Posted on 11/16/2013 11:58:36 AM PST by 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 16th 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. …
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“He was a serial rapist and murderer (and thief) so I highly doubt it even in what passes for New York justice.”
So he was worse than Ted Kennedy exactly, how?
(Yeah, I know - Massachusetts.)
I used to go to the bar The Olde Bailey’s across the street for the building where the people lived that didn’t call the police. I had a run in with a bad actor outside the bar one day. Two weeks later I saw in the daily news that he drowned his girlfriend in the tub in the same building.
This man must never be let out of prison:
From wikipedia:
Moseley’s trial began on June 8, 1964 and was presided over by Judge J. Irwin Shapiro. Moseley initially pleaded “not guilty” but his plea was later changed by his attorney to “not guilty by reason of insanity”.[22] On Thursday, June 11, Moseley was called to testify by his attorney who hoped that Moseley’s testimony would convince the jury would that he was “a schizophrenic personality and legally insane”. During his testimony, Moseley described the events on the night he murdered Genovese, along with the two other murders he confessed to and numerous other burglaries and rapes. The jury deliberated for seven hours before returning a guilty verdict on June 11 at around 10:30 p.m.[16]
On Monday, June 15, 1964, Moseley was sentenced to death. When the sentence was read by the jury foreman, Moseley showed no emotion while some spectators applauded and others cheered. When calm had returned, Judge Shapiro added, “I don’t believe in capital punishment, but when I see this monster, I wouldn’t hesitate to pull the switch myself!”[23] On June 1, 1967, the New York Court of Appeals found that Moseley should have been able to argue that he was “medically insane” at the sentencing hearing when the trial court found that he had been legally sane, and the initial death sentence was reduced to an indeterminate sentence/lifetime imprisonment.[24]
On March 18, 1968, Moseley escaped from custody while being transported back to prison from Meyer Memorial Hospital in Buffalo, New York where he had undergone minor surgery for a self-inflicted injury.[25][26] Moseley hit the transporting correctional officer, stole his weapon, and then fled to a nearby vacant home owned by a Grand Island couple, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Kulaga. Moseley stayed at the residence undetected for three days. On March 21, the Kulagas went to check on the home where they encountered Moseley. He held the couple hostage for over an hour during which he bound and gagged Matthew Kulaga and raped his wife. He then took the couple’s car and fled.[25][27] Moseley made his way to Grand Island where, on March 22, he broke into another home and took a woman and her daughter hostage. He held them hostage for two hours before releasing them unharmed. Moseley surrendered to police shortly thereafter.[28] He was later charged with escape and kidnapping to which he pleaded guilty. Moseley was given two additional fifteen-year sentences concurrent with his life sentence.[29]
In 1971, Moseley participated in the Attica Prison riots.[30] In the late 1970s Moseley obtained a B.A. in Sociology in prison from Niagara University.[31]
Moseley became eligible for parole in 1984. During his first parole hearing, Moseley told the parole board that the notoriety he faced due to his crimes also made him a victim stating, “For a victim outside, it’s a one-time or one-hour or one-minute affair, but for the person who’s caught, it’s forever.”[32] At the same hearing, Moseley claimed he never intended to kill Genovese and that he considered her murder to be a mugging because “[...] people do kill people when they mug them sometimes.” The board denied his request for parole.[33] Moseley remains in prison after being denied parole a sixteenth time in November 2013.[7]
In 1962 two girls that young living together wouldn’t have particularly said “lesbian” to anyone unless they were really strange looking or acting. Newsday many years ago ran a story the upshot of which was that what actually happened was that everyone assumed that SOMEONE would call the cops...no one did.
I’ve seen quite a few 911 worthy incidents since I’ve been carrying my cell phone and I’ve never bothered calling the cops as I assumed that they would receive 10 or 12 other calls.
