{"id":188159,"date":"2023-10-24T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=188159"},"modified":"2023-10-24T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T12:32:41","slug":"i-met-monster-of-rivers-serial-killer-and-got-him-to-confess-to-unsolved-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/i-met-monster-of-rivers-serial-killer-and-got-him-to-confess-to-unsolved-case\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I met Monster of Rivers serial killer and got him to confess to unsolved case’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Royal Marine who has interviewed dozens of serial killers has revealed how he charmed a twisted murderer into confessing to an unsolved crime.<\/p>\n
Christopher Berry-Dee says that although he had already become a successful true-crime author after leaving the Marines, he started writing letters to serial killers almost as a \u201chobby.\u201d<\/p>\n
He began collecting True Crime magazines to help with his research, and after reading about evil but fascinating characters such as Kenneth Bianchi and Colonel Russell Williams, he decided to start writing to them.<\/p>\n
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One of the first killers Christopher got in touch with was Arthur John Shawcross, the so-called "Monster of the Rivers,\u201d who murdered at least 14 people between 1972 and 1989.<\/p>\n
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\u201c[Shawcross] started torturing little animals,\u201d Christopher explained on the Crime World podcast. \u201cHe would throw kittens into a pond, watch them drown, and shoot birds. That\u2019s how he started.\u201d <\/p>\n
Shawcross joined the US Army in 1967 and was shipped off to Vietnam: \u201cHe said he was a Rambo \u2013 that he went out in the jungle as a one-man killing team\u2026 shooting these Vietnamese women and skinning them alive and eating them.\u201d<\/p>\n
But in fact, Christopher says, Shawcross never actually saw combat. \u201cHe was actually just a store clerk, he never went anywhere near the front line.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But his sick cannibalistic compulsion for violence revealed itself soon after he returned to the US: \u201cHe went to prison for the murder of two little kiddies,\u201d Christopher says. \u201cA little boy and a little girl, Karen Anne Hill and Jack Blake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many of Shawcross's victims were found with bite marks, especially around the genital area, although he always denied eating 10-year-old Jack's penis after killing him.<\/p>\n
Master manipulator Shawcross managed to negotiate a plea bargain agreement, and instead of being locked up for life, he got a 25 year sentence.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe wheedled his way into the prison psychiatric unit, and he conned the shrinks \u2013 he ended up actually counselling other inmates. He got parole after 15 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the psychiatrists said, \u2018don't let him out he's a psychopath \u2013 he\u2019ll kill again.\u2019 Well, they let him out and he went on to kill about 11 working girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
But at least one of Shawcross\u2019s murders might never had come to light without Christopher\u2019s questioning. After writing a series of letters to the murderer, who was locked up in the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York, Christopher eventually negotiated a prison visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat's why he's part of my TV series. As a result of that relationship I had with Shawcross and the woman he wanted to marry \u2013 one of these murder groupie women called Clara Neal \u2013 I managed to clear up a cold case of Kimberly Logan in Rochester.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did some stuff with the Rochester PD homicide people \u2013 met the cops, went to the crime scenes and I got a confession out of him for the murder of the murder of this woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
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