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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go for a criminology student who
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  Speaker 1: studied serial killers before becoming one himself.
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  Speaker 2: Well a misanthropic at that much time for the.
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  Speaker 3: Human rears known as the Crossbow Cannibal. The shocking truth
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  Speaker 3: about Stephen Griffiths will leave you speechless. You're watching totally
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  Speaker 3: true crime. Stephen Sean Griffiths was born on Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty nine. He was born in Yorkshire, England,
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  Speaker 3: in the north of the country. His father worked in
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  Speaker 3: sales and they had an average home which he lived
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  Speaker 3: in with his two younger siblings. His mother and father
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  Speaker 3: divorced when Stephen was thirteen years old. There were reports
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  Speaker 3: that said when his mother became single, she would often
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  Speaker 3: be seen with men having sex in their front garden.
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  Speaker 3: Neighbours said that she didn't seem to care if anyone
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  Speaker 3: was watching, including her own children. His mother also had
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  Speaker 3: criminal charges against her for claiming benefits that she was
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  Speaker 3: an entitled to over a three year period. Despite this,
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  Speaker 3: she managed to send Stephen to a private school. Stephen
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  Speaker 3: was a gifted student and a highly intelligent but there
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  Speaker 3: was a much darker side to him. When he was
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  Speaker 3: a teenager, he became fascinated with violence. At seventeen, he
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  Speaker 3: was arrested for attacking a shopkeeper with a knife during
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  Speaker 3: an attempted robbery. He slashed him across the face, and
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  Speaker 3: he was sent to a young offenders institute. He had
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  Speaker 3: an extensive collection of books a material on criminals, including
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Darmer and Peter Sutcliffe. He had a particular fascination
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  Speaker 3: with serial killers. He spent time engaging with mental health services,
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  Speaker 3: where he was diagnosed with personality disorders, including traits of narcissism.
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  Speaker 3: Between nineteen eighty seven and two thousand and nine, he
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  Speaker 3: was seen by psychiatrists and spent time in three different
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  Speaker 3: hospitals for his mental health issues, but the doctor's treating
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  Speaker 3: Stephen declared that he wasn't suffering from mental illness and
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  Speaker 3: was labeled a highly dangerous man. Despite this, he was
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  Speaker 3: given antidepressants and released back into society. In nineteen eighty nine,
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  Speaker 3: he was arrested for possessing an air pistol, which he
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  Speaker 3: had used to shoot birds. He would then dissect the birds.
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  Speaker 3: The following year, he was arrested and charged with holding
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  Speaker 3: a knife to a girl's throat. When he was released,
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  Speaker 3: he decided he wanted to continue to further his education.
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  Speaker 3: His fascination with crime and violence, supported by his high
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  Speaker 3: intelligence and strong academic abilities, led him to enroll at
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  Speaker 3: Bradford University, where he completed a degree in criminology. He
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  Speaker 3: then went on to start a PhD focusing on serial killers,
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  Speaker 3: but outside of the classroom, Steven was also a serial killer.
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  Speaker 3: On the twenty second of June two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 3: Susan Rushworth left her home in Bradford after telling her
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  Speaker 3: family that she was off to run some errands. She
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  Speaker 3: was forty three years old and she had three children.
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  Speaker 3: Susan was struggling with addiction issues. She had used heroin
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  Speaker 3: and was involved in sex work to support her habit,
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  Speaker 3: but when she failed to return home, her family were concerned.
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  Speaker 3: She was reported as a missing person, but after a
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  Speaker 3: short investigation, the police could find no evidence of foul play.
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  Speaker 3: Because she'd been a sex worker and an addict. Like
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  Speaker 3: so many missing vulnerable people, her case didn't garner much
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  Speaker 3: publicity at the time, and her case went cold. Her
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  Speaker 3: loved ones were desperate for answers. The three children missed
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  Speaker 3: their mother, but nothing more was being done to find her.
