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Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences
by Catherine Pelonero
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
Catherine Susan Genovese, also known as Kitty, was born in 1935 to Italian American parents in Brooklyn, New York. Kitty was briefly married, but that marriage was annulled due to her sexuality. She worked several jobs, with her last job being a bartender. (She was even once arrested for bookmaking, because she took bets from customers on horse races. This is part of the reason people think she had ties to the Mafia, as well as her last name being Genovese.) In the wee morning hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty was followed home to the apartment she shared with her girlfriend by a man. He accosted her with a knife as she was going into her apartment. I won't ruin the book with more details about her attack and death, but it is a fact that her last moments on earth were horrifying.
This book is currently free to listen to on Audible Plus, and it wasn't very long. I listened to most of it while I was folding laundry and cleaning up the kitchen. This book cleared up a lot of misinformation that I had about this case. I, like many others, thought she was in with the Mafia. There was also a thing going around that there were dozens of witnesses who did nothing to help her, which wasn't entirely true at all. I thought this shed some light on the "bystander effect" where it is posited that people are less likely to help someone if there are other people present. It's a very bizarre concept to me, and this book was enlightening in that aspect. This was a well written book, as well as interesting. If you are looking for a fairly short true crime listen, look into this one.
This book is currently free to listen to on Audible Plus, and it wasn't very long. I listened to most of it while I was folding laundry and cleaning up the kitchen. This book cleared up a lot of misinformation that I had about this case. I, like many others, thought she was in with the Mafia. There was also a thing going around that there were dozens of witnesses who did nothing to help her, which wasn't entirely true at all. I thought this shed some light on the "bystander effect" where it is posited that people are less likely to help someone if there are other people present. It's a very bizarre concept to me, and this book was enlightening in that aspect. This was a well written book, as well as interesting. If you are looking for a fairly short true crime listen, look into this one.