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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
RedHandedFROM THE VAULT: Episode 278/9 - Scott Peterson: Sex, Lies & Fishing Boats - Part 1 & 2
With Scott Peterson back in the news, having given his first interview in decades we thought it would be a good time to refresh our memories on this baffling…
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Episode 360 - Javed ‘Kukri’ Iqbal: “To Make a Hundred Mothers Cry”
A serial paedophile and murderer, Javid Iqbal dedicated his entire existence to grooming, sexually abusing, and eventually killing young boys from the streets…
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Episode 359 - Bad Brits: Featuring Wine & Crime
This week on RedHanded we’re joined by some new friends from across the pond - Lucy and Amanda aka Wine & Crime! Given our geographical and cultural…
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FROM THE VAULT - 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 358 - Peter Plumley-Walker: The Trial of the Teenage Dominatrix - Part 2
Three trials, countless corrupt officers, and years behind bars faced Renee Chignell, after she and her boyfriend, were accused of the murder of 51-year-old…
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Episode 357 - Peter Plumley-Walker: Divorce, Death & Debauchery Down Under - Part 1
How does a “true British gentleman”, complete with love of cricket and handlebar moustache, end up dead at the bottom of a waterfall in New Zealand with his…
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Episode 356 - Davy Tweed: Behind Closed Doors
As far as the people of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, knew, Davy Tweed was a sporting hero, dedicated public servant, and good Protestant family man. But…
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Episode 355 - The Khamar-Daban Incident: Mystery in the Mountains
Bleeding from the eyes, foaming at the mouth, and bashing themselves to death against the rocks. That was the fate of six skilled hikers in the Russian…
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Episode 354 - Mahsa Amini & The Morality Police
On 19 May 2024, Ebrahim Raisi – “The Butcher of Tehran” and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran – died in a helicopter crash. Immediately, theories of…
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Episode 353 - Chernobyl: The Power Station That Ended a Nation
The world’s most infamous nuclear disaster officially killed just thirty-one people, but in reality it’s death toll is incalculable. Raining radioactive debris…
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Episode 352 - Over the Thin Blue Line: the Undercover Police Scandal
Imagine finding out that your partner of six years – the love of your life, the father of your children – had never existed. That during all of your most…
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Episode 351 - North Korean Abductions: Korean Career Couriers
Kidnapping might seem like an odd solution to low levels of education, but for The Democratic People's Republic of Korea it seemed like a perfect plan. Whisk…
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Episode 350 - War Machine
When Christine Mackinday and her boyfriend were interrupted in bed by her ex-fiancé – a 200-pound ex-MMA fighter who had legally changed his name to War…
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FROM THE VAULT - Episode 157 - The Disappearance of Peter Falconio
Get your tour tickets at redhandedpodcast.com! In 2001 on a remote stretch of highway in Australia’s Northern Territory, British backpacker Peter Falconio…
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Episode 349 - A Death in Old Peking
The state of Pamela Werner’s body alone would have been enough to send 1930s Peking into a frenzy. She’d been frantically stabbed, her chest cut wide open, and…
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FROM THE VAULT - Episode 194 - Ivan Milat: The Real Wolf Creek
Between September 1992 and November 1993 the remains of seven backpackers were found dotted around Australia’s Belanglo State Forest. The long-putrefied bodies…
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Episode 348 - The Murder of Jill Dando
Shot dead in broad daylight outside her house in West London – the killing of Jill Dando is one of Britain’s most high-profile murders. As one of the BBC’s…
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FROM THE VAULT - Episode 173/4 - Keli Lane: What Happened to Baby Tegan?
To celebrate and get everyone in the mood for our soon to be iconic Antipodean Tour, we are digging up some of the craziest cases from down under that we've…
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Episode 347 - Daniel Morcombe & the ‘Mr Big’ Plot
When a 13-year-old boy, out shopping for Christmas presents, disappeared from a bus stop in Australia’s Sunshine Coast, police were initially slow to suspect…
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Episode 346 - David Berg & The Children of God - Part 2
If you thought Part 1 was bad – just you wait. Last week we talked about the origins of one of the world’s biggest cults. And this time, we look at how that…
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Episode 345 - David Berg & The Children of God - Part 1
Communes, propaganda and child abuse are not uncommon in the world of cults. But what made David Berg and his “Children of God” so unique was the effectiveness…
RedHandedEpisode 344 - Twin Flames Universe (ft. Help I Sexted My Boss)
Note: The video version of this podcast can be watched in full on our YouTube channel! Available from the 18th of April. Join RedHanded and Help I Sexted My…
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FROM THE VAULT - Jennifer Pan: Tiger Blood | #254
Social media is swarming with fresh takes on the Jennifer Pan story, after a new documentary became the third-most watched show on Netflix this weekend. So we…
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Episode 343 - Rob Parkes: The Price of Life
Rob Parkes is not a paedophilic, drug-dealing, gang-leading tyrant. But that’s exactly what his pathologically controlling, abusive ex-wife tried to lead…
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Episode 342 - The Panama Girls: Lisanne Froon & Kris Kremers
Ten years ago, two young women entered the Panamanian cloud forest, accompanied by a dog named Blue. Blue was the only one to ever return. The events that…
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Episode 341 - Michael Barrymore & The Death of Stuart Lubbock
Found dead and with severe internal injuries in the swimming pool of the UK’s biggest TV star, Stuart Lubbock’s tragic demise became an instant tabloid…
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Episode 340 - The Sea Orphan
Found drifting on the open ocean on the brink of death, Terry Jo Duperrault’s survival was nothing short of a miracle. She’d been at sea for over 3 days…
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Episode 339 - Sherri Papini: The Woman Who Fooled the World
Three weeks after going missing, Californian ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini was found running down a highway with a chain tied to her waist and the word "exodus"…
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FROM THE VAULT - Natalia Grace: The Orphan | #305
UPDATE: Since we released our episode on the Barnetts – who said their adopted 9-year-old daughter had turned out to be a murderous, adult woman – Natalia has…
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Episode 338 - Horror in Hong Kong: The Braemar Hill Murders
Found raped and brutalised in the hills, just a stone’s throw from one of Hong Kong’s richest neighbourhoods, teenagers Kenneth McBride and Nicola Myers became…
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FROM THE VAULT - Episode 59 - Danny Casolaro: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Now that a new Netflix doc has got everyone talking about Danny Casolaro – we wanted to rerelease one of our favourite past episodes, to give you the full…
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Episode 337 - MH370: "Good Night, Malaysia Three Seven Zero”
On the 8th March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was making a routine red-eye flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, when it seemingly vanished in the…
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Episode 336 - Maura Murray: Not Without Peril
In 2004, amid a horrific snowstorm in a remote mountain town, a talented yet troubled young woman crashed her car and vanished off the face of the Earth. The…
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Episode 335 - Shannon Matthews: Under the Bed
On 19 February 2008, 9-year-old Shannon Matthews left school, waved goodbye to her best friend, and then vanished on the half-mile walk home. West Yorkshire…
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Episode 334 - Charlie Adelson: The Dentist & The Hitmen - Part 2
Following the conviction of Charlie Adelson in November 2023, his mother Donna allegedly attempted to flee the US for Vietnam. Arrested on the runway, awaiting…
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Episode 333 - Charlie Adelson: The Dentist & The Hitmen - Part 1
