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New 'Making A Monster' Delves Into Chilling Crimes Of Michael Ross

Ciara Sheppard

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New 'Making A Monster' Delves Into Chilling Crimes Of Michael Ross

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A new true crime will delve into the horrific crimes of serial killer Michael Bruce Ross, who murdered eight girls and women in the 1980s.

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In the final episode of Making a Monster, Crime+Investigation's eight-part series, some of the world's leading forensic psychiatrists and psychologists will analyse the psyche of Ross, attempting to understand what led the Cornell University graduate to commit such appalling crimes.

Between 1981 and 1984, Ross murdered eight girls and women aged between 14 and 25 in locations across New York and Connecticut, raping seven out of eight of them.

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Michael Bruce Ross killed eight women between 1981 and 1984 (Credit: Crime+Investigation)
Michael Bruce Ross killed eight women between 1981 and 1984 (Credit: Crime+Investigation)

In all known cases, Ross would kidnap the women and lead them into a wooded area, before raping them, then asking them to turn face-down before strangling them.

The killer was also accused of raping, but not killing, a 21-year-old woman in 1983.

When he was caught, Ross confessed to all eight murders but was only convicted for the last four of them. At his trial, he pleaded the insanity defence and on 6th July 1987, he was sentenced to death by a judge in Connecticut.

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Ross spent 18 years on death row before his execution in May 2005.

A reconstruction of Ross from the episode (Credit: Crime+Investigation)
A reconstruction of Ross from the episode (Credit: Crime+Investigation)

Making a Monster - which airs on Monday 23rd March - promises to "lead viewers on a journey through the psyches of the most notorious serial killers of all-time.

"Through the lens of some of the world's leading forensic psychiatrists and psychologists, each episode of Making a Monster tells the story of a killer's life - from cradle to grave."

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Eventually, the episode aims to answer: "What did it take to make a monster?"

Past episodes have explored the crimes of Rose West, Robert Maudsley, Robert Black, Levi Bellfield, Stephen Griffiths, Aileen Wuornos and John Wayne Gacy.

Making a Monster airs on Monday 23rd March at 9pm on Crime+Investigation, available on Sky 156, Virgin 275, BT 328 and TalkTalk 328.

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Ciara Sheppard
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