Chilling moment Levi Bellfield confesses on tape to eight murders and attacks on up to 80 women

This is the damning moment Levi Bellfield was recorded in jail claiming he has killed eight women and attacked up to 80. The serial killer, 58, made the alleged confessions in a series of taped phone calls from inside HMP Frankland, where he is serving life sentences for the murders of 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22. Quizzed in the chilling recordings about how many women he has killed, Bellfield can be heard saying: "I don't know, in the region of eight." Asked how many women he has attacked, Bellfield alleges: "Maybe post 50... 50 to 80." He added: "They're serious crimes and they're horrible crimes. There's no getting away from that. My motive is simply to set the record straight". 'He has admitted to murders' The killer's admissions were taped over the last two years during conversations with former police detective, turned investigative reporter, Mark Williams-Thomas, who is in the process of making a documentary, titled Levi Bellfield Confessions: Finding Closure. Mr Williams-Thomas says the previously unheard recordings include Bellfield claiming responsibility for other killings, including of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, Elizabeth Chau, Melanie Hall and Judith Gold. He has released two separate trailers for his proposed film, including one in which Bellfield can be heard speaking about his crimes. Bellfield has also made the apparent confessions to his lawyer Theresa Clark, as well as serving detectives. But police have so far refused to take him seriously. Ms Clark confirmed her client has admitted to eight murders and around 80 attacks. She told the Mirror: "He has admitted to murders and a staggering number of attacks on women. There are loads, but the police are just ignoring him. "It's quite shocking the police haven't looked into this. There are victims who want justice and you've got someone trying to admit crimes, but no one is taking it seriously." Levi Bellfield's lawyer says she has contacted police Ms Clark revealed her client has written to the Metropolitan Police and Surrey Police about the offences he claims to have carried out, but has not been questioned about them. She said: "He has admitted murders and lots of attacks, particularly hammer attacks on women, but he hasn't been spoken to about any of it. "His concern really, is that there are victims in the community who probably think that their assailant is still at large. A lot of it is in the London area. He told me, 'I need to tell you this is what I've done'. He had nothing to gain from these admissions. "They are not murders, it would not make any difference to his sentence. There was a lady coming out of a train station and he tried to get her in a car. There are hammer attacks, traumatic events, nighttime, under bridges. "There are victims who would probably not only want justice but some sort of closure and would want to know that their assailant was behind bars. If you have been subjected to an attack like that you think that person might still be out there, it's horrific." Bellfield - who has previously made claims and then callously retracted them - claims he kidnapped and murdered student Elizabeth Chau, who went missing in Ealing, West London, in 1999. Her body has never been found. At the time Elizabeth disappeared, Bellfield was aged 31 and working as nightclub bouncer. Elizabeth’s family pleads for fresh search He was living in West London, not far from Elizabeth's last known sighting as she made her way home from Thames Valley University after handing in an assignment. Addressing police claims about what they say are inconsistencies and discrepancies in what he says he did to her, Bellfield is heard telling Mr Williams-Thomas: "How the hell am I supposed to know that a shoe was left at the scene?". Despite officers dismissing Bellfield as a liar, Miss Chau's mother Phung has begged police to search a nature reserve, near Kempton Park racecourse in Surrey, where the serial killer claims he buried her daughter after kidnapping and killing her. In one of the two new trailers, she is seen telling Mr Williams-Thomas she has been diagnosed with cancer. The mum, whose family are being supported by Suresh Grover of The Monitoring Group, said: "Everyday is a nightmare for me. I've been diagnosed with cancer so I really want to know what happened to my baby. It's a nightmare we've been over these 25 years, and now he says he killed Elizabeth, but police didn't believe him." Asked if she believes Bellfield is telling the truth, Elizabeth's mum said: "I do yeah, we believe him. But whether he tells the truth or not, they have to see, is it Elizabeth there or not?". Asked how he feels about the police probe into Bellfield's claims, Elizabeth's brother Mihn-Vi added: "They were more interested in proving that he was lying, than trying to just go to the site to go and prove once and for all if Elizabeth is buried there or not. It's been a nightmare for all of us, particularly my mother who's gone through a lot these last couple of years." 