[Kid Shelleen]

Here is very good but lengthy article about the case:
To summarize the case was made famous by The NY Times "37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call" article by Martin Gansberg. It was an urban legend that there were 37 wintessess.

-- The killer, Winston Moseley was a serial rapist and burler.

-- The most shocking detail:
in 1968, during a routine transfer to a hospital in Buffalo, Moseley managed to overpower a guard and steal his gun. He later took five people hostage and raped a woman in front of her husband.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/kitty_genovese/1.html

[Stepan12]

The killer, Winston Moseley was a serial rapist and burler.

Despite the urban legend of the 38 selfish bystanders and its symbolism for a cold and heartless city, how was Winston Mosley caught?

Winston Mosley was burglarizing an apartment. A bystander called the police and then went over to Mosley's car while he was gone and removed the distributor cap so Mosley wouldn't get away.

As the Kitty Genovese case is famous for non intervention, her killer was caught by an intervention of all things.