Selects: The Kitty Genovese Story
Stuff You Should Know
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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Most people have heard of the story of Kitty Genovese. She was murdered near her apartment in 1964 and her neighbors didn't do much to help. It caused a nationwide outcry, but the story has often been misrepresented. In this classic episode, we set the record straight.
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| 1:03.8 | Hey everybody, it's me, Josh, and for this week's Select, I've chosen our 2016 episode |
| 1:09.4 | on the murder of Kitty Geneve. Her story is fairly famous. |
| 1:14.3 | She was murdered while an entire apartment block of people watched and did nothing. But that's not |
| 1:20.0 | exactly the real story. Like most things in life, there's more to it, and we explained what |
| 1:24.9 | actually happened. We relied a lot on the excellent documentary The Witness for this episode, and I highly recommend |
| 1:31.7 | watching it. |
| 1:32.7 | In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this one. |
| 1:39.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:48.7 | Thank you. to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry. |
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