By Aryana St. Marthe Do you ever think about why serial killers kill? I wonder what goes through their mind when they have the urge to kill. I searched up an interview with a psychologist and the serial killer Arthur J. Shawcross. Shawcross, aka Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York. His first known murders were in 1972 and were a young boy and a girl in his hometown Watertown, New York. He has killed up to 13-16 women and young men and is serving 250 years in prison. In the interview, the interviewers asked him multiple questions about what made him the way he is and asked if he remembers his victims and remembers killing them. In the video the Rochester Police chief, Captain Lynde Johnson, said the more Shawcross spoke, the more aggressive he got. Captain Johnson said the killing he remembered the most was a woman named June Stock. Stock wasn’t a prostitute like the rest of his victims, she was just a young girl who had mental health issues (she acted younger than her age). Captain Johnson states, “ I think the thing that was the most disturbing about it is that when her body was turned over she was on her stomach and they turned her over he had come back and eviscerated her cut open right from the neck right down to the vagina.” Shawcross’s response was, “It was a fit of anger. We spent a day down Turning Point Park feeding the ducks and walking around and making out and she (June Spock) just flipped jumped up and said I’m gonna scream, I'm gonna tell the cops I had snapped her neck. Stayed there all day until dark and split her open.” This is where I start wondering why he thought killing her was the only way. This interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQNwjEkszvg) is telling me that this man has no emotion, that he doesn’t care about what he has done and his only excuse for the killing is that he was just angry. I wonder if there is an MRI scan or some test that shows the science part of it and shows what happens in his brain specifically. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find one but hopefully in the future I will find one.
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Lynn Girven
11/28/2021 02:19:43 pm
I was scared to death of him! The lack of empathy, compassion and remorse is profoundly disturbing. I like the idea of an MRI to determine this sad illness.
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Aryana M StMarthe
11/29/2021 07:21:18 am
Thank you!! I'll try to find an MRI scan in the future.
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