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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
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Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 1: The Pig Farm Killer | #457
For years, women were vanishing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside… But the police refused to admit it. In the first of a two-parter on the grisly crimes of…
RedHandedShortHand: Spontaneous Human Combustion
People who seem to have suddenly burst into flames – leaving just a pile of ash, a foot or skull, and a puddle of strange grease – have left biologists and…
RedHandedShortHand: Tutankhamun's Curse
The gold-lined, intact tomb of Tutankhamun is without a doubt the most important archaeological discovery in Egypt's history. But what if Tutankhamun, the…
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Royal Scandal: The Murder that Shocked Buckingham Palace | #456
Tom Cressman’s brutal murder – beaten with a cricket bat by the ex-royal dresser to Sarah Ferguson, the ex-Dutchess of York – was a truly British tragedy. Jane…
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ShortHand: How To Live to 100
Reliably living to 100 years old – a once unthinkable goal – is slowly creeping closer to becoming a reality. But there’s a catch: we’re still not entirely…
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ShortHand: So You’ve Fallen Out of a Plane…
You’re free falling towards the ground at 120mph, and below you all you can see is an expanse of open wilderness. What are you going to do? Had you not…
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Barbara Daly Baekeland: Maternal Incest & Murder | #455
They say money can’t buy happiness… And that certainly proved true in 1972, when Tony Baekeland – heir to the Bakelite plastic dynasty – plunged a knife into…
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ShortHand: The Church of Kardashian
From crypto scams to ‘diet tea’, intellectual property fraud and everything in between, clan Kardashian has set the blueprint for turning followers and…
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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 either say they were…
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The Pulse Nightclub Shooting | #454
When Omar Mateen stepped into Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and fired into the crowd, 10 years ago this week, it was the start of three hours of unimaginable…
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ShortHand: The Princes in the Tower
Back in 1483, two young princes mysteriously vanished from the Tower of London… And more than 500 years later, we’re still arguing about what happened to them…
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FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell | #285
Netflix's new drama 'The Witness' and documentary 'The Murder of Rachel Nickell' have brought Rachel Nickell's case back into public attention. For the true…
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ShortHand: The Secrets of Göbekli Tepe
The 1994 excavation of curious buried ruins in southeastern Turkey might have chucked a big rock through the window of archaeological history – shattering…
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David “D4vd” Burke - Part Two: The Arrest & Trial | #453
Two chainsaws and a paddling pool; a very public relationship; along with a litany of texts and Discord messages, all pointing to one thing: David “D4vd” Burke…
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ShortHand: The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Naked, clutching the telephone receiver, and with a stomach full of prescription meds, Marilyn Monroe was pronounced dead at 4:25am on the 5th of August 1962…
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ShortHand: The Ku Klux Klan
The KKK are the OG far-right trolls: one of the most evil groups in US history, and the best-known purveyors of white racism in the United States. They have…
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David “D4vd” Burke - Part One: The Killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez | #452
Dismembered and stuffed into the “frunk” of David “D4vd” Burke’s Tesla: 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was found more than four months after she…
RedHandedShortHand: Harambe
Shot and killed in front of a crowd of terrified onlookers, Harambe, a western lowland gorilla, will go down in history. His death – seemingly while trying to…
RedHandedA Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
She was days away from a major race. A rising star in cycling. Then, she was found shot to death in a friend's apartment. We're sharing an episode of Clues, a…
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ShortHand: Nestlé & the 'Baby Killer' Scandal
