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RedHanded
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
RedHandedEpisode 74 - Tracie Andrews: The Road Rage Killer
On Dec 1 1996, Tracie Andrews and her fiancé Lee Harvey were driving home from an evening at the pub when they got caught up in a cat and mouse game with a…
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Episode 73 - Mary Vincent: Survivor
Mary was just 15 and desperately looking for a way to get home to her family when she accepted a ride from a kindly old looking man. What transpired that night…
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Episode 72 - Darlie Routier: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
In 1997 Darlie Routier was convicted of murdering her 5 year old son, Damon, and sentenced to death. But for 21 years she has sat on death row protesting her…
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Episode 71 - Satanic Panic: The Fall River Cult Murders
In the 1970s the US was in the throes of a unique cultural phenomenon - the ‘satanic panic’. The devil and devil worshipping cults were everywhere and they…
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Episode 70 - Dylann Roof & The Charleston Church Shootings
On June 17 2015, 13 people sat down for bible study at the historically black Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston. But one of them was a stranger - and by the…
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Episode 69 - The Vampire of Bucharest
In 1970 a serial killer stalked the streets of Romania's capital, assaulting over twenty young women and brutally murdering at least four. He was quickly…
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Episode 68 - Halloween Special Part 2: There's Someone in the Attic with Incest
Halloween continues at RedHanded this week as Hannah and Suruthi bring you two more disturbing cases to keep you up all night. So, if you're not up for hearing…
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Episode 67 - Halloween Special Part 1: Scary Tupperware & Drywall Knives
It's Halloween, so in RedHanded tradition, the girls switch up the format and pull together the most disturbing and little known cases they can find to freak…
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Episode 66 - Little Boy Pot Pie: The Depraved Mind of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah was a terrifyingly single-minded man; his only focus in life was to hunt, rape, torture and kill children. His depravity became clear in…
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Episode 65 - Witchcraft, “Muti” & Murder: The Case of Victoria Climbié
The murder of Victoria Climbié was the first case to drag the horrors of witchcraft ritual abuse in Britain into the public consciousness. In this week's…
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Episode 64 - A Modern Maori Exorcism: The Death of Janet Moses
On the 12th of October 2007, 22 year old mother of two, Janet Moses drowned...in the middle of her family's living room. Janet's family had become troubled by…
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Episode 63 - An Imperfect Witness: The Story of Kevin Green
Kevin Green called 911 claiming that he had come home to find his pregnant wife, Dianna, had been brutally attacked. The beating was so vicious that Dianna…
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Episode 62 - The Sims Family Murders
In 1966 Robert, Helen and Joy Sims were murdered in a grim “Strangers” style slaying in their home in Tallahassee, Florida. Nothing was taken from the house…
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Episode 61 - Marc Dutroux: The Beast of Belgium
Over the course of two summers across Belgium six young girls went missing - their captor, Marc Dutroux, seemed untouchable as he brazenly abducted…
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Episode 60 - Ken McElroy: The Town That Got Away With Murder
In 1981 Ken McElroy was shot dead in front of at least 30 people in his hometown. Not one person called for help, not one person came forward to give evidence…
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Episode 59 - Danny Casolaro: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Governments kill people who try to uncover their dirty dealings, that's a fact. But is that what happened to Danny Casolaro? Danny claimed to be on the verge…
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Episode 58 - Sharon Lopatka: The Woman Who Dreamt of Being Tortured to Death
This week Hannah and Suruthi delve into the dawn of the web, following the case of Sharon Lopatka, a woman who fantasised about being tortured to death. One…
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Episode 57 - House of Horrors: The Murder of Tia Sharp
12 year old Tia Sharp adored her Grandmother’s partner, Stuart Hazell. He'd been in Tia’s life since she was a baby, and he'd always been her loving “Grandad”…
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Episode 56 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 2
