The Crossbow Cannibal: The Definitive Story of Stephen Griffiths—the Self-Made Serial Killer

By Cyril Dixon

During Midsummer 2009, Susan Rushworth, a mother, grandmother, and former grammar school girl, went missing. She was followed ten months later by Shelley Armitage, a one-time wannabe model. Four weeks on it was Suzanne Blamires, who had been a trainee nurse. All three sold their bodies for sex to fund their drug habits. All three vanished as if the cobbled backstreets had opened up and swallowed them in. And who could know many how more there were? Stephen Griffiths was a shy, eccentric student of criminology who always had a word of cautious advice for the working girls. He wandered the same bleak landscape, dressed in black, hair slicked back with baby oil, happy to chat and share a cigarette. Here, surely, was someone they could trust.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Blake
• Release date: May 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781843584537

Reviews for The Crossbow Cannibal

[jonathan_knighton_2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A well told account of a person's choice to become a serial killer. His victims are sex workers trading sex acts for money for their next drug score. Author Cyril Dixon connects the world of killer/hooker to the mainstream, of people trying to help those who are not normal even as many monsters fly just under the radar.