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The most notoriouskillers hide in plain sight.
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Free to kill and kill again.
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But most are not the criminalmasterminds of fiction.
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In their minds, theycommit the perfect murder.
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In reality, it is their foolishmistakes that get them caught.
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Bradford, England, May, 2010.
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A caretaker in a
block of flats sits
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down to check the week's CCTV.
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Amidst the comings and
goings of the residents
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he sees something strange.
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The caretaker,
I think, regularly
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reviewed silent CCTV
footage on the look
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out for petty
crimes in the block,
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is anybody vandalizing thefire extinguishers or whatever?
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And comes across thishorrendous piece of footage.
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At half past
2:00 in the morning,
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a young woman is led into theflat by one of the residents.
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Three minutes later, sheemerges running for her life.
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When he playedthat footage back slowly,
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he realized that a
young woman was fleeing
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the flat of one of his tenants.
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Journalist CyrilDixon is fascinated by the case.
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He knew thattenant by the name of Steve.
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He watched as this man,Steve, got hold of this woman,
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fought with her,
strike her physically.
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The victim
lies immobilized.
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Then the assailant
produces a weapon.
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For author Mark
Billingham what comes
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next ranks as one of
the strangest moments
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in the history of crime.
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He, very calmly goes afterher and shoots her twice
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in the head with a crossbow.
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He drags her limpbody back towards his tiny flat.
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Then he
realizes he's on camera.
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There's that moment when hegoes, well, the game's
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up, now into performance mode.
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When he gives the
finger to the camera,
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when he holds up the crossbow,when he basically looks
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at that camera and says, hereI am, I'm from your nightmares,
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come and get me.
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The caretaker
alerts his manager.
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Within hours the police
are on the scene.
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When the policearrived, they come heavily
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armed expecting massive
resistance by a virtue
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of what's been seen on theCCTV, this man has been
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the public enemy number one.
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And when they do
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come knocking, rather
violently, on the door,
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he apparently says, I'm in here.
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He goes, come and get me.
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He makes no attempt to run.
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No attempt to do anything.
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The
shocking CCTV footage
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comes straight out of the blue.
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Although there have been
missing person reports,
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the police do not
know that there
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was a killer on the loose.
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They do not even know whetherthe woman in the video
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is dead or alive.
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The next day, a
member of the public
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reports a horrificdiscovery in the river Aire
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on the outskirts of Bradford.
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- A
- member of the public,
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who was walking his dog,
saw something floating
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in the water.
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He wondered what it was.
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I think it was in a rucksack.
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He opens this rucksack to finda head staring back at him.
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And, of course, it didn'trequire much detective work
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to work out that the
head in the river
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was connected to
the CCTV footage.
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The head
from the river
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is swiftly identified
through dental records.
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It belongs to a young womannamed Suzanne Blamires.
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Blamires had a happy
middle class childhood,
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but the death of her fathersaw her descend into alcoholism
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and drug addiction.
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She ends up prostituting herselfon the streets of Bradford.
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She knew the man who appearsto attack her in the video.
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Stephen Griffiths has ahigh profile on the street.
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Bradford resident, poet JoolzDenby, saw him around the city.
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He was a familiar
figure walking around.
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Although this is a city,
it's quite a small city.
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He was always the guy that waswalking around with a sullen
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expression wearing ablack leather trench coat
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and his hair slicked back inwhat appeared to be baby oil.
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Although Griffiths
was trying to look cool,
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Denby saw a man
who was a misfit.
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He looked like an idiot
to be honest with you.
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He wasn't the cool goththat you could think,
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he looks interesting.
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He was like,
he's a real try hard.
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Griffiths
might have looked
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like a mere attention seeker,but it wasn't a game to him.
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Unfortunately, Ithink that went a lot deeper,
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that passionate
desire to be noticed,
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than anybody would
have thought possible.
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As the police
begin to delve deeper
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into Griffiths private life,they realize the true nature
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of his character.
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They discover that
Griffiths had been
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developing a twisted alter egoon a social networking site.
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As well as writing
authoritative accounts
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of historic serial
killers, Griffiths
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presented a strange newidentity called Ven Pariah.
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Ven, being a shortened versionof his first name Stephen,
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and Pariah, one that is
despised or rejected.
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Through his dark
online pseudonym
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he reveals his inner turmoil.
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He goes on to
his networking site
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and puts this speech, whichis melodramatic to the nth
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degree, it's like somethinghe's read, something he's seen.
