On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was murdered entering her apartment building at 3:15 AM. She screamed for help, but her pleas were mostly ignored as neighbours thought it a mere drunken brawl. Her killer stabbed her twice in the back, before a neighbour scared him away by shouting, “Let that girl alone.” Still, no one intervened and her killer returned 10 minutes later and raped and stabbed her. In the aftermath of her murder, a neighbour admitted to the police that he “didn’t want to get involved.” Genovese’s murder is one of the most famous examples of the bystander effect due to the apathy displayed by the reported 38 bystanders. The facts surrounding the case have been vague, with some pointing out that there were less than half a dozen
