57 years ago today was the infamous raping and killing of Kitty Genovese, which gave birth to the urban legend that X number of people witnessed the crime but didn't call for help. I believe this has actually been debunked.
It also was part of an episode of HBO's Girls. I remember watching the episode - the girls wander through a pretentious immersive stage-telling of the murder - but I just now am hearing that the day after the episode died, Genovese's killer died in prison:
On Sunday’s episode of “Girls,” the show resurrected the story of Kitty Genovese, the 28-year-old bar manager attacked outside her Queens apartment in 1964. The next day, news broke that Winston Moseley, the man who stalked, raped and killed her, had died in prison at age 81.
But the “Girls” writers didn’t know just how relevant Genovese’s story would be when the episode aired. “This is one of the weirdest coincidences the universe has yet [to] serve up in my short time here on earth,” Ms. Dunham wrote on Instagram on Monday. “Last night’s @girlshbo was about the Kitty Genovese murder. Today we learn her killer has died."
I mean hey it's not OMG CRAZY COINCIDENTAL; he was after all 81 and ready to drop any moment, but it's one of those fun coincidences without consequence made for times like ours to oooh! and aaaahh! over. See: oooh! and aaaahh!
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