Parole denied for killer of NYC’s Kitty Genovese

Associated Press ^ | Nov 15, 2013 9:52 PM EST

[Olog-hai]

The New York City man convicted of killing bartender Kitty Genovese in a headline-grabbing 1964 murder has been denied parole for the 16^th time.

The state Division of Parole announced Friday that the board denied 78-year-old Winston Moseley’s request because his release would undermine respect for the law. Moseley's been in prison for 49 years. …

[DemforBush]

I honestly didn’t know they ever nabbed the killer in the Kitty Genovese case. I assumed he got away.

Good that his parole was denied. Let him rot there until he croaks.

[Beowulf9]

I wonder if Kitty was related to the famous mob family, Genovese?

[No Truce With Kings]

Not that I mind this guy staying in prison, but isn’t it kind of late for the state of New York to be worrying undermine respect for the law? As far as I can tell, that’s a gone goose in New York.

If this poor schlub had just given a bit more in campaign contributions to various Democrats he would be a free man today. (It’s not as if the Democrats check to see if the contributor is clean.)

[No Truce With Kings]

“I wonder if Kitty was related to the famous mob family, Genovese?”

If she had anything other than a very distant relationship this guy would not be in prison right now. He’d have fed the fishes long time since. So I don’t think so.

[trisham]

It doesn't seem so:

From Wikipedia: "Born in New York City, the daughter of Rachel (née Petrolli) and Vincent Andronelle Genovese, she was the eldest of five children in a lower-middle class Italian American family and was raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn. After her mother witnessed a murder in the city, the family moved to Connecticut in 1954. Genovese, nineteen at the time and a recent graduate of Prospect Heights High School in Brooklyn, chose to remain in the city, where she had lived for nine years. At the time of her death, she was working as a bar manager at Ev's Eleventh Hour Sports Bar on Jamaica Avenue and 193rd Street in Hollis, Queens."

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“I wonder if Kitty was related to the famous mob family, Genovese?”

Possible, I suppose. But I would think that if she was, this guy woulda been shanked,, many, many years ago.

[elcid1970]

Convicted killers who croak in stir usually have no one to claim the body. Fitting.

What everyone has forgotten was the scandal over how poor Kitty Genovese screamed for help and was ignored; it took several slashing attacks for the murderer to finally kill her. No one even bothered to call the police. This was shocking at the time, in 1964.

The murder of Miss Genovese immortalized the shameful phrase, “I didn’t want to get involved.”

[Stepan12]

The chief cop at the time told "the New York Times" a phony story of 38 selfish bystanders to the event to distract the "New York Times" from publicizing the New York Police's arrest of a man for a different murder that Mosley confessed to. Then as now, "The New York Times" publishes phony stories and they are believed for years; e.g., a "massacre" by Menachem Begin's Irgun at the Dir Yassin village.

"Superfreakonomics" broke what is the probably real story of Kitty Genovese's murder and the selfishness of the bystanders.

[Gamecock]

Every once in a while I remember hearing about this murder growing up.

A few years ago I lived in NY and on occasion would take the LIRR to JFK and the train would stop at Kew Gardens. One day I looked up Kew Gardens and saw that was where she was murdered and read a lot more into the circumstances.

Tragic and interesting read.

[erlayman]

He was a serial rapist and murderer (and thief) so I highly doubt it even in what passes for New York justice.

[onyx]

LOL.

You’re likely right.

I reckon in this guy’s case, “life” meant “life.”

This case is too well known.

[Gamecock]

Every once in a while I remember hearing about this murder growing up.

A few years ago I lived in NY and on occasion would take the LIRR to JFK and the train would stop at Kew Gardens. One day I looked up Kew Gardens and saw that was where she was murdered and read a lot more into the circumstances.

Tragic and interesting read.

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[Patriot Babe]

Well there is a theory of why many didn’t call the police to try to help her. Kitty Genovese happens to be a lesbian and many in the neighborhood pretty much suspected since she was living with her partner Mary Ann. So perhaps there was some prejudice against her. Still it is wrong no matter what their orientation is, I myself would not be silent if I witness a crime unless they are a mob.

[Steely Tom]

If I'm not mistaken, this murder was the original source of the sentence "I don't want to get involved" in American life.

[heylady]

I was a junior in high school and did an oral report on this case. I was 16 at the time and couldn’t understand why no one would help her. I remember coming totally unglued by the end of my presentation. Little did I know just how bad things would get in this country.

[Arthur McGowan]

I lived on Lefferts Blvd. for awhile in 1979, a couple of blocks away from the scene. Creeped me out to see the block where it happened.

[Stepan12]

The Kitty Genovese story revisted

I don't want to use up too much band with by reprinted the latest version of the story, but I believe the chief cop told "the New York Times" that hokey story of the 38 selfish bystanders in order to cover up his department's incompetence in arresting a person for another murder that Winston Mosley confessed to when he was caught. I am not even sure if they had 911 in those days and the person that did call the police when Mosley was attacking Kitty Genovese wasn't sure what was happening because it was so dark.

[mass55th]

I worked in NY State's prison system for 25 years, having started as an officer at Auburn in the fall of 1980. Moseley was there, working as a porter in the administration building. Being a rookie, I worked various jobs and hours during the first year. One job I covered was a post called the Wire Gate. This was where inmates heading up to the administration building, medical department, etc., had to show ID, and be cleared to pass to that area. This is where I first saw Moseley. He was on his way to work up front, and stopped at the gate to give me his name and show his ID. His name sounded familiar to me, as well as his face, but I couldn't place him. It wasn't until other officers told me that he was the murderer of Kitty Genovese. He'd look familiar to me because I had previously watched a program featuring, I believe, Dan Rather interviewing him. He must have been up for parole at the time, and they'd done a segment on it.

I'm a female, and there weren't that many of us working at Auburn back then. On one of his trips through the wire gate, Moseley asked me what the initial K. on my nametag stood for. Had I been quicker, I should have said "Kitty," but I simply told him it was none of his business, and he never asked again.

In 1968, while at Attica, Moseley escaped from custody while on an outside hospital visit. If anyone is interested in reading about this incident, it's covered at Wikipedia:

Winston Moseley

I've always wondered how someone with murder, escape, rape, and kidnapping on their record managed to get a cushy porter job in the prison's admin building, especially in light of the fact that access to the outside of the prison was only a couple of electronic gates away.