On this day, Nov. 10, in 2008, serial killer and confessed cannibal Arthur J. Shawcross died of a heart attack in a New York prison. Known as the Genesee River Killer, Shawcross was arrested in 1990 after state police spotted him near the frozen body of one of his victims.
In the previous 21 months, the bodies of a dozen women had turned up along the rivers and creeks near Rochester.
Shawcross claimed most of his victims while on parole for manslaughter after confessing to the 1972 strangling of an 8-year-old girl and the killing of a 10-year-old boy.
Shawcross was convicted of killing 11 women and sentenced to 250 years in prison.
— Scott McCabe
