Linda K Carroll was the mother of two living in Crestview, Florida.

She was very artistic and as the oldest child had enjoyed babysitting her younger siblings.

On September 25, 1984, she had gotten home from work in the early evening.

A few hours later, neighbors heard a scream on their street.

This was followed by the sound of a car speeding away.

When a friend came by the next morning to pick Linda up for work,

she wasn't there.

She was never seen again.

I'm Ed Denzel and this is unfound. Oh, Kitty Genovese, have you heard of her? Unless you were the truest of true crime junkies, you probably haven't. She was stabbed to death in Queens, New York City on March 13th, 1964. And although her death was horrible and unfortunate,

there were many murders in New York City that year that were just as terrible as hers.

What made hers unique were the circumstances.

It was her murder that brought into the crime lexicon the term bystander effect.

Wikipedia says that the bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon in which

individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

The reason the term came into being due to Kitty's murder

is because several people who knew her, heard the attack,

heard her screaming, and did nothing, not even calling the police.

Why?

All of them took for granted that somebody else would do it.

Not to mention that some of them just didn't want to get involved.

Luckily for Kitty's family, her murderer was caught anyway.

His name was Winston Mosley.

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