1 00:00:01,640 --> 00:00:04,720 [soft ambient music] 2 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,520 [footsteps thudding] 3 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,720 - Okay, ready. - Okay, cool. [indistinct] 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,480 [tense music] 5 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,800 - I was enjoying my fish and chips and the BBC news was on 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,280 ...and it came on a 40-year-old man in Bradford, 7 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,720 ...arrested, body parts found in the river. 8 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,520 - [Reporter] Police divers continued to search the river air near Shipley, 9 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,600 ...where Suzanne Blamires' dismembered body was discovered. 10 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,000 [tense music continues] 11 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,240 - I made this funny noise, I don't know, 12 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,760 kind of sucked air through my teeth or something 13 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,680 and I just said, "My brother, I bet you that's my brother." 14 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:06,440 [Tense music continues] 15 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,800 - [Reporter] Sniffer dogs on the streets and in the alleyways, 16 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,600 searching the drains and bagging up potential evidence. 17 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,320 The handle of a suitcase pops up out of the water. 18 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,440 The diver drags it to the shore. 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,840 [tense music continues] 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,840 - Stephen Griffiths is formally arrested 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,360 for the murder of Suzanne and they begin questioning him. 22 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,960 "Do you know anything about Shelly and Susan?" 23 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,920 [tense music continues] 24 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,120 - He told us that he was responsible for the murder of all three victims. 25 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,640 - [Detective] Why did you feel the need to- to kill her? 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:48,320 - I don't know. 27 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,480 Sometimes you kill someone to kill yourself. 28 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,320 - He wanted to be infamous. 29 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,920 He wanted to be a serial killer. 30 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,120 [tense music continues] 31 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,240 - He wanted to be known for the most extreme aspects of his crime, 32 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,440 which was the crossbow, and the cannibalism. 33 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,840 [tense music continues] 34 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,960 - I watch true crime programs and I think that's terrible. 35 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:23,280 And then I think God, my brother did worse than that. 36 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,800 [tense music continues] 37 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,000 You hear about people chopping people up and that, 38 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 and you think, awful. 39 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,280 And then the words 81 pieces come into your head. 40 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,640 [tense music continues] 41 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,200 And you never really come to terms with it. 42 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,960 But it's real, it happened. 43 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,600 - Griffiths couldn't answer the one question 44 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,160 that we all wanted to know. Why? 45 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,840 If you try and analyze the mind of a serial killer, 46 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:51,520 you will never know. 47 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,440 Because they don't think like us. 48 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,000 They're not like us. 49 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,000 He is not of this world. 50 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,240 [tense music continues] 51 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:10,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 52 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,840 [tense music] 53 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:22,960 - Homefield Court is a big converted mill building 54 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,160 on the outskirts of Bradford Town Centre. 55 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,800 On one side, it was the city center, on the other side, 56 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,720 was the Red Light District. 57 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,320 It was one of these beautiful buildings, 58 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,480 fantastic architecture, which had been part 59 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,360 of the city's famous textiles industry. 60 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,040 But of course, as that declined, 61 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,600 it became a little bit shabby, a little bit rundown. 62 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,880 It became disused and eventually was converted into flats. 63 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,280 [tense music continues] 64 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,800 On the 24th of May, 2010, the caretaker 65 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,600 at Homefield Court turned up for work, 66 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,280 began his usual routine of checking the CCTV from cameras, 67 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,160 which were dotted around the building. 68 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,680 And on a normal Monday, very little would happen. 69 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,960 You know, there'd be maybe a bit of vandalism, 70 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,920 some drunks causing trouble. 71 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,520 [tense music continues] 72 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,600 He was in the habit of flicking through the CCTV 73 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,680 on fast forward, basically. 74 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,800 [tense music continues] 75 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,360 And the caretaker has to do a double take 76 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,440 because what he witnesses appears to be a violent attack on a woman. 77 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,960 [tense music continues] 78 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:49,000 What he sees initially are two people coming out 79 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,160 of the lift on the third floor and going into a flat. 80 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,280 He recognises one of them as the loner, Steve, 81 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,520 who he's been told to avoid, because he can be a bit volatile. 82 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,600 The person with Steve is a woman 83 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,640 with a small stature with dark hair, both go in the flat. 84 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,880 They disappear for a period of time, just a few minutes. 85 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,920 And then the woman runs out fleeing in terror. 86 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,040 [tense music continues] 87 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,440 The caretaker, obviously he's terrified by this, 88 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,520 and the first thing he does is call his manager. 89 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,000 They watch the footage again together, 90 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,040 and then they call police. 91 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,400 [tense music continues] 92 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:39,840 - I booked on as normal. 93 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,760 I was on a day shift, collecting my firearm, 94 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,120 and fairly early into the shift, 95 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,160 I received a call asking me to blue light immediately to Dudley Hill, 96 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,880 which is one of our sort of major planning stations. 97 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,560 I met with Silver Commander and CID team who briefed me 98 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:57,720 that there had been an incident 99 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,600 where a male had been caught on a camera. 100 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,680 He'd been involved in an altercation with a female. 101 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,440 [tense music continues] 102 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:07,800 - As soon as she got into that flat, 103 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,800 there was something that startled her, 104 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,320 and she ran out of the flat at some real speed, 105 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,920 almost hitting straight into the wall that came out 106 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,200 into a corridor. 107 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,200 [tense music continues] [heart beating] 108 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,640 - The male ran after her and incapacitated her. 109 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,720 He appeared to knock her out, or she was unconscious 110 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,880 on the floor, slightly off camera, 111 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,240 and then came out with what was assumed to be a crossbow. 112 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,000 [tense music continues] 113 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,760 We were unsure if the crossbow had been fired or not, 114 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:47,880 but the male dragged the female back into the apartment, 115 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,240 and then the door was closed- 116 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,640 [tense music continues] 117 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:02,440 - I've seen a lot in my operational activity in policing, 118 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,400 but seeing somebody run out the flat, 119 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,200 as she did, was startling 120 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:13,520 because what she must have seen in that flat was so scary. 121 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:16,920 Oh, it was shocking. 122 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,560 [tense music continues] 123 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:24,400 - By analyzing the CCTV from around Homefield Court, 124 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,960 police made another amazing discovery. 125 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,920 - The CCTV at 3:35 shows him trying 126 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,080 to lure another woman back to his apartment, 127 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,240 shortly after the incident with the assault. 128 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,560 But fortunately she must have got some sort 129 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,120 of vibe that there was something really not right. 130 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,080 - And she declined to come in. 131 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,480 So, again, that raises the threat level. 132 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,120 He's wanting to find more people to bring back 133 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,200 to his flat for whatever purpose. 134 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,600 [tense music continues] 135 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,040 - As far as we were concerned 136 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,720 we've got a female who's been incapacitated, 137 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,960 so we have hostage situation whereby, 138 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,360 she's been held against her will, clearly. 139 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,320 We're dealing with a collapsing timeframe, 140 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,320 so every second counts. 141 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,600 [tense music continues] 142 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,720 - Amongst the officers viewing the footage, 143 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,160 are some from Bradford's Vice Squad 144 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:29,240 who immediately recognise the victim as Suzanne Blamires. 145 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,640 [tense music continues] 146 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,480 - Suzanne came from a lovely family, 147 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:44,080 very well known family in the area. 148 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,960 And she was destined for great things. 149 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,120 - Her father was a successful businessman, 150 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,240 and so her childhood was one of foreign holidays and ponies. 151 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,360 And, you know, she'd done well at school. 152 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,240 She was popular, she was pretty. 153 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:59,760 She had every reason to believe that she was going 154 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,240 to have a successful life. 155 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,200 - She wanted to become a nurse. 156 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,200 She'd got far into her training 157 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:07,680 when she met the wrong people. 158 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,200 [tense music] 159 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,040 - She had adopted a hedonistic lifestyle, 160 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,720 which involved going out late, drinking a lot, 161 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,160 and unfortunately taking drugs. 162 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,560 - And very quickly she became an addict 163 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,400 and her life spiralled and the family had 164 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,000 to sit back and watch it happen. 165 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,040 - There came a time when the drugs became harder, 166 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,560 more addictive, and she had no other way 167 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,160 of funding the habit other than through prostitution 168 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,640 and street prostitution. 169 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,400 And that's what she did. 170 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,840 [tense music continues] 171 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,440 - Suzanne met a friend who had also worked in the sex trade, 172 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,280 but had left and escaped. 173 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,200 And they had a little bit of a meetup, had a coffee, 174 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,360 laughed and giggled, shared some old memories. 175 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,040 And then the friend went on her way and said, 176 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,640 "Just be careful, just take extra care." 177 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,040 [tense music continues] 178 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,880 Next day, Suzanne's boyfriend, 179 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,760 noticed that she was missing, went to speak 180 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,440 to her family to see if she'd been in touch with them. 181 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:29,800 The answer was no. 182 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,520 He was extremely worried about her. 183 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,640 So he went straight to the police. 184 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,080 [tense music continues] 185 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:43,760 - It was in the mid-'90s 186 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:48,440 that the prostitution moved from Lum Lane to Thornton Road. 187 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,240 - It's a very busy thoroughfare, Thornton Road. 188 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,880 It's what goes on behind there that people don't see. 189 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,600 [tense music continues] 190 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:09,280 There was at least 50, 60, 70 women selling sex 191 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,040 in that small area. 192 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,400 Many had given up their friendships, 193 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,840 any chance of prosperity, their families. 194 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,960 They were waifs, they were six stone. 195 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,240 They were standing in freezing cold conditions 196 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,160 wearing very little. 197 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,880 [dramatic orchestral music] 198 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,720 - At the time I was on the streets, it was 10 pounds 199 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,560 to buy a vulnerable young woman. 200 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,440 Unfortunately, it's even less now, 201 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,760 it's five pounds because that's the cheapest bag 202 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,800 of heroin or crack cocaine. 203 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,640 So, you know, these men don't value the women and girls. 