article_snippet: Spafford was also set to take a job at high profile New York restaurant Buvette.
article_snippet: Promising: Spafford was due to take up a head chef's job in New York City - but had relapsed into heroin use, according to a new profile of the high-adrenaline bank robbery.
article_snippet: Seattle Metropolitan also reported Spafford had been increasingly erratic in the weeks leading up to the high-adrenaline bank robbery.
article_snippet: Spafford had reportedly spiraled into addiction as a high school senior back in Salt Lake City, but kicked the habit before moving to Seattle in 2010 for a new start.
article_snippet: Spafford was due to leave Seattle to take up a head chef's post at a French restaurant in Salt Lake City - but never made the trip after Spafford fatal run-in with police less than a month before Spafford start date.