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Jun 2021
40m 26s

S3 Ep12: Stephen Griffiths, The Crossbow...

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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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