204 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,240 The women and girls are so desperate 205 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,440 and they've usually got a perpetrator lurking 206 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,760 in the background that they're supplying 207 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:06,280 their drugs as well. 208 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,080 It's pretty grim. 209 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,480 [tense music] 210 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,280 - Women working within the sex trade in this area 211 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,080 of Bradford in the Red Light District were working 212 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,320 in an area that wasn't highly policed. 213 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,680 They were vulnerable to the police targeting them. 214 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:27,880 And as such, they are in an environment 215 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,640 whereby they are vulnerable to predators. 216 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:32,680 [tense music continues] 217 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:36,480 - A lot of the time they're completely off their heads. 218 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:40,000 I mean, it was really difficult to keep myself safe 219 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:45,920 and I was straight, I wasn't under the influence of anything. 220 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,320 [tense music continues] 221 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,640 - As a firearms tactical advisor all you're looking 222 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:57,680 for is information. 223 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,040 You're just filling in gaps, finding out who's living there. 224 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:03,880 We find out this guy's called Griffiths. 225 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,600 [tense music continues] 226 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,960 [dramatic orchestral music] 227 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,200 - I'm Stephen Sean Griffith's sister, 228 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,680 but I will call him Sean 229 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:26,680 because that's how we knew him growing up 230 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,040 because my dad's name was Stephen as well, 231 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:30,840 so we called him Sean. 232 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,880 There was three of us, 233 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 myself, Sean, who was the older brother, 234 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,680 and then my younger brother, 235 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:43,760 and my mom and dad. 236 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,360 [dramatic orchestral music continues] 237 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:53,560 Sean started showing then, when he was young, 238 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,040 the first signs of like troubling behaviour. 239 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,880 He'd have been under 10 when he first started stealing. 240 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,800 At one point we didn't have a lot, so, you know, children, 241 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:10,720 you want things and Sean wasn't satisfied to just want them. 242 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:11,800 He had to have them. 243 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,840 So he took them and he got caught and he got into trouble. 244 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,520 And I think a lot of my parents' arguments 245 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:19,880 as well as arguing with each other, 246 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:21,760 they were arguing about him as well. 247 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,160 [dramatic orchestral music continues] 248 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,360 That was just the way he was, you know, 249 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,520 like he closed his eyes and I think he was asked 250 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,040 to open his eyes and he just didn't, he wouldn't, 251 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:35,520 and the more he was asked to open them, 252 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:36,880 the more he kept them closed. 253 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,680 [dramatic orchestral music continues] 254 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,960 - He was a little bit withdrawn, a bit of a loner, 255 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,760 didn't play with other children, wasn't seen in the street, 256 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,800 was very slight of build. 257 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:52,960 And in fact, one nickname for him at that time 258 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,320 was the Stick Man. 259 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,960 - He had a real fear of going to a school called Outward Grange. 260 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,600 It had a reputation back then as being quite a rough school. 261 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,760 And Shaun didn't want to, I remember him waking me up 262 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,160 one night because Outward Grange was on fire, 263 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,560 and I've no proof, but I've always suspected 264 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:14,280 that maybe he had something to do with that. 265 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,640 It just seemed so coincidental that this school, 266 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,160 he had such a fear of going to, and then the next thing, 267 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:20,520 it's in flames. 268 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,160 [dramatic orchestral music continues] 269 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,240 [fire crackling] 270 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,320 And then with the divorce, he just got worse. 271 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,640 It's like consequences didn't matter to him. 272 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,560 He would steal stuff from the neighbour's sheds. 273 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,320 He would go down to Wakefield on the bus 274 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,400 and he would come back with stuff he'd stolen. 275 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:45,760 He stole off my mum as well. 276 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,080 He didn't seem to see the problem with taking money from a woman 277 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,640 that was already struggling to provide. 278 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,480 Yeah, so from a young age he was problematic 279 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,720 and it just escalated over the years, got worse and worse. 280 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,320 [tense music] 281 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:09,040 As he got older, the age gap became more apparent. 282 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,440 Between him and my younger brother, it was six years. 283 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,280 So that is a very big age gap. 284 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,600 And I used to worry about what he was capable of. 285 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,240 He was quite mean and cruel 286 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,840 and could be violent towards myself and my younger brother. 287 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,440 He developed a point system and if we did something to Sean, 288 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,240 say we went in his stuff, you damaged something, 289 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,320 he would give you so many points and once you accrued 290 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,880 so many points, that was his cue 291 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:39,600 that he could punish you then. 292 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,680 And there was one night in particular 293 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:44,920 that I must have accrued enough points, 294 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,360 so he decided to launch an attack on me 295 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,520 and he would get you and he would kneel on your arms there. 296 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,000 So you were pinned, basically. 297 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,840 And then I managed to get one of my arms free 298 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:57,280 and there was a table with a glass ashtray 299 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,680 and I managed to get that and I hit him over the head with it, 300 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,040 which is not something I'm proud of, 301 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,040 but I felt like I had to do it. 302 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:06,200 And his head bled. 303 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,760 I mean head wounds do bleed heavily. 304 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,320 And we had to get mum back from a night out 305 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,280 and she wasn't very happy. 306 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:19,320 So yeah, he could be a mean, mean boy, a bad boy. 307 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,000 [tense music] 308 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,800 - He enjoyed quite simply shooting birds 309 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,760 and then not just watching them fall, but then dissecting them. 310 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:37,040 Neighbours spoke of them catching him pulling wings off dead birds. 311 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:39,520 This is not normal behavior. 312 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,000 [tense music continues] 313 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,480 - I had pet mice and we weren't supposed to have them 314 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:47,880 and Sean knew about my pet mice. 315 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,120 So he decided to get himself a pet rat. 316 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,000 Anyway, my stepmom found out 317 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,480 and she didn't want them in the house. 318 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,400 So I arranged to give my mice away to one 319 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,560 of my friend's schools, which was an option for Sean, 320 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,840 but he decided not to do that. 321 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,760 And I was upstairs in my bedroom and it was quite late. 322 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:14,440 Everyone was in bed and I heard this thump thump thump. 323 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,960 So I knocked, I was like, what are you doing? 324 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,280 You'll wake everybody up and he let me in. 325 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:23,520 He says, "Oh, I'm trying to kill the rat." 326 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:28,000 So what I'd heard was him hammering this rat 327 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,640 with this broken off hammer [hammer banging] 328 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,560 and it was all hunched and crawling around 329 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,240 and I don't think he was trying to kill it at all. 330 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:38,960 I think he was just enjoying torturing it. 331 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:40,320 That poor thing. 332 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,840 [hammer banging] 333 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:49,040 - When a child harms an animal, it usually is experimentation. 334 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:51,120 It will have entered their mind. 335 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,360 What is it like to hurt someone? 336 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,680 So they'll experiment on animals, and most children 337 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,440 who do that will soon find out 338 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,200 that they don't like doing it. 339 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:02,960 But with Stephen, he recognized 340 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,440 that that was something he gained pleasure from. 341 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,080 - He could have got rid of it, he could have killed it 342 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,000 much more humanely if he wanted to, 343 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,880 but I think he just was having fun. 344 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:18,640 [tense music continues] 345 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,400 - He was very socially isolated as a child. 346 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,200 He really couldn't connect or make friends 347 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,560 and he had violent thoughts. 348 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,400 As he went on to his teenage years, 349 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,240 we see this developed into not just harming animals 350 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,640 but harming people. 351 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:38,680 [tense music continues] 352 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:39,920 - I was always worried about him. 353 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,600 I knew that it was escalating 354 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:47,600 and that he had the potential to do harm to people. 355 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,720 [tense music continues] 356 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,920 My maternal grandparents, they lived in an upstairs flat 357 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,600 and Shaun was in front of me on the stairs. 358 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,520 and I'd said something to him and he back kicked me 359 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,920 in the mouth and knocked one of my teeth out. 360 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,320 [tense music continues] 361 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,040 He had a cache of weapons like had flick knives 362 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:17,720 and Rambo knives and he had a machete 363 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,120 and he had a crossbow even at that age. 364 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,960 I was up in my bedroom, the attic, and my brother, 365 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,720 my youngest brother, was about two, three was there. 366 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,560 And the next thing there was this thunk noise. 367 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,440 [arrow banging] 368 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,840 He must have known that he was there, 369 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,480 and he went ahead and fired this crossbar at the door. 370 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,960 My brother started screaming and crying. 371 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,440 To this day, I think, was he trying to kill him? 372 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,080 Was he trying to injure him? 373 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,480 It's just so disturbing the fact he's got a crossbow, 374 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,680 he's firing it through a door in the house. 375 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,400 My brother's there and I think 376 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,240 that was the last straw for my stepmom. 377 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,040 She was like, "Right, that's it. 378 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,880 Get him out." 379 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,760 My dad asked him to leave after that. 380 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,920 [tense music continues] 381 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,560 It's just another example of his exacerbating behaviour, 382 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,840 his escalation, more and more odd things. 383 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,920 It's almost like he had a tick-box exercise 384 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,320 for I'm going to be a killer. 385 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,760 And he was just filling it in as he went along. 386 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,920 [tense music continues] 387 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,080 - Stephen leaves school at 16, and then he begins to drift. 388 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,600 - He moved down to a bedsit in Heckmondwyke. 389 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,080 And his behavior, I don't think it had changed 390 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,560 because he was stockpiling weapons there as well. 391 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,200 [tense music continues] 392 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,800 He'd been to see dad and Dad had given him a bit of money 393 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,840 and then he went to the co-op and I think 394 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,280 it was just pathetic things like sweets and a bottle of pop 395 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:19,040 that he could easily have afforded to buy. 396 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:22,560 But no he decided to steal them instead because, 397 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,800 because that's just the way he was. 398 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,320 And he got caught. 399 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,640 And what would've been maybe just a slap on the wrist, maybe a fine, 400 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,040 he just escalated it to the point where he pulled a knife 401 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:41,960 and slashed somebody down their face, stabbed somebody in the hand, 402 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,280 hurt somebody when he was running out the store. 