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He talks about himself
as being hatred
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tightly wrapped in flesh.
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How poor Stephen
tried to control them,
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but couldn't, and now
he is finally emerging.
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But this seeminglyharmless online activity
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is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Griffiths has a violent
and psychotic past.
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This propensity for violenceshowed itself very early on.
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For criminalpsychologist, David Holmes,
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Griffiths is a fascinating case.
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He was diagnosed as apsychopath, which is really
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very dangerous in
terms of threat
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to others, and also of
a skitzoid character.
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Griffiths
is an enigma.
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He appears to prey
on prostitutes,
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a group that are
difficult to track,
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and that makes them
easy to pick off.
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In the video it looks likehe knows what he's doing.
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His actions aren't the
work of a newbie killer.
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The police need to know
what else he's hiding
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and if he has killed any more.
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Having seen Griffiths attackingSuzanne Blamires on CCTV
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and discovering her
decapitated head,
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the police need to
find out how she died
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and whether Griffiths hascommitted other crimes.
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As soon asGriffiths was known about,
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he was caught.
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The difficulty for
the police, I think,
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was trying to
discover exactly what
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he had done given that he wasn'texactly straight with them.
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So tell me, Mr.Griffiths, there's one thing
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we're struggling to work out.
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He told them a lot
of what he'd done,
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but there was no way
they could trust him.
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There was no way
they could believe
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his story without checking it.
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The police scourhis flat for evidence.
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The police then
come and have a look,
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probably thinking they'redealing with some nut
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case who's got nothing at all.
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And then they see what
they say and all hell
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breaks loose, essentially.
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Well, firstof all, they found a number
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of crossbows, two or three.
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Highly dangerous, highlypowerful, capable of firing
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bolts at something
like 200 miles an hour.
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They found a number of Japanesemartial arts type swords.
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They found knives.
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They found knuckledusters.
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And they found a whole
library full of books
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on every possible murder
that's ever taken place.
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But they find no cluesas to Suzanne Blamires fate.
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Stephen Griffiths was very,very clean and house proud.
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In the bathroom of his flat,he had obviously mounted
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a huge cleanup operation.
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If Griffiths disposedof the body in his flat,
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he will find it hard to
disguise the evidence.
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Forensics expert,
Ray Palmer, knows
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just how hard a job it can be.
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It's extremely difficultto completely clean
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up from dismembering a body.
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Much of the deposition of bloodin these circumstances is tiny
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and it's easily overlooked.
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And it's easily trapped invarious surfaces in which
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the dismemberment took place.
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The forensics
team begin their work
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to see if they can find out whathappened to Suzanne Blamires.
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Even though Griffiths
is under the spotlight,
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in interviews and
in court he spins
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a dark tale about
what he has been up to
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in his tiny flat in Bradford.
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A story of up to five morewomen being lured into his flat
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who are kept as sex
slaves, viciously
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murdered and cannibalized.
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A story so utterly grim
and revolting the police
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are under pressure to
discover whether or not
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Griffiths is a fantasist
or the most grotesque
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serial killer of modern times.
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As the detectives
back at base begin
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to investigate Griffiths
past, they uncover
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a truly disturbing story.
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Stephen Griffiths is
born into an upwardly
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mobile Bradford family in 1969.
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But family life breaksdown, his parents separate,
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but they still scrimp and saveto send him to private school.
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Despite getting a
good start in life,
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he begins to reveal
an unusual side.
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People
with skitzoid tendencies
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often do look kind of
like a blank slate.
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They just don't seem torelate to others, so they
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seem fairly harmless,
and sometimes quite cute
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looking as children.
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But in the case of Griffiths,he was seen by many people
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mutilating animals very cruelly.
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A lot of the timehe felt quite invisible, as
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if he didn't count, as
if the child that he was
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was of no consequence,
really, to anybody.
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And that however
much he shouted,
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it was as if he wasshouting inside a glass jar
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and nobody could hear him.
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After a lonelybut uneventful childhood,
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Griffiths mental statedeteriorates in his late teens.
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He was becoming very
frustrated with the kind
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of things he could do inlife and where he would get
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satisfaction and his abilityto control the situation,
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because he was entering intolife that was becoming more
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and more uncontrolled
as an adult.
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He couldn't relate
to others very well.
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He leaves
home abruptly
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and begins living rough.
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Then he reveals his dark side.
