And, the Award-winning short story by Harlan Ellison, The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs, is losely based on this murder. Not for the squeamish.

Odd fact... I was coming INTO the world as Kitty Genovese was leaving it. I was born in NY at just about the same time that she was being killed. I didn't realize this until a few years ago when I had the opportunity to write something about the Genovese Case and how it has been largly forgotton by New Yorkers. I mentioned it to my father, who was a cop, and asked him if he knew that and he did. One could hardly have missed that fact, apparently. How I did for so long is a mystery.

Even now, she is really mostly just a name to most people. The details fo her life have never really been covered in any depth. Her death and the circumstances around it became a symbol of what was wrong with society, but this all happened before the current trend of trying to make saints out of victims. Perhaps she was spared having her life raked over the coals for entertainment value. Whatever the case, the manner of her death was appallingly cruel.

Speaking of appallingly cruel deaths, isn't there a song about Lisa Steinberg? Did you all know that Jpel Steinberg is free from jail? yep. He got out not long ago - last year some time.