403 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,360 [tense music continues] 404 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,480 - This poor guy needed 19 stitches, 405 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,000 and Stephen found himself arrested, taken to court, 406 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,840 prosecuted at Leeds Crown Court, 407 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,200 and was sentenced to three years youth custody. 408 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,640 [tense music continues] 409 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,640 - It is like a shock, but it's not a surprise. 410 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,200 You know, you could always see that it was going to happen. 411 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,720 Maybe not to that degree, 412 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,960 but I could always see him ending up in prison. 413 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,400 [tense music continues] 414 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,640 I remember seeing a photo in the local paper 415 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,240 and it had been taken of the arsenal of weapons 416 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,960 that he'd collected knives and throwing stars, 417 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,960 nunchuckers, machete, that kind of thing. 418 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,680 And it was like, God, it'd expanded. 419 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,040 It was more than what used to have 420 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:42,480 and lived at dad's and expanded in such a short time. 421 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,040 - Stephen Griffiths was assessed by a psychiatrist 422 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:50,120 in the criminal justice system for the first time. 423 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,920 He was assessed as having a personality disorder. 424 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,800 [tense music continues] 425 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,680 - Personality disorders are patterns of ingrained 426 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,880 inflexible behaviors and thoughts, 427 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,400 usually behaviors and thoughts 428 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,560 that go outside the social norm. 429 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,640 His narcissism, like his sadistic nature, 430 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,600 like being devoid of emotion, 431 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,000 they're incredibly hard to treat, if not impossible, 432 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,200 simply because they are so ingrained. 433 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,000 [tense music continues] 434 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,120 And often people with personality disorders are resistant 435 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,520 to treatment because they don't see 436 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,440 that there's anything wrong with them. 437 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,200 What is wrong is with other people. 438 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,640 [tense music continues] 439 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,640 He didn't kind of go into generalized psychology. 440 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,880 He went into abnormal psychology. 441 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,320 So he went into the field of psychology 442 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:57,560 that allowed him to feed his more darker desires. 443 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,680 [tense music continues] 444 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,400 - I had only just turned 18 really 445 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,960 when I moved up to Carlisle. 446 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,840 And after that our contact was minimal, really. 447 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,000 I kept in touch with my family by a letter 448 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,680 so me and my stepmom would write to each other just, 449 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,080 you know, about the family news, 450 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,200 and she would always mention Sean 451 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,400 because I would ask about him because obviously 452 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:31,680 I was worried about him. 453 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,520 - [Mum] Right now I'll get down to business 454 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,760 and I'll start with the worst first, Sean. 455 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,200 Your dad has kind of disowned him since he found out 456 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,440 about Sean befriending that dog, 457 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,640 then throwing it out the window three times and then killing it 458 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,480 because throwing it out the window hadn't killed it. 459 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,160 Your dad just can't come to terms 460 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,080 with the son of his being so cruel as to do something like that 461 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,560 and even laughing about it afterwards. 462 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,960 - So this next letter is dated the 25th of June, 1991. 463 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,440 Sean had been about 21. 464 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,040 - [Mum] Your dad had a phone call on his birthday 465 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,680 from Sean's probation officer telling him 466 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,200 that Sean is in the hospital wing at Armley 467 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,120 because he isn't considered stable enough 468 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,120 to be in the normal section. 469 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,120 He's on remand for threatening with intent to kill. 470 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,240 We don't know just what it's about, 471 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:24,840 but he was getting very neurotic 472 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,400 about people looking at him. 473 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,480 - While going about the campus one day, he imagined 474 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,840 that a group of girls had somehow slighted him, 475 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,200 and his response to that was to pull a knife. 476 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,760 [tense music] 477 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,880 He was sentenced for possessing an offensive weapon, 478 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,120 and I think affray, and found himself going 479 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,400 to jail again for two years. 480 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,200 [tense music continues] 481 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,120 - In prison, Stephen was diagnosed 482 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,240 as being a sadistic schizoid psychopath. 483 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,360 It's a merging of three different diagnosis really. 484 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,880 You've got the sadistic part, the sadism, 485 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,760 so this is gaining pleasure from hurting people. 486 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,920 This is perhaps the most dangerous aspect 487 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,240 of his personality. 488 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,640 Then you've got schizoid personality disorder. 489 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,640 So this is really about being detached emotionally, 490 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,320 not being able to connect with other people, 491 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,760 and it's that aspect of his disorder 492 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,400 that makes it easier for him to hurt people 493 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,280 because he hasn't got that emotional attachment. 494 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,240 And then you've got the psychopathology aspect of it, 495 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,000 which is really about having no empathy. 496 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,840 It's usually the empathy that stops most people 497 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,720 from crossing that line between violent fantasy 498 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,320 to actual behavior and making it a reality. 499 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,640 So together you've got a concoction of three very serious conditions 500 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,760 that make him a very dangerous man. 501 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,920 [tense music continues] 502 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,920 [tense music] 503 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,040 - The CCTV footage of a man 504 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:33,320 holding a crossbow sparked a major police operation. 505 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,120 They had to find out whether the young woman seen 506 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,640 in that footage was dead or alive. 507 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,680 - It really was an imminent threat. 508 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,720 [tense music continues] 509 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,360 When we found out subsequently 510 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,240 that there was two other sex workers missing, 511 00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,480 you couldn't help but think back 512 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,840 to the Peter Sutcliffe days of the Yorkshire Ripper 513 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,080 and start to think, actually, 514 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,920 we don't want another Yorkshire ripper taking place 515 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,360 in the force area. 516 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,640 - I think Stephen was around six to 11 517 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,760 during the time that Peter Sutcliffe 518 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,880 was carrying out his crimes and, yeah, 519 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,920 he would've most certainly been aware of what was going on. 520 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,400 [tense music] 521 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,120 - The Yorkshire Ripper was active between 1975 and 1980. 522 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,720 It was a series of murders, 13 women, seven attacks, 523 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,400 and there was a build, it began in red light areas, 524 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,320 and it ended anywhere, anytime, any place. 525 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,520 And for five long years, 526 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,480 every woman in Yorkshire dare not walk the streets. 527 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,040 They dare not go out. 528 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,160 They literally held themselves in a group 529 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,400 of fear behind closed doors. 530 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,560 And that was the power he enjoyed. 531 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,200 [tense music continues] 532 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,560 - [Reporter] In her own ground floor flat in Bradford, 533 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,800 the body of 33 year old Patricia Atkinson. 534 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,120 She was last seen walking home from the pub 535 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,720 where she'd spent the evening. 536 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,560 - The idea that a serial killer is on the loose 537 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,040 will be prime territory for the media. 538 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,200 It is intensely newsworthy. 539 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,000 They are going to want to weave a narrative. 540 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,400 They want to get people watching the news. 541 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,160 - [Reporter] The Yorkshire Ripper's trademark is the unique 542 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,240 and vicious way 543 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,960 in which he mutilates the bodies almost beyond recognition. 544 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,880 - And as such people are talking about it. 545 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,280 We are gossiping. 546 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,160 It is inescapable. 547 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,560 And as such, it can play in the corners of people's minds. 548 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,720 And this feeds into a culture of fear 549 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,120 and an inability to truly switch off from what is going on. 550 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,640 [tense music] 551 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,280 People were frightened, people were questioning 552 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,800 who they could trust. 553 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,760 People were looking at neighbors, colleagues, friends, 554 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,920 and thinking, is it you? 555 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,880 [tense music continues] 556 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,080 - I've always talked of Bradford as a grim grey place. 557 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,840 That's how it strikes me. 558 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,280 And it was a grim time, all in all. 559 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,320 And the Yorkshire Ripper, it was like a dark, 560 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,840 miasma spread all over, you know. 561 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,520 Everyone was scared. 562 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,960 But Sean had an unhealthy interest in him. 563 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,160 [tense music continues] 564 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,720 - He had once even told prison staff 565 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,640 that he had one ambition and that was 566 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,320 to outdo the Yorkshire ripper. 567 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,160 [tense music continues] 568 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,280 - He once told me as well that if he couldn't be famous, 569 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,960 he would be infamous. 570 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,440 And that if I was famous and I was more famous than him, 571 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,280 he would find me and he would kill me. 572 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,920 [tense music continues] 573 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,800 - I do think Peter Sutcliffe re-emerged 574 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,240 into his memory when he was studying, 575 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,000 when he was deciding on the person he wanted to be. 576 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:12,120 So I think that he kind of re-emerged in Stephen's life 577 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,520 at a time when he needed a goal. 578 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,960 [tense music continues] 579 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,600 [dramatic orchestral music] 580 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,040 - Susan Rushworth had grown up on the outskirts 581 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,760 of Bradford in a very loving family. 582 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,240 She had loving parents, she had a brother. 583 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,920 She was a very quiet, in some ways, quite vulnerable girl. 584 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,880 - I know mutual friends. 585 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,440 I've talked to her brother. 586 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,840 She just literally went down the wrong track. 587 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,560 It was all going so well for Susan. 588 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,480 She was married, she had children. 589 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,120 She was a grandma. 590 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,680 [dramatic orchestral music continues] 591 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,200 - But then the marriage failed. 592 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,720 And I think that was a turning point for Susan. 593 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,760 She didn't really recover. 594 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,400 I think she suffered from depression. 595 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,280 I think her life began to unravel at that point. 596 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,440 She began taking drugs. 597 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,160 The drugs got harder ending with heroin. 598 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,560 She became an addict. 599 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,120 [tense music] 600 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,200 - And when she needed drugs, she sold sex. 601 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,600 Susan's mum adored her, she was really close 602 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:29,760 with her brother. 603 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,640 And yet her brother used to see her on the streets selling sex 604 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,440 and used to wind the window down and say, Susan, 605 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,240 you can't keep doing this. 606 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,800 And she'd promise and promise to get clean. 607 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,120 And she did. 608 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,640 And then some other disaster would happen 609 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,560 and she would fall foul to heroin and crack cocaine. 