Boondock Saints
Yeah, the roommate eventually outed her but lesbianism as an enigma was also beginning to be cracked societally. The singles scene was transforming dating customs just as Kitty chose to move away from her family so that she could live without the constant scrutiny and disapproval of her parents. The early ‘60’s are a fascinating period in so many respects.
I have never heard of this murder case or the perp. After a little googling and reading about him, to say he should never get out is an understatement. Human garbage if ever there was. Should have been sent to the electric chair 48 years ago.
“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.”
Some here remember. It has been said that was the exact moment that New York was confirmed dead as a livable city. There were some signs of life when Staten Island’s secession was halted by the election of Giuliani. But who knows where it’s going now with the Sandinistas in power?
I remember New York then. My Dad’s war college class visited the U.N. in October 1963 by train which came into Pennsylvania Station just weeks before it was demolished. Went to the World’s Fair in 1964 & 1965, stayed with friends in Manhasset L.I.
The murder of Kitty Genovese shook the nation, even just after the JFK assassination. I was 15, remember it clear as a bell.
Again, hope her killer croaks in lockup. Vermin like that & their liberal enablers are what ruin a city. I’m afraid New York is in for a wild ride that will make David Dinkins look like a hanging judge.
Today the name Kitty Genovese remains synonymous with public apathy, although almost nothing is known of who she actually was. It was not reported in 1964 that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian and that she shared her home in Kew Gardens with her girlfriend, Mary Ann Zielonko. In this piece, the first broadcast interview she has ever granted, Mary Ann remembers Kitty and the time they shared.
http://soundportraits.org/on-air/remembering_kitty_genovese/
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.
Living with another woman, not married or dating men at 28 and holding down he job as a bar manager at a sports bar would definitely have merited suspicion.
At 2 that morning, Winston Moseley, 29, had slipped out of the bed he shared with his wife in Ozone Park. He cruised Queens Blvd., seeking to scratch his psychopathic itch. Fate led him to Kitty Genovese.
Moseley sprinted after Genovese and twice buried a knife blade in her back. She cried out, “Oh, my God, he stabbed me! Please help me!”
Lights flicked on in a 10-story apartment building on Austin St. One citizen, Robert Mozer, raised his window and shouted, “Let that girl alone!”
Moseley ran to his car and drove off.
Some residents later said they assumed the assault was the usual closing-time caterwauling from Old Bailey, a boisterous corner bar. At least one man - the father of a teenager who saw the attack - said he phoned police.
Genovese staggered around back of her two-story building, out of sight of the witnesses. She was trying to make it home to her roommate.
But she was stymied by a locked door and collapsed near the entrance, clinging to consciousness. Her neighbors apparently were unaware of her dire circumstances.
Moseley sat in his car a few blocks away and waited to see whether police arrived. When they didn’t, he made the remarkable decision to return and finish the job he had started.
That the people in Kew Gardens heard the screams, but ASSUMED "someone else" would have already called the police.
New Yorkers may be insular and "not want to get involved", but geez, they aren't uncaring monsters. Not in 1964, not in 2013.
” I’m afraid New York is in for a wild ride that will make David Dinkins look like a hanging judge.”
Same here. And it doesn’t help with others on this supposedly conservative site interjecting that they hope New Yorkers suffer, which presumably includes the minority of conservatives here, in their condemnation. So much for holding on to American territories American since the country’s founding.
I’m glad he got to see the old Penn Station before it was demolished, truly grand, and a much better way to start a day than the commercial hamster-tunnels that replaced it.
Kitty Genovese’s attacker was vile enough to have raped again, during an escape from custody. He was meant to get the death penalty at his original trial, with the judge even claiming he’d be willing to perform the execution. Post-Dinkins, New York cleaned house a bit. So here’s hoping that after the Sandinista mayoralty New York will really clean house like never before.
I never realized that he wasn't.
I thought the same.
And I guess I thought he had also never been nabbed.
What was the area like? Is Kew Gardens a “nice” area of NYC? Or was it “rough” in 1964?
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