This week in the concluding episode of the harrowing Snowtown saga; John Bunting and Robert Wagner start to spiral. As they killed with increasing impunity…
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Episode 55 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 1
On the 21st of May 1999 police in South Australia went to investigate the contents of a derelict bank in the small town of Snowtown. Inside, they found 6 large…
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Episode 54 - Charlie Brandt & His Demons
Charlie Brandt was a happily married family man, until September 2004 when he was found hanging in his niece's garage. The scene he left behind was brutal…
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Episode 53 - Crocodile Tears, Sex Caravans & Arson: The Mick Philpott Story
In the early hours of May 11, 2010 a fire tore through 81 Victory Road; inside 6 children were trapped, outside stood their parents.Tragically all 6 of the…
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Episode 52 - Cruise Crime: The Disappearance of Amy Bradley
One morning 23 year old Amy Bradley got up, got dressed, grabbed her cigarettes - seemingly went for a walk - and vanished. And what makes this case even…
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Episode 51 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 2
In this week's episode Myra Hindley and Ian Brady escalate; abducting, torturing, raping and murdering four more children. In their arrogance and hedonistic…
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Episode 50 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 1
Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - a seemingly ordinary pair of twenty-somethings abducted, tortured and killed 5 children in North West…
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Episode 49 - Dinner with a Cannibal: Armin Meiwes
If you want to be killed, is it still a murder? This is the question that sits at the heart of this week's case of cannibalism and consent. Even at the dawn of…
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Episode 48 - Can Dreams Kill? - The Ryan Ferguson Story
On Halloween night 2001 Chuck Erickson got blackout drunk with his friends. 2 years later a 19 year old Chuck, who had been plagued with dreams that he and his…
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Episode 47 - Snuff Films & Submarines: The Murder of Kim Wall
In 2017 intrepid super-journalist Kim Wall scored an underwater submarine interview with eccentric Danish 'inventrepreneur' Peter Madsen. 17 hours later Madsen…
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Episode 46 - Stephen Lawrence
The brutal, racially motivated murder of 18 year old Stephen Lawrence on the streets of South East London was a watershed moment in British history. It…
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Episode 45 - The Virgin Killer & The Angry World of the 'Incel'
Rage fuelled by violent misogyny; the defining trait of the ‘incel’, or so-called ‘involuntary celibate’. It's rage like this, coupled with psychopathy, that…
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Episode 44 - Sex, Drugs & Satanism: Miranda Barbour
A man is found stabbed to death in a small Pennsylvanian town and unbelievably a young, local couple were arrested and charged with his murder. Despite there…
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Episode 43 - The 'Swedish Case'
In 1989, Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and her fiancé Urban Hoglin disappeared into the bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ. A local man, David…
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Episode 42 - Murder or Suicide: The Mysterious Death of Rebecca Zahau
Rebecca Zahau’s naked body was found hanging in the mansion she shared with her millionaire boyfriend Jonah Shacknai and his son, Max. Just days before…
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Episode 41 - How Not to Fake Your Death: John Darwin - Canoe Man
Dying is easy, coming back is hard. In 2002 John Darwin took his red, handmade canoe out to sea and disappeared. He was eventually declared dead, but 5 years…
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Episode 40 - How Larry David Saved a Man From Death Row
What would you do if you were arrested for a crime you didn't commit? What would you say if the police told you they had definitive proof it was you? When 16…
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Episode 39 - A Killer in the Family: The Murder of Becky Watts
In 2015, when shy 16 year old Becky Watts suddenly went missing no one could believe it. But tragically within days her dismembered body was found just a mile…
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Episode 38 - Phil Spector & Lana Clarkson: Murder & Music Production
The Los Angeles celebrity justice system comes under scrutiny this week. Convicted murderer and one time music producer Phil Spector sits in a Californian…
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Episode 37 - Where is Sabrina Aisenberg?