610 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,920 [tense music] 611 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,720 - I was really fortunate that I got off the streets 612 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,320 just before they were swarmed with crack cocaine and heroin, 613 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:03,320 which was in the sort of late-'80s, early-'90s. 614 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,240 And certainly the women I've worked with, certainly 615 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,720 on the streets, the vast majority have 616 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,840 a very high addiction to crack cocaine and heroin. 617 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,720 And that must be, I can't even imagine 618 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,160 because the day I got into the sex trade, 619 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,000 I lost me. 620 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,920 I wasn't Fiona anymore. 621 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,360 I became an object. 622 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,480 I completely disassociated from myself. 623 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:37,000 With an addiction on top of the kind of emotional 624 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,840 and mental torture you're living with 625 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,120 is almost impossible 626 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,200 to get away from. 627 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,240 [tense music] 628 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,520 - Susan was a little bit older than many 629 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,520 of the women who worked the Red Light district. 630 00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,200 She was 43. 631 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,160 It was actually a good time for her because she'd made a bit 632 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:05,280 of a recovery in her battle against heroin. 633 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,160 And she was actually planning to go on holiday with her family. 634 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:12,400 Normality had begun to sort of seem like a realistic goal for her. 635 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:18,440 However, in June, 2009, she went off to see a friend 636 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,120 and was never seen again. 637 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,400 [tense music continues] 638 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,880 - She planned to go into town and pick up her methadone. 639 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,720 And after a week, the family began to get worried. 640 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:37,840 Not only had she not picked the methadone up, 641 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,520 she hadn't been in contact, 642 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,160 but they knew that she wouldn't have her epilepsy tablets, 643 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,240 which she desperately needed. 644 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:45,840 And so they called the police. 645 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,080 [tense music continues] 646 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,800 - When missing people come in, it's something 647 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,840 that is treated with real seriousness, 648 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,880 because what you don't want, the worst case 649 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,360 is someone is murdered or is kidnapped. 650 00:35:58,440 --> 00:35:59,600 You start with the family. 651 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,120 You ask the questions, where are the places 652 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,640 that they may visit. 653 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,440 Maybe that you are trying to do electronic tracing 654 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,000 round the telephone number. 655 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,640 And also trying to look at any CCTV that you may be able to find. 656 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,480 [tense music continues] 657 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,920 - There was a police appeal. 658 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,640 There was a police dragnet. 659 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:19,360 They carried out door-to-door inquiries, 660 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,760 they put up posters, they contacted the press, 661 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,120 but there's absolutely no sign of Susan. 662 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,080 There appeared to be no activity on her phone 663 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,200 or credit card after the day of her disappearance. 664 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,960 [tense music continues] 665 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:40,520 By the 24th of May, 2010 Susan Rushworth had been missing 666 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:41,960 for a year. 667 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,360 [tense music continues] 668 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,720 - We know that he's got a crossbow, 669 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,720 and they're extremely lethal. 670 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,040 It'll just go straight through you. 671 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,600 - It was established that we'd need 672 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,440 to do a planned firearms operation to arrest the individual. 673 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,080 Griffiths had previous convictions 674 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,720 for offences including violence. 675 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,800 He was otherwise so dangerous so that he needed 676 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,240 to be arrested by specialist armed officers, 677 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,880 and there was even a preemptive taser strike authorized 678 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,080 by the Silver Commander on Griffith. 679 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,200 [tense music continues] 680 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,000 - This is a sort of a method to control somebody 681 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,120 who you think might be violent, 682 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,920 and it's really to protect them. 683 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,800 We know that this guy's got a crossbow, 684 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,400 we know he has caused harm to this female, 685 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,480 and we know this female is in danger. 686 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,720 So our job is to go in there and essentially rescue her. 687 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,640 And we needed to get it done 688 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,200 as quickly as possible. 689 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,280 [tense music continues] 690 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,560 Our role that day was to do what's called 691 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,560 an emergency entry, which is the most dangerous entry 692 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,560 you can do as a firearms team. 693 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,800 But we were so limited in our options 694 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,640 because obviously we've got a female that we assume 695 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,520 is under duress and is being harmed. 696 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,400 So what we'll do in an emergency entry situation 697 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,880 is we will try and overwhelm the suspect. 698 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,360 [tense music continues] 699 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,840 - Stephen Griffiths lived on the third floor of this block. 700 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,240 He was a bit of a loner, bit of an oddball. 701 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,400 - He was also very socially isolated, 702 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,200 so he didn't like to spend time with people. 703 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,600 If he was seen out and about, it was usually at night. 704 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,920 - He dressed almost in a gothic manner, 705 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,840 a full length matrix style, black leather coat. 706 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,520 He slicked his hair back. 707 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,240 It was in ringlets. 708 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,600 - He had Nile monitor lizards. 709 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,760 He would walk them in the corridors on a lead. 710 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,760 He would take them to nightclubs in a bag 711 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,680 and show off amongst the other nightclub revelers. 712 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:17,200 And he used to feed them on live mice and rats, 713 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:22,720 which he kept and bred in a cage at the back of his flat. 714 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,440 [tense music continues] 715 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,480 - Stephen Griffith had amassed this huge library 716 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:35,560 of macabre books about murder, murderers, Nazis, 717 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:38,320 terrorists, Satanists. 718 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,600 [tense music continues] 719 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,320 He got himself on a PhD course at Bradford University 720 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,360 with a specialization in local history. 721 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,840 He wanted to study homicide and lethal violence 722 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,320 in Bradford during the second half of the 19th century. 723 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,280 [tense music continues] 724 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,080 - Stephen cocooned himself in a world of serial killers. 725 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,360 Not only was he studying it and studying it intensely, 726 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,160 but he decided to take the topic of homicide 727 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,280 in Victorian Bradford. 728 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,160 So the area he was living in. 729 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,120 [tense music continues] 730 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:26,880 It was almost like he was studying the evolution 731 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,800 of crime within that area so that he could become part 732 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,840 of that evolution and become part of that history. 733 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,560 [tense music continues] 734 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,080 - He was interested in mass shootings at schools in America. 735 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,920 He was interested in cannibalism 736 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,160 and he made references to all those subjects 737 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,160 on his MySpace page. 738 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,920 He seemed to use the internet and MySpace 739 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,560 to promote this kind of alter ego 740 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,240 that he'd invented for himself. 741 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,400 [tense music continues] 742 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,640 - Stephen had a pseudonym online, which was Ven Pariah. 743 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:05,600 So Ven it's kind of theorised that this could be venerable, 744 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,240 which means worthy of high respect, 745 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,120 or it could be a shortening of his name. 746 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,840 Stephen and Pariah is outcast. 747 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,880 [tense music continues] 748 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,800 - Online spaces give us the opportunity to embrace personas 749 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,120 that are not completely who we are. 750 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:27,080 They are who we would like to be or extreme forms 751 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,400 of who an individual could be. 752 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:31,880 [tense music continues] 753 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,920 - He's got lots of very interesting quotes online 754 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,200 from himself in this persona 755 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,680 where he's kind of describing Stephen 756 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:45,320 as more like a vessel to carry him, Ven Pariah, 757 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,320 the demon through the world and through life. 758 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,720 [tense music continues] 759 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,120 - [Stephen] "Humanity is not merely a biological condition, 760 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,520 it is also a state of mind. 761 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,160 On that basis I am a pseudo human being at best. 762 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:04,480 A demon at worst." 763 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,480 - So we see a real splitting here of Stephen's personality. 764 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,560 There was nothing really challenging 765 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,840 that world that he created. 766 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,200 So it was very hard to step outside 767 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,800 of that and kind of have that wake up call 768 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,000 that this isn't reality, 769 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,000 and there's something wrong with me. 770 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,400 [tense music continues] 771 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,040 - [Stephen] Ven Pariah has finally emerged into the world. 772 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,320 What will this pseudo-human do, one wonders. 773 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:44,680 Poor Stephen. 774 00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,480 Pretended to be me, but he was only the wrapping. 775 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,400 He knew, towards the end, 776 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,880 that I supplied the inner core of iron. 777 00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:57,120 Hatred bound tightly in flesh. 778 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,960 At very long last, the time has come to act out. 779 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,920 Think about the number four. 780 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,920 Maybe add a couple more. 781 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,480 All of this before the war. 782 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:12,360 Ven Pariah embraces destiny and he still smiles. 783 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,600 [tense music continues] 784 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,800 - There's a large movement now of resources 785 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,680 that have to go to Homefield court. 786 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,240 An awful lot of firearms, cars, a fleet of vehicles. 787 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,720 You need to make sure you've got enough 788 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,880 to surround the whole house. 789 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,680 - The team amassed at the property. 790 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:42,720 They went up the stairs. 791 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,440 We had a method of entry device that we used 792 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,680 to go through the door. 793 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,520 There was a shout from a bedroom. 794 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,480 Team rapidly entered into the bedroom, 795 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,040 and he was overwhelmed immediately. 796 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:58,480 [tense music continues] 797 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,400 - Griffith didn't put up any resistance 798 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,320 to the armed police whatsoever. 799 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,400 When the police officers entered his flat, 800 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,080 he introduced himself as Osama bin Laden. 801 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,400 [tense music continues] 802 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,000 - Once he was cuffed, he went from being compliant 803 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,800 to being haughty and quite cocky 804 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,120 and quite sneering at officers. 805 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,840 [tense music continues] 806 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,160 I think he was arrested for assault 807 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,720 because we had nothing else other than that. 808 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:32,160 [tense music continues] 809 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,360 - After he's arrested by the armed team 810 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:35,920 he'd be removed from the flat. 811 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,280 One of the things that really stood out 812 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,560 was that there was obvious signs of violence 813 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,760 that taken place in the flat. 814 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,560 [tense music continues] 815 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,880 - Bear in mind these firearms officers go 816 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,920 to all sorts of scenarios and all sorts of places. 