Devil at Genesee Junction

Michael Benson is originally from the town of Chili, New York and attended Wheatland-Chili High School. He has a journalism degree from Hofstra University, and is the author of many true-crime books, including Murder in Connecticut, The Burn Farm, and Killer Twins. He has appeared on the CBS Morning News, On the Case with Paula Zahn program, and is a regular on the Investigation Discovery channel’s Evil Twins and Evil Kin series.

• AUTHOR’S NOTEFOREWORD: The Curious Farmer1: Country Life2: Missing3: Found4: Christine Watson and Marsha Jean Behney5: The Double Initial Murders6: Zodiac and Other Conspiracy Theories7: A Generation Later8: I Don’t Know Jack9: Alice and Corky10: Making People Remember11: The Ragamuffins12: Pat Patterson13: The Files14: Don Tubman15: Eve’s Abduction & Beating Up a Perv16: Devils Diciples17: Screams in the Night18: WE Magazine19: The Wilson Boys20: Mule21: Profiling22: The Signature23: Ghosthunters24: Clint’s DemiseEPILOGUEAPPENDIX A: Details of Arthur Shawcross’s Known Crime ScenesAPPENDIX B: Details of the Murder of Sandra SolieAPPENDIX C: The Trial of the Genesee Valley Park RapistsAPPENDIX D: The Death of “Keith Wilson”APPENDIX E: Timeline: “Clint Wilson, Jr.”APPENDIX F: Timeline: “Jack Starr”APPENDIX G: Details of the Smoyer-King MurdersBIBLIOGRAPHYACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Since childhood, veteran true crime author Benson (Killer Twins) has been obsessed with the unsolved 1966 murders of two teenage girls in his hometown of Chili, N.Y., a tight-knit community forever marred by that brutal violence. This gripping reexamination of the double homicide blends memoir with detective work and provides a convincing answer to a mystery almost a half-century old. Benson, who was nine at the time of the killings, knew both victims, and he is especially effective at conjuring up the atmosphere of terror that gripped the area afterwards, transforming the small town into a place where children were kept on a very tight leash out of fear that the murderer would strike again. Along the way to his proposed solution, Benson recounts other horrific crimes obscured by time but possibly related to the Bernhard- Formicola killings, including the Rochester 'Double Initials' murders of the 1970s, in which each victim had matching initials and was dumped in a town beginning with that same letter of the alphabet. Despite the inclusion of some superfluous personal details, the author succeeds in crafting a real-life page-turner.