Tonight's 'Making A Monster' Takes A Deep-Dive Into Milly Dowler Case

A new episode of true crime series Making A Monster will focus on Milly Dowler's murderer, Levi Bellfield.

On 21 March 2002, 13-year-old English schoolgirl Milly Dowler was reported missing after failing to return home from school. She was last seen walking down the street by her sister's friend, but she was unable to be located by CCTV further down the road.

What followed was a national manhunt for Milly's abductor, however her body was found six months later in Yateley Heath Woods.

In February 2008, police confirmed Levi Bellfield had become their prime suspect. Bellfield was already serving life in prison for the murder and attempted murders of three women.

The brand-new true crime, said to "lead viewers on a journey through the psyches of the most notorious serial killers of all-time", will look at how Bellfield came to be a serial killer.

Psychologists and crime experts will tell how Bellfield appeared as a charming "Jack the Lad", who had friends, a successful business, countless girlfriends, and almost a dozen children.

However, he'd prowl the streets, targeting young girls at bus stops to abduct, rape, and kill them.

"Bellfield is the perfect example of someone with an attachment disorder. He had to deal with the traumatic death of his father at a young age. For all his female conquests, both victims and girlfriends, he was determined that they could not leave him," Dr Eric Cullen says in the program, airing tonight.

Other killers explored in the series are Robert Maudsley, Robert Black, Stephen Griffiths, Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy and Michael Ross.

Last week's episode centred on Rose West, who along with her husband Fred West, tortured and murdered numerous women, typically picking victims up from bus stops near their home and imprisoning them before murdering them days later.

One of their victims was their own child Heather and another, was Fred's step-daughter, Charmaine.

Their home in Cromwell Street became a house of horrors from 1967 to 1987, where they committed most of their crimes and nine victims were buried there, some chillingly beneath the patio.

Making a Monster airs tonight at 9pm on Crime+Investigation - Sky 156, Virgin 275, BT 328 and TalkTalk 328.

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Ciara Sheppard

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