caption country states death_date place_of_death alias birth_place conviction name sentence birth_date victims beginyear image article_title endyear birth_name apprehended
mug shot of shawcross united states rochester , new york watertown , new york 10 november 2008 fallsburg , new york the rivers , the rochester strangler genesee river killer , the monster of the kittery , maine arson , burglary , manslaughter , second degree murder arthur shawcross life in prison without parole 6 june 1945 14 may 7 , 1972 shawcrossarthur.jpg arthur shawcross
 december 28 , 1989 arthur john shawcross january 5 , 1990
arthur shawcross

arthur john shawcross -lrb- june 7 , 1945 -- november 10 , 2008 -rrb- was an american serial killer , also known as the genesee river killer in rochester , new york .
he claimed most of his victims after being paroled early following a conviction in the manslaughter of two children , which led to criticism of the justice system .
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 . ''
