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Imagine a black Kitty Genovese: Winston Moseley, her murderer, asked an important question about race and justice
“Would anybody remember or care about Kitty Genovese if she had been black?” That’s the very good question her just-deceased murderer, Winston Moseley, posed to me more than once in the scores of letters he wrote me. I first wrote to Moseley in 2009, care of Clinton...
Voodoo Ramblings: The Bizarre Case of Gail Trait
It was late on the night of Sunday, July 16, 1978 when neighbors began hearing terrible shrieks coming from the upper flat of a two-family home at 122 Montana Avenue in Buffalo, New York. One of them thought Gail Trait was “whipping the kids.” No one called police...
The Truth About Kitty Genovese
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The 21st century revisionism of the iconic and infamous 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, the young woman attacked on a street in Kew Gardens, Queens and slain in a hallway of her apartment building while her pleas for help went...