Dark Waters: Arthur Shawcross: Day 12: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

 On the 12th Nightmare Before Christmas…

The Genesee River flows peacefully through Rochester today, but it still holds a dark memory from the late 1980s. Back then, it became the hunting ground of Arthur Shawcross. He had already served time for murder but was let out early, even though experts warned he was still dangerous.

Soon after he arrived, a terrifying pattern emerged: people disappeared near the waterfront, only to be found later along the riverbanks, each death showing the work of a disturbed mind. 

Join Cam and Jen as they discuss “Dark Waters: Arthur Shawcross.”

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Listener Discretion by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Edward October ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Research & Writing by Lauretta Allen

Executive Producers/Music by @theinkypawprint Nico & Jesse

Sources:

Wikipedia

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RLaUpgRPwE

 https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/shawcross-arthur.htm

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098021765/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (Blake Missing, police think he's a runaway)

 https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098019129/

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/465550081/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (Blake's body found)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/36552373/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (discussion on the investigation of Jack Blake)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098197850/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (petition for probe into investigation)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1128977268/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (Fort Drum volunteers)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098059771/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (search ended for Jack)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/36548419/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (Shawcross pleads guilty to Blake and Hill murders 1972)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098030332/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (after 4 days, this police officer thinks Blake is not a runaway)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098010652/?match=1&terms=%22Jack%20Blake%22%20 (1 officer assigned, boy seen with man going into woods)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/136823798/?article=babf8c19-feb8-46f8-a591-17f9402fc0b5&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (Karen Ann Hill obit)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/136831401/?match=1&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (sentencing)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098226253/?match=1&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (grand jury)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1098212336/?match=1&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (Shawcross refused polygraph)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1097559259/?match=1&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (Shawcross given psyche tests, life threatened)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1097547749/?match=1&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (Karen Hill cod strangulation and suffocation)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1097544837/?match=1&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (Karen Hill found dead 4 hours after being reported missing)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/136823537/?match=1&terms=%22Karen%20Ann%20Hill%22 (Shawcross arrested)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/91878486/?match=1&terms=%22Arthur%20Shawcross%22 (1989 gives info on Shawcross' parole)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31357191/arthur_john-shawcross

https://www.thoughtco.com/profile-of-serial-killer-arthur-shawcross-973145#:~:text=Military%20Life,to%20murdering%20two%20local%20children.

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/911710049/?match=1&terms=Ariemes (13th-century canibal Ariemes tie-in) 

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/137370252/?match=1&terms=Dorothy%20Blackburn (police curious about connection to 2 other sex workers murdered 3 months earlier)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/137369861/?terms=Dorothy%20Blackburn (three children)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/136409133/?article=bd133f1d-6ffe-49c4-b5d2-f50c8bd8e527&terms=%22Patricia%20Ives%22 (multiple victims in paper)

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/136428944/?match=1&terms=%22June%20Cicero%22

https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1099640178/?match=1&terms=%22June%20Cicero%22

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12242169/ (frontal lobe conversation)

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/xyy-syndrome-jacobs-syndrome

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/human-aggression-and-extra-y-chromosome-fact-or-fantasy

https://allthatsinteresting.com/arthur-shawcross