By Cyril Dixon
ISBN-10: 1843584530
ISBN-13: 9781843584537
A significant seek and restoration operation begun while a tender woman's is still have been recovered within the River Aire in may well 2010. Police were investigating the disappearance of Shelley Armitage and Susan Rushworth who had long past lacking in 2009; however the continues to be belonged to Suzanne Blamires and have been to resolve a grotesque and frightening chain of occasions. 40-year-old PhD pupil Stephen Griffiths was once arrested through West Yorkshire Police after CCTV pictures of him attacking Ms Blamires at his block of residences was once found by way of a caretaker on the advanced. She was once shot with a crossbow. as soon as arrested Griffiths advised Police: "I've killed much more than Suzanne Blamires - i have killed loads." including gruesomely that he had "eaten a few of her". Griffiths possessed aggravating video recordings and pictures in his flat and police came upon blood from either Ms Armitage and Ms Rushworth linking them to Griffiths. Having admitted to murdering Suzanne Blamires, 36, Shelley Armitage, 31, and 43-year-old Susan Rushworth,...
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I thought it was cruel. ”’ He showed her his rodent larder, a six-by-two-foot coffin-shaped box that he had made himself out of chipboard. He kept it towards the back of the flat in case the housing association staff visited. It was out of sight and they were less likely to smell the sawdust and rat excrement. But some time later, she met him in the corridor carrying a sack. There was a nauseating smell, so she asked what it was. ‘He said one of the lizards had died and he had got it in his rucksack and was going to bury it.
But this time, after dragging Alison Day, a 19-year-old office worker, off the deserted platform in Hackney Wick, north London, and raping her, they strangled her to death with a piece of string. During the next five months, the killers took two more victims, raping and murdering 15-year-old schoolgirl Maartje Tamboezer in West Horley, Surrey, and secretary Anne Locke, 29, in Brookman Park, Hertfordshire. Desperately seeking a breakthrough, senior detectives invited David Canter, a psychologist and criminologist from Surrey University, to draw up a profile based on what was known of the offences.
Officers feared that, had she not been rescued, she would have suffered the same fate as Caroline. In a chilling premonition of future events, Valentine was caught thanks to CCTV cameras, which had been fitted after the residents had complained about prostitutes using the doorways to service their clients. First, he was captured going out with a holdall containing the dead woman’s clothes. Then, after he had dumped those, he was filmed at 4am, leaving with the rolled-up rug that contained Caroline’s body.