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Returning to the Scene of Kitty's Murder

In this excerpt from Independent Lens documentary The Witness, Bill Genovese, whose sister Kitty Genovese was murdered in Queens, New York in a notorious 1964 case that became front page news, returns to scene of the crime with Charlie Skoller, the prosecutor in Kitty's trial. In a peaceful residential neighborhood, Skoller describes the brutality of the attack, bringing it vividly back to life.