Who is Shaye Groves? Woman obsessed with serial killers smiles as she is convicted of fatally stabbing lover in his sleep
WINCHESTER, ENGLAND: Mother-of-one obsessed with true crime documentaries smiled after she was convicted of stabbing her boyfriend to death and was taken down to her cell. Shaye Groves had pictures of serial killers including Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy framed and hung on the walls at her home in Havant, Hampshire. Frankie Fitzgeral was stabbed 22 times while he was in his sleep.
The 27-year-old woman who was "manipulative and jealous," reportedly attacked him after she saw his messages to a 13-year-old girl. Groves faces life in prison over the death of the father of two. The pair had a camera set up in her bedroom and recorded them having sex. "Their sex life involved bondage, dominance submission, and masochism - BDSM. It is likely she was obsessed with Frankie Fitzgerald because of his performance in the bedroom," said prosecutor Steven Perian KC who added, "The killing is very likely to have been a crime of passion driven by her jealousy."
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Groves' obsession with serial killers
Groves' clear obsession with serial killers is reflected in her framing pictures of those including Rose West, Myra Hindley, Moors Murderer, and Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. She hung pictures of them crying blood and also had a book collection about gangsters, reported Daily Mail.
"I've done him," said Groves while she rang her friend Vikki Baitup after stabbing Fitzgerald to death. She giggled and showed his body to the friend through the video call and "admitted the killing". She had previously threatened her boyfriend of leaking footage of alleged sexual abuse and told him she would make his life "a misery." However, the sexual abuse claims were proven untrue. Groves was found guilty of murder after a jury of the Winchester Crown Court concluded the guilty charges after nearly 18 hours of deliberating and she will be sentenced in the next week.
What was Groves' motive behind the killing?
'Pagan' Groves owned a Celtic dagger to strengthen her "spiritual connections." Later, she used the same dagger to kill Fitzgerald, as per the hearing during the trial. She also had a coffin-shaped bookcase. With many posters of serial killers on her wall, she joked with her friend about her boyfriend ending up "on the wall" with the posters and said there was enough "space for him." The killer said the reason behind her hanging those disturbing posters in her room was because she thought that those looked "pretty cool" to her, according to the news outlet.
Groves claimed that she attacked her boyfriend after she saw the messages he sent to the teenager. She said she had a feeling that Fitzgerald was planning to strangle her to death. He was then stabbed three times to the neck, 17 times to the front of his chest, and twice to other areas of the chest resulting in "catastrophic blood loss," and "multiple perforations of heart and lungs" leading to his death.