What if we told you that the brand responsible for some of your favourite foods and drinks, has also been accused of being responsible for the deaths of over…
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RedHanded x The Upshot: The Enhanced Games | #451
“Juiced to his gills” on a combination of testosterone, steroids, and god knows what else, three times Olympic medalist James Magnussen put on over 30 lbs of…
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ShortHand: Anne Boleyn – The "Great Whore" Queen
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, changed the course of English history – despite being queen for just 1,000 days before her beheading at the Tower…
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FROM THE VAULT – ShortHand: Mandy Matney – A Murdaugh Update
In 2024, a year on from RedHanded’s episode on the Murdaugh Family Murders, we had the great pleasure of talking to Mandy Matney, the foremost independent…
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FROM THE VAULT – The Murdaugh Family Murders | #287
BREAKING NEWS: Alex Murdaugh WILL face a new trial. A South Carolina court has overturned the 2023 murder convictions of ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh. Five out of…
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Leo Schofield – Part 2: The Wrong Man | #450
As wrongful convictions go, the trial of Leo Schofield – who stood accused of killing his young wife Michelle Schofield – had it all: bias, speculation, and…
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ShortHand: Shen Yun: The World’s Most Entertaining Cult
Critically lauded dance troupe, or sinister, human-trafficking, brainwashing, child-abusing cult? However you slice it, there is a lot more going on to Shen…
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ShortHand: Rabies
A deadly virus that causes hydrophobia, frothing at the mouth and delirious aggression might sound more like science fiction than real life. But that’s what…
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Leo Schofield – Part 1: Murder in Bone Valley | #449
When the body of 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was found in a canal in Bone Valley, Florida, the police quickly closed in on her guitar-playing, heavy-metal…
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ShortHand: Studio 54
Party favours full of drugs, a hose-down rubber sex balcony, and Bianca Jagger on a real horse. It’s often said that the brightest flames burn for the shortest…
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ShortHand: Haitian Vodou
Zombies, incantations and dolls full of pins… the version of voodoo that most of us get has been suffused with decades of Hollywood magic, and a dusting of…
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Katie Beers: The Girl In The Bunker | #448
Trapped in a soundproof underground bunker, sleeping in a coffin-shaped box, abused and forced to watch news footage of her December 1992 disappearance on a…
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ShortHand: How Likely is a Zombie Apocalypse?
Rage-inducing viruses that spread through bites; a flesh-eating fungus that controls its host like a puppet; deadly pathogens trapped for millennia in Arctic…
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ShortHand: The Byford Dolphin Incident
Somehow, perhaps the worst deep-sea diving disaster in history – one that led to two men being crushed, three men boiling to death, and one man being liquified…
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Anna Delvey: The Fake Heiress Who Scammed New York | #447
In the summer of 2017, 26-year-old Anna Sorokin was arrested in Manhattan with a stack of unpaid hotel bills and fraudulent loan requests in her wake. She’d…
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ShortHand: Wolfgang Beltracchi - The Greatest Art Fraud in History?
Tens of millions of dollars flowed onto the canvas from the tip of Wolfgang Beltracchi’s brush. His talent? Unquestionable. His methods? Perfect. His ability…
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Michael X - Part Two: The Murder of Gale Benson | #446
Mystery, mayhem, and death followed Michael X all the way back to Trinidad. Hacked to death and left in shallow graves, the bodies of Gale Benson and Joseph…
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Shorthand: The 2014 Celebrity ‘iCloud Leaks’
Intimate and explicit images of A-list celebrities – that’s what the world woke up to on the 31st of August 2014. “The Fappening” saw thousands of leaked…
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Michael X - Part One: British Black Power | #445
Malcolm X was a true revolutionary, Michael X was an imposter. This con man realised that politics was a lot easier than poetry and rose to the top of the…
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ShortHand: Would You Survive The Titanic?
