On April 16, 1996, a man named James Patterson Smith called local authorities in Manchester

England to report that he had accidentally killed his girlfriend during an argument.

As he explained it, she was in the bathtub and the two got into a scuffle.

Unfortunately though, during this process, she inhaled a lot of water and when she lost

consciousness and he tried to resuscitate her, he'd been unable to do so.

Of course, the police quickly made their way to the scene and once they arrived, they

were stunned by the gruesomeness of what had taken place.

Pretty quickly in fact, it became clear this had not been a case of someone accidentally

drowning in the bathtub.

No, instead, the evidence overwhelmingly pointed towards a prolonged torture session which

had gone on for weeks.

How would they come to such a belief?

Well aside from the multiple burns, fractures and puncture wounds all over the victim's body,

both of her eyes had been gouged out of their sockets.

This is Monsters.

The murder of Kellyanne Bates, a local Manchester girl who was only 17 years old at the time

of her death, isn't especially gruesome case as it shows some of the most depraved depths

humanity can sink to.

It's hard to believe something so horrific could even happen, but it did.

And if we want to get a fuller picture of why, we have to travel back to post-war Britain

as it was then that James Patterson Smith was born.

He was 1948, a time where England, just like the rest of the world, was still recovering

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