First Blood — Season 1, Episode 9: Arthur Shawcross

Episode synopsis

The Genesee River Killer Serial killer Arthur Shawcross tells a lot of stories about his life before he began to kill. Abuse, bestiality, cannibalism...but is any of it true? And if not, what shaped his trajectory from "Artie Oddball" to murderer? He might have been known for killing women along Rochester's Genesee River, but his first murder was years earlier and the culmination of years of dark fantasies.

About First Blood

“First Blood" examines some of America’s most notorious serial killers through the prism of their first known kills to reveal what drove them to the moment when violent fantasy and curiosity became a devastating reality.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death
• E2Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker
• E3Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
• E4Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
• E5Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler
• E6Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer
• E7Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the Peeler
• E8Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry
• E10Ronald Dominique