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Winston Moseley, Who Killed Kitty Genovese, Dies in Prison at 81
NY Times ^ | 4/4/16 | ROBERT D. McFADDEN

Posted on 04/05/2016 7:00:28 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Winston Moseley, who stalked, raped and killed Kitty Genovese in a prolonged knife attack in New York in 1964 while neighbors failed to act on her desperate cries for help — a nightmarish tableau that came to symbolize urban apathy in America — died on March 28, in prison. He was 81.

Patrick J. Bailey, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, confirmed the death on Monday. A medical examiner would determine the cause of death, Mr. Bailey said.

Mr. Moseley, a psychopathic serial killer and necrophiliac, died at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., near the Canadian border. He had been imprisoned for almost 52 years, since July 7, 1964, and was one of the state’s longest-serving inmates.

His life behind bars had been relatively eventful. Mr. Moseley was condemned to die in the electric chair, but in 1967, two years after New York State abolished most capital punishments, he won an appeal that reduced his sentence to an indeterminate life term. While at Attica Correctional Facility, in 1968, he escaped while on a hospital visit to Buffalo, raped a woman and held hostages at gunpoint before being recaptured. He joined in the 1971 Attica uprising; earned a college degree in 1977; and was rejected 18 times at parole hearings, the last time in 2015.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: attica; buffalo; clintoncorrectional; dannemora; inmates; kittygenovese; murder; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyc; obituary; patrickjbailey; queens; robertdmcfadden; winstonmoseley
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To: Impala64ssa
The Times article on his death never mentions the fact that narrative of Kitty Genovese's death was almost entirely fabricated through the dishonest reporting of their own newspaper.
21 posted on 04/05/2016 7:46:40 PM PDT by dead
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To: Impala64ssa

So thanks to Rocky, this guy lived to be old age at the taxpayer expense? The only expense the taxpayers should have had to pay was the prisons electric bill for 10 minutes usage of 500,000 volts and high amperage.


22 posted on 04/05/2016 7:50:10 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (HILLARY 2016 - SERIOUSLY? What are they thinking?)
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To: mass55th

Thank you for your service, ma’am.


23 posted on 04/05/2016 7:55:29 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nothing special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: mass55th

Thanks for posting your first-hand observations.


24 posted on 04/05/2016 7:55:50 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
So thanks to Rocky, this guy lived to be old age at the taxpayer expense?

Yup. He was my wonderful Republican Governor when I turned 21. My Republican Mayor was John V. Lindsay and my Republican Senator was Jakob K. Javits. No wonder I registered as an independent.

25 posted on 04/05/2016 8:09:33 PM PDT by Roccus (If your vote really counted, our leaders would never allow it to be cast.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The irony, a rapist dies at the Clinton Correctional Facility.


26 posted on 04/05/2016 8:09:59 PM PDT by Jumpmaster (AlGore has a large carbohydrate footprint!)
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To: mass55th
When he was at Auburn, I was told by other officers that the woman he raped came to see him regularly. They pointed her out to me one day while she was visiting. I believe she left money with the officers regularly to be put in his account.

WTF????
27 posted on 04/05/2016 8:20:54 PM PDT by farming pharmer ('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
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To: akalinin
"WTF????"

That's what we all said.

28 posted on 04/05/2016 8:28:10 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: lightman

Appreciate your kind words. Thank you.


29 posted on 04/05/2016 8:29:00 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: akalinin
the woman he raped came to see him regularly. They pointed her out to me one day while she was visiting. I believe she left money with the officers regularly to be put in his account.
Oh, yeah, now I remember, just goes to show, no good deed goes unpunished.
30 posted on 04/05/2016 8:29:57 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Auntie Mame

You’re very welcome. I’ve shared it on other threads over the years, and thought it was very appropriate now that the POS has gone to Hell.


31 posted on 04/05/2016 8:30:27 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Fiji Hill

Excellent post.

“Afterwards, many in the class complained that the film presented Communist propaganda.”

Where I was few enough of us were aware it was communist propaganda.

They did this stuff to us in high school also, in the 70’s. I didn’t know how leftist it was.


32 posted on 04/05/2016 9:04:34 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Fiji Hill

Oh yeah. And that Malvina Reynolds was a pice of work. Her and Country Joe.


33 posted on 04/05/2016 9:05:49 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kid Shelleen

It wasn’t “as bad” as it was portrayed, but it was very bad. IIRC, Ross (mentioned in the full NY Post story) was the one who opened the door, looked down the stairs as Moseley raped Genovese, and closed the door. One of the people that he called told the cops about. He denied it. Moseley confirmed it.

The neighborhood’s later complaint that thirty eighty people did not witness the crime and fail to report falls flat. At least a dozen people saw it and did nothing. The neighborhood looked like scum after that because it was scum.


34 posted on 04/05/2016 11:21:06 PM PDT by sig226
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To: ifinnegan

In my case I recall a teacher describing to us in a graph how a capitalist economy was a wave pattern of ups and downs but essentially flat across the graph. Then he overlaid on the same graph how a communist economy while starting out below the capitalist economy steadily rises in a straight line and eventually is above that of the capitalist one. I have forgotten everything else
about this teacher and the class he taught but I recall
that graph of his.


35 posted on 04/06/2016 2:03:41 AM PDT by xp38
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To: AC86UT89

Other than two people calling the police, and the one grandmother holding her while she dies, what sort of help was provided?
Did anyone actually do something to help her?


36 posted on 04/06/2016 2:38:15 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Impala64ssa

The sonofabitch should have been dead by 1965.


37 posted on 04/06/2016 5:22:52 AM PDT by weezel
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