October 1989: Rochester, New York. A body is found — Patricia Ives — and just like that, the mask of safety slips off the city’s face.

Police quickly realize they aren’t dealing with a one-off killing. This is a pattern… the calling card of a predator.

Victims, mostly sex workers.
Strangled. Dumped near the river. Posed like trophies.
And the man behind it? Arthur John Shawcross — a bloated, wandering nightmare who didn’t just kill… he escalated with every victim.

Tony’s correspondence with Shawcross goes into gruesome detail about the hunting, torture and murder of these poor innocent women.

In just three months, from September to December 1989, Shawcross slaughtered eight more women, bringing his tally to eleven in less than two years. And when he wasn’t murdering, he was grabbing a bite at his favorite restaurants, like a guy who thought brutality earned him a lunch break.

This Murder Phone episode brings you onto the very streets where it all happened. You’ll hear about Tony’s 2010 trip to Rochester — the restaurants Shawcross haunted, the exact corner where he picked up June Cicero, and the bridge where he dumped her body after 24 hours of torture, and the sick moment he returned on January 3rd, 1990, when the police helicopter finally spotted him by the body.

The hunt was over. Shawcross’s little field trips to hell had come to an end.

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