817 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,880 They said that there was something that made the hair 818 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,960 on the back of the neck stand up. 819 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,800 It was something quite unsettling about the apartment. 820 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,200 There was a duvet that was burning in the bathtub. 821 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,600 There was a strange sort of smell, like rotten meat. 822 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,240 There was blood smeared everywhere, 823 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,960 crossbow holes in the wall where he'd been using it 824 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:09,480 as target practice. 825 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,360 - There was a crossbow also located in the flat, 826 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,840 which was seized by the officers as well. 827 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,240 [tense music continues] 828 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,240 - The search through the apartment 829 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,560 was made by the officers for the female, 830 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,760 which was of course, the goal. 831 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,240 And sadly, there was no female in the apartment. 832 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:36,280 [tense music continues] 833 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:37,320 That's why why we're there. 834 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,400 We're there to save that girl. 835 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,920 And, you know, we were all gutted. 836 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,720 Unfortunately we were just too late. 837 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,240 We didn't get the report until Monday morning. 838 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,240 Yeah, we were gutted. 839 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,760 We were gutted. 840 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,080 [tense music continues] 841 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,720 - Shelly Armitage was a beautiful young girl. 842 00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:09,840 She looked like a model. 843 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,440 She wanted to be a model. 844 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,360 She was confident. 845 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,440 One always thinks about girls who have been groomed 846 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,760 as being the weak, quiet ones. 847 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,080 It isn't that. 848 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:22,800 It's, it's the confident ones. 849 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,880 The gregarious ones, the ones who dare to skip school. 850 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,040 - She'd ended up becoming a heroin addict. 851 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:37,200 And in order to fund that habit had taken to sex work. 852 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:46,160 - Shelly was so loved by her family, her mom, her dad, 853 00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:49,400 and yet they couldn't help her. 854 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,520 So many times, Shelly came back home, 855 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,160 and they never judged her. 856 00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:01,480 And time after time, they gave this beautiful young woman 857 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,160 who could have had everything at her feet, 858 00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:09,760 the opportunity to beat the drugs 859 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,880 that were absolutely killing her. 860 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,840 [dramatic orchestral music] 861 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:36,720 - This CCTV camera catches Shelly working the red-light area. 862 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,600 She's just walking up and down looking for punters, 863 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,960 basically looking for many cars who are looking for sex. 864 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,960 And she seems in good spirits. 865 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,920 - She's got a certain swagger with her. 866 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,240 She's pulling the cardigan 867 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,920 as she walks past Griffith's home. 868 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,520 And to me, that, that moving image sticks with me. 869 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,880 And that's the image I was asked to put out 870 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,400 on our news programme. 871 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,360 Have you seen this girl? 872 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,320 - I would emphasize that this is a missing 873 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:09,600 from home inquiry. 874 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,560 The appeal from myself is for Shelley or anybody 875 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,600 that may know Shelley to contact the police 876 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,560 so I can in turn update the family and bring some calm 877 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,160 to the anxiety that the family are suffering at the moment. 878 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,560 [tense music] 879 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:36,280 - Every day in the life or in the sex trade, 880 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:42,120 you would expect to have at least one or two men hurt you. 881 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:50,160 Some of the guys become regulars, so you see them, 882 00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:51,760 you see them walking up and down. 883 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,080 They might live in the community 884 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,600 that you are selling yourself in. 885 00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,400 They don't present as monsters. 886 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,160 They're ordinary men, 887 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:05,120 which is why you can never ever make it safe 888 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:10,000 because you never know when they're going to murder you. 889 00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,560 You never know when they're going to attack you and rape you. 890 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,000 They're often smiley and friendly, 891 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:21,920 but what lies beneath that you just don't know. 892 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,120 [tense music continues] 893 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,040 - Griffiths knew the territory 894 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:31,960 and he knew quite a lot of the women, 895 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,960 and he had friendships, rather ambiguous friendships 896 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,160 with some of the women. 897 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,320 He would go and talk to them, share a cigarette with them. 898 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,400 He would bring some of them back to his flat. 899 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,080 He certainly had sex with some of them. 900 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:47,400 - Griffiths was seen as maybe just a little bit 901 00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,600 of an outsider, slightly unusual, 902 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,600 but potentially not such a threat. 903 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,600 - [Reporter] This prostitute, who didn't want to be identified, 904 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,520 says he's well known in the area. 905 00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,800 - [Speaker] He used to like come up to us, talk to us, 906 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,240 say that he'd been out for drinks 907 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:04,280 at student nightclubs, offer cigarettes. 908 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,400 He were nice to me really. 909 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,560 - Stephen was very good 910 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:12,400 at knowing people's vulnerabilities, knowing people 911 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,840 who needed something, and he was really tapping 912 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:18,080 into what these women needed, 913 00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,120 whether it was just a nice cup of tea, 914 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,520 a bit of companionship, a chat over a cigarette. 915 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,280 He was trying to paint himself 916 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:31,000 as kind of like a harmless character, a friend, 917 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,760 so that they trusted him. 918 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,480 I kind of see Stephen as a bit of a hunter, really. 919 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,080 And the red light district was his hunting ground, 920 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,120 and these women were his prey, 921 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,680 and he's using these strategies to lure them in, 922 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,960 to put them at ease, to make his job easier. 923 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,120 The sad thing is that this 924 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,000 would've made it so much more shocking 925 00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,600 for them when they got to his flat 926 00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,800 and he'd suddenly turned from this kind companion 927 00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:02,680 to someone who was going to take their lives. 928 00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,560 [tense music continues] 929 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,360 - [Reporter] Griffiths himself paid for the services of prostitutes. 930 00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,720 One who didn't want to be identified said 931 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,000 his behavior could be frightening. 932 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,800 - [Speaker] That always made me nervous. 933 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:18,280 When you were outside it were really nice or can I help you 934 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,240 with that love blah de blah de blah. 935 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:21,880 But then when you got inside, 936 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,640 it was like you weren't a human being no more. 937 00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:27,360 He owned you. You were piece of meat. 938 00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,600 What he were going to do, what he wanted to do. 939 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:33,680 [tense music continues] 940 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,840 - Yeah, I think he's got a real problem with women. 941 00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,920 He had a relationship with one lass and she took him to court 942 00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,480 because he'd attacked her with a belt 943 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,520 and I think he got found not guilty, 944 00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,760 so he celebrated by having a tattoo, 945 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,520 "Diane lost the war." 946 00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,480 As if he was celebrating getting away with it. 947 00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,480 And he must have thought that was clever. 948 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:05,560 Not an iota of remorse for that girl or anything. 949 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,520 [tense music continues] 950 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,720 [dramatic orchestral music] 951 00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:22,000 - I met Stephen in my late-20s walking back 952 00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,840 from a club night in Bradford. 953 00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,280 I used to have a thing for men with long hair, 954 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,480 that's all I saw as well as the intelligence. 955 00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:33,520 And he was a good looking lad though. 956 00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:39,520 He told me years later that he liked the challenge of me. 957 00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:44,360 I'm fiery. [chuckling] 958 00:52:45,240 --> 00:52:47,720 [tense music] 959 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,160 It's within two and a half weeks 960 00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:54,040 of meeting Stephen that he first tried 961 00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:58,320 to kill me by putting a drug in my tea. 962 00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:05,760 I had two dogs and one night one of my dogs Taz, 963 00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,760 part Collie, growled at him. 964 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,600 I then that night was over at his flat. 965 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,600 And as I was sat and to my right was the television, 966 00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,800 I sat on the floor for some strange reason 967 00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,800 and I looked and thought, what is going on with the screen? 968 00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,960 And I turned to my left and I could see a smirk on his face. 969 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,640 And he went, "You're starting to feel the effects, aren't you?" 970 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:34,240 and he said, "I've poisoned you, I'm killing you." 971 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,360 I took myself to A&E at Bradford 972 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:41,840 and they kept me in overnight. 973 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:47,040 In the morning, went to my house in Wakefield. 974 00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,880 And as we pulled up outside, the front door was open. 975 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,040 Where's my dogs? 976 00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:57,800 Then my next door neighbour came in and basically said 977 00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,200 to me it was him. 978 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,760 He was here at half three in the morning. 979 00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,880 He came in, went in and took the dogs. 980 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,120 I completely fell apart. 981 00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:12,760 It totally destroyed any thought process, 982 00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,400 confidence, anything. 983 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,840 And Stephen said to me, "Look, you best stay 984 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,520 at mine until you've calmed down 985 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,080 and then I can go back to my house." 986 00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:21,760 But then he never let me out again. 987 00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,960 [tense music continues] 988 00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,400 He was with me permanently 989 00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,280 unless he went to do studying at the university, 990 00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:35,880 then I were locked in anyway. 991 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,720 [tense music continues] 992 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,240 Daily life just consisted of walking on eggshells 993 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,760 and looking to see if, what his mood was like. 994 00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,000 If I upset Stephen, it would end up 995 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:58,080 in mental torture or physical, but not at the time. 996 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,440 It can be a week or so later or a few days 997 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,440 and he'll ask you a question, a leading question. 998 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:05,600 And if you don't come back 999 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,600 with exactly the right thing he'd remember. 1000 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,240 He broke my nose. 1001 00:55:12,240 --> 00:55:14,480 He stabbed me, he's burnt me. 1002 00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:15,720 Oh, all sorts. 1003 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:19,840 But, they're easy to deal with because it's over with. 1004 00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,960 It's the mental torture that's horrendous. 1005 00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,720 [tense music continues] 1006 00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,160 It was his ex-girlfriend of his that took me 1007 00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:37,240 to the domestic violence unit in Bradford 1008 00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:42,520 who then told me what I was going to do to get away from him. 1009 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:44,720 [tense music continues] 1010 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,680 - Although the relationship was quite brief, 1011 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,320 Kathy spent probably the best part 1012 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,680 of seven years trying to shake Stephen Griffiths off. 1013 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:55,400 [phone whooshing] 1014 00:55:55,400 --> 00:56:00,200 - [Automated Voice] Message two, Saturday 10:23 a.m. 1015 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,160 - [Stephen] Don't make me do this, Kathy. 