S1 Ep8: Kitty Genovese: A Murder with 38 Witnesses

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As a 28-year-old woman screamed for help on an otherwise quiet New York City street, neighbors roused from sleep ... and then largely did nothing. The 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese would soon represent apathy in America and spark the creation of a centralized phone number that ultimately changed how the entire nation reported emergencies. While Kitty's case will go down in history as a driving force that launched 9-1-1, the nuances of the crime -- and people's reactions to it -- have been misunderstood for decades.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:00.0	Hello, you.
0:01.6	Listening to your favorite podcast again.
0:04.9	A little predicted beloved you, don't you think?
0:06.7	My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst that has brought me to London.
0:09.9	I spend my days as a professor and my nights with friends.
0:13.2	It's a generous way to describe them, but I have to stay close.
0:15.7	There's a killer out there picking them off,
0:18.7	all while trying to frame me.
0:20.5	I laugh at the irony if it weren't so serious.
0:23.0	Someone is watching me.
0:24.2	I can feel it.
0:25.3	Is it you?
0:26.4	You, now streaming only on Netflix.
0:36.4	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking
0:40.5	that they earn the label crime of the century.
0:44.5	But the stories that made headlines and decades passed
0:47.6	don't necessarily remember today.
0:52.5	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author.
0:54.8	And in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case
0:59.4	that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
1:05.2	This is crimes of the centuries.
1:08.1	When a 28 year old woman was viciously stabbed to death at the side of her New York apartment,
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