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Podcast: 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Episode: The Genovese Syndrome
Description: When 28-year-old bar manager Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in New York in 1964, she was just one of the 636 murder victims in the city that year. No more than four paragraphs were written about her death in the newspaper. That all changed after The Times published a front-page article two weeks later, stating that 38 witnesses had seen Kitty's brutal attack taking place and did absolutely nothing. National outrage was sparked.Eventually, Kitty Genovese's murder took its place as one of the most famous ones in modern American history. Her story is still seen as a morality tale...