Show Notes
In 1972, a friendly stranger named Art took two boys fishing in upstate New York—and only one ever came home. What followed was a catastrophic failure of justice that allowed a known child killer to walk free, reinvent himself, and go on to murder a dozen more victims as the Genesee River Killer. This is the story of how Arthur Shawcross slipped through the cracks, and the lives he destroyed because of it.
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