Robert Maudsley with Dr Adrian Needs

"People who do bad things sometimes believe they're doing it for the best of motives."

Dr Adrian Needs is a forensic psychologist based at the University of Portsmouth. Prior to this, he spent 14 years working in HM Prison Service, rising to the rank of Principal Psychologist, working in high security prisons such as Wakefield, Full Sutton, and Hull Special Unit. Having spent many hours interviewing notorious paedophiles and killers, Adrian can delve into the darkest parts of criminal minds.

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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.

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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.

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• No. of episodes: 19
• Latest episode: 2021-11-02
• Society & Culture True Crime

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