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[Music] [Music] [Music] people on the outside do not know what evil is a quote by serial killer Arthur
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J Shawcross FBI criminal ologist and former Army criminal investigator Colonel Robert K Ressler coined the term
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serial killer this term was used to separate them from spree killers and mass murders as defined by the FBI a
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serial killer murders two or more victims at separate times murder is one of the most complicated and difficult
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crimes to solve often there are only two witnesses present when a murder is committed and usually neither witness is
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talking because one is the offender and the other is dead according to a study conducted in the 1990s 62% of the time
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the victim of a serial murderer is a complete stranger and as we know stranger on stranger murders are
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extremely difficult to solve at one time Arthur J Shawcross was reported to be the most studied serial killer of his
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day interviewed extensively by local law enforcement the FBI and dozens of psychologists yet no one could say for
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certain why Shawcross had committed the atrocities we know him to be guilty of some wonder if Shawcross himself knew
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the reasons why there is little doubt that he was truly evil this week we take an in-depth look into the life of one
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man and those around him and examine how one little baby boy grows up to become known as the monster of the rivers the
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Rochester strangler and perhaps the most notorious of all the Genesee River killer
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