Crime | Britain 'Ripper' Scholar Charged With 3 Murders Stephen Griffiths in court for hooker killings By Rob Quinn Posted May 28, 2010 2:52 AM CDT Copied British police officers stand outside Holmfield Court flats in Thornton Road, Bradford, England. Forensic teams are searching Griffiths' apartment. (AP Photo/Anna Gowthorpe/PA Wire) A criminology student suspected in the disappearance of 3 prostitutes has been formally charged with their dismemberment murder and will appear in court in Bradford, England, today. Stephen Griffiths—described as a "lizard-loving loner" by neighbors—was often seen strolling around the red-light district he lived in wearing a long black coat and sometimes boasted that was doing a doctorate "in Jack the Ripper," according to the Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Read These Next Olivia Nuzzi, Vanity Fair to part. Netflix plan to buy Warner Bros. isn't sitting well in Hollywood. Looks like we have a date for the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce nuptials. Supreme Court to decide on birthright citizenship. Report an error