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RedHanded the podcast jumps head first into all manner of macabre madness. We cover everything from big time serial killers (and those you may never have heard of), to hauntings, possessions, disturbing mysteries, bizarre whodunits and basically anything that tickles our creepy fancy. So, join us, plug in, sit back and prepare for scares.
Episodes
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Halloween Special Part 2: Nicaraguan Jungle Exorcism & Japan’s ‘Little Girl Killer’ | #474
Welcome to part two of our annual Halloween story-swap, where we take turns to try and freak each other out... with the very worst stories we can unearth. This…
RedHandedShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 3 - The Witches Take America
At first, stories of European witch-panics were nothing more than idle gossip to the settlers of New England. But soon – faced with inexplicable blights…
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ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 2 - Hunting Witches in Britain
In Part 2 of our special spooky series on all things witchy, we take a look at how the hag-hunting insanity spread to the British Isles: thanks to a paranoid…
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Halloween Special Part 1: Nigeria’s House of Horrors & The Real Life ‘Candyman’ | #473
With Halloween fast approaching, it’s time for our annual tradition at RedHanded: a classic spooky story swap. In this first spine-tingling episode, Suruthi…
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ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 1 - The European Witch Craze
Believed for over a thousand years to be local soothsayers who used their powers for everyday charms and spells, European witches' PR machine finally turned…
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FROM THE VAULT - David Fuller: Monster in the Morgue | #369
Since it's October, we're revisiting one of the most sickening, spine-chilling cases we've ever covered on RedHanded... The horrifying case of David Fuller…
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ShortHand: Hell
Boiled in blood, hacked at by knives, torn apart by iron dogs… the world’s religions differ on what exactly might await sinners in the afterlife. But one thing…
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The Murder of Sydney Loofe: Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell | #472
Cursing the courtroom and then slashing his own throat with a contraband shiv, Aubrey Trail had lived up to his promise, turning the trial of Bailey Boswell…
RedHandedIntroducing Serial Killers & Murderous Minds: Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder
Today we're sharing an episode from the true crime podcast Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, hosted by Vanessa Richardson and forensic psychologist Dr. Tristin…
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ShortHand: The Conjuring
In 2013, horror blockbuster The Conjuring packed out cinemas worldwide, terrifying moviegoers with its alleged ‘true story’ of a house haunted by malevolent…
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FROM THE VAULT - Babis Anagnostopoulos: The Fitbit Killer | #389
With the release of the Amazon Prime documentary about the murder of Caroline Crouch, we're reaching into the vault to bring you H&S' coverage of this tragic…
RedHandedShortHand: Exorcisms Around the World
Vanquishing demons lingering in a tainted soul might sound like a very Christian idea – but exorcisms are prevalent in almost every culture across the globe…
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The Vietnamese Gore Butcher | #471
When videos of a gruesome beheading and dismemberment surfaced on gore-fetish websites across Vietnam in 2025, the internet was shaken to its core. Not because…
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ShortHand: Papua New Guinea's Black Magic Murders
Black magic, or ‘Sanguma’, is often used to explain everything from minor illnesses to sudden deaths in Papua New Guinea. Horrifyingly, it’s also behind the…
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ShortHand: Vlad the Impaler - The Real Dracula
To round launch our month of spooky eps, our Halloween ShortHand covers the life and afterlife of one of the most sinister, blood-thirstiest bastards in all of…
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The Witches of Guaratuba: Black Magic, Child Sacrifice and a Deadly Plot | #470
In the early 1990s, the beach town of Guaratuba, Brazil had its very own witch hunt. It started with the mutilated body of a seven-year-old boy: Evandro Ramos…
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ShortHand: Eric Gill - British Art’s Darkest Secret
From the BBC and Westminster Cathedral to Penguin paperbacks, typeface creator Eric Gill was once lauded as the eccentric genius behind some of Britain’s most…
RedHandedShortHand: Should We Support Paedophile Catchers?
To some paedophile catchers like Chris Hansen are online superheroes, protecting children and putting predators behind bars. To others they're vigilantes who…
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The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part Two: The Investigation | #469
Fetal abduction is incredibly rare, so it’s no surprise that it wasn’t top of the list of possible motives when a heavily pregnant 22-year-old Rebecca Park…
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ShortHand: Deadly Beauty Practices
From Belladonna eye drops to literally eating arsenic, human vanity has taken us to some pretty dark places in our quest to look drop dead gorgeous… But would…
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ShortHand: Princess Anne’s Kidnap Chaos
This week, we’re taking you back to 1974 for a rollocking royal story that The Crown won’t tell you - the time a young Princess Anne was almost kidnapped by a…
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The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part One: Cortney Bartholomew | #468
Families are complicated, but when Rebecca Park went missing while heavily pregnant with the child of her mother’s ex-boyfriend, it raised eyebrows. Rebecca…
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ShortHand: The Black Death
In just seven years, the bubonic plague killed half of all Europeans – more than 50 million people. We look at its surprising origins on the Mongolian…
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ShortHand: Julian Assange
When Julian Assange created WikiLeaks in 2006, it was the aim of rooting out corruption and improving transparency. And its successes were unprecedented…
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Lindsay Clancy - Part 2: The Trial | #467
Did Lindsay Clancy kill her children? Despite what was portrayed online, this was not the question at the heart of a trial which has gripped a nation. Both the…
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ShortHand: Joan of Arc
Jeanne D’Arc – the teenage girl guided by saintly voices to command actual French armies into actual military victories – is one of history’s best-known names…
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ShortHand: Hikikomori - Japan’s Modern Day Hermits
Societal recluses exist in every culture. But in Japan, the number of permanent shut-ins has risen to incredible levels. There are estimated to be around one…
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Lindsay Clancy - Part 1: The Killing of the Clancy Children | #466
According to her husband Patrick, Lindsay Clancy was found laying on the ground, semi-conscious, having cut her neck and wrists, and thrown herself from a…
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ShortHand: The World's Forbidden Places
Ever thought about exploring the places on this mysterious planet where your passport won’t take you? Join for a whistlestop tour of the world’s most…
RedHandedReal People. Real Crimes. | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT
Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love going down internet rabbit holes, you are going to…
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ShortHand: Akhenaten - The Heretical Forgotten Pharaoh
More people know about the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten today than knew about him just 100 years after his death. But Akhentaten was no average ruler. He…
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Louisiana: Axe Murders, Outlaws & Legends (ft. National Park After Dark) | #465
This week, RedHanded is joined by Cassie and Danielle from National Park After Dark for an exploration of the myths, outlaws and bloody history of Louisiana…
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ShortHand: E-Pimping – Exploitation & Abuse on OnlyFans
At first, OnlyFans seemed like a shiny new frontier for safer sex work – a platform that promised unprecedented financial autonomy for its creators. But…
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ShortHand: Dahvie Vanity – Juggalo Enemy #1
In 2007, child protection officers in Pinella County, Florida, spoke with a 14-year-old girl who’d been sexually assaulted by a musician she’d met on MySpace…
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The Hart Family Murders | #464
In 2018, married couple Jen and Sarah Hart accelerated their SUV over the edge of a 100ft cliff in Mendocino County, California… with their six Black adopted…
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ShortHand: The Great Stink
Remember the time London was overcome by a stench so foul that it shut down Parliament, and convinced terrified city-dwellers that the end was surely near? No?…
RedHandedIntroducing “The Poet” from The Binge
Today, catch the first episode of The Poet, a new six-part true crime series from The Binge. Hosted by journalist Rachel Browne, The Poet is an investigation…
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ShortHand: Gladiators
Watching slaves being ritually hacked to pieces may not seem like many people’s idea of a great day out. But 2,000 years ago, Romans turned up in their…
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The Golden State Killer - Part 4: Joseph James DeAngelo | #463
Joseph James DeAngelo is a burglar, a killer, and a rapist. A vile man with a proclivity for terrorising and sexually violating women. But that wasn’t…
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ShortHand: Cannibalism
What could drive a person to eat another human being? Well, as it turns out, humankind has actually been surprisingly open to a little cannibalistic carpaccio…
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ShortHand: Cursed Films
For almost as long as we’ve made films, we’ve made horror films – but what happens when the terror isn’t just on screen? Movie-making lore is riddled with…
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The Golden State Killer - Part 3: The Dark Arts of DNA Databases | #462
To find the most prolific and violent serial rapist and killer the state of California had ever seen, took over fifty years, and some ethically questionable…
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ShortHand: Kapustin Yar – Russia's Area 51
For decades, the Soviet Union’s top-secret testing site Kapustin Yar didn’t appear on any maps. It was so top-secret, the government relocated an entire town…
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UPDATE: Will Bryan Kohberger Actually Get A Trial?
