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.”
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.
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.
“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?