Ash Kelley

That's just a fucking crazy thing to write down.

And for anyone else, they simply just accepted what they heard in passing.

Life in the city had become so hard and so bad that people were even afraid, too afraid to intervene to save the life of a young woman being attacked in front of them on the street.

That was the message.

For decades, that was the story of Kitty Genovese.

Not one of a young woman cut down in the prime of her fucking life, but one of urban apathy and cowardice.

And it would remain that way until someone...

finally decided to ask some more probing questions and say, wait a minute, how could this have possibly happened?

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.