# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-shawcross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:37:25.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-shawcross"
name: "Arthur Shawcross"
slug: "arthur-shawcross"
description: "Arthur John Shawcross, also known as the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York, between 1972 and 1989. Shawcross's first known murders took place in his hometown of Watertown, New York, where he killed a young boy and a girl. Under the terms of a plea bargain, he was allowed to plead guilty to one charge of manslaughter, for which he served 14 years of a 25-year sentence."
tagline: "American serial killer (1945–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Shawcross_et_al_(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-06-06"
deathDate: "2008-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.720247295208655
  historical:           13.68563066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ארתור שוקרוס"
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    title: "Arthur Shawcross"
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    title: "Arthur Shawcross"
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    title: "Arthur Shawcross"
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    title: "Arthur Shawcross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Shawcross"
    title: "Arthur Shawcross"
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    title: "Arthur Shawcross"
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    title: "Arthur Shawcross"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump