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I'm a female, and started working as a Correction Officer at Auburn Prison in September 1980. I remember Winston Moseley. He was an Administrative Building Porter, which was a rather cushy job for someone who had not only murdered Kitty Genovese, but escaped from custody while serving his time at Attica. He was on an emergency medical trip for having shoved something up his butt. Somehow he escaped custody of the two officers. He ended up taking a husband and wife hostage at their home, and he repeatedly raped the wife, while the husband, who was tied up, had to watch. 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.

One of my first posts at Auburn was giving other officers breaks, and covering their job while they were on that break. One of the posts I covered for break was called the wire gate. This was the gate all convicts had to check in with before being allowed to continue up into the Administration Building. It was when Moseley came to the gate, that I thought he looked familiar. When he showed me his ID card, I remembered where I'd seen him. It was on a TV news program on either CBS or NBC, that had aired several years before. I recalled that he was the one who had killed Kitty Genovese. The name tags we officers wore had our first initial and our last names. Moseley thought himself a ladies' man, and asked me what the initial K. stood for. I told him it was none of his business. It was only after he passed that I realized I should have busted his chops and said "Kitty." He was still at Auburn when I transferred in December of 1983, to the facility I retired from in 2003. It did my heart good to see he finally croaked. He should have been dead a long time ago like so many of other scum suckers like him.

Thank you for your service, ma’am.

Thanks for posting your first-hand observations.

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????