I don’t.
The press has distorted the story for years, BUT I am not convinced by the revisionism (such as the Crime to Remember with its patronising narration) that argues nobody did anything wrong that night, and acted as they should.
IMO there were people, even if far from 38 people, who could have saved that poor girl’s life. There were things that could have been done easily that saved her, and they weren’t. 38 people may not have been cowards that night, but some were. Even if its three or six, that’s three or six too many.
This isn’t to bash a city, a city btw I like a great deal, and wish to return to, its just criticism of people. I’d say the same if she’d been murdered in Glasgow.
p.s the 1974 case was Sandra Zahler.
I believe when the cops arrived, she was in the arms of one of her neighbors.
You have to understand the terrain of Queens and its various parking lots and alleys on a cold winter night. On very cold nights on these amazingly wide boulevards, almost no one is out. That is why her vicious killer (who, after all, is the responsible person here) was able to accomplish all of what he did to the poor woman. This was a made-up story to fit the agenda that middle class people were cold and heartless. In other words, typical left-wing ‘60s ideology that elected Lindsay and then proved to be his undoing.
I don’t blame the neighbors of poor Kitty and I don’t blame the poor pedestrians who had to witness the vicious murder of a hero.