The Genesee River Killer: The Story of Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross
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The Genesee River Killer: The Story of Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross
14.99 €
The full story of the maniac Arthur Shawcross, the most paradoxical serial killer who first took the lives of a boy and a girl, and then more than ten adult women. Some considered him a monster without hope of correction. Others saw him as a problematic young man who could be helped.
Little Artie Shawcross was a mystery to psychiatrists since childhood: he tortured animals, talked to imaginary friends and repeatedly ran away from home because of his cruel mother. At the same time, he regularly received top grades, excelled in sports and shared money and toys with children who mocked him.
After growing up and serving in Vietnam, Arthur commits a series of arsons and burglaries, and then murders a boy and a girl. After serving two terms, Arthur is released, and social services settle him in the town of Rochester near New York - forgetting to warn the local police. After some time, corpses of young women begin to appear in the local Genesee River, and their number quickly exceeds ten…
Why did Arthur kill different victims - first children, then women - not like other serial killers? How did his mother's violence affect him? Or was it the brutal torture scenes he saw in Vietnam? And why did psychiatrists say he was not a psychopath?
The Genesee River Killer is a masterful chronicle of the murders of one of the most controversial serial killers, written in collaboration with his loved ones, the victims' relatives, and the detectives on his case.
Little Artie Shawcross was a mystery to psychiatrists since childhood: he tortured animals, talked to imaginary friends and repeatedly ran away from home because of his cruel mother. At the same time, he regularly received top grades, excelled in sports and shared money and toys with children who mocked him.
After growing up and serving in Vietnam, Arthur commits a series of arsons and burglaries, and then murders a boy and a girl. After serving two terms, Arthur is released, and social services settle him in the town of Rochester near New York - forgetting to warn the local police. After some time, corpses of young women begin to appear in the local Genesee River, and their number quickly exceeds ten…
Why did Arthur kill different victims - first children, then women - not like other serial killers? How did his mother's violence affect him? Or was it the brutal torture scenes he saw in Vietnam? And why did psychiatrists say he was not a psychopath?
The Genesee River Killer is a masterful chronicle of the murders of one of the most controversial serial killers, written in collaboration with his loved ones, the victims' relatives, and the detectives on his case.
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