Winston Moseley, who murdered Kitty Genovese in March of 1964 was at Attica in 1968, when he stuck a soup can up his butt, in order to be taken to the outside hospital. It had to be surgically removed. At the hospital, he attacked one of his escorting officers (NY State only allows one officer to be armed when outside escorting inmates). He took the officer's pistol, and fled the hospital. While on foot, he broke into the vacant home of an elderly woman who was living with her daughter and husband in Grand Island, NY. The husband and wife would check out the property on a regular basis, and have someone come in to clean. After getting a call from the cleaning woman that something wasn't right at the home, Mrs. Kulaga called the Buffalo Police who said they would check the property out. She'd also told the police at the time that there wasn't anything valuable at the property. The next morning Mrs. Kugala remembered that her grandfather's pistol was in the attic, and called the police back to tell them that.
In the meantime, the couple decided to check the property on their own, and when they entered the home, they discovered Moseley holding the pistol he had taken from the C.O. He took all their clothes off, tied up the husband, then raped his wife. When he was finished, he tied up Mrs. Kulaga, stole their money, and fled the house taking their car. Moseley was caught two days later.
I remember the Kitty Genovese murder. I was a junior in high school. I also remember watching a TV news program sometime in the 70's that featured one of the network newspeople interviewing Moseley in prison. I believe he was filing an appeal at the time.
Several years later in 1980, I took the job as Correctional Officer, and went to work at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York. Imagine my surprise when on one of my first assignments, who comes strolling up tp pass through the gate up to the administration building, but Winston Moseley. I knew exactly who he was, but didn't let on. Being a female , he tried being chatty, wanted to know who I was, etc. He specifically asked me what the letter K. of my first name stood for on my name tag. I told him it wasn't any of his business, and he left for his job of porter in the administration building. Had I been on the ball, and thought faster, I should have told him my first name was Kitty. I would have loved to have seen his face.
It was common knowledge that Mrs. Kulaga regularly came to see Moseley in Auburn prison, and would bring him packages. She wasn't a spring chicken, but I wondered if she was a religious person, and felt that by visiting her attacker, she'd be able to deal with what she and her husband had gone through. It's a wonder that he let the Kulaga's live.
Moseley died at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York in 2016 at the age of 81. I never could understand how someone who had escaped custody, attacked people and stole a weapon, along with raping a woman over and over, how that POS ever got the job of porter up in the Administration Building, where mostly female employees worked. The day I heard he died, I jumped up and down for joy. He was truly evil, and I hope he's rotting in Hell as I write.