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Before Shapiro stood a slim, impassive Negro named Winston Moseley, 29. In the course of confessions to police and his own horrifying testimony at the trial, Moseley had admitted murdering three women, setting fire to the genital organ of one victim, raping "four or five" others, robbing and attempting to rape even more. He had attacked lone women on New York streets, using a single-shot .22 rifle, a pistol, a steak knife, a hunting knife and a screwdriver. He was also a necrophiliac. Said a psychiatrist in court: "He told me he got no thrill with live women...
...Until She Was Quiet." The father of three children, a $100-a-week business accounting machine operator and a sometime Baptist, Moseley owned a $16,000 home in Queens, had five pedigreed German shepherd dogs, drove a 1960 white Corvair, and gave every sign of respectability-in the daytime. But after dark, he became a savage...
...crime for which he was finally convicted occurred about 3 a.m. last March 13 when Moseley, armed with a bone-handled German hunting knife, was cruising in his Corvair through the quiet streets of Queens. In calm, almost dispassionate testimony, he told the shocked courtroom: "I just set out to find any girl that was unattended and I was going to kill her." The girl he spotted was Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, driving her red Fiat home from work. Moseley followed until she parked in a lot just 35 yds. from her apartment home...
When Kitty left her car, she noticed Moseley lurking nearby, walked nervously toward a street light, then began to run. Recalled Moseley: "I could run much faster than she could. And I jumped on her back and stabbed her several times. She fell to the ground and I kneeled over her." Kitty shrieked: "Oh my God, I've been stabbed! Please help me! Please help...
Lights flashed on throughout the apartment building. One man threw open his bedroom window, bellowed down to the street, "Let that girl alone." Moseley hurried back to his car, while Kitty-stabbed four times-staggered away. Moseley stayed in his car only long enough to change from a stocking cap to a black fedora, then he returned to stalk the bleeding girl. Of the shout from the building, Moseley recalled: "I had a feeling that this man would close his window and go back to sleep, and sure enough he did." In all, at least 38 persons witnessed-without calling...