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  Speaker 3: The following year, in twenty ten, another sex worker went missing.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty one year old Shelley Armitage was also from Bradford
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  Speaker 3: and she worked in the city's red light district. She
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  Speaker 3: was described as kind hearted and she was working towards
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  Speaker 3: living a better life after having a traumatic past. She
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  Speaker 3: wanted to stop sex work, but she also struggled with addiction.
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  Speaker 3: On the twenty sixth of April, Shelley left home to
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  Speaker 3: go to work on the streets, and she was never
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  Speaker 3: seen alive again. She was reported missing, and her mother
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  Speaker 3: engaged with the police to try to find out what
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  Speaker 3: happened to her daughter, but like Susan, the fact that
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  Speaker 3: she was a sex worker and an addict meant that
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  Speaker 3: her case didn't get much attention either, and no viable
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  Speaker 3: leads came into the police. Three weeks later, another sex
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  Speaker 3: worker named Suzanne Blamiah also went missing. Suzanne was a
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  Speaker 3: thirty six year old woman, also from Bradford. She was
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  Speaker 3: described by her friends as confident and outgoing, and she
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  Speaker 3: was academically gifted, achieving strong A level results in a
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  Speaker 3: variety of subjects, including psychology. She'd always wanted to be
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  Speaker 3: a nurse and she'd worked in a care home, but
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  Speaker 3: like Susan and Shelley. Susan was introduced to drugs and
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  Speaker 3: soon she was in the grips of addiction. She used
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  Speaker 3: the name Amber when she was working in the Red
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  Speaker 3: Light area of Bradford. She was last seen in this
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  Speaker 3: area on the twenty first of May, and when she
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  Speaker 3: failed to return from a job, she too was reported missing.
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  Speaker 3: The police now had missing female sex workers who all
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  Speaker 3: worked in the same area. Investigators started reviewing CCTV footage
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  Speaker 3: from the time that Susanne missing and other sex workers
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  Speaker 3: were interviewed by police to see if they had seen anything.
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  Speaker 3: They discovered that a lot of the sex workers had
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  Speaker 3: been going to the same place, an old warehouse in
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  Speaker 3: the city of Bradford which had been converted into a
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  Speaker 3: block of flats. It was named home Field Court. The
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  Speaker 3: caretaker who looked after the flats used to routinely view
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  Speaker 3: the CCTV footage from the building after every weekend. He'd
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  Speaker 3: check footage from the hallways and the exterior of the
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  Speaker 3: building just to check that everything was above order. Many
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  Speaker 3: of the residents in the flats were under housing association.
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  Speaker 3: As he was looking on the Monday after Suzanne went missing,
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  Speaker 3: he saw something that looked like it was straight out
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  Speaker 3: of a horror movie. Footage from the third floor hallway
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  Speaker 3: showed a woman who was later identified as Suzanne, running
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  Speaker 3: away from a man. He catches up with her and
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  Speaker 3: starts attacking her. He knocks her unconscious and then returns
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  Speaker 3: into his flat and emerges with a crossbow. He looks
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  Speaker 3: directly at the CCTV camera. He sticks up his middle finger,
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  Speaker 3: and then he shoots the crossbow at Suzanne. He drags
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  Speaker 3: her body back into his flat and shuts the door.
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  Speaker 3: The police were not the first people called when the
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  Speaker 3: caretaker viewed this footage. He first called the Sun newspaper
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  Speaker 3: and sold the story and the footage to them. He
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  Speaker 3: then called the police. The officers quickly identified the man
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  Speaker 3: in the CCTV footage a Stephen Griffiths, a man who
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  Speaker 3: had a degree in criminology, a man studying serial killers
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  Speaker 3: for his PhD, A man who was previously labeled a
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  Speaker 3: highly dangerous man. Stephen was arrested and as they were
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  Speaker 3: reading him his rights, he told the officers quote, I'm
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  Speaker 3: Absama bin Laden. He was then interviewed at the police
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  Speaker 3: station and he said, quote, I've killed a lot more
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  Speaker 3: than Suzanne I've killed loads. Peter Sutcliffe came a cropper
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  Speaker 3: in Sheffield. So did I, but at least I got
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  Speaker 3: out of the city. Officers were confused, and he continued
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  Speaker 3: to tell them that he was going to tell them
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  Speaker 3: about five Bradford cases that he'd been involved in. It
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  Speaker 3: was then that they realized they'd just arrested a serial killer.
