The Misbegotten Son by Jack Olsen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
There is an amazing amount of details and research, including interviews around the life and crimes of Arthur Shawcross. First as a fiendish, murderous pederast, Act I of Shawcross' miserable life ends with him in jail. Act II finds him paroled and unable to live without being hounded out of community after community to end up in Rochester and accelerate his crimes to high frequency prostitute killings. I go back and forth on capital punishment. But, if someone cannot be successfully reintroduced, it would seem execution or life without parole (execution by default) is better. The final Act is the eventual downfall and capture with exploration of the "bad chemicals" (Shawcross is XYY and has off the chart kryptopyrroluria. These genetic predispositions to sociopathic behavior combined w/the homicidal triad: bed wetting, arson, and cruelty to animals. Did he (we?) have a chance?
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