'Evidence deserves to be tested' Mr Williams-Thomas is now appealing to the public to help him raise the final funds to complete his investigation into Bellfield's claims and finish his documentary, which he hopes to be able to publish for viewers to watch for free, without the need for a subscription fee or paywall. He said: "For the past three years, I have been investigating these claims, obtaining unprecedented access and gathering material that I believe warrants serious examination and public attention. The investigation has identified detailed confessions from Bellfield to many more murders, supporting information and in relation to the murder of Elizabeth Chau's, the location of her remains and detailed account of how she was buried. Some of the details provided are not publicly available. "He also has also provided details of other locations where he says items of significant evidence to his crimes may still remain. I believe that the most direct way to test an important part of Bellfield's confession is to fully reveal the details regarding the abduction, murder and deposition of Elizabeth Chau and put pressure on both the police and the land owners to undertake a detailed search." Mr Williams-Thomas, who famously investigated and exposed Jimmy Savile's crimes in an ITV documentary in 2012, a year after the fiend died aged 84, added: "A properly conducted search could provide vital evidence of either Elizabeth Chau’s body or that Bellfield is not telling the truth. Either way, the evidence deserves to be tested rather than simply dismissed." Among the other cases Bellfield has made alleged confessions to include Lin Russell, 45, and her daughter Megan, six, who were killed in 1996. In a crime that horrified the nation, they were tied up, blindfolded and bludgeoned with a claw hammer in the picturesque Kent countryside. Survivor’s devastating injuries Eldest daughter Josie, then aged nine, survived the hammer attack in Chillenden, Kent, despite devastating head injuries. It took a year before she could speak. According to reports, Bellfield retracted a previous confession to killing the mum and daughter and boasted that he made it up for "cash and fun". And his former partner Johanna Collings has also cast doubt on his claims, alleging he did not do it as he spent the day with her on her birthday. In September, Bellfield failed to provide a DNA sample to investigators from the Criminal Cases Review Commission reviewing the murders after his solicitor Theresa Clark was reportedly refused entry to HMP Frankland after arriving there to witness him giving fresh DNA samples in a bid to prove his guilt over the murders. Six weeks earlier, they took mouth swabs at the same high-security prison from Michael Stone, who has spent 29 years behind bars for the murders, but says he is innocent. In a later statement, Bellfield claimed: "I was told my solicitor had not turned up so it would not be going ahead, so I went back to the wing and phoned her immediately. I feel like they have treated me like a dog. I remain willing to provide a DNA sample and if the CCRC do not want to travel to see me I can provide a sample to police liaison who are based at the prison." Stone, who is serving three life terms after two trials, two appeals and three rejected CCRC applications, is hopeful the tests may clear him. There may also be a third suspect, Raymond Buck, who died in 2000. A relative is to give a DNA swab. 'Behind every case are families who've spent years living with unanswered questions' Bellfield also claims to have murdered Judith Gold, 51, in Hampstead, north London, in 1990, and Melanie Hall, 25, in 1996. Mr Williams-Thomas said: "These are not simply names on a list. Behind every case are families who have spent years living with unanswered questions, uncertainty and loss. "Some of these cases remain unsolved. In the Russell murders, Michael Stone was convicted after a second trial, he however continues to maintain his innocence. We are not asking you to believe Bellfield. We are asking you to help us establish whether he is telling the truth." Former doorman and wheel clamper Bellfield, who would drive around in his van looking for girls and young women to attack, became known as the Bus Stop Killer. He is in prison for the murders of Marsha McDonnell, Amelie Delagrange and schoolgirl Milly Dowler. Milly was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 aged 