Making A Monster Episodes

The world's most notorious serial killers of all-time.

Aileen Wuornos: Victim or cold-blooded killer?

‘She had an abandonment complex. And this desperation was one of the factors that drove her to go from a petty criminal to a cold-blooded serial killer.’

The impact of a documentary phenomenon

Since Surviving R. Kelly first aired, the R&B star's reputation is in tatters, his career is over and he is in jail awaiting trial on charges on multiple charges of sexual abuse.

John Wayne Gacy and his unquenchable lust for death

Gacy is a ‘classic example of compartmentalisation… cultivating a respectable public persona while totally relegating his deviant behaviour.’

Robert Black: a prolific and dedicated predatory paedophile

The meticulous pedophile who sexually assaulted and killed young girls across the country

Why male rape victims suffer in silence

One in six men have been sexually assaulted in their lifetimes but there is still a stigma about male rape

The senseless misogynistic violence of Levi Bellfield

He was lovely at first, charming, then completely controlling and evil.'

Abused as a child, Robert Maudsley killed abusers as an adult

Robert Maudlsey, the real-life Hannibal Lecter and the UK's most dangerous prisoner

Bad Romance: Love behind bars

Rose West and Myra Hindley had a prison fling in the 90s when they were both banged up in HMP Durham

Making A Monster: Michael Ross

Destined for greatness, yet consumed by endless fantasies of violence, sex and murder

The differences between male and female serial killers

Male serial killers are far more inclined to kill strangers, while female serial killers generally murder those they know

What's trending in True Crime in February

The most newsworthy cases this month you need to know about

The women who survived Ted Bundy

Setting aside the ubiquitous anti-icon that Bundy has been made into, other stories deserve to be remembered, the stories of the women who fell prey to him and survived. 

Cults Uncovered book competition

What's trending in True Crime in March

The pottery cottage murder, the death of an investigative reporter and The Dating Game Killer, just some of the major true crime stories in March

Freddie Mills: death of a sporting hero

Suicide In Soho or a mystery murder?

Aaron Campbell: The clean cut, popular 16-year old was an unlikely culprit

The killing of a six-year-old kid; by 16-year-old Aaron Campbell

The warning signs of domestic abuse

Domestic violence is the silent killer

Kids Who Kill: Evil Up Close: Episodes

Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham: the Twilight killers

Britain’s youngest ever double murderers

Emma Kenny on what motivated sick child-killer Aaron Campbell

Aaron Campbell is one of those very rare humans that would keep you up at night as a parent'

Win a copy of Unsolved Murders by Emily G. Thompson

Stephen Hough: The teen killer who evaded justice for 40 years

He raped and strangled 15-year-old Flintshire, Janet Commins while someone else was jailed for the murder.

Matthew Hardman: The killer who wanted to become a vampire

The 'remarkably normal' 17-year-old who cut out the heart of his elderly neighbour

Keddie Murders: California's quadruple homicide

It’s unusual for someone to get away with killing four people.

Frances Glessner Lee's dollhouses of death

The mother of forensic science whose dioramas of death revolutionised the art of detection

David Koresh and the Branch Davidians

“I will never forget Waco. The ghost of Waco will be with me all my life…”

The Pembrokeshire murders

Cooper’s heinous crimes between 1985 to 89 cast a menacing shadow across a small rural part of south-west Wales for a quarter of a century

Alyssa Bustamante

The 15-year-old YouTuber who listed 'cutting' as a hobby and killed 6-year-old Elizabeth Olten

The chat show crush murder

How appearing on a trashy TV talk show led to the tragic murder for one unfortunate guest

The Lulu Lemon Murder

The ferocious murder committed over a pair of stolen of yoga pants

Accused: Guilty or Innocent episode guide

Accused: Guilty or Innocent programme information

Episode guide: S2

What's coming up in Buried in the Backyard

Madeleine McCann: The Theories

We may never know what became of three-year-old Madeleine but certain competing theories have persisted over the years.

Inside the pressure cooker: The Luton woman murdered by her own sister

It was a ferocious murder in residential Luton, made all the more shocking the victim was murdered by her own sister

When serial killers write tell-all books

A surprising amount of serial killers have written books from Ian Brady to Dennis Nilsen