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He even told them about how he'd stolen her wallet and kept the money, throwing the rest of the billfold into the weeds as he was on his way to work the next morning.

Mosley also claimed that as he was driving home after killing Kitty, he spotted a man sleeping in his car by the side of the road.

He approached the car and tapped on the driver's side window with the bloody knife.

Jesus Christ.

I'm sure.

That man's probably like, what?

Yeah.

And to tap on the window with a bloody knife.

To say that you're a psychopath.

No, he absolutely is.

To the detectives, the whole story seemed fucking bizarre.

And Mosley was so forthcoming that they wondered whether he was even telling the truth.

They were like, is this real?

Right.

But he had no reason to lie.

And he seemed to know too much about the murder to be a false confession.

So there was little doubt that Winston Mosley had killed Kitty Genovese.

But that wasn't all.

After he'd finished confessing to the robberies around Queens and the murder of Kitty Genovese, he also confessed to murdering 24-year-old Annie Mae Johnson a week earlier.

The details of that one are remarkably similar to those of Kitty's murder.