What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence

and is not intended for all audiences, listener discretion is strongly advised.

It's a warm summer day on July 14, 1990, in Stowe, Scotland.

The day is like any other in the small town, and a six-year-old girl is walking to her

friend's house along the road. But the day was about to take a sinister turn.

A local man was working his garden and saw a van draw up and saw the v-gittles' legs

walking under as if she was walking past the van and suddenly disappeared.

The man dialed 999 and police rushed to the scene. By chance, they were able to locate the vehicle,

forcing the driver to pull over. When they opened the back of the van, they made a shocking discovery.

That child is trust-up. She has a plaster across her mouth. She's got a bag over her head.

She's minutes away from suffocating. Unbeknownst to the police, the driver was a 43-year-old

pedophile, and he was responsible for the abduction and murder of several other young girls.

Police had been trying to track him down for years.

This is a man for whom the word depravity could almost be precisely applied.

They were terrible crimes. He probably killed more children than any other convicted child

sex serial killer in Britain. This is what makes a killer, a true crime series that chronicles

the lives of the world's most notorious killers. I'm your host, Jennifer Netoso. In every episode

we'll trace a killer's origins, examine their behavior, and follow their path to bloodshed.

In this episode, we'll discuss Robert Black.

Robert Black was born on April 21, 1947 in Grangemouth, a town about 20 miles from Edinburgh,

Scotland. At the time of his birth, Black's mother was an unmarried woman, and in an attempt to

avoid scrutiny, she gave him up. Criminologist Dr. Elizabeth Yardley speaks more on this decision.

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