Stephen shows her how he feeds live rats to his pets. She describes his flat as like entering a maze. A neighbour, Rachel Farrington, agrees to come into his flat to see his ‘pets’. He then buys two lizards, sometimes taking them for walks on dog leads into town. However, he harasses her for years, spraying ‘slag’ on her wall when she’s away on holiday and leaving threatening messages on her voicemail. Stephen then has an abusive relationship with another woman who manages to escape him in 2001. She makes her excuses and leaves, and soon also exits the relationship. When he finally invites his girlfriend into his flat, she finds every surface, even the carpet, covered in plastic.She senses something is very, very wrong. In 1998, he starts a two year relationship. During the 70 and 80s, Sutcliffe killed 13 women, many of them prostitutes.įorensic Psychologist Dr Holmes shares his insight into the crimes committed by Neil Entwistle, Danilo Restivo, Michael Ross and John Sweeney.īut at first Stephen doesn’t use prostitutes. (He will later purchase crossbow bolts).Many of the books focus on Jack the Ripper, the Moors Murder and his idol, Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.
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"There may be an element, although this is difficult to prove, that he is in a cating himself better about the phenomenon that he was going to engage in practically.Was he studying some of these books to understand how to avoid capture, how to dispose of bodies, how police would conduct an investigation?" His doctorate thesis is on the history of homicide. But he does go on to secure a degree gaining a First in psychology. He never works, surviving on benefits and grants. But because he’s said not to possess signs of psychotic illness, or a treatable mental disorder, he can’t be sectioned under the Mental Health Act.Stephen develops a fear of penetration and every night places cotton wool in his ears so that insects can’t enter. He uses it to shoot birds which he then dissects.The next year, he receives two year prison sentence for affray after holding a knife to the throat of a young girl. He tells probation officers he fantasises about serial killing.During this time, he loses contact with his family.In 1989, he’s convicted of possessing an offensive weapon: an air pistol. Aged just 17, he’s sentenced to three years’ youth custody. When a supermarket manager tries to stop him, Stephen attacks with a knife. THE CRIMINAL STUDENTAs a teenager, Stephen regularly shoplifts. But Stephen’s father works hard to send his 13 year old son to a fee paying school. (She’ll later be convicted of benefit fraud and many have speculated her behaviour may partly explain Stephen’s hatred of women). Their marriage soon breaks up and the children stay with Moira in her council house. He’s the eldest of the three children of telephonist, Moira Dewhirst, and frozen food salesman, Stephen Griffiths. Stephen Shaun Griffiths is born on Christmas Eve in 1969, in West Yorkshire. "Hatred Bound Tightly in Flesh" Stephen Griffiths’s MySpace entry describing himself
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