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The first serious
offense which
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can be linked to Griffithstook place in 1987 in Leeds.
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He'd gone into a shop witha view to shoplifting.
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He was spotted by the shopkeeperwho tried to apprehend him,
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and Griffith produced
a knife and slashed
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this man across the face.
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I think those initial
forays into violence
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showed him something, he sawwhat that kind of behavior did.
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How it terrified people, howit made him feel powerful.
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The sight of blood, thesight of flesh being cut,
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whatever that did to
him fired something up.
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It lit a fuse.
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He's sent
into youth custody
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for one and a half years.
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The
act he had committed
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in itself was sufficient
to identify him
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as a very dangerous young man.
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But I think the full dangerspotential of Stephen Griffiths
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wasn't realized until
some five years later.
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Griffiths isassessed by psychiatrists.
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He is not found to be insane,
but he is a psychopath.
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He was diagnosedas psychopathic, skitzoid,
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obsessive, controlling.
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He was very aloof and didn'treally emotionally connect.
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He was certainly-- had
very little empathy
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with normal human beings.
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Probably didn't even see
himself as being part
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of the human race, which isreally very dangerous in terms
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of threat to others.
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People start saying,
something very worrying,
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very dark about this kid.
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In fact, theysaid he had a personality
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disorder, which in itself is nottreatable as a mental illness.
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He can't be locked up,
basically, until he's
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actually committed a crime.
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And it wouldn't belong before he committed crimes
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that would make
slashing a shopkeeper's
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face look like child's play.
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Griffiths emerges intothe economically depressed
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Bradford of the early '90s.
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He is unable to get a normaljob due to his criminal record,
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but he is bright andfascinated by the human mind.
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He enrolls as a student ofpsychology at Bradford College.
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Initially, Griffiths isnot an outcast at college.
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But he soon earns a
sinister reputation.
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In a common room in
the college Griffith
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is convinced the fellowfemale student is mocking him.
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Instead of arguing withher, he becomes dangerous.
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Hethreatens a girl with a knife
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because a group of girlshave been laughing at him.
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So this poor girl has
a knife to her throat.
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The girl'sfather confronts Griffiths.
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Hethreatens him with a knife.
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He ends up going down for that.
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And that's when thingsreally start to escalate.
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Griffiths isarrested for the second time.
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He's turning into a
very dangerous man.
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In January, 1992,
Griffiths is convicted
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for his aggressivebehavior and the possession
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of a dangerous weapon.
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He is sentenced to twoyears in Wakefield prison.
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Here, his fantasies
become darker.
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He used to makekill lists in which he had
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mentioned the names
of staff who he felt
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hadn't recognized his trueworth, or who in some sense
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had disrespected him.
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Alongside
writing kill lists,
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he develops a disturbing newinterest in serial killers.
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At the top of the list
of his favorite killers
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is Bradford born,
Peter Sutcliffe,
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the Yorkshire Ripper.
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Griffiths, obviously,
from a very early age
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has this interest
in serial killers
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that develops right from
when he's at school.
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And that sort of blooms
and turns into something
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extremely strange.
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It was
at this time that he
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used that expression, that hewould outdo Peter Sutcliffe.
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He wanted to exceed theachievements in inverted commas
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of Peter Sutcliffe.
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He regarded Sutcliffe assomebody who hadn't really
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done things properly, but,
he, Stephen Griffiths,
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was going to do much better.
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The seeds of hisinterest in serial killers
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date back to Griffiths
former school.
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Among the old boys
was John George
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Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer.
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Children that
went to this school
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were shown the desk ofthis famous serial killer.
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The dark history of theschool was very much something
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they were all familiar with.
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For
Holmes, Griffith's is
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a killer determined to buildon the horrific achievements
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of his idols.
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So you can see elementsthat were in former killers.
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John Haigh, the
Acid Bath Murderer,
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fitted the bill that hesaw as being particularly
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a notorious killer
that he could emulate,
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or kind of beat in a verykind of upstaging way.
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And it is this
exhibitionist mentality
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that would reach horrificextremes later in his life.
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Particularly in
his violent attack
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on Suzanne Blamires in
2010 that seemed to be
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performed for the CCTV cameras.
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After being released from jailin 1993 he returns to Bradford.
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He moves into a flat in thered light area of the city.
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He now has a persona toproject to the outside world.
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He's surroundedby DVDs, by books, by knives,
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and swords, and cultivates
his image as if he's
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some kind of master criminal.
