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Convicted child killer Arthur Shawcross claims tenth victim

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Arsonist Arthur Shawcross, Vietnam veteran, had two failed marriages behind him, when he started to sexually assault and kill children.

He was only convicted for one of these, an eight-year-old girl, and he only served 15 years before being paroled. When the authorities tried to place the paedophile serial killer in a community there was outrage.

So his criminal record was sealed to avoid alarm when they resettled him. Kimberly Logan was his eighth victim since that resettlement...