Crossbow cannibal killer11/26/2023 ![]() The program focuses on Kathy Hancock, who lived with Griffiths for a considerable time. Sutcliffe died in November 2020 after refusing treatment for COVID-19.Īfter his arrest, which happened a few days later when the caretaker checked the CCTV tapes, Griffiths readily admitted the murders to the police, telling them he had eaten some of his victims’ flesh, and adding, “That’s part of the magic.” Sutcliffe had murdered thirteen women in the same area between 19, and was at the time rotting in prison with several life sentences to serve, and judicial instructions that he was never to be released. ![]() He also knew what sort of activities led to sensationalist press coverage, and he seems to have been determined to become more famous than one of his pin-ups, the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe. Griffiths was a postgraduate research student studying criminology and specialising in British murderers, so he knew a great deal about killing and disposing of bodies. He not only committed the execution on camera but, after dragging her body inside his apartment, returned carrying his crossbow and gave a middle finger to the camera, knowing he had been seen. Griffiths was arrested after CCTV security footage caught him in the act of killing Suzanne Blamires. Other human tissue found in the same river was later established to belong to Armitage. Parts of Blamires’s body, including her severed head still containing a crossbow bolt, were found in the River Aire in Shipley, near Bradford, on 25 May. Griffiths killed three women in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England in 20 43-year-old Susan Rushworth disappeared on 22 June 2009, followed by 31-year-old Shelley Armitage on 26 April 2010 and 36-year-old Suzanne Blamires on 21 May that year. This was Stephen Griffiths, who stood up in court for his arraignment for murder and, when asked his name, identified himself as THE CROSSBOW CANNIBAL. Most of the killers were not cannibals, disappointingly for this blog, but one was, or says he was, despite there not being enough left of his victims to confirm or deny his claim. Most, but not all, of these unwilling companions were women. Living with a Serial Killer concentrates not so much on the killer, as do most true crime shows, but on the partners or friends or even children who lived with them, the people who thought they knew them, and it tells how they lived either in fear or else were oblivious to the exploits of the murderers. The program has covered a number of British and North American killers, including Steve Wright (the Suffolk Strangler), Peter Tobin, Timothy Boczkowski and a couple of women: Elizabeth Wettlaufer, a Canadian nurse who murdered several of her patients and Joanne Dennehy, who stabbed three men to death in 2013. I guess because most of the murderers reported by the show are men?Īnyway, the show we are reviewing here is part of the 2022 second season of an Oxygen series called Living with a Serial Killer, the first season of which aired in 2021. “a multi-platform high quality crime destination brand for women” Oxygen True Crime is a program brand within the NBCUniversal stable, and is rather oddly described as:
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