19. At around the same time, the Genesee River Killer murdered eight-year-old Karen Ann Hill. A popular Greece music teacher Stephanie Kupchyhnsky disappeared in 1991. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. In 1964 Shawcross married and the next year he and his wife had a son. After deliberating for just one-half hour, they found him sane and guilty. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) _ The parents of a murder victim said Saturday they are outraged by a legal system that paroled the killer who police say killed their daughter and 10 other women. While in Vietnam, along with killing 39 menduring combat (which was a proven lie) Shawcross also used the venue to describe in grotesque detailshow he murdered, then cooked and ate, two Vietnam women. A police helicopter searching for a body along the river spotted a man on a bridge near one of the murder victims. A judge sentenced the murderer to 250 years in prison. In 1972 he confessed to the sexual assault and murders of two children. He had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. Shawcross was sentenced to 250 years in prison and received an additional life sentence after pleading guilty to the murder of Elizabeth Gibson in Wayne County. Alex Rideoutwas convicted of two counts of tampering with evidence for helping clean up the crime scene and attempting to discard garbage bags of evidence in Mendon Ponds Park. In March 1988, Shawcross began cheating on his wife with a new girlfriend. Evidence found with her body helped convict her murderer. Arthur J. Shawcross, Serial Killer, Dies at 63 - New York Times 21. According to his own telling, Shawcross went on secret, solo missions into the jungle where he engaged in savage acts. 14. Arthur Shawcross | Photos 3 | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Shawcross would also return to the bodies of his victims in order to mutilate them further. In April 1967 Shawcross was drafted into the Army. Police Questioning of a Suspected Serial Killer. Initially, upon his release, Shawcross moved to Binghamton, New York, then relocated to Delhi, New York to be with a woman named Rose who would eventually become his third wife. He was never a good student failingboth behaviorally and academically during his short time at school. Prosecutors argued that Craig Rideout's death freed the children to move south with their mother. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. He was sent to Vietnam from October 1967 until September 1968 and wasthen stationed at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. June Cicero, 34, was a seasoned prostitute known for her good instincts and for always staying alert, yet on December 17 she also vanished. No matter what happened to Shawcross as a child, his adulthood was horrible. Also, based on the lack of semen found on his victims, he was sexually dysfunctional and found gratification after his victims were dead. Dr. Phil To Guest: You Should Not Be Alone With This Man. TELL DR. PHIL YOUR STORY: Chaos in your life?Maggie, who was raised by her stepfather and only learned that Shawcross was her biological father when she was 31, says, It was a flooring moment. The subject of Interview with a Serial Killerstreaming on Netflix nowspeaks out in his own chilling words. The family relocated to Watertown, New York, a few years later. There was an error deleting this problem. Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer: With Charles Siragusa, Lynde Johnston, Vanessa Tyler, Maggie Deming. It seemed as if each week another woman went missing and those found murdered were not close to being solved. I've been browsing wikipedia for details of the real serial killers and I found something peculiar: Arthur Shawcross, known as the Genessee River Killer, killed at least 14 people in the 1980s. You may request to transfer up to 250,000 memorials managed by Find a Grave. Early in the morning on Christmas Eve 2012, Webster resident William Spengler Jr. setfire to a car outside the home, and the blaze spread to the house that he shared with his sister, Cheryl. Director Beth Parkes Stars Arthur Shawcross John McCaffrey Lynde Johnston Some killers were motivated by revenge. Most of them were strangled to death, and their often-mutilated bodies were dumped in the nearby Genesee River. He claims he was molested by an aunt at age nine, but his family disputes that claim. Once the boy was dead, he decided to eat his genitals. Her skeletal remains were found nearly seven years later. It was not until the detectives threatened to bring his wife and his girlfriend Clara in together for questioningand that they couldbe implicated in the murders, did he begin to waver. He also blamed many of the victims for reminding him of his domineering and abusive mother, so much so that once he began to hit them, he couldn't stop. Hill had been visiting Watertown with her mother for Labor Day weekend. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Still, maybe the truth is there in his interview, after all. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Try again later. Arthur Shawcross died in prison in 2008 at the age of 63. Shawcross, also known as "The Genesee River Killer," began murdering women in Rochester in March 1988. One of the passersby survived. Afterward, he returned to his hometown of Watertown. Serial killer Arthur Shawcross dead at 63 - NBC News Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. In 1994, Mark Christie kidnapped4-year-old Kali Ann Poulton of East Rochester, killed her, and dumped her body in a coolant tank at Rochester business.