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On a cold March night in 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her Queens apartment.

What followed wasn’t just a crime—it awakened a national sense of responsibility.

The headline said thirty-seven people watched and did nothing, but the truth was far more complex.

This episode uncovers what really happened on Austin Street—and how one woman’s death sparked the creation of the emergency number that still saves lives today: 911.