Ash Kelley
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So when the autopsy was initially conducted on Annie Mae Johnson, the coroner had to contend with the fact that she had been badly burned across large parts of her body, which obscured some of her injuries.
After having the body exhumed and x-rayed, the coroner discovered that indeed his original cause of death had been wrong.
The x-rays clearly showed six .22 caliber bullets in Johnson's body.
When he had originally conducted the autopsy, the entrance wounds had been so small that he'd mistaken them for puncture wounds caused by something like an ice pick.
Thus, he had listed it as stabbing.
This new revelation proved that not only had Winston Mosley killed Kitty Genovese, he had absolutely killed Annie Mae Johnson.
The fact that they said, no, you were wrong, like you told them, he just said, I shot her.
Like he's like, go ahead, figure it out.
Now, the murder of Kitty Genovese was a tragic event that scarred the neighborhood that it happened in.
But from an objective position, there was little about it that was, like, outrageously, like, out of the ordinary for, like, a horrible crime.
Like, it wasn't, it was horrible.
But it was, like, a horrible crime.
And had it not been for the news coverage that followed, it likely probably would have been one of those that we found and we're like, why didn't we know about this?