Ash Kelley

Now, following his arrest and arraignment, Winston Mosley was briefly held in a psychiatric hospital where he was evaluated and deemed to be sane.

Wow, that's even scarier.

Worse.

In June 1964, Mosley went on trial for the murder of Kitty Genovese, where he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

I was like, you were just found sane.

You were literally deemed sane.

By that point, he had been charged with Annie Mae Johnson's murder the month before Kitty's death and the murder of 15-year-old Barbara Kralik in Queens the previous July.

This guy is a fucking crazy person.

Which I want to go back and try to look further into those two cases, so we'll touch upon that again.

As evidence of his insanity, Mosley's lawyer cited his client's willingness to confess to the crimes.

Despite the lack of evidence that conclusively tied him to the murders.

It's a wild, weird thing to do, but it's not insane.

But it's not insane.

Regardless of his explanation and admittedly bizarre behavior, less than a week after the trial began, he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

But that was eventually commuted to life in prison.

Mm-hmm.

Four years later, he broke away from a prison guard in Buffalo, New York, and escaped from jail briefly before being recaptured and returned to the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.

In the years that followed, he appealed his case and repeatedly petitioned for parole, but was denied each time.

During his final hearing for parole in 2015.

Holy shit, what?