Greet news, Arthur J. Shawcross is dead, WHEC-TV:
Arthur Shawcross, the notorious serial killer who murdered 11 local women is dead. Most of his victims were prostitutes, but Shawcross struck fear into the entire community for two years.
It would nice if they could bury hm locally. His grave will need planty of watering. Shwacross was convicted of at least thirteen killings. I suspect more. I blame New York State’s inept criminal justice system for all of the death of the local women. Nobody who kills two children shold ever leave jail alive.
RocWiki:
The greatest tragedy of this story is how easily so many of the lives lost to Shawcross could have been saved. Criminal activity in his youth escalated from burglary and arson, eventually to convictions of manslaughter and pedophilia2. Displaying model prisoner behavior, he was paroled early and the police attempted to relocate him to Binghamton. However, following a public backlash against having a convicted child rapist and murderer settled in their community3, the police modified access to his records so even other departments would have difficulty obtaining information on the whereabouts of Shawcross. He was silently moved to Rochester. When the killings in Rochester began, police checked their records for known predators and found none.
Partial list of Artie’s victims, Wikipedia:
Patricia Ives, 25
Frances Brown, 22
June Cicero, 34
Darlene Trippi, 32
Anna Marie Steffen, 28
Dorothy Blackburn, 27
Kimberly Logan
June Stotts, 30
Marie Welch, 22
Elizabeth Gibson
Dorothy Keller, 59
May the ladies continue to rest in peace, while Artie rots in Hell.