On the night of 14th April 1912, the ‘unsinkable’ RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank into the icy depths of the Atlantic Ocean – killing almost all of its…
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Shorthand: Helios 522 - ‘The Ghost Plane’
When two fighter jets came to check on the unresponsive Helios Flight 522, they were stunned at what they saw: all 115 passengers, lying motionless in their…
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GILGO UPDATE: Rex Heuermann Pleads Guilty
The lead suspect in the Gilgo Beach Killings - 62 year old former architect Rex Heuermann - has now pleaded guilty. So, with a trial off the table in the Long…
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Nicholas Rossi: The Disguised Fugitive who Faked his Death | #444
When Rhode Island native Nicholas Rossi found himself wanted by the FBI and Interpol for a string of assaults and large-scale frauds, he didn’t just run away…
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FROM THE VAULT - Warren Jeffs & the FLDS (Part 2)
With Netflix's new documentary on the modern fundamentalist Mormon church coming out today – we thought it was the perfect time to revisit our episode on…
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FROM THE VAULT - Warren Jeffs & the FLDS: Cult Power, Mormon Polygamy, and Child Abuse (Part 1)
With Netflix's new documentary on the modern fundamentalist Mormon church coming out today – we thought it was the perfect time to revisit our episode on…
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ShortHand: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
A relentless barrage of oil that killed anything in its path, the disaster that befell the Deepwater Horizon oil rig took the lives of eleven crew members…
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ShortHand: The Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is the most sought-after object in human history. The legend goes that the grail could bring whoever finds it unbelievable power, influence…
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Kouri Richins – Part Two: The ‘Author' Who Killed with Fentanyl | #443
Kouri Richins brazenly murdered her husband Eric, lacing a drink with a lethal dose of fentanyl, hoping to cash in on his business, home, and life insurance…
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ShortHand: Did Jesus Exist?
Jesus of Nazareth: Messiah, Emmanuel, King of Kings, and probably the most widely recognisable figure in human history. So why do so many people believe in the…
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ShortHand: Where is Lars Mittank?
Sudden mental break or hunted by a pack of mysterious men? The disappearance of 28-year-old Lars Mittank has left authorities and armchair sleuths alike…
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Kouri Richins – Part One: The Children’s Author Who Killed Her Husband | #442
After Kouri Richins’ husband Eric died suddenly in what was ruled to be a tragic accidental overdose, the Utah mum bravely published a children’s book about…
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ShortHand: Wallis Simpson – The Nearly-Nazi-Queen of England
They said she'd mastered a Chinese sex technique that could "make a matchstick feel like a Havana cigar". Top Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop allegedly sent her 17…
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ShortHand: Kinky Sex in '50s America - The Kinsey Scale
“The Kinsey Reports” – Alfred Kinsey’s 1950s studies into how people like to have sex, and with who – did a lot more than ruffle a few feathers. Even…
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The Kidnapping of Chloe Ayling: Sex Slave or Scammer? | #441
In 2017, British glamour model Chloe Ayling went through a terrifying ordeal: abducted from a fake modelling shoot in Italy, held hostage for days by an…
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ShortHand: King Ferdinand VII – History’s Biggest D**k
As long as a walking stick. A billiards cue. Thin as a nub of wax at the base, thick as a man’s fist at the tip. These are just some of the eye-watering…
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ShortHand: Aleister Crowley - The Beast 666
With great esoteric power, comes great esoteric responsibility. Aleister Crowley was considered many things, a poet, an artist, a master of the dark arts, and…
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The McStay Family Murders - Part Two | #440
Bodies unearthed in the desert seemed like the final piece in the puzzle for McStay Family Murders. However, the four years that had passed left more questions…
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ShortHand: The Viper Room & The Death of River Phoenix
In October 1993, River Phoenix crashed out of Johnny Depp’s exclusive club, fell onto the pavement, and died. An hour earlier, the 23-year-old rising star had…
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ShortHand: Princess Anastasia - The Russian Royal Imposter
The year was 1917, and revolution was in the air in Russia. After sustaining heavy losses in WW1, the fall of the House of Romanov seemed inevitable. And one…
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The McStay Family Murders - Part One | #439
How does a family completely vanish? That was the question that plagued investigators after Michael McStay reported his brother Joe McStay missing on the 15th…
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ShortHand: Alchemy
Turning lead into gold and living forever: that’s about the summation of our modern understanding of Alchemy. Informed by high-fantasy films and pop history…