Even 60 Minutes legend Mike Wallace, who also dramatically reported on the Kitty Genovese murder, passes the journalistic buck when probed by her brother. “I think to a certain degree it was a ...

Kitty Genovese's murder became a symbol of "the bystander effect," but her family and other loved ones are still trying to publicly correct the inaccurate details of her death in the decades since. In ...

New Yorkers have long been haunted by the story of Kitty Genovese ... the "bystander effect" that grew out of Genovese's murder was enshrined as an urban legend. The infamous story has been ...

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Social psychologists Bibb Latané and John Darley popularized the concept of the bystander effect following the infamous murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City in 1964. The 28-year-old woman ...

On 13 March 1964 Kitty Genovese was murdered in Queens, in New York. Kitty was attacked in the early hours of the morning outside her apartment block. It was reported at the time that dozens of ...

Kitty's brother, Bill Genovese, was sixteen back then. He set out to find out what actually happened that night. The documentary about the case is called The Witness. (Picture: Kitty Genovese.

In 1964, Kitty Genovese was killed outside her apartment ... but none of them acted or went to Genovese’s aid. The infamous murder launched decades of studies investigating the “bystander ...