Arthur Shawcross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American criminal
Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1945
Place of Birth: Kittery, Maine, United States
Date of Death: 10-Nov-2008
Profession: serial killer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Arthur Shawcross
- Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York. His first known murders were in 1972 when he killed a young boy and girl in his hometown of Watertown, New York.
- Under the terms of a plea bargain, Shawcross was allowed to plead guilty to one charge of manslaughter, for which he served 14 years of a 25-year sentence.
- He killed most of his victims in 1988 and 1989 after being paroled early which led to criticism of the justice system.
- A food service worker, Shawcross trawled the streets of Rochester in his girlfriend's 1984 sky blue Dodge Omni (later using her blue-grey 1987 Chevy Celebrity), looking for sex workers to abduct. He died in Albany, New York in 2008, while serving a prison sentence of 250 years for his crimes.
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- Michael H.
- Stone, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, and an authority on violent behavior, identified Shawcross as "one of the most egregious examples of the unwarranted release of a prisoner" in his book, The Anatomy of Evil.
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