NATION : Parolee Indicted in 10 Slayings
A food-service worker who went to prison for strangling a child was indicted today on charges of murdering 10 women in the two years since his parole.
Police said most of Arthur J. Shawcross’ victims, whose bodies were found between March, 1988, and Jan. 4, were prostitutes or heavy drug users. Most were strangled or suffocated.
The 44-year-old Shawcross, who was considered a model parolee, was arrested after state troopers found him sitting in a car near the frozen body of one of his victims. Shawcross was paroled in 1987 after 15 years in prison for the strangling of an 8-year-old girl in Watertown.
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