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Winston Moseley, who stalked, raped and killed Kitty Genovese in a prolonged knife attack in New York in 1964 while neighbors failed to act on her desperate cries for help — a nightmarish tableau that came to symbolize urban apathy in America — died on March 28, in prison. He was 81. Patrick J. Bailey, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, confirmed the death on Monday. A medical examiner would determine the cause of death, Mr. Bailey said. Mr. Moseley, a psychopathic serial killer and necrophiliac, died at the maximum security Clinton Correctional...

The love-struck married mom arrested on charges she aided the escape of two inmates confessed that their plan also included knocking off her husband and fleeing to a cabin in Vermont, a report Sunday said. Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell made the stunning admission during two, 10-hour interrogations by state police investigators, a law-enforcement source told the Albany Times-Union. But she changed her mind at the last minute and failed to show up with a getaway car when convicted killer Richard Matt and David Sweat climbed out of a manhole outside the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, officials said.