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He's wandering around inbizarre long leather coat.
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He wants to be recognized.
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He's hiding in very plainsight, he's going, look at me.
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And, of course, people are
thinking, he's a weirdo.
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Without knowing quite
how weird he is.
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Despite his
problems, Griffiths
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manages to maintain a numberof romantic relationships.
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He would manipulate and
try and charm and pull
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people into his control.
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But once within his
control, they began
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to see a different Griffiths.
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Because inside there in thecore was not a human being,
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this was some kind of
robot who was acting out
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the part of a human being, whoseideas and fantasies and desires
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were not human.
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One woman, whoprefers to remain anonymous,
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has a two year relationship
with Griffiths.
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He did like to watch
slasher horror films.
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And he used to
laugh because I used
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to sit with cushions over meface, not wanting to watch it.
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And he used to pull
the cushion down,
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he used to go,
watch it, it's funny.
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Despite
being mildly eccentric,
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he is the model boyfriend.
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He had his little
quirks like putting
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cotton wool in his ears,because he didn't want spiders
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getting in there
when he went to bed,
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didn't like his hair touching.
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I thought Stephen
was attractive,
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but I won't say, well, likehot, I didn't go, yeah, drop
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dead gorgeous and all this.
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But I did bring a
photograph of him.
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It was his first day, whichI thought would have been
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weird, actually, looking back.
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He was just absolutely
fine with me.
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Nothing out of the ordinary,until I saw his flat.
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Later in
their relationship
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she finally enters his flat.
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Stephen
said, a girl had
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been murdered in the next flat.
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And I said to him, God, how can you live here?
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And he just shrugged his
shoulders and he went,
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it's fine.
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And he went, now, sitdown on the......
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and I sat down, and it's
just instinct to look
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around at what there is.
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And he had like this hugebookcase just full of books,
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but they weren't all nice book.
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They were all just likereally macabre, about horror,
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serial killers, and thenthere were samurai swords
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in the wall, and crossbow.
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And I was just like, what?
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And I just got a really
horrible feeling.
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And I didn't even have my cupof tea, because I said to him,
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I said, I feel
really sick, do you
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mind if you just take me home?
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Griffiths'
flat is deeply alarming.
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When I came back fromStephen's flat I rang me cousin
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and I told her.
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And she's like, My God,you need to bring the police.
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And I always feel really
guilty about that,
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because I think if
I'd rung the police
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and they could've like
kept an eye on him.
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When she
ends the relationship,
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Griffiths doesn't
react in a normal way.
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I rang him the nextmorning and I said, look,
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it's not working out.
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I don't think we should
be together anymore.
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He was just like, yeah, fine,that's all right, OK, bye.
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And that was it.
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Cathy Hancock,
a later girlfriend,
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sees his darker side.
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They will only go
out for a year,
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but he will make her life hell.
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He becomes increasingly
jealous and violent.
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he broke my nose,
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he stabbed me in
numerous occasions,
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cut with a piece of glass.
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And after
a miscarriage,
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he presents her
with a tiny coffin
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in memory of their lost baby.
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These were
really scary things.
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And his obsessiveness
that actually
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showed that there was somethingvery disturbed in there.
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His lack of ability to beflexible with other the human
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beings, and only can relateto them by controlling
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them, manipulating them.
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Even after
she leaves him in 2001,
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Griffiths persistently
stalks her.
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An incredible seven
years later, in 2008,
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with his goth period
long behind him,
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he leaves terrifyingmessages on her mobile phone.
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I'm trying to help ya.
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I'm not going to go away,so I guess, you'd better--
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Eventually,Griffiths, struggles to maintain
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relationships with women.
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A highly intelligent man, hisobsession with serial killers
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blossoms into fullyfledged academic research.
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He begins a PhD on 19thcentury murder in Bradford.
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He lives alone in his
flat in the red light
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district and the Thorntonroad area of the city.
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He begins paying for sexand befriending prostitutes.
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A lot of thewomen said he was a nice guy,
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they liked him,
they trusted him.
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And I think in those
few brief moments
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he was almost like he wastrying to be a human being,
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because a lot of
the time he was just
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pretending to be a human being.
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Griffiths alsobegins indulging in drugs.
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Speed, amphetamines is a cheapdrug, it's crude, it's quick,
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and it's brutal.
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And it allows you to
do things repeatedly.
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I once described it asbeing like gold on a rocket.
