Concern over Armitage began in late April, after she failed to appear in scheduled court sessions twice, as well as not using her mobile phone or claim benefits since her disappearance. However, after she and her best friend began to experiment with drugs, she became addicted and was ultimately unable to escape a life of drink, drugs and sex work. A former student at St Joseph's College in Bradford, Armitage was known for being popular and good-looking and had aspirations to succeed in a modelling career. On April 26th, 2010, 31-year-old Shelley Armitage went missing. Murder of Shelley Armitage and Dismemberment Footage However, while it is presumed that Griffiths dumped her remains in the River Aire like his later victims, no remains of Rushworth have ever been accounted for as of the present day. The key evidence connecting Griffiths to the murder was that traces of Rushworth's blood were found in his flat. Īt some point, she ended up in Griffiths' flat, where she was killed via a crossbow bolt before being dismembered in the bathtub and partially eaten. The last known footage of her alive consisted of her getting off a bus. On the day she vanished, Rushworth told her mother that she was seeking to buy medicine. Her mother Christine stated that in the days leading up to her murder, Susan had begun to turn her life around, reducing her drug addiction and living with Christine. A mother of three, Rushworth had struggled with addiction to drugs following a brain hemorrhage that caused epilepsy and had become a sex worker to fund her addiction. On June 22nd, 2009, 43-year-old Susan Rushworth disappeared. They were unable to proceed with sectioning him under the Mental Health Act, due to lack of evidence of possessing signs of psychotic illness, or a treatable mental disorder. This led to the police contacting the housing association which owned Griffiths' flat to request better CCTV to help capture any possible incident. Two years before the murders, his hunting weapons were seized, and he was found to have read books on dismemberment.
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Local police were concerned with Griffiths, believing he was a serial killer in the making. in homicide studies at the University of Bradford, concerning 19th-century and modern murders. ĭespite this, Griffiths seemingly turned his life around by 2009, but his obsession with serial killers remained, and he even studied for a Ph.D. The previous year, he was diagnosed as a schizoid psychopath. In 1992, he was jailed for two years after being found to have put a knife to a girl's throat. During his time in custody, he admitted he had interests in becoming a serial killer.
At age 17, he stabbed a supermarket manager with a knife, resulting in him being jailed for three years. Prior to the murders, Griffiths already had a criminal past.
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