1016 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,600 I swear to God all I did was ring your mum and dad, 1017 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,600 and I sent you some nasty texts, 1018 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,840 that's all I did 'cause you pissed me off. 1019 00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,120 You've got so many enemies there 1020 00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,400 and you want to add me to them. 1021 00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,440 I don't want to have to do that to you. 1022 00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,560 - [sighing] 1023 00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:27,200 Getting away from Stephen was half the battle. 1024 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:32,400 The other half was him pursuing my parents, 1025 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,200 going to my friends. 1026 00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:39,280 He's slashed tyres on my cars on on numerous occasions. 1027 00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:44,960 He contacted the RSPCA, benefits people, 1028 00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:48,520 told the government I was importing cigarettes 1029 00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,040 from going abroad, anything he could. 1030 00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:52,280 [tense music] 1031 00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,080 [computer chiming] 1032 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,160 - He sent voicemail after voicemail to Kathy, 1033 00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:09,200 just harassing her and not letting her escape him. 1034 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:10,320 [phone whooshing] 1035 00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:15,320 - [Automated Voice] Message five. Wednesday 11:46 p.m. 1036 00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,640 - [Stephen] I really miss you as well, Kathy. 1037 00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,800 You've had the police onto me, but I still care about you. 1038 00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,000 - He's trying to gain control of the situation. 1039 00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:29,320 He really can't cope with the fact that she has escaped him. 1040 00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:34,320 - [Automated Voice] Message one. Saturday 8:38 a.m. 1041 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,240 - [Stephen] If you're gonna blame me for doing things 1042 00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,560 to you, then I might as well start doing things 1043 00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,120 to you, all right? 1044 00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:43,480 I demand an explanation, and I will not fucking stop 1045 00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,720 until I get that, okay? 1046 00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:47,440 That's all I want. 1047 00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,400 [tense music] 1048 00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:53,440 - He rang me up one night distraught, almost 1049 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:59,720 begging me to help but to not tell the authorities. 1050 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,360 [tense music] 1051 00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,720 And then he told me that what he'd done 1052 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:11,280 is he'd decided to steal a puppy, feed it Valium. 1053 00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,120 And he wanted to dock its tail 1054 00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,920 and do the ears like pit bulls in America. 1055 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,440 And what he said was, he'd gone too far. 1056 00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,000 [tense music] 1057 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,840 - This is one of the worst letters I received. 1058 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,480 - [Mum] The next thing is about your brother Sean. 1059 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,360 He's shoplifting and thieving big style now. 1060 00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,480 Last weekend he stole an eight-week old puppy. 1061 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,920 He docked its tail, which he said was successful, 1062 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,720 but when he tried to clip her ears to make 'em stand up, 1063 00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:44,800 it went wrong. 1064 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,640 So he cut them both off and when I say off, I mean off. 1065 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:52,560 Then he told us he'd bought it for us for Christmas. 1066 00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,840 - I begged him for me to drive from Wakefield 1067 00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,000 to Bradford to pick this puppy up 1068 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,000 and deal with the situation. 1069 00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,560 I went straight to his dad's and banged on the door. 1070 00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,200 [tense music] 1071 00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,320 - [Mum] I don't know how you feel about it, 1072 00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:10,400 but we were disgusted 1073 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,360 and so upset when we saw the poor little thing. 1074 00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:16,240 Sean thinks he did well letting it live because 1075 00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,040 as he said to your dad, he could have microwaved it. 1076 00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,040 We cared for the dog for a couple of days 1077 00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:24,120 before she went to the vets to be rehomed. 1078 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,840 Kathy says he's losing the plot and going downhill fast. 1079 00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,640 For your dad's sake, I hope she's wrong. 1080 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,160 - I was horrified, horrified, shocked. 1081 00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,760 I knew he was capable of that kind of thing but, you know, 1082 00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,120 to see it written down. 1083 00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,840 [tense music continues] 1084 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:52,680 - This, for me, feels very much a manipulative behaviour 1085 00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,960 and a way to tap into Kathy's vulnerabilities. 1086 00:59:58,200 --> 00:59:59,800 This also shows us that Stephen 1087 00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,160 knows other people have emotion and they have empathy, 1088 01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,920 and they don't like to see animals hurt. 1089 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,360 And I think he's using that to lure Kathy in. 1090 01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,760 [tense music continues] 1091 01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:20,760 - 2008, gone to Turkey for two weeks and ended up staying 1092 01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,840 for three months just because it 1093 01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:24,880 was like a different life and relief. 1094 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:29,880 And then I came back to England to slag being written 1095 01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:34,560 on the wall and all of my windows painted bright yellow. 1096 01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,160 I ended up getting a court order, 1097 01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,200 a non-molestation order to keep him away. 1098 01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:42,680 I had a police alarm in my flat, 1099 01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,480 they'd blocked up the letter box. 1100 01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,280 [tense music] 1101 01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,360 When you get a court order at that point in time, 1102 01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:57,840 they were for a year. 1103 01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,800 So they run out at midnight, 1104 01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:03,680 and the only time throughout most of this 1105 01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:08,720 where I've been almost frozen to the spot through fear 1106 01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:15,080 was when he left a message at about 3:25 in the morning. 1107 01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,280 My answer machine had clicked 1108 01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,560 before I could get to answer the phone. 1109 01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,680 So I get halfway across my front room 1110 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:27,800 and then there's just this noise that went on and on. 1111 01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:29,680 [tense music continues] 1112 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:34,960 - [Automated Voice] Message seven. Thursday 3:23 a.m. 1113 01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:40,360 [Stephen laughing] [tense music] 1114 01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,480 - At the time my court order had ran out at midnight. 1115 01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:03,440 So I assumed he's laughing because I can't have him arrested. 1116 01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:10,680 [Stephen laughing] [tense music] 1117 01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:14,320 - When I listened to it, it's a very chilling, 1118 01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,280 elongated laugh, almost a cackle. 1119 01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:20,560 He's completely lost reality. 1120 01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,080 He's somewhere else. 1121 01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:28,720 [Stephen laughing] [tense music] 1122 01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,440 [tense music] 1123 01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:39,400 - We were in the incident room at the homicide 1124 01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:41,920 and major inquiry team when we got a call 1125 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,080 that someone had been arrested in the Bradford area 1126 01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:45,320 for a murder. 1127 01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:49,000 We made our way across to Halifax police station. 1128 01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:52,120 We were waiting as Stephen Griffiths came in. 1129 01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:55,360 He started saying all sorts of significant statements 1130 01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:57,440 like, "I've killed loads of people," and all sorts 1131 01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,080 of things like that. 1132 01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:02,040 We had no idea whether any of the victims 1133 01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:05,080 were alive or whether they died or not. 1134 01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,520 So we organized for an urgent interview with him. 1135 01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,320 There's no legal representative present 1136 01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,960 and you can only ask questions where you're hoping 1137 01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,160 to save life, or recover urgent evidence. 1138 01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,360 [tense music continues] 1139 01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:22,640 We were in the interview room me, my sergeant 1140 01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:24,760 and Mr. Griffiths. 1141 01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:27,440 We were asking him is she still alive and if she is, 1142 01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:30,160 where can we go and find and help her and rescue her? 1143 01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,760 - Griffiths then drops a bombshell. 1144 01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,960 He asks whether this Suzanne, they're asking him about, 1145 01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:38,560 is the one known as Amber. 1146 01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:43,040 And he says that if it is, then she's gone. 1147 01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:44,400 He uses that word, gone. 1148 01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,000 [tense music] 1149 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:50,760 - More or less straight away we realised 1150 01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:52,120 that we couldn't carry on with the interview. 1151 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,760 We'd confirmed that the person we were looking for 1152 01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:57,320 was not alive. 1153 01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,760 [tense music continues] 1154 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,840 He then was then taken back out to the custody area 1155 01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,320 and a solicitor was requested. 1156 01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,400 And believe it or not, it was the same solicitor's firm 1157 01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:11,720 that represented Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. 1158 01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:13,600 [tense music continues] 1159 01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,240 By this time we were aware that certain girls 1160 01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:18,080 had gone missing in Bradford area. 1161 01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:19,840 [tense music continues] 1162 01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:21,960 - West Yorkshire police had spent months trying 1163 01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,560 to find Susan Rushworth and Shelly Armitage. 1164 01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,880 - I think as a matter of routine in these kind of inquiries, 1165 01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:34,000 missing sex workers, the police compile a list of men, 1166 01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,840 punters basically, who they think might be suspects. 1167 01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:41,160 And I think the police did exactly that in this situation. 1168 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,560 At no point during the police inquiry 1169 01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:48,840 was Stephen Griffith's on the radar as a suspect 1170 01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:52,320 in the disappearance or potential murder of these women. 1171 01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:56,040 They get him into an interview room, 1172 01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,080 and they begin questioning him. 1173 01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,920 - [Detective] Are you saying that you've killed Susan Rushworth? 1174 01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:02,040 - Yes. 1175 01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:03,920 - [Detective] And what was the other name? 1176 01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:05,440 - Shelley Armitage. 1177 01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:07,120 - [Detective] Are you saying 1178 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:08,600 that you've murdered Shelley Armitage? 1179 01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:09,760 - Yes. 1180 01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:11,240 - [Detective] And then the last one? 1181 01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,200 - Suzanne Blamires. 1182 01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:16,880 - [Detective] Are you saying you've murdered her? 1183 01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:18,440 - Yes. 1184 01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:22,040 - He told us that he was responsible for the murder 1185 01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:23,960 of all three victims. 1186 01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:27,000 - [Detective] Why did you feel the need to kill her? 1187 01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,440 - I don't know. 1188 01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,440 I don't know. 1189 01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:39,520 Sometimes you kill someone to kill yourself, 1190 01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:40,840 or kill part of yourself. 1191 01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:42,440 I don't know, I don't know. 1192 01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,040 It's like deep issues inside me. 1193 01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,240 - It's just quite matter of fact, it felt in a way 1194 01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:54,640 to me personally a bit like he'd almost planned 1195 01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,960 what he was going to say if he ever got caught. 1196 01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:00,120 - [Detective] So, why did you feel the need 1197 01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:01,320 to kill any of the girls? 1198 01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,840 - I don't know. - Pardon? 1199 01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:05,280 - I don't know. 1200 01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:06,600 I don't know. 1201 01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:10,880 Well, I'm misanthropic. 1202 01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:12,800 I don't have much time for the human race. 1203 01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:17,160 - He was just so controlled about what he was saying. 1204 01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:19,640 He were going to tell us what he wanted to tell us. 1205 01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:22,400 - Griffith told officers 1206 01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:26,880 that Susan, his first victim, was killed with a hammer, 1207 01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:31,960 and he then dismembered her body with machine tools, 1208 01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,520 and he cooked and ate parts of the flesh. 1209 01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,000 [tense music] 1210 01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:43,480 He goes on to say he'd killed Shelly with a crossbow. 1211 01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:49,000 He told officers that he'd dismembered her in the bath, 1212 01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,800 but he also said they would find traces of her body on the cooker. 