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As his normalrelationships with women come
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to an end, he slides
deeper into an addiction
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to online pornography.
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He
spent a lot of time
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in that world where women arethe brutalized sperm receptacle
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who was used and discarded.
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Who are kind of
meek puppets who are
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raped and brutalized on film.
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And if you add into thatmix a lot of amphetamines,
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then it's a strange, darkworld with colossal velocity
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all aimed towards
one thing, extremity.
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What is the most extremething that you can then do?
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Griffiths gets toknow many of the Thornton road
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prostitutes.
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For some of them,
this relationship
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will end in a horrific death.
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Bradford, a former
industrial powerhouse
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of the north, economic declinehas had a devastating effect
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on the inner city.
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More and more women,
many of them addicts,
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are forced to sell their
bodies on the streets.
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Late July, 2009, a year beforeGriffiths is caught attacking
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Suzanne Blamires
on CCTV, posters
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spring up around Bradford city.
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They appeal for informationover the whereabouts
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of 43-year-old mother of
three, Susan Rushworth.
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Obviously, her family
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were very, very concerned.
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They reported herdisappearance to the police.
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And the police put out appeals
through the local media.
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She works
the red light district
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in the city center.
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So Susan Rushworth goes
missing, a drug addicted
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prostitute, but the
police don't really
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take an awful lot of notice.
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The women
are treated as pariahs,
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they're regarded as scum.
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As a society, we
dehumanize these women
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who need our protection
more than anyone.
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If one of them goes
missing, who cares?
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Rushworth
is never seen again.
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With no leads to speak of, thepolice are getting nowhere.
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It reveals the attitudeto those in the sex industry
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from certain areas
of law enforcement.
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They are, in
criminological terms,
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classic low hanging fruit.
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Just
under a year later,
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another sex worker, ShelleyArmitage, goes missing.
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The police are aware thatGriffiths is violent,
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particularly towards women,but he is not brought in
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for questioning about
the disappearance
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of Rushworth and Armitage.
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In a could of, should
of, would of world,
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maybe they should have
gone and looked at him.
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But there wasn't any
real reason for them
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to do that, because nobodypointed the finger at him
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00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,040
and said, that guy, he
hung around with her.
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00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,840
That guy is really weird.
506
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I have been in his flat.
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He does nothing but sit therechewing his own lips off and
508
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,720
watching hardcore pornography.
509
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,760
Maybe they should have
done, but they didn't.
510
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,320
I think the police
511
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,520
could certainly have done more.
512
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,080
The fact that he
knew all the victims.
513
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,520
The fact that he had
a record of violence.
514
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,800
The fact that he had alreadybeen assessed by a psychiatrist
515
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,320
as being a very
dangerous individual.
516
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,560
That's an oversight
that the police
517
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,000
are going to have to live with.
518
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,400
Griffiths is
hiding in plain sight.
519
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,440
After a year of the policenot noticing that Griffiths
520
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,360
is a serial killer
in the making,
521
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,720
he is suddenly noticed
in the most extreme
522
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,040
manner possible in May, 2010.
523
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,240
On his social
networking site, he
524
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:58,320
announces the arrival of hissadistic alter ego, Ven Pariah.
525
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,880
This alter egoappeared to be what Griffiths
526
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,480
wanted to be in real life.
527
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,640
He was powerful, he wassuccessful, he was admired.
528
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,920
But also, Ven Pariah exhibited
the violent, sadistic,
529
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,720
psychotic side of Griffiths.
530
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,320
He was all about
creating the narrative
531
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,240
of his own killing spree,of being in charge of that.
532
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,040
He goes on to his
networking site
533
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:33,120
and puts this speech, which ismelodramatic to the nth degree.
534
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,400
He talks about himself
as being hatred
535
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,680
tightly wrapped in flesh.
536
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,920
How poor Stephen
tried to control him,
537
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,880
but couldn't, and now
he is finally emerging.
538
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,680
For criminalpsychologist, David Holmes,
539
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,520
Griffiths has created
the dark shadow
540
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,160
of the... superhero.
541
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,160
If
you could imagine
542
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,560
the kind of kick-ass filmsituation where somebody
543
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,880
kind of starts to kind of halfemulate a superhero and ends up
544
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,680
actually being one.
545
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,200
In this case, we've got akind of dark side of it.
546
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,760
His attack onSuzanne Blamires in front
547
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,600
of the CCTV camera
announces his arrival
548
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,280
as Bradford's latest killer.
