Other residents had complained and a series of CCTV cameras had been installed. He was regarded as an oddball in the block of flats in which he lived, his collection of reptiles doing nothing to dispel such thoughts, and the caretaker had been told not to visit his flat alone. He had acquired crossbows, which were displayed on his walls at home together with a small collection of knives, and it was these weapons that he eventually used when his killing spree began. He toured the red light districts, particularly when he was high on drugs and regulary used the sex workers to satisfy his desires. He was obsessed with Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, and was determined to follow in his footsteps in Bradford. Stephen Griffiths was an attention seeking loner even from a young age and once he developed an interest in criminology, and in particular homicide, his thoughts turned to deeds which hardly bear thinking about.
'The Crossbow Cannibal' exposes the dark, nether world of vice which exists in the shadows of a proud and bustling city, and reveals how, inspired by books on homicide, Griffiths turned it into his own murderous fantasy land.
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Top journalist Cyril Dixon - who attended the hearing - tells the culling story of how an attention-seeking oddball fashioned himself into a serial killer for the sole purpose of becoming famous. Here, surely, was someone they could trust. He wandered the same bleak landscape, dressed in black, hair slicked back with baby oil, happy to chat and share a cigarette. Stephen Griffiths was a shy, eccentric student of criminology who always had a word of cautious advice for the working girls. And who could know many how more there were? All three vanished as if the cobbled backstreets had opened up and swallowed them in. All three sold their bodies for sex to fund their drug habits. Four weeks on it was Suzanne Blamires, who had been a trainee nurse. She was followed ten months later by Shelley Armitage, a one-time wannabe model.
During Midsummer 2009, Susan Rushworth, a mother, grandmother, and former grammar school girl, went missing.
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