Episode 3

Why crime witnesses fail to act. A Naval officer who transformed the U.S. military. Psychedelic drugs like LSD are back in the lab. The meandering voyage of a trash barge that persuaded us to recycle. Andy Borowitz highlights lunar hoax theorists.

The death of Kitty Genovese, who was murdered on her way from work in Queens, New York in 1964, while people in nearby apartments were sleeping, became a case study in what became known as the Bystander Effect.

In this scene from "Digital Bystander," how the press reported the Genovese story wrongly created a catalyst for the creation of the 911 system, and new calls for bystander assistance laws in the new era of publicly viewed violent videos.