549
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,920
Once he did get caughtand he knew the game was up,
550
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,280
then he was just preparingfor his moments of glory.
551
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,120
He was preparing
for the moment of,
552
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,120
here I am, and this is, theworld will know who I am.
553
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,640
Perhaps
being caught on CCTV
554
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,440
was always part of
Griffiths' plan.
555
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,160
My personal beliefis that he was happy for it
556
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,480
to be caught on camera,
because in his mind,
557
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,280
he wanted to be a serial killer.
558
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,440
And what he sought at theend of the day was fame,
559
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,800
and what better way
to achieve that fame
560
00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:01,160
than have a cold blooded
murder caught on camera?
561
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,480
Within
hours, armed officers
562
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,600
call at Griffiths' flat.
563
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,160
They steam upthe stairs along the corridor
564
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,600
to flat 33, knock on
the door, from inside
565
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,200
they hear this plaintiff voicesaying, I'm Osama bin Laden.
566
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,920
There's no resistance to such.
567
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,920
He goes with them withoutso much as a crossed word.
568
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,680
The forensic analysisof his flat reveals blood
569
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,160
spatters that he had
attempted to clean up.
570
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:53,520
There is enough material
to provide a DNA match.
571
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:58,840
Despite his situation,Griffiths is relaxed and chatty.
572
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,760
Any chance of
a drink of water?
573
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:05,880
With
somebody like Griffiths,
574
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,600
once they're caught andthey have the power of life
575
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,800
and death taken away from
them, the power of being
576
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,720
able to rob somebody
of life, he has to find
577
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,880
another way to exert power.
578
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,440
And for him that becomes aboutadmitting to a whole bunch
579
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:20,960
of killings that he
then clams up about,
580
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,920
and the police go, what
do you mean six bodies?
581
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,800
And he's kind of like,
did I say six?
582
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,280
Blah blah blah blah blah.
583
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,320
Despite
teasing the police,
584
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,120
he admits to the
murders of Blamires,
585
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,960
Armitage, and Rushworth.
586
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,080
Are you saying thatyou killed Susan Rushworth?
587
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,360
Yes.
588
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:39,960
And what
was the other name?
589
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,040
Shelley Armitage.
590
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,600
Are you
saying that you've
591
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:44,640
murdered Shelley Armitage?
592
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:45,720
Yes.
593
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,240
And then last one.
594
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,560
Suzanne Blamire.
595
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,080
Are you sayingyou've murdered her?
596
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,480
Yes.
597
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,360
The families ofthe three missing women
598
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:57,800
are in shock.
599
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,800
Rushworth's daughter canbarely cope with the news.
600
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,960
I've been 10years old is always saying,
601
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:05,360
why my mom?
602
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,960
There's millions ofpeople, why is it my mom?
603
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,800
I'm just tired of
seeing the world.
604
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,680
After finding 81separate pieces of Suzanne
605
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:19,360
Blamires body in the riverAire, only one fragment,
606
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,840
a vertebrae is found
of Shelley Armitage
607
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,720
in the same body of water.
608
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,520
Despite an intense search,nothing of Susan Rushworth
609
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:31,400
can be found.
610
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,640
After the discovery of thebody parts of Suzanne Blamires,
611
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,360
Griffiths is interviewed
by the police.
612
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,760
So why
did you feel the need
613
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,560
to kill any of the girls?
614
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,200
I don't know.
615
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,080
Finally,
he can play the part
616
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,880
of a famous serial
killer for real.
617
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,560
When yousee the footage of him,
618
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,400
he's going through the
lines he's rehearsed.
619
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:00,920
Well, I'm misanthropic.
620
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,160
I don't have much
time for human race.
621
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,160
You can seehim giving that performance
622
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,920
that he's dreamed about,that he's fantasized about.
623
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,320
This is what he's beenworking towards for years.
624
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,840
In what sort oflocation did you pull them?
625
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:19,640
And a weather robot a computerwill put them in a irrational,
626
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:25,400
emotionless operation..
627
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,640
Griffiths, anexpert on serial killing,
628
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,520
knows that he
needs three murders
629
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,840
to be classified
as a serial killer
630
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,600
and he reveals an
ambition to shock.
631
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,120
He wants to shadow...that was too extreme
632
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:50,040
for his hero, Peter Sutcliffe.
633
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,480
There is noperversion that he's not going
634
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,240
to claim responsibility for.