Bryan Kohberger is now claiming his innocence in the Idaho Student Murders. And he wants a trial to prove it. A year after admitting to the horrific murders of…
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ShortHand: Roanoke
When 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children disappeared without a trace – leaving behind nothing but a single cryptic word carved into a tree – it began a mystery…
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The Golden State Killer - Part 2: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark | #461
Michelle Eileen McNamara dedicated her life to closing the net on the man she called “The Golden State Killer’. A man whose prolific spree of violent home…
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ShortHand: The Bling Ring
What happens when a group of fame-obsessed teens with a passion for fashion go for a shopping spree in their favourite stars’ wardrobes? You get the Bling…
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ShortHand: Lili’uokalani - The Last Queen of Hawai’i
America the beautiful: from sea to shining sea! (...Plus a bunch of random islands 2,000 miles away in the Pacific Ocean.) The story of why these seven…
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The Golden State Killer - Part 1: A Horror Beyond Belief | #460
The Golden State Killer, The Easter Area Rapist, The Visalia Ransacker, and The Original Night Stalker. All pseudonyms for a man who committed one of the…
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ShortHand: Alcatraz – Escape from Devil's Island
When the night guards passed Frank Morris’s cell, in San Francisco’s “inescapable” island super-prison, Alcatraz, he seemed to be sleeping soundly. But what…
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FROM THE VAULT - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento - Parts 1&2
As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases. This week we stop off in…
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ShortHand: The Space Race
The idea of human beings floating in space used to feel as likely as time travel. But after WWII, the world’s two strongest superpowers had to find a way of…
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Juana Barraza: Mexico's Notorious 'Little Old Lady Killer' | #459
When elderly women started being murdered around Mexico City in the early 2000s, it sparked the nation’s first ever serial killer manhunt… But the fearsome…
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ShortHand: Cajun Cryptids
Louisiana has more than its fair share of real monsters hiding in its deep, dark bayous. So, settlers’ nightmares about what else was hiding there – spiced up…
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FROM THE VAULT - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Parts 1&2
As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases. This week we stop off in…
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ShortHand: The Men Who Stare at Goats & The Psychic Arms Race
If someone told you they could read your mind, levitate, walk through walls, or make your heart explode in your chest, you’d probably say they were crazy. But…
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Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 2: Canada’s Most Evil Murderer | #458
After the search of Vancouver’s missing women finally brought them to the gates of Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton’s grisly pig farm, Canadian police faced the…
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ShortHand: The Real Pocahontas
Long before the ‘90s cartoon version painted with all the colours of the wind, a real Native American woman named Pocahontas inspired a romantic tale that…
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FROM THE VAULT - Lizzie Borden: High-Society Hatchet Homicide | #384
As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases – with a stop in…
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ShortHand: What If Yellowstone Erupted?
Any moment now, we might experience an explosion that emits the power of 1,000 atomic bombs every second. An explosion so fierce that it would reduce the…