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1. Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as the Genesee River Killer, was a serial killer active in Rochester, New York.
1. Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as the Genesee River Killer, was a serial killer active in Rochester, New York.
2. His first known murders were in 1972 when he killed a young boy and a girl in his hometown of Watertown, New York.
3. Shawcross was born in Kittery, Maine, the first of four children of Arthur Roy Shawcross and Elizabeth "Bessie" ("Betty") Yerakes Shawcross. His family moved to Watertown, New York when he was young.
4. While several later tests showed Shawcross' intelligence to be sub-normal or even "borderline retarded," he received As and Bs in his first two years of grade school but was later tested to have an IQ of 86, signifying below average intelligence.
5. Shawcross said throughout his childhood, he was a frequent bed-wetter (which is one part of the Macdonald triad). He later claimed his mother would insert foreign objects into his rectum and that his aunt performed oral sex on him when he was 9,
6. and that during junior high school he had sexual relations with his sister. Shawcross had a reputation at school as a bully and would frequently act out violently. He dropped out of high school in 1960.
7. In April 1967, at age 21, he was drafted by the Army. At this time, Shawcross divorced his first wife and gave up his rights to their 18-month-old son, whom he never saw again.[2] He served one tour of duty in Vietnam, where he boasted of grotesque combat exploits,
8. such as "beheading mama-sans and nailing their heads to trees as a warning to the Vietcong"—though, [THEY] say, he never saw combat.
9. After Vietnam he was stationed at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma as an armorer. His second wife Linda experienced several aspects of his disturbing behavior, especially his penchant for starting fires;
10. an Army psychiatrist told her that Shawcross derived "sexual enjoyment" from fire starting.
11. After his discharge from the Army, Shawcross moved with his wife from Oklahoma to Clayton, New York. His wife would soon divorce him, and he began committing crimes such as arson and burglary.
12. His offenses earned him a five-year sentence at Attica Correctional Facility, and later Auburn Correctional Facility.
13. After serving 22 months, he was granted an early release in October 1971, in part due to his role in the rescue of a correctional officer during a prison riot. You will see a pattern of NY's repeated enabling of violent offenders throughout this dig.
14. Shawcross returned to Watertown, eventually getting a job with the Watertown Public Works Department, and marrying for the third time. On May 7, 1972, (Only 7 months following his EARLY release)
15. he raped and killed 10-year-old Jack Owen Blake, his first known victim, after luring the boy into some woods in Watertown. Jack's body wasn't found until authorities received a tip by phone on September 5. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/136824408/
16. On September 2, just prior to the body's discovery, he raped and killed eight-year-old Karen Ann Hill, who had been visiting Watertown with her mother for the Labor Day weekend. Shawcross was arrested the next day. A grand jury indicted Shawcross for murder in Hill's death.
17. On October 17, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of first degree manslaughter for both deaths and was sentenced to an indeterminate term at Attica, with a maximum of 25 years. Why the sweetheart deal? This man raped and murdered two children!
18. This is how the liberal DA spun it. Jefferson County District Attorney William McClusky explained the plea by stating there was no direct evidence linking Blake and Shawcross, only Shawcross' confession to police.
19. McClusky also suggested he could have argued at trial that he was under "extreme emotional disturbance," and a jury would have been likely to arrive at a verdict of manslaughter.
20. In November, he was transferred from Attica to Green Haven Correctional Facility. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/36548406/
22. After fourteen years, inexperienced prison staff and social workers concluded that Shawcross was "no longer dangerous", disregarding the warnings of psychiatrists, who had assessed Shawcross as a "schizoid psychopath."
23. He was released on parole in April 1987. Inexperienced staff or orders from on high?
24. He had difficulty settling down in communities as the neighbors would protest his presence and employers would fire him. https://allthatsinteresting.com/arthur-shawcross
25. He first moved into Binghamton, New York, then relocated to Delhi, New York, with his girlfriend, Rose Marie Walley. When Delhi residents became aware of Shawcross' presence, the couple moved to nearby Fleischmanns, New York, only to be met with hostility there as well.
26. In late June 1987, Shawcross' parole officer moved him and Walley into a transient hotel in Rochester, New York, but failed to notify Rochester authorities of this action. Do you see what's happening?
27. In mid-October, Shawcross and Walley found more permanent lodgings at 241 Alexander Street in Rochester. Now [THEY] failed to make a violent sex offender register with local authorities?
28. In March 1988, Shawcross began murdering again, primarily sex workers in the area (apart from June Stott, who was a local and was the first one of his victims to be mutilated after her death), before his capture less than two years later.
29. He was convicted of 11 murders, with a 12th not officially charged to him. https://web.archive.org/web/20151215071658/http://www.truelifecrimes.com/arthur_shawcross.html
30. The victims were:
31. All the victims were murdered in Monroe County, except for Gibson, who was killed in neighboring Wayne County.
32. The retired detective, Robert Keppel, has argued that the detectives investigating the case over-relied on the concept of modus operandi, at times searching for multiple suspects due to small differences in the profiles of each victim
Twatter broke the thread here is the rest. https://twitter.com/CowgirlCas22/status/1277972169356570633?s=20
32. June Cicero's body was discovered by aerial surveillance on January 3, 1990. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/06/15/crime-arthur-shawcross-rochester-serial-killer-fbi-rochester-police-department/373708001/
33. Police arrested Shawcross two days later, on January 5, 1990. He had been spotted by a police surveillance team (and by an eyewitness) standing near his car, apparently urinating, on a bridge over Salmon Creek; upon whose frozen waters the body of his final victim was dumped