635
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,320
Stephen
Griffiths gives
636
00:35:58,440 --> 00:35:59,800
little away to the police.
637
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,440
But the true horror ofwhat they are dealing with
638
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,560
is about to be revealed
in the courtroom.
639
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,840
Griffiths appears
to be in control,
640
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,280
but when questioned
about his motives,
641
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,880
he is more revealing
about his mental state
642
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,760
than he intends to be.
643
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,280
Well, I'm misanthropic.
644
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,520
I don't have much time
for the human race.
645
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:31,520
A robot, emotionless operation.
646
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,400
For Holmes,
these few words reveal
647
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,920
Griffiths' psychopathic nature.
648
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,800
He actually did,
honestly, reveal
649
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,800
part of his real character.
650
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,520
When he dismissively
said, I'm a robot,
651
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,360
or why did you do this?
652
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,800
Well, I'm misanthropic.
653
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,400
I don't have much
time for humanity.
654
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,280
He basically didn't
relate to humanity.
655
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,640
It didn't affect him ifpeople suffered, because there
656
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,160
was no humanity in his life.
657
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,280
Griffiths
arrives at the trial.
658
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,120
First, he has asked
to give his name.
659
00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:16,040
The hush court isrevolted by his response.
660
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,920
For me, oneof the most chilling moments
661
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,360
is that first
moment in court when
662
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,840
he is asked to identify
himself and he says,
663
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,760
I am the Crossbow Cannibal.
664
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,280
Word has
gone out that Griffiths
665
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,120
claims to have eaten
the flesh of his victims
666
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:33,600
in police interviews.
667
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:38,920
The tabloid papers questionedhim the Crossbow Cannibal.
668
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,320
Griffiths is canny, he
knows a serial killer
669
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,240
needs a memorable name.
670
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,840
For him,that's the big moment.
671
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,720
That's the moment
he has dreamed of.
672
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,840
He's being able to stand
up in public and say,
673
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,320
this is who I am.
674
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,640
That's what I want to be.
675
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:53,720
Nobody else can be
the Crossbow Cannibal.
676
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,360
That's me.
677
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,120
It's like opening his shirt andrevealing the S of Superman.
678
00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:00,640
This is who I am.
679
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,160
As the CCTV ofthe attack hits the news,
680
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,680
one of his former girlfriendsrealizes how lucky she was.
681
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,400
As I was watching it,
I was physically sick.
682
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:12,840
I went into shock for days.
683
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,160
I was like, God, whathe did to them poor girls,
684
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,000
nobody deserves that.
685
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,160
Nobody.
686
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,680
I was horrified.
687
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,160
How awful it must have
been for that girl.
688
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,040
I just wanted to cry.
689
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:28,560
I hated him.
690
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,160
I hated him.
691
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,280
He's a loathsome
reptile of a man.
692
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,240
Griffiths goes onto reveal in sordid detail
693
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,840
the prolonged agony
that the women suffered.
694
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,440
Mobile phone footage
taken by Griffiths
695
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,280
reveals the ordeal experiencedby his second victim,
696
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,520
Shelley Armitage.
697
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,880
The second victim
698
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,600
he had already filmed
on a mobile phone which
699
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,240
shows poor Shelley Armitagekind of hog tied in the bath
700
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,280
and stripped and spraypainted with my sex slave.
701
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,480
I mean, you know,
he was on a roll.
702
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,680
And it kind of makes
your blood run cold.
703
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,240
Forensic analysisof the flat corroborates
704
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:20,360
Griffiths confession.
705
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,880
Blood from all three womenis found in the bathroom.
706
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:36,200
His claims to cannibalizesound sensational,
707
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,960
but experts on the case
believe that he did
708
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,440
go to such gruesome extremes.
709
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,800
Knowing what wedo about Stephen Griffiths,
710
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,440
this is a man who setout to be a serial killer
711
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,040
of the most grotesque kind.
712
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,760
He used all those books abouthomicide and dismemberment
713
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,760
to make himself into
the worst serial killers
714
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,640
that his warped imaginationcould come up with.
715
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:09,240
So I do find it crediblethat he'd eaten his victims.
716
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:10,640
Griffiths killed
717
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,240
in a very unpleasant way.
718
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,120
And again, it was as if
he was trying to tick
719
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:15,880
as many boxes as possible.
