The Bradford Murders & The Crossbow Cannibal / Stephen Griffiths - Part 3
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🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODES 47 & 48’ FOR PARTS ONE & TWO OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. The waters of the River Aire were in the process of being searched by divers from The West Yorkshire constabulary. Excavation work also continued around the flats where Stephen Griffiths lived in Holmfield Court on Thornton Road in Bradford. A collection of crossbow bolts, two crossbows, numerous bags and electronic equipment had been recovered from his home… (Part 3 of 3)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5, Episode 49 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:32.9 | Please listen to Season 5, episodes 47 and 48 for parts one and two of this three-part case. |
| 0:44.6 | This episode contains distressing themes, explicit language and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:53.0 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:58.1 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 1:18.4 | The waters of the river air were in the process of being searched by divers from the West Yorkshire Constabulary. |
| 1:28.5 | Excavation work also continued around the flats where Stephen Griffiths lived in home-filled court on Thornton Road in Bradford. |
| 1:36.6 | A collection of crossbow bolts, two crossbows, numerous bags and electronic equipment had been recovered from his home. It appeared that Griffiths attempted to clean up the scene of a crime |
| 1:43.6 | as he had lifted up the carpet and |
| 1:46.0 | removed the tiles from the bathroom. Either that or he was incredibly unlucky, deciding to carry out |
| 1:53.9 | some impromptu renovation work in his flat at the exact time he was being investigated for |
| 1:59.9 | multiple murder. |
| 2:02.3 | A vast collection of true crime books, along with all of his university coursework and websites he |
| 2:09.4 | had updated, would also be analysed to understand his state of mind and learn if he had left |
| 2:15.5 | any clues among the words he had written. |
| 2:19.5 | Analysis on the black canvas hold all found in the river rare and the tools inside was underway. |
| 2:26.8 | The police had sent officers to over a hundred locations associated with Griffiths |
| 2:32.4 | in the hopes they might find some further clues and |
| 2:35.9 | potential connections to other missing women. One notable disappearance at the time was that |
| 2:44.3 | of Claudia Lawrence. Several journalists wrote about the possibility that Griffiths was involved. |
| 2:52.9 | The chef in her mid-30s who worked at York University vanished the previous year in 2009, |
| 2:59.9 | and there appeared to be few clues as to her whereabouts. bouts. |
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