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  Speaker 3: Even was put into an interrogation room. At this point,
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  Speaker 3: he hadn't and wouldn't tell the officers where he put
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  Speaker 3: the bodies of his victims. The officers then tell him
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  Speaker 3: that they've noticed that he's tried to set things on
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  Speaker 3: fire in his flat. He tells them he did it
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of DNA.
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  Speaker 1: What were you setting things on fire for?
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  Speaker 2: Well? To destroy DNA? But like you're saying, such a reckless,
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  Speaker 2: crazy manner, I can't believe, and you I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think care taker perhaps had other things on his mind,
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  Speaker 2: but otherwise I can't believe. You know the smirk that
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  Speaker 2: must have been billowing out of the windows, although I
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  Speaker 2: did keep them shut for a while as well. So
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  Speaker 2: that's where I've got a lot of subt of the mean.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually I got a breathing mask on but.
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  Speaker 4: So, how do you know that the fire destroys DNA, Well,
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  Speaker 4: perfectly something else.
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  Speaker 5: I always kept him to check up one on the internet,
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  Speaker 5: but it was just an astonishing that Well, certainly I
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  Speaker 5: think the principal ayapreated on as well. It certainly isn't
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  Speaker 5: going to enhance the quality of the evidence.
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  Speaker 3: Prime scene photos from Stephen's flat showed two crossbows on
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  Speaker 3: top of his sofa, with a pack of bolts next
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  Speaker 3: to them. They were bottles of bleach and air freshener,
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  Speaker 3: and over fifteen large black holders, suitcases and backpacks piled
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  Speaker 3: on top of each other. A small bookshelf was home
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  Speaker 3: to a variety of books that included titles like Strange
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  Speaker 3: Inhumane Deaths, Children Who Kill, Hang Then of England, and
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  Speaker 3: Murder in Mind. He also had a collection of horror
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  Speaker 3: and slasher movies. On one of his walls, there was
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  Speaker 3: a picture of him at his graduation alongside a map
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  Speaker 3: of Bradford. On his computer, he had images of the
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  Speaker 3: flat's exterior via a CCTV camera he'd installed. When the
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  Speaker 3: forensic team entered his flat, they quickly discovered that most
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  Speaker 3: of the rooms had bloodstains everywhere. In his police interview,
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  Speaker 3: Stephen described his home as his very own slaughter house.
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  Speaker 3: Neighbors came forward to describe their experiences with Stephen. He
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  Speaker 3: often wore a long black trench coat. He had pet
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  Speaker 3: lizards that he would walk on leeds, and they described
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  Speaker 3: him as friendly but eccentric. No one had ever suspected
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  Speaker 3: such horror was happening just meters from where they lived.
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  Speaker 3: Officers looked into Stephen's online activity and they noticed he'd
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  Speaker 3: set up the websites was called the Skeleton and the Jaguar.
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  Speaker 3: These were the names he'd given his two crossbows. Pictures
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  Speaker 3: of the crossbows and photos of serial killers made up
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  Speaker 3: the content on the website. On his social media, he
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  Speaker 3: described himself as a miss and throw. It means someone
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  Speaker 3: who has a general hatred, dislike, or distrust of the
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  Speaker 3: human species. He would pose pictures of himself topless on
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  Speaker 3: social media, quoting passages from the Bible. On MySpace, one
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  Speaker 3: of his entries read, humanity is not merely a biological condition.
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  Speaker 3: It is also a state of mind. On that basis
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  Speaker 3: a ma pseudo human being at best, a demon at worst.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen had attended the same school as John George Haigh,
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  Speaker 3: a serial killer from England, who was known as the
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  Speaker 3: acid bath murderer because he would dissolve the bodies of
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  Speaker 3: his wealthy victims in sophuric acid. Stephen often talked about
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  Speaker 3: this connection, and he was fascinated by this fact from
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  Speaker 3: a young age. As the police learned more about Stephen's background,
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  Speaker 3: they found a string of ex girlfriends who claimed that
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  Speaker 3: he was abusive towards them when they were in relationships
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  Speaker 3: with him. One woman named Hancock told the media that
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  Speaker 3: she'd been in a relationship with him and within two
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  Speaker 3: weeks of meeting him, he tried to kill her. She
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  Speaker 3: said he had drugged her tea and when she started
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  Speaker 3: to feel the effects, he told her that he was
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  Speaker 3: drugging her to kill her. She managed to escape and
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  Speaker 3: go to the local hospital, and when she returned, she
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  Speaker 3: discovered that he'd stolen two of her dogs. She couldn't
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  Speaker 3: leave it she was under his control, and he went
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  Speaker 3: on to break her nose, cut her with glass, and
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  Speaker 3: he kept her locked in their flat whilst he went
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  Speaker 3: to lectures at his university. Incredibly, it was another ex
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  Speaker 3: girlfriend of Stephen's that helped Kathy escape this abusive and
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  Speaker 3: volatile relationship. She too had been abused by Stephen, and
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  Speaker 3: she was concerned that one day his violence would go
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  Speaker 3: too far and he would take someone's life. This ex
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  Speaker 3: girlfriend got Kathy a room in a refuge, but Stephen
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  Speaker 3: continued to harass Kathy. Here's a voicemail he left her
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  Speaker 3: after she walked out on him.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 3: On one occasion, Stephen called Kathy to confess that he
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  Speaker 3: had drugged and injured a dog. He begged her not
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  Speaker 3: to tell anyone. Other girlfriends have said that they always
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  Speaker 3: felt that he wanted to be famous. Stephen confessed to
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  Speaker 3: killing Suzanne Rushworth and dismembering her body before putting her
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  Speaker 3: body parts in the river air. He did the same
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  Speaker 3: to Shelley Armitage and to Suzanne Lamia's. He also claimed
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  Speaker 3: that he had eaten parts of his victims' bodies, and
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  Speaker 3: he declared himself the crossbow Cannibal. He had also filmed
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  Speaker 3: the women in his flats. One of them was filmed
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  Speaker 3: tied up and lifeless in his home. In his initial interview,
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  Speaker 3: he did indicate that he'd killed between five and six
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  Speaker 3: women in total, though he was only charged for three
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  Speaker 3: of them after he stopped talking halfway through his interview
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  Speaker 3: if failed to give any details regarding any other victims
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  Speaker 3: that he was responsible for killing and the investigation had
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  Speaker 3: to stop. The river air was searched in an attempt
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  Speaker 3: to find his victim's remains. His latest victim, Suzanne, was
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  Speaker 3: found dismembered in the river. Other pieces of human tissue
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  Speaker 3: were later discovered there and match to be that of
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  Speaker 3: Shelley Armitage. Suzanne Rushworth has never been found, put down
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  Speaker 3: to the passage of time. Stephen was charged with three
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  Speaker 3: murders and the Crown Prosecution Service gave this statement outside
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  Speaker 3: of their offices to the media.
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  Speaker 4: There's three phases to the investigation. The first phase was
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  Speaker 4: to secure the evidence to justify charging Griffiths. We've achieved that.
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  Speaker 4: The second phase was to secure the convention, and again
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  Speaker 4: we've achieved that. The third phase is to review a
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  Speaker 4: comprehensive timeline or superimpose that on information that is coming
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  Speaker 4: to light.
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  Speaker 5: It will be.
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  Speaker 4: Totally inappropriate of me to link him with any other
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  Speaker 4: disappearances at this stage, because there is no direct evidence
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  Speaker 4: to link him with anything else. Do you think, given
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  Speaker 4: that you've just said, he's other evidence coming to mind,
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  Speaker 4: I don't other victions. No, No, I don't I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: but again it's the third phase of the investigation is
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  Speaker 4: to go over the comprehensive timeline, work with partners across
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  Speaker 4: the country and see if anything develops.