720
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,800
I'm not just going to stabthem, I'm going to tie them
721
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,280
up and torture them
before I stab them,
722
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,200
and I might throw a
bit of... in
723
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:22,680
and, I'll tell
you what, then
724
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,240
I'm going to tell thepolice that I've eaten them.
725
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,200
Some of them I've cooked.
726
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:26,960
Some of them I've eaten raw.
727
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:31,400
You know, there is no, noperversion that he's not going
728
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:32,760
to claim responsibility for.
729
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:41,080
CCTV at the flat andat the local railway station
730
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,200
also revealed how Griffithsdisposed of the body parts.
731
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,640
For Samantha Lundrigan,
geographical profiler,
732
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,600
his approach is, both,
cool and calculating,
733
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:59,560
while at the same time
chaotic and confused.
734
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,680
So on the one hand,
we've got an offender
735
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,600
who will go to
great lengths to try
736
00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:07,640
and conceal forensic
evidence of his victims.
737
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,560
One of the victims
has never been found,
738
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,440
so he was clearly verysuccessful at doing that.
739
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:14,800
On the other hand,
we have this offender
740
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,960
who's completely chaotic.
741
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:22,560
Who is fully aware that theCCTV imagery of him and he's
742
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,600
carrying out crime
in front of that.
743
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:28,680
And also, someone who decidesto get on public transport
744
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,280
with a black bin liner
full of body parts,
745
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,840
and take the trip to actuallydispose of the bodies.
746
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,160
Despite his expertisein the field of murder,
747
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,200
Lundrigan thinks
Griffiths was simply
748
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:47,240
too unstable to be successfulin his chosen path to infamy.
749
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,880
So he was called a bit ofa Jekyll and Hyde character,
750
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,880
and he had a diagnosed
mental disorder.
751
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,760
So he did veer from
these two extremes.
752
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,160
For Holmes,Griffiths' slapdash approach is
753
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,800
rooted in his mental illness.
754
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,880
It seems odd that in
certain circumstances
755
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,200
he appears to be blatantlystupid in forensic terms.
756
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,560
So he makes gross errors becausehe doesn't really understand
757
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:20,160
humanity and how we relate andhow we see flaws in others,
758
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:21,600
he just mechanically does it.
759
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,120
And there's no room
in his mechanizations
760
00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:30,400
for any humanity.
761
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,280
In his
own twisted way,
762
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:37,560
Griffiths, the psychopath,desperately wanted fame.
763
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But instead of achieving
it by appearing
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on Pop Idol or X-Factor, hewould kill to gain infamy.
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Bradford local, Joolz
Denby, sees Griffiths
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as the ultimate want-to-be.
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I think Griffithswants to be a superstar.
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Fame seems to be, to peoplewho have not been famous,
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that it will make everythingthat you feel is wrong with you
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all right.
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But it's not quite
as easy as that.
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I think
Griffiths is obviously
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a serial killer
produced by a world
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which is obsessed with fame.
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People want fame now.
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He's almost thefirst reality TV serial killer.
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If he could have killed peoplein the Big Brother house,
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he'd had done that, thatwould have been his dream.
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That would have been
the ultimate for him.
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Billingham believesa documentary like this
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would be part of the plan.
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One wonderswhether in the very filming
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of a program like
this we are kind of--
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you know, when this
goes out, Griffiths
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is going to be sitting watchingthis in the room of some prison
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quietly ticking that boxgoing, I got my documentary.
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That would have been
something that he'd
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have wanted way back then whenhe was wandering around town.
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Griffiths
pleads guilty.
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Despite an attempt to
convince the authorities
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of his insanity, so thathe is transferred to a more
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comfortable mentalinstitution, he is incarcerated
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in a high security prison.
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Within five days of the
trial, another atrocity
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hits the headlines inCumbria, Northern England,
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a man kills 12 people
on a shooting spree.
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Griffithsis massive headline
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news all over the world untilthe next killer comes along.
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And suddenly he gets knockeddown that Google search list,
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and he's knocked
off that front page.
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And I do actuallyremember saying to my friend,
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I would be really annoyed.
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Griffiths flicks thefirst of many suicide attempts.
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He has
to find some other way
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to get attention, whichbecomes suicide attempts, which
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become self-harm.
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Vaguely pathetic, trying tohang himself with a sock.
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00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,480
I think he
will feel very unhappy
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that he isn't, now,
the great celebrity
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that he thought he would be.
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He can't
handle the fact that he
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is already being forgotten.
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