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When 28-year-old bar manager, Kitty Genevese, was stabbed to death in New York in 1964,

she was just one of the 636 murder victims in the city that year. No more than four

paragraphs were written about her death in the newspaper. That all changed after the Times

published a front page article two weeks later, stating that 38 witnesses had seen Kitty's

brutal attack taking place and did absolutely nothing.

National outrage was sparked, and eventually Kitty Genevise's murder took its place as one of the most famous in modern American history.

Her story is still seen as a morality tale almost 60 years later.

But what if the story had been wrong all this time?

Catherine Kitty Genevese was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 7, 1935, two Italian-American parents, Vincent, and Rachel Genevese.

She was raised Catholic alongside her four younger siblings.

Kitty was known for her energy and zest for life and remembered as an outstanding student,

graduating from Prospect Heights High School in 1953.

Soon after, the Genevese family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut,

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