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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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 ...

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 ...

Kevin Cook A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of The Dad Report and Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America.His ninth book ...

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 ...