Old Kew Gardens.com The popular account of the Kitty Genovese case is mostly wrong, as shown by evidence from her killer's trial and other sources.  To read more, click here. EXCERPTS FROM THE TRIAL TRANSCRIPT OF PEOPLE V. MOSELEY June 8, 1964
----- Page 60 begins here ----- Andree Picq, residing at 82-67 Austin Street, Kew Gardens, having been called as a witness by the People, was duly sworn and testified as follows: [Ed.'s Note: The witness lived at the Mowbray Apartment House.] Direct examination by Mr. Cacciatore:
Q.	Miss Picq, on the early morning of March 13th of 1964, what apartment did you occupy at that premises?
A.	403.
Q.	And during that early morning did you hear something?
A.	Yes.
The Court:	Apartment 403 is the fourth floor, right?
The Witness:	Yes.
The Court:	What did you hear?
The Witness:	I heard the scream, "Help, help," three times.
Mr. Cacciatore:	Speak louder, please.
The Court:	Heard a scream, "Help, help," three times.
The Witness:	The third time I get up quick at the third time and look through my window.
Q.	Does your window face Austin Street?
A.	Yes, exactly to the book store.
Q.	Did you look across the street?
A.	Yes.
The Court:	She said her window faces the book store. You looked through the window and what did you see?
The Witness:	I saw a girl laying down on the pavement. That moment she was completely laying down and a man was bending over her and beating her. ----- Page 61 begins here -----
Q.	What? Beating her?
The Court:	You saw a girl lying on the pavement and a man was bending down over her beating her?
Q.	You're indicating with your hand?
A.	Yes.
Q.	And what else did you see?
A.	And then I heard the voice upstairs, suddenly the neighbor screaming something, and the man run away very fast.
Q.	He ran on what direction?
A.	Near the bus stop.
Q.	Towards the bus stop?
A.	The bus stop, yes.
Q.	Can you describe the person that you saw?
A.	Well ---.
Q.	The man I am talking about.
A.	I could not see the face at all, but I saw he had a dark hat.
The Court:	Dark hat?
A.	(Cont'g) Dark hat and a coat was half - a half coat - and he had a three quarters coat.
Q.	Three quarters coat?
A.	Yes.
Q.	Can you describe his build?
A.	Not very tall, but from my window, it seemed thin, young.
The Court:	Not very tall, thin and young. All right.
Q.	Now did you also see the woman?
A.	Yes.
Q.	Tell us what she did, if anything?
A.	After he run quick, the poor girl get up slowly and she screamed, "George," and "Help", and walking slowly toward the drug store - pharmacy, and up towards the back street.
Q.	After that, could you see her?
A.	And I could not see, no. ----- Page 62 begins here -----
Q.	Did you see anything else? Did you see the man come back afterwards?
A.	I was still at the window, scared, kind of frozen, and a few minutes after that man came back, walking normally.
Q.	The same man?
A.	As if nothing - yes, it did look the same - as if nothing happened, and walking by the parking lot and coming near the door of the drug store, and opened that door and looked a little bit in the drug store and walked back and goes to the parking lot.
Q.	Towards the parking lot?
A.	Yes.
Q.	Anything else that you saw, Miss Picq?
A.	Went down the train station.
The Court:	He went down ---?
The Witness:	The train station.
Mr. Cacciatore:	To the train station.
The Court:	Oh, the train station.
Q.	Could you see him then?
A.	And then he came out again and left in the back and I did not see anything but, I heard the last two screams, "Help, help." That's all I heard.
Mr. Cacciatore:	Thank you very much. You may inquire, gentlemen.
Mr. Sparrow:	No questions.
The Court:	Let me ask you one question, Madam: this man that came back that you say was the same man, was he dressed the same way the second time you saw him as the first time you saw him?
The Witness:	It did seem - he had a hat on.
The Court:	All right.
Mr. Cacciatore:	Miss Irene Frost, please.