1213 01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:58,960 - Cannibalism is very rare. 1214 01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:00,200 I think for Stephen, 1215 01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,680 it was part of this hunting mentality he had, 1216 01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:07,480 where he would hunt his prey and then he would eat his prey. 1217 01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,920 I think it's the ultimate form of ownership, though, 1218 01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:12,360 to consume someone. 1219 01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:16,400 [tense music] 1220 01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:17,680 - I've had the discussions 1221 01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:23,080 with Stephen regarding cannibalism and him saying 1222 01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:26,320 that it's society that says what you can and can't eat. 1223 01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:29,640 What's justifiably okay and what isn't. 1224 01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:31,360 So I've had those conversations 1225 01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:35,080 about five years before he even murdered his first victim. 1226 01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,840 And he's told me that that's the ultimate 1227 01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,160 that people cannot cope with the idea of. 1228 01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:46,040 - Cannibalism goes beyond breaking a legal rule 1229 01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,200 of just killing someone. 1230 01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:52,480 So it adds a degree of violence 1231 01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,480 and almost specialness 1232 01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:57,960 to a violent crime. 1233 01:07:58,040 --> 01:08:01,800 It's like an escalation of a homicide. 1234 01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,360 [tense music] 1235 01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:10,960 - He said he'd killed Suzanne with a crossbow, 1236 01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:14,880 but, despite giving them lots of very gory detail, 1237 01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:17,800 Griffiths refused to give them any helpful information 1238 01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:19,440 about where he'd left the bodies. 1239 01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:22,240 - [Detective] And what sort of location have you put them in? 1240 01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:23,480 If you can't tell us where, 1241 01:08:23,480 --> 01:08:25,600 what sort of location have you put them? 1242 01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:29,760 - I don't know. 1243 01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,000 Where a robot, where a computer would put them, or, 1244 01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:37,240 you know, a rational, emotionless 1245 01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,840 aberration would put it. 1246 01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,640 - We were thinking of the family of the victims. 1247 01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:49,720 We wanted to try and help find out 1248 01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:52,520 where all the victims were. 1249 01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,840 And he wasn't up for doing that, he was, just wanted 1250 01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,480 to give us basic information to make himself 1251 01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,560 a serial killer and then not pass any more information on. 1252 01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,040 - I believe he was cryptic about what he did 1253 01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:10,440 to the bodies because, one was that need 1254 01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,080 to hold onto some of it himself 1255 01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:14,720 and to withhold some of it just 1256 01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,240 for that control he thrives off. 1257 01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:19,840 - After the first couple of interviews 1258 01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:22,160 he completely refused to talk to us again. 1259 01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:24,040 Wouldn't even come out of his cell. 1260 01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:25,840 He said, "Well, to become a serial killer 1261 01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:27,680 you only need to kill three people." 1262 01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:31,280 So he said, "I'm only telling you about three people." 1263 01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,200 [tense music] 1264 01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:37,200 - Stephen had huge aspirations 1265 01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,880 to possibly even outperform Peter Sutcliffe. 1266 01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:47,200 - He believes that Peter Sutcliffe wasn't as smart 1267 01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:50,080 or clued up as people seem to think because he used 1268 01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:51,480 to say to me, "Look at the idiot. 1269 01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:53,720 He got caught on something pathetic." 1270 01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:58,720 - In that police interrogation, 1271 01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:02,440 we are kind of seeing this deflated man 1272 01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:07,160 who looks nothing like the man we saw in front 1273 01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:08,840 of the CCTV camera. 1274 01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:13,440 Like this huge man with a crossbow looking scary. 1275 01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:15,040 Like they're complete opposites. 1276 01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:18,760 Stephen's ego would've been knocked significantly 1277 01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,720 by being caught on CCTV camera. 1278 01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:26,280 It wasn't the way he wanted his reign of terror to end. 1279 01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:29,680 [tense music] 1280 01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:35,680 - After the murder of Suzanne Blamires he emerges again, 1281 01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:39,400 carrying the crossroad again, making no attempt 1282 01:10:39,480 --> 01:10:41,440 to hide from the gaze of the camera. 1283 01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,840 He raises the crossbow towards the camera in one hand, 1284 01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:46,280 and raises the other hand 1285 01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:48,920 in a one-fingered gesture of abuse. 1286 01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:54,720 He goes back home and then he emerges again 1287 01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:57,600 with a bottle of lemonade, and he raises this 1288 01:10:57,680 --> 01:10:59,640 to the camera again in a toast. 1289 01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,360 [tense music] 1290 01:11:02,440 --> 01:11:05,120 - This to me, all seems like an act. 1291 01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:07,840 He wouldn't have liked that he was caught 1292 01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,560 and caught so stupidly and so easily, 1293 01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:12,560 and that the woman he was trying 1294 01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,720 to kill had actually been the one to get him caught. 1295 01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,400 So for me, this was an act of defiance, 1296 01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:22,440 and pretending that he doesn't care, but he would've cared. 1297 01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:28,800 - During the search of his flat, 1298 01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:33,880 police found a digital camera and a laptop. 1299 01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,920 On those devices were some incredibly disturbing images, 1300 01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:44,760 a video of Shelly Armitage's murdered body naked in the bath 1301 01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:51,400 with the words "My sex slave" written on her flesh. 1302 01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:57,360 Another video showed another victim's body, 1303 01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:03,040 never identified, which had been bound in green twine. 1304 01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,560 Griffiths provided a sick commentary, 1305 01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:13,880 in which he describes himself as a bloodbath artist. 1306 01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,960 He described Shelly as his assistant. 1307 01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:20,240 [tense music] 1308 01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:23,440 - I think a big, big part of this is the sadism 1309 01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:25,480 and the fact that he will rewatch this 1310 01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:29,320 to relive that pleasure that he got from it. 1311 01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:32,200 And also he's turning his actions 1312 01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,400 into some kind of artistry, almost propelling it 1313 01:12:35,480 --> 01:12:37,640 and making it seem something wonderful. 1314 01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:41,760 [tense music] 1315 01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:45,040 [Stephen laughing] 1316 01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:51,280 - When I listened to that, 1317 01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,000 for many years I thought he's laughing 1318 01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:55,080 at me because I can't do anything. 1319 01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,200 But that's not the case. 1320 01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:02,160 That's when he'd murdered his second victim. 1321 01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:06,320 [Stephen laughing] 1322 01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:13,960 So upon reflection it's like, is he laughing at me 1323 01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:18,960 or is it a manic laughing cry because of what he's done? 1324 01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:21,840 [Stephen laughing] 1325 01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:23,920 - If it coincides with a murder, 1326 01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:28,760 I think he could be just totally absorbed in the joy 1327 01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:30,800 that he got from carrying that out. 1328 01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:35,080 [Stephen laughing] [tense music] 1329 01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,520 - The day after Griffiths was arrested, a member 1330 01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:50,600 of the public who was walking by the River Aire in Shipley, 1331 01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:53,760 reported seeing something unusual in the water. 1332 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,360 - He'd found a sports holdall discarded 1333 01:13:57,440 --> 01:13:59,200 by a side of the stream. 1334 01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:02,040 And when he picked it up, he'd quite a weighty thing. 1335 01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,720 He'd opened it and in there he'd found a human head. 1336 01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:10,520 It stands out as one of the most gruesome 1337 01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:14,040 and startling incidents we've ever dealt with really. 1338 01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:16,680 - When officers come, 1339 01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:20,160 they begin a huge search operation with police divers 1340 01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,480 and officers on the banks. 1341 01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:25,680 - This was a team probably of six or seven officers. 1342 01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:29,040 Incredibly well trained at underwater search, 1343 01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:30,880 but as you can expect, the River Aire, 1344 01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:33,120 they can't even see their hands in front of their faces. 1345 01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,400 They're having to feel their way around. 1346 01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:39,400 And subsequently found more body parts weighted down 1347 01:14:39,480 --> 01:14:41,360 in bin bags in the River Aire. 1348 01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:44,720 [tense music] 1349 01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:48,400 When the body parts were found, 1350 01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:50,480 there was consideration and thoughts 1351 01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:52,600 that perhaps the suspect could be a butcher, 1352 01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:56,040 because the body parts had been cut up so thoroughly 1353 01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:57,360 and so minutely. 1354 01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:02,120 [tense music continues] 1355 01:15:03,480 --> 01:15:08,240 - They also found in her head the shaft of a knife 1356 01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:10,080 and the bolt from a crossbow. 1357 01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:12,760 - It's unbelievable. 1358 01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:17,320 To have skinned people and sat in the bath with body parts, 1359 01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,960 you know, you just cannot believe 1360 01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:23,120 that humans can do stuff to each other. 1361 01:15:24,480 --> 01:15:28,480 - I think there's a number of reasons why Stephen mutilated 1362 01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:31,640 Suzanne's body, and I think a key one 1363 01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:35,680 is just how angry he was that she outsmarted him 1364 01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:39,600 for that moment and got away and got him caught on CCTV camera. 1365 01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:41,920 I think he had a lot of rage there. 1366 01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:46,600 He knew that this was perhaps going to be his last kill, 1367 01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:49,480 and he was getting out some of that sadism 1368 01:15:49,480 --> 01:15:51,240 that's so deep in him. 1369 01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:55,320 [tense music] 1370 01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:03,000 - Police were able to track him removing body parts, 1371 01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:06,680 not only after Suzanne was killed, 1372 01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:11,360 but after Shelly and families were forced to 1373 01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:15,120 come to the conclusion that those bin liners 1374 01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:18,120 contained their loved ones' remains. 1375 01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:21,520 [tense music continues] 1376 01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:23,800 - One of the other things that he did say 1377 01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:26,480 was that he'd dropped bones all over Bradford. 1378 01:16:26,480 --> 01:16:28,040 And this was in the height of summer, 1379 01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:32,280 so if you can imagine that the search teams were working 1380 01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:36,040 in really, really hazardous areas. 1381 01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,280 There's an awful lot of urban debris. 1382 01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:39,720 So there's a lot of rubbish. 1383 01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,600 There's a lot of food waste discarded. 1384 01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:45,720 There's bin bags, there's wheelie bins to look through. 1385 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,440 You don't know what is and what isn't evidence 1386 01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,440 a used condom might be, might be something. 1387 01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:52,080 You'll find needles. 1388 01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,480 [tense music continues] 1389 01:16:57,120 --> 01:17:00,200 - A few days later, they find a canvas bag 1390 01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:02,400 and it's full of what can only be described 1391 01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:04,120 as a killing kit. 1392 01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:07,840 It's got hacksaws, it's got knives, it's got razor blades. 1393 01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:11,080 It's analysed and there's a certain amount 1394 01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:14,360 of tissue which can be traced back to Shelly Armitage. 1395 01:17:14,440 --> 01:17:17,760 [tense music continues] 1396 01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:23,920 - Shelly's family were among the loveliest families 1397 01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:27,880 that a journalist could meet in such horrific circumstances. 1398 01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:32,560 I went to her funeral, I saw them release the doves. 1399 01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:34,760 [gentle music] 1400 01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:40,080 But what struck me and does to this day, 1401 01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:45,600 was the devastation of finding so little of her. 1402 01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:50,720 I think for me seeing a family, not only traumatised, 1403 01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:54,520 seeing a family who had spent years fearing 1404 01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:56,440 that something like this would happen 1405 01:17:56,520 --> 01:18:01,080 to then have the dilemma as to what size of coffin 1406 01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:04,040 to use at their beloved daughter's funeral. 1407 01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:06,880 Because all they had managed to find was a piece 1408 01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:10,480 of her backbone stays with me to this day. 1409 01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:15,080 [dramatic orchestral music continues] 1410 01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,680 [tense music] 1411 01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:25,920 - I have authorized the police to charge him 1412 01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,840 with all three murders this afternoon. 