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What Makes a Killer

S3 Ep12: Stephen Griffiths, The Crossbow Cannibal

What Makes a Killer

Audioboom Studios

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It’s 2010 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Local man, Stephen Griffiths has just returned home from a night out with a woman in tow. Seconds later, she's seen on security footage running for her life away from his apartment. Griffiths, seen with a crossbow, chases after her and shoots her, before dragging the woman back inside his apartment. She is never to be seen alive again. But he doesn't try to hide this. In fact, he flaunts it, with the hopes of living up to his idol–the Yorkshire Ripper.

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Original music by Ben Krejci, Lee Rosevere, Kai Engel, and Daniel Birch.

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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0:00.0

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0:27.7

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0:30.0

What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended

0:35.3

for all audiences. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

0:41.6

It's 2010 in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

0:45.3

One man's sick wish for recognition is about to be realized.

0:50.0

Student Stephen Griffiths returns home with a female companion.

0:54.3

Seconds later, she's seen on security footage running for dear life away from his apartment.

1:00.8

It was absolutely astonishing. Very seldom is made a captured on camera.

1:07.2

Griffiths, now seen with a crossbow, chases after her and shoots her before dragging the girl

1:14.0

back inside his apartment. She has never seen alive again.

1:19.0

A psychopath with a history of violence and an alarming amount of homicidal knowledge,

1:24.8

Griffiths will later begin referring to himself as the crossbow cannibal and confessed to the murder

1:30.8

of two other local women. To back up his new name, he will even claim to have eaten parts of his

1:37.6

victims. He's dismembered the bodies he's taken pictures of them. This is somebody he's quite

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