19 episodes

How do you get into the mind of the devil, when that devil is trying to get into yours?
Alongside Crime+Investigation’s TV show Making a Monster, the partner podcast series Making a Monster: The Tapes has exclusive access to extra interview recordings from the forensic psychiatrists, psychologists and pathologists featured within the eight-part TV broadcast.
Hosted by British television presenter Cherry Healey (BBC’s Inside the Factory), Making a Monster: The Tapes will provide insight into the field of investigating the psyches of some of the most notorious serial killers of all time, including Robert Black, Rose West and Levi Bellfield.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Making a Monster: The Tapes Crime+Investigation

    • True Crime
    • 4.2 • 10 Ratings

How do you get into the mind of the devil, when that devil is trying to get into yours?
Alongside Crime+Investigation’s TV show Making a Monster, the partner podcast series Making a Monster: The Tapes has exclusive access to extra interview recordings from the forensic psychiatrists, psychologists and pathologists featured within the eight-part TV broadcast.
Hosted by British television presenter Cherry Healey (BBC’s Inside the Factory), Making a Monster: The Tapes will provide insight into the field of investigating the psyches of some of the most notorious serial killers of all time, including Robert Black, Rose West and Levi Bellfield.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Rose West with Professor Paul Britton

    Rose West with Professor Paul Britton

    "She is a most potent, powerful woman."
    Professor Paul Britton has advised on numerous high-profile cases such as the murder of James Bulger and the abduction of baby Abbie Humphries. He was also instrumental in the negotiations and interviews that caught Colin Ireland in 1993. As well as his expert view on all Making A Monster’s murderers, Professor Britton also brings his first-hand account of Rose West’s crimes to the fore for the first time, having visited the infamous Cromwell Street to aid the police in their investigation.
    Get in touch on social media by searching for Crime+Investigation and using #MakingAMonster, and leave your thoughts in the review section of your podcast app.
    Making a Monster: The Tapes features interviews recorded by Monster Films for the Crime+Investigation TV series, and was hosted by Cherry Healey, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, with editing by Joel Porter.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 25 min
    Professor Paul Britton discusses Forensic Psychology

    Professor Paul Britton discusses Forensic Psychology

    "They find that exploiting other people becomes necessary for them to have any feeling of self-esteem."
    Professor Paul Britton is an expert criminal profiler, having spent more than 20 years working as a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist, as well as being the former head of the Regional Forensic Psychology Service for Trent. He previously advised the Home Office and Association of Chief Police Officers Crime Committee on offender profiling, and currently teaches clinical and forensic psychology at Birmingham City University.
    Get in touch on social media by searching for Crime+Investigation and using #MakingAMonster, and leave your thoughts in the review section of your podcast app.
    Making a Monster: The Tapes features interviews recorded by Monster Films for the Crime+Investigation TV series, and was hosted by Cherry Healey, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, with editing by Joel Porter.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 31 min
    Robert Maudsley with Dr Bob Johnson

    Robert Maudsley with Dr Bob Johnson

    "If you're not careful he projects the picture of his father onto you."
    Dr Bob Johnson is a psychiatrist and has worked closely with Robert Maudsley at HM Prison Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, where after extensive interviews and counselling, Dr Johnson believed that he was making progress and could be rehabilitated. Dr Johnson is able to make some fascinating revelations about Maudsley the killer – and how serial killers are a product of their environments.
    Get in touch on social media by searching for Crime+Investigation and using #MakingAMonster, and leave your thoughts in the review section of your podcast app.
    Making a Monster: The Tapes features interviews recorded by Monster Films for the Crime+Investigation TV series, and was hosted by Cherry Healey, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, with editing by Joel Porter.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 23 min
    Levi Bellfield with Dr Julian Boon

    Levi Bellfield with Dr Julian Boon

    "That led to a need for power and underpinned his sadistic streak."
    Dr Julian Boon is a chartered forensic psychologist and an honorary senior lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester. Dr Boon has been involved in a professional profiling capacity in assisting Police forces around the world for over 35 years and his technique in offender profiling served as the inspiration for the ITV drama Wire in the Blood, as well as being the focus of the C4 documentary The Real Cracker. He brings his expert knowledge and experience to each episode to provide an in-depth profile of our serial killers.
    Get in touch on social media by searching for Crime+Investigation and using #MakingAMonster, and leave your thoughts in the review section of your podcast app.
    Making a Monster: The Tapes features interviews recorded by Monster Films for the Crime+Investigation TV series, and was hosted by Cherry Healey, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, with editing by Joel Porter.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 24 min
    Robert Black with Dr Richard Badcock

    Robert Black with Dr Richard Badcock

    "He said it was like a theatre, like the curtains opening at the start of a play."A consultant forensic psychiatrist, Dr Richard Badcock provides Making A Monster with an expert overview of some of the key issues faced by our serial killers – including a personal insight into the horror of Robert Black’s crimes after he was called to assess him.
    Get in touch on social media by searching for Crime+Investigation and using #MakingAMonster, and leave your thoughts in the review section of your podcast app.
    Making a Monster: The Tapes features interviews recorded by Monster Films for the Crime+Investigation TV series, and was hosted by Cherry Healey, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, with editing by Joel Porter.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 29 min
    Dr Richard Badcock discusses Forensic Psychiatry

    Dr Richard Badcock discusses Forensic Psychiatry

    "Only very occasionally do I sit across something and think to myself, 'there's something that's just missing in you'."
    Dr Richard Badcock is a consultant forensic psychiatrist whose career has included some of the UK’s most violent and dangerous offenders. Having worked in numerous medium and high security prisons, he has helped the police on a number of major investigations, such as Harold Shipman, and is currently teaching psychodynamics and psychological profiling at the University of Bradford.
    Get in touch on social media by searching for Crime+Investigation and using #MakingAMonster, and leave your thoughts in the review section of your podcast app.
    Making a Monster: The Tapes features interviews recorded by Monster Films for the Crime+Investigation TV series, and was hosted by Cherry Healey, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, with editing by Joel Porter.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 22 min

Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
10 Ratings

10 Ratings

monniemoro ,

This entire show.

This is just an excuse for those who kill. Also, there ARE murderers that did have a “ loving & good’ childhood . So Dr., you are wrong. The murderer should have got himself a job, in place of killing someone. No, he doesn’t need to earn money for his disrespectful act, he needs to get the same horrific acts put upon him that he put upon an innocent. Wow, in one episode, you speak slowly, in another, you speak so fast, like you are very excited. What I have learned is, trust no one, including Dr.’s. No human is right 100% of the time. Even doctors are fallible.

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