1413 01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:30,480 The events of the last few days 1414 01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,560 have understandably been very upsetting for the families 1415 01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:37,080 and friends of Suzanne, Shelley and Susan, 1416 01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,440 as well as for the wider public in Bradford. 1417 01:18:40,440 --> 01:18:43,760 [tense music continues] 1418 01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:48,280 - When it first happened, when he first got arrested, 1419 01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:49,960 I just did not want anyone to know. 1420 01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:51,760 I did not want anyone to know. 1421 01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:57,520 Once he'd been named and the media just took it and ran 1422 01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:01,320 with it and his face was everywhere, everywhere I went. 1423 01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:03,920 So you're at work and there's newspapers in the canteen 1424 01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,480 and he's staring at you and you're going into a shop, 1425 01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,320 there's newspapers and he's staring at you. 1426 01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:10,560 [tense music continues] 1427 01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,680 Look at him, how proud he looks of himself 1428 01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:15,880 and he'd clearly gone and got changed. 1429 01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:18,880 He's killed the lass, dragged her back into his flat 1430 01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:24,320 and taken the time to change his clothes and do his hair 1431 01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:26,000 so he can come out and do this, 1432 01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:27,720 'cause he knows he's been caught. 1433 01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:32,800 - [Reporter] Police divers continued to search the River Aire 1434 01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,560 near Shipley, where Suzanne Blamires' dismembered body 1435 01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:36,640 was discovered. 1436 01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:38,760 It's a grim task, but necessary. 1437 01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:43,520 - And then after that it all came out 1438 01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,640 about the body parts and stuff 1439 01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:50,720 and it was just awful. 1440 01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,080 [tense music continues] 1441 01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:56,800 It wasn't even enough for him to just kill these women. 1442 01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,200 He just absolutely desecrated them like he wanted 1443 01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:05,280 to destroy them, just wipe all faces of them from the earth. 1444 01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:08,160 It was horrific. 1445 01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:11,600 And despite the fact I wasn't surprised 1446 01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:16,680 by the culmination as it were of his life, 1447 01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:18,920 it was still shocking and horrifying. 1448 01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:21,600 It was just a horrible, horrible time. 1449 01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:28,120 Very mentally distressing and I feel terrible saying 1450 01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:30,160 that because I can't imagine how it was for the families 1451 01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:32,240 of his victims, you know. 1452 01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:33,320 Those poor women. 1453 01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:37,320 [dramatic orchestral music] 1454 01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:40,280 I mean people ask me, "Do you write to him? 1455 01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:41,840 Would you go and see him? 1456 01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:43,440 Oh, you should write to him." 1457 01:20:43,440 --> 01:20:44,640 It's not that easy. 1458 01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:46,040 What am I going to say? 1459 01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:49,360 I'm going to say, who are you? 1460 01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:51,320 What happened to the little boy I knew? 1461 01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:52,840 Why have you done this? 1462 01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:54,920 What is wrong with you? 1463 01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:58,360 [tense music] 1464 01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:05,000 [tense music] 1465 01:21:08,240 --> 01:21:11,680 - On the Friday after Griffith's arrest, 1466 01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:15,040 he's brought up before magistrates at Bradford. 1467 01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:16,640 Court Number three. 1468 01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:19,360 When a defendant appears in court for the first time, 1469 01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:24,920 it's usually a very dry, short, nondescript affair. 1470 01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:27,160 Not with Stephen Griffiths though. 1471 01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:30,560 - He was asked to give his name. 1472 01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:34,400 You know, we were sitting there, we knew his name. 1473 01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:37,920 We were just waiting for Stephen Sean Griffiths. 1474 01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,800 And instead he kind of pulled himself up 1475 01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:46,400 and pronounced, "The Crossbow Cannibal." 1476 01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:50,240 [tense music] 1477 01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:52,520 The whole court gasped. 1478 01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:54,720 It was shocking enough as a journalist to hear that. 1479 01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:56,800 But imagine what it must have been like 1480 01:21:56,800 --> 01:22:01,680 for the families who were in court of those three women. 1481 01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:04,360 And he knew it would shock. 1482 01:22:04,440 --> 01:22:06,760 The look on his face was smug. 1483 01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:09,640 He was proud. 1484 01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:13,840 He had found a way to become infamous. 1485 01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:17,360 [tense music continues] 1486 01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:28,400 [gentle music] 1487 01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:30,440 - I know all the names. 1488 01:22:30,440 --> 01:22:31,920 I'll never forget the names. 1489 01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:36,440 Susan Rushworth, 1490 01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:38,840 Shelley Armitage, Susan Blamires. 1491 01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:42,440 Yeah, I can still see the faces as well. 1492 01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,840 The pictures they put in the papers and stuff. 1493 01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:46,520 Never leaves you. 1494 01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:48,080 Never. You know. 1495 01:22:50,440 --> 01:22:51,720 Just terrible. 1496 01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:54,000 Terrible waste. 1497 01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,760 Terrible waste of him and those three. 1498 01:22:57,880 --> 01:22:59,880 [sombre music] 1499 01:22:59,880 --> 01:23:00,960 Sorry. 1500 01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:10,720 I think he wanted to be someone. 1501 01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:15,920 I mean, it's not my idea 1502 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:19,880 of someone you would want to be, but clearly to him it was. 1503 01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:25,840 [sombre music continues] 1504 01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:28,200 If it wasn't for the fact that that brave, 1505 01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:30,400 brave young woman had run out of that flat 1506 01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:33,680 and he had to chase her, 1507 01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,560 then maybe he would never have been caught. 1508 01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:41,120 And thank God she did really, I know what happened to her, 1509 01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:45,160 but still she stopped it happening to a lot more people. 1510 01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,000 She's a very, very brave girl. 1511 01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:52,560 [sombre music continues] 1512 01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:59,640 [tense music] 1513 01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:08,600 - We were told as journalists that he was pleading 1514 01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:12,240 not guilty and it would be quite a lengthy trial. 1515 01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:13,920 And then we saw his lawyers run. 1516 01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:16,640 [tense music continues] 1517 01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:17,920 I know the lawyer. 1518 01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:19,840 And he looked at me and he went, 1519 01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,400 once again a game had been played. 1520 01:24:23,480 --> 01:24:25,800 Griffiths at the last minute 1521 01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:30,160 told his defence team he wanted to plead guilty. 1522 01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:35,240 And at that moment, I suppose I was glad, 1523 01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:40,520 I was glad that the families would not have three weeks 1524 01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:44,240 of listening to the gruesome details 1525 01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:46,680 about what he did to their loved ones. 1526 01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:50,520 But make no mistake, he didn't do it for them. 1527 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:52,800 He did it for himself to add a little bit of drama. 1528 01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:55,120 In fact, he turned to the public gallery 1529 01:24:55,200 --> 01:24:57,880 where the family was sitting and said, 1530 01:24:57,960 --> 01:24:59,960 "And what are you looking at?" 1531 01:24:59,960 --> 01:25:02,000 And there was just a moment when I thought somebody 1532 01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:03,880 was gonna leap over. 1533 01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:08,600 The tension was so high and then they led him away. 1534 01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:11,160 [tense music] 1535 01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:14,520 - Because Griffiths had pleaded guilty, 1536 01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:16,360 there was no need for a full trial. 1537 01:25:16,440 --> 01:25:20,720 So all the court needed was a summary 1538 01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:23,520 of what was being said against him. 1539 01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:26,960 [tense music continues] 1540 01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:31,240 People had a good idea of what he'd been up to 1541 01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:35,320 in that grotty flat in the center of Bradford. 1542 01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:39,040 But nevertheless, the details were truly shocking. 1543 01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:42,160 And at various points, there was the sound of sobbing 1544 01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:46,240 from the public gallery as the relatives of Susan, 1545 01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:49,800 Shelly and Suzanne were forced to listen 1546 01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:51,440 to what happened to them. 1547 01:25:51,440 --> 01:25:52,600 [tense music continues] 1548 01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:53,960 - When the police forensic teams 1549 01:25:54,040 --> 01:25:56,680 entered Stephen Griffith's flat, we learned today 1550 01:25:56,760 --> 01:26:00,120 that they would find blood samples from all three women, 1551 01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,320 blood which had been projected onto the walls, 1552 01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:05,160 over furniture and onto the carpets. 1553 01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:07,320 Griffiths would later describe his bathroom 1554 01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:10,360 to the police as the slaughterhouse. 1555 01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:13,800 [tense music continues] 1556 01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:21,080 - I think the depravity of Griffiths' crimes 1557 01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:22,400 was born out by the fact 1558 01:26:22,480 --> 01:26:25,280 that he's one of very few criminals 1559 01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:28,960 to get a whole life tariff, which means he will never, 1560 01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:31,800 ever be eligible for parole. 1561 01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:35,920 In fact, the judge described him as wicked and monstrous, 1562 01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:38,080 and indeed he is. 1563 01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:41,800 [dramatic orchestral music] 1564 01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:49,640 - Susan's family have never had a body to bury. 1565 01:26:52,120 --> 01:26:56,080 - I've spoken to Susan's family on a number of occasions, 1566 01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:59,600 and even now, more than a decade later, 1567 01:27:00,440 --> 01:27:02,320 they have not been able to say goodbye. 1568 01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:04,920 There is no grave for them to visit. 1569 01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:10,240 All that was found in Griffiths' flat was some blood, 1570 01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:12,000 but it was Susan's. 1571 01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:14,560 And what he has steadfastly refused to do 1572 01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:17,400 is to tell them what he did to her 1573 01:27:17,480 --> 01:27:21,000 and where he put her body and that haunts them. 1574 01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:24,040 [sombre music continues] 1575 01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:27,880 To not be able to lay a bunch of flowers, 1576 01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:32,040 to not be able to really grieve is cruel. 1577 01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:34,440 And it's part of his power game. 1578 01:27:34,440 --> 01:27:38,600 [dramatic orchestral music continues] 1579 01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:42,720 - While Griffiths admitted his offenses by pleading guilty, 1580 01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:45,280 he didn't actually show any signs of remorse. 1581 01:27:45,280 --> 01:27:48,040 [tense music] 1582 01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:50,440 - I'm not surprised he's shown no remorse. 1583 01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:52,840 I think this has all been about Stephen. 1584 01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:55,120 It's all been what he wants. 1585 01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:58,320 And these women have been a means to an end for that. 1586 01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:00,240 Stephen did know he was doing this. 1587 01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:02,280 He had mental disorders, 1588 01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:05,800 but he also made conscious decisions 1589 01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:09,880 to carry out these murders and crafted a life 1590 01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:12,880 where he could do that more easily. 1591 01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:16,480 [tense music] 1592 01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:24,440 - It's always there, 1593 01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:26,440 always there in the back of your mind. 1594 01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:29,960 I just want to ask him why, probably. 1595 01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:34,520 Why you did this and who are you? 1596 01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:38,400 I'd probably tell him that I loved him as well. 1597 01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:41,280 People might be shocked to hear that, 1598 01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:43,760 but he's my brother, my big brother. 1599 01:28:45,280 --> 01:28:46,880 I loved him. I love him. 1600 01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:49,120 I always will, probably, part of me. 1601 01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:50,960 Even though part of me absolutely hates him 1602 01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:52,840 for what he's done 1603 01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:54,840 and for what he's put so many people through. 1604 01:28:56,120 --> 01:28:58,640 [tense music] 1605 01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:12,040 - The most important people to remember in this story 1606 01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:18,640 are the three women, Susan, Shelly, and Suzanne. 1607 01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:25,280 It is so important that attention is always brought back to them 1608 01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:28,160 because for their families, 1609 01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:32,160 they were people that they loved, 1610 01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:34,360 people that they tried to help, 1611 01:29:34,440 --> 01:29:38,920 people that they were desperately worried about. 1612 01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:41,240 And their worst fears came true. 1613 01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:45,800 And they ended up meeting a psychopath, 1614 01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:49,320 a cold-hearted killer who wanted to be famous. 1615 01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:55,520 [dramatic orchestral music] 1616 01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,200 [tense music] 1617 01:30:05,305 --> 01:31:05,208 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm