![]() ![]() So did I but at least I got out of the city." Peter Sutcliffe came a cropper in Sheffield. The court heard that following his arrest, Griffiths told police: "I've killed a lot more than Suzanne Blamires - I've killed loads. Griffiths went on to plead guilty to all three murders at Leeds Crown Court. When he was arrested and charged, Griffiths appeared in court, giving his name as "The Crossbow Cannibal." He also boasted to detectives that he had eaten some of his victims before chopping them up. Stephen Griffiths was caught on CCTV after killing Suzanne Blamires Sadly, Susan's body has never been found. Other human tissue found there was later discovered to belong to Shelley. Tragically, parts of Suzanne's body were found in the River Aire in Shipley. All three women were sex workers known to frequent the Bradford area. Then less than a month later, Suzanne Blamires, 36, went missing. Less than a year later, in April 2010, Shelley Armitage, 36, also vanished. It was in June that year that he struck.Ĥ3-year-old Susan Rushworth disappeared in June 2009. His sick obsession with serial killers continued and in 2009 he enrolled on a Masters degree in criminology at Bradford University. He went on to spend another stint behind bars just five years later for holding a knife to a girl's throat. Read more: The baby faced killers who became the UK's youngest While he was in prison, he confessed that he wanted to become a serial killer. But the murders of Susan Rushworth, Shelley Armitage and Suzanne Blamires were not his first crimes.ĭewsbury-born Griffiths began his life of crime with shoplifting - but it soon became more violent and when he was just 17 he was jailed for three years for an unprovoked knife attack on a supermarket manager. Serial killer Stephen Griffiths stalked the city's streets, hunting out his victims. They were the crimes that shook Bradford and the thought alone of the evil person lurking its streets, ripping women from their families and loved ones in the sick way that they did is enough to make your blood go cold. ![]()
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