Shaye Groves is something of a “weird”, a “strange” and “manipulative” person in the eyes of her friends. The most disturbing thing about her is her manifest obsession with the Chuky doll, which eventually sentenced her to prison.

The woman was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her partner. It was a heinous crime. He stabbed him more than 20 times.

Nothing remains of that happy blonde girl who posed for the cameras. Her body was a canvas for the tattoo and the corsets tightened her waist making her look thinner than she was.

“She’s Always Been Weird”

Those close to them say that Groves developed a penchant for bondage and “machismo” in his twenties.

When she was younger, it was different to what she is now, she was a bit more feminine,” they tell the Daily Mail.

She loved Chucky dolls and was interested in them.

“We all wore brightly colored clothes and she usually wore dark clothes (…) she wasn’t goth, but she was always unique. It has always been a bit strange,” they add.

An acquaintance comments of Groves’ tattoos, “It must have been two years since he got that one on his throat, he didn’t have the big stripe on his face.”

Remember I used to have a lip piercing but not all those others.

“She started dressing a bit ‘gothic’ about two years ago when she went goth, a bit of a goofball.”

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Maternity

Shaye Groves has a little girl, with whom she shared normal mother-daughter scenes like baking pies.

The press reports that she wrote for her daughter in a publication: “Beautiful independent girl with a lot of attitude” and promised to “always be there to guide you.”

The obsession with Chucky and crime

She contrasted the mother image with the decoration of her house. Pictures of assassins hung on the walls.

Interior of the house of the woman convicted of murder. Image from Daily Mail

Groves no doubt developed an unhealthy obsession with true crime. His house was a “temple” dedicated to terror, to death.

While their daughter played with dolls, they said Groves did so “with the decorative Celtic daggers she kept on her coffin-shaped shelf”.

Even their coffee cups were terrifying: they bore the faces of killers from movies.

Groves was one of those who did not miss true crime documentaries and reread her collected books about gangsters.

Her obsession with Chucky continued to define her. They describe that there were knives and daggers in several places in their house.

Road to the point of no return

Early 2022 the woman met Frankie Fitzgerald, 25 years old. The relationship, which eventually went “wild”, started in a bedroom in a pub in England.

They were together for six months and “the two pushed their sexual desires to the limit, using four ‘decorative’ knives depicting movie villains Chucky, Jigsaw and Pennywise to ‘play with knives'”.

Jealousy for Fitzgerald blinded her. On July 17 of last year, the media reported, Groves was furious when he saw he was allegedly talking to a 13-year-old girl on Instagram. That claim, they say, turned out to be false.

That night, while he slept, she slit her partner’s throat with a Celtic ritual dagger and stabbed him 22 times in the chest.

He tried to distance himself from crime

To try not to appear guilty of the murder, she “tried to pass herself off as a victim of Fitzgerald’s sexual assault to her friend, Vicky Baitup.”

He did several things to distance himself from crime…something seen in movies might work, he would have thought.

Coffee cups found in Groves’ house. Photo: taken from Daily Mail

In videos of the two having sex, Groves clumsily edited the footage to make it look like rape. It didn’t work because the Public Prosecution Service found it to be counterfeit.

He couldn’t handle the evidence to remind her that she “called a friend ‘laughing’ after she killed her lover, showed her body and said ‘I did it'”.

Justice took the floor and Groves was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 23 years.

In court she was “not a ‘cold-blooded killer’.” The murder was a crime of passion and made it clear to him, “You loved the man you killed and you killed the man you loved.”