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  Speaker 6: What about missed opportunities? This was a man who was
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  Speaker 6: known to you. This was a man years ago, years earlier,
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  Speaker 6: said to be clearly a very dangerous individual. He told
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  Speaker 6: a probation worker that he saw himself as a murderer
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  Speaker 6: one day, that he was free to do what he
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  Speaker 6: wanted to do.
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  Speaker 4: Stephen Griffiths, his anti sudents are very well documented. And
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  Speaker 4: again it would be inappropriate of me, an unprofessional start
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  Speaker 4: talking about missed opportunities, focusing on this investigation. I speak
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  Speaker 4: with the utmost confidence that have been no missed opportunities.
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  Speaker 6: Will you be speaking to him about other possible crime?
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  Speaker 4: Again, I go back to the third phase of the investigation.
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  Speaker 4: It is our intention to approach Griffith, but he's an
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  Speaker 4: individual likes to control the situation.
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  Speaker 3: Shortly after being charged, Stephen cut himself with glass whilst
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  Speaker 3: he was on remand in Wakefield Prison and there were
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  Speaker 3: concerns that he would continue to try to end his life,
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  Speaker 3: so he was placed on suicide Watch. Stephen pled guilty
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  Speaker 3: to the three murders he had confessed to. In November
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  Speaker 3: twenty ten, Judge Justice Openshaw sat at Leeds Grand Court
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  Speaker 3: and ordered Stephen Griffis to serve a whole life order,
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  Speaker 3: meaning he will never be released from prison and will
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  Speaker 3: die behind bars. It was revealed that the police had
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  Speaker 3: been suspicious and concerned about Stephen for over two years
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  Speaker 3: prior to his arrest. He had previously told his probation
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  Speaker 3: officer that he had a fascination with mass murder. His
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  Speaker 3: officer had alerted the police, and the officers had seized
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  Speaker 3: weapons from Stephen, including hunting knives and another crossbow. He
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  Speaker 3: had been caught reading a book on human dismemberment by
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  Speaker 3: librarians and they had reported his strange behavior and choice
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  Speaker 3: of reading material to the police and the managers of
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  Speaker 3: his Flats Housing Association. Staff were given panic alarms because
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  Speaker 3: they were concerned about Stephen's potential to become violent. Female
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  Speaker 3: members of staff were told not to talk to him
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  Speaker 3: when they were alone. The police later said that they
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  Speaker 3: didn't have a strong enough case to issue an anti
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  Speaker 3: social behavior order, which would have meant they would have
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  Speaker 3: been able to keep a closer eye on him. The
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  Speaker 3: staff who managed the flats that Stephen lived in were
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  Speaker 3: so concerned about him that they kept a log of
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  Speaker 3: his activity, and they invested in better CCTV cameras to
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  Speaker 3: keep an eye on him. This purchase would turn out
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  Speaker 3: to be the thing that stopped his killing spree. Since
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  Speaker 3: he has been in prison, Stephen has never shown any
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  Speaker 3: remorse for his action. He stopped engaging with his legalty,
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  Speaker 3: and during his time in prison, he's been on several
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  Speaker 3: hunger strikes, sometimes not eating for months at a time,
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  Speaker 3: though he consumes enough liquid to keep him alive. He
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  Speaker 3: has attempted suicide in prison on more than one occasion,
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  Speaker 3: and he's also been attacked by other inmates, including by
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  Speaker 3: one man who was housed on the same winger Stephen,
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  Speaker 3: a man who was a friend of one of his victims.
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  Speaker 3: But the biggest question that hangs over this case is
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  Speaker 3: were there more victims. Nineteen year old Rebecca Hall was
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  Speaker 3: found dead in an alleyway in Bradford in April two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and one. She had also been a sex worker
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  Speaker 3: in the city, and to this day, her killer has
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  Speaker 3: never been found. Stephen Griffis remains in prison He's now
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  Speaker 3: fifty five years old. Thank you for watching. If you
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