New York City, 1964 - a young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop—a murder the New York Times called “a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change.” The victim, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of thirty-eight neighbors who “didn’t want to get involved.” Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and launched a sociological theory known as the “Bystander Effect.”
Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, author and journalist, Kevin Cook, presents the real Kitty Genovese and a new look at her murder case.
