Something Inside Me Is Weird
A cheese factory worker. A loving husband. A fisherman. Arthur Shawcross was all of these things. He was also a serial killer who strangled 11 women and ate parts of their bodies.
Sullivan Correctional Facility. Maximum security. Upstate New York.
Home to some of America's most violent criminals.
One of them is Arthur Shawcross.
He murdered 11 women. He's serving 250 years.
Do you know what evil is?
Sure.
Are you evil?
Somewhat.
Rochester, New York. A provincial city of a million people.
Lyell Avenue. A mile long drag through the city's red light district.
In March 1988, women began disappearing from the strip.
Dorothy Blackburn. 27. Prostitute. Mother of three. Strangled.
Anna Marie Steffen. 27. Cocaine addict. Found decomposed by the river.
Do you remember killing her?
Yeah. Probably strangulation.
How do you know when they're dead?
They just relax. Body doesn't fight no more.
Takes about four minutes. Sometimes less.
To the outside world, Shawcross was just a regular guy.
He lived with his fourth wife Rose. Worked nights at a cheese factory.
Spent his free time fishing the banks of the Genesee River.
But he was living a double life.
He had a mistress. And he was a regular on Lyell Avenue.
A wife, a mistress, and prostitutes?
I guess I could say I was enjoying myself.