13. She was walking home when she was abducted in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Her body was found six months later. The Mirror helped nail Bellfield for Milly's murder, as the case against him was going cold. Former reporter David Collins got him to admit he was at the scene of the tragic teenager's disappearance — vital evidence later used by police in the case against him. During several phone conversations, he probed Bellfield's alibi that he was not behind the wheel of a red Daewoo car caught on CCTV near a train station in Walton on Thames, Surrey, on March 21, 2002 — half an hour after Milly was last seen in the same area. Bellfield linked to string of other attacks on women before he was caught On April 22, 2009, the Mirror ran the front page story headlined "I was in the Milly CCTV car". Two weeks later, detectives from Surrey Police arrived at our newsroom and took a statement as well as copies of the interview tapes, which formed part of the Crown Prosecution Service's case. He was later convicted of the murder. Marsha, 19, was beaten to death close to her home in Hampton, southwest London, in 2003, before Bellfield struck again in 2004, killing 22-year-old French student Amelie in nearby Twickenham. Bellfield, who reportedly has 11 children by five different mothers, also attempted to murder Kate Sheedy when she was 18 by running her over in 2004 in another nearby town, Isleworth, leaving her with horrific injuries including a collapsed lung. The jury could not reach a verdict on the attempted murder of Irma Dragoshi, 33, who was battered with a blunt instrument as she waited for a bus in west London in 2003. The case of Anna-Marie Rennie, 23, who identified Bellfield as the man she alleged tried to bundle her into a car at nearby Twickenham in 2001, also remains unsolved. At least four other women reported being attacked in circumstances that matched Bellfield's modus operanti before he was caught. Sonia Salvatierra, 26, was assaulted and robbed at Twickenham in November 2022. Dawn Brunton, an accounts clerk aged 36, suffered a fractured skull in a suspected hammer attack in nearby Hatton Cross in November 2003. An unnamed 17-year-old reported being set upon in January 2003 as she walked home near Strawberry Hill, southwest London. She was smashed in the face with a blunt instrument. And Edel Harbison, a 34-year-old accountant, who survived a hammer attack in April 2004 near Twickenham Green said she was "convinced" Bellfield was responsible when she attended his murder trial. It is also feared Bellfield may have claimed his first murder victim when he was aged just 12. His school pal Patsy Morris disappeared one lunchtime in June 1980. The 14-year-old's body was found later in undergrowth near her home in Hounslow. She had been strangled. Her murder has also never been solved. The pair met in late 1979 at Feltham Community School, Middlesex, and dated briefly in the months before she died. Months after she was killed her father George said he received a call from an unknown male who said 'I'm going to kill you'. Mr Morris believes it was Bellfield. Mr Williams-Thomas says he has held talks with two major broadcasters about publishing his new documentary, but they have so far not commissioned it amid fears of appearing to give Bellfield a platform and the police's position. He said: "We understand those concerns. "But there is a fundamental distinction between giving a killer a platform and investigating evidence that could help solve at least five murders and many more attempted murders." Mr Williams-Thomas added: "What if one of Britain's most notorious serial killers is telling the truth about other murders he has committed? "What if the evidence exists to establish whether he is lying or telling the truth, but the opportunity to test it has not been pursued. And what if, by following that evidence, we could finally give families answers about the murders of their loved ones? I believe these are questions that deserve to be answered. We need your help to make that happen." A spokesperson for the Met said: "Specialist detectives took disclosures very seriously and examined all information made available to them. It’s right that a considerable amount of time and police resources were dedicated to this investigation as we hoped to find Elizabeth and provide much-needed answers for her family. "All relevant lines of enquiry were exhausted in 2023 and the decision was subsequently taken to close this investigation. “As a result of these enquiries, a number of inconsistencies and discrepancies were uncovered that lead us to believe that the confession was false and that this individual was not connected to Elizabeth’s disappearance. Our thoughts remain with Elizabeth’s loved ones."