In a frantic 911 call on the 24th of November 1997 Marlene Aisenberg reported her 5 month old baby, Sabrina, missing. The FBI launched a nationwide search and…
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Episode 36 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 2
In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi follow a spiraling, unmedicated and (literally) bloodthirsty Richard Chase as he dives into a brutal killing spree…
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Episode 35 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 1
Clinical vampirism, terrifying delusions and paranoid schizophrenia. This week the girls enter the bloody world of their very first truly psychotic spree…
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Episode 34 - The Most Dangerous Prisoner in Britain
In a Perspex box, in Wakefield maximum security prison sits alleged cannibal, confirmed killer and rumoured inspiration behind "Hannibal" - Robert Maudsely…
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Episode 33 - Oscar Pistorius & Reeva Steenkamp: The Valentine's Day Murder
In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2014, 29 year old model Reeva Steenkamp was shot to death by her partner; South African Olympic sprint runner and double…
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Episode 32 - The Brit on Death Row: Linda Carty
Starting on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth and ending up in Texas via the Caribbean, Suruthi & Hannah unpick how a British grandmother and DEA informant…
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Episode 31 - The Lady Killer and the Human Pelt
Toxic masculinity, Borderline Personality Disorder and a whole lot of abattoirs. We're off to Australia this week to unravel why Australian big hitter…
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Episode 30 - The Chucky Doll Killer
This week the girls explore the phenomenon of ‘amphetamine induced psychosis’ in one of most violent cases they’ve ever covered. Join them as they follow the…
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Episode 29 - The Cult with No Name
This week it's cults and the girls follow the Pied Piper of Death to Matamoros Mexico to explore the ‘the cult with no name’(sometimes dubbed by the press as…
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Episode 28 - The Wests & The Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 2
This week the girls head into the infamous torture cellar at 25 Cromwell St. to uncover the horrifying truth about the Wests’ years of depravity. As body after…
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Episode 27 - The Wests & the Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 1
Incest, rape, murder and torture dungeons; in a harrowing part 1 the girls take on one of Britain's most notorious serial killer couples - Fred and Rose West…
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Episode 26 - Madness, Murder & Munchausen by Proxy: The Case of Gypsy Rose Blancharde
Things aren't always what they seem... To the world Dee Dee Blancharde was the perfect mum. She dedicated her life as a single mother to taking care of her…
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Episode 25 - The Grindr Killer
Join the girls today as they delve into the murky world of London’s most recent serial killer, the Grindr Killer - Stephen Port. They’ll pull apart this…
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Episode 24 - Murder in the Alps
On a remote mountain road, high in the Alps, a French cyclist and a British Iraqi family face an ambush blitz attack. Within a minute four people are dead. But…
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Episode 23 - The Girl in the Box: Colleen Stan
20 year old Colleen Stan was abducted in 1977, she wouldn't be free for 7 years and what happened to her in between is unimaginable. If you needed another…
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Episode 22 - How Ancestry.com Solved a 32 Year Old Cold Case
Abandoned at age five, Lisa never knew where she came from. It was her quest to uncover her birth parents via sites like ancestry.com that unraveled a chilling…
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Episode 21 - What Killed Zigmund Adamski?
One day Zigmund Adamski mysteriously disappeared, and if his family thought that this was strange - nothing would prepare them for what was to come. Because…
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Episode 20 - Halloween Special Part 2
Halloween continues at RedHanded this week as the girls plan to traumatise themselves, each other and you with tales of a blackout home invasion and a satanic…
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Episode 19 - Halloween Special Part 1
For Halloween, the girls bring you the most disturbing cases they could find for their very own treehouse of horror, filled with kiddnapping, a Buffallo Bill…
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Episode 18 - The Love Triangle Killing
What happens when a stranger turns up at your front door and hands you a bouquet of petrol station flowers? Broken hearts, English countryside and an electric…
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Episode 17 - Who Killed Billie-Jo Jenkins?
One afternoon 13 year old Billie-Jo Jenkins was bludgeoned to death with an 18 inch tent spike whilst doing chores “home alone”. Suspicion immediately grew…
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Episode 16 - The Drag Queen & Her Costume Cupboard Corpse
Dorian Corey, drag queen superstar, was the queen of queens in life - but when she died, a bizarre and horrifying mystery was revealed. What her friends found…
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Episode 15 - The Spy in the Bag
In August 2010, 31 year old MI6 cryptologist Gareth Williams was found dead, in his flat, in his bath, padlocked inside a bag. Pretty much zero forensics would…