,167 APATHY DID NOT KILL KITTY GENOVESE. 751 00:42:24,167 --> 00:42:29,300 A MONSTER NAMED WINSTON MOSELEY KILLED KITTY GENOVESE. 752 00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:34,533 * HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE * 753 00:42:34,533 --> 00:42:36,367 KITTY BECAME FAMOUS FOR BEING 754 00:42:36,367 --> 00:42:39,100 THE WOMAN WHOSE CALLOUS NEIGHBORS WATCHED HER DIE -- 755 00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:44,200 A WOMAN NO ONE CARED ABOUT, NOT EVEN IN HER DARKEST HOUR. 756 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,700 BUT KITTY WAS MORE THAN THAT. 757 00:42:46,700 --> 00:42:49,833 SHE WAS AS FULL OF PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE 758 00:42:49,833 --> 00:42:51,233 AS ANY WOMAN. 759 00:42:51,233 --> 00:42:53,833 SHE LOVED AND WAS LOVED, 760 00:42:53,833 --> 00:42:56,933 AND SHE DESERVES BETTER FROM US NOW. 761 00:42:56,933 --> 00:43:02,300 * ...WAS A FRIEND OF MINE * 762 00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:05,600 * WHEN I HEAR HIS NAME * 763 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:10,367 * YOU KNOW, I JUST CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYING * 764 00:43:10,367 --> 00:43:17,167 * HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE * 765 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:28,067 * HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE * 766 00:43:28,117 --> 00:43:32,667 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 59062

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