After his involvement in protecting a guard during a prison riot, he was granted an early release in October of 1971.Ĩ. Shawcross claims while in prison he was raped and after extracting revenge on his attackers, he was transferred to another prison to serve out his sentence. He set fires to a local paper mill and the factory where he worked before being arrested and sentenced to five years in prison. His second marriage quickly ended in divorce, after which Shawcross became a frequent arsonist. After his release and discharge from the army, Shawcross and his second wife would move to Clayton, New York where Shawcross would terrorize the surrounding counties until his final arrest. After Vietnam, he was stationed in Oklahoma where he remarried (Shawcross was already once divorced and had given up parental rights to a child who he never saw again) and worked as an armorer.Ħ. He served one tour in Vietnam, but despite never actually serving in combat loved to brag about violent, gruesome atrocities like such as raping and cannibalizing children and “beheading mama-sans and nailing their heads to trees as a warning to the Vietcong.” All of these stories would later be proven to be fabricated. In 1967 he was drafted by the US Army at age 21. Shawcross, however, was a very troubled child and would often bully other children and act violently at school, even developing a habit of bringing an iron bar with him to classes. His mother has denied that there was any sort of abuse in their family. Shawcross has claimed that his mother and an aunt repeatedly molested him as a child and that in junior high he had a sexual relationship with his younger sister as well as a cousin. However, Shawcross was born with XYY syndrome.Ĥ. There are several different accounts of what his IQ actually was-some records show it as 86 or “below average” while other accounts report him testing slightly above average at 105 and 107. Shawcross was born in Kittery, Maine in 1945, the oldest of four children. Arthur John Shawcross was also known as “The Genesee River Killer” and “The Rochester Strangler” all due to how he would carry out his murders and where he would frequently dump the bodies of his victims.ģ. Shawcross is known to have killed at least 14 people, as well as being a known cannibal and mutilator.Ģ. Arthur John Shawcross was an American serial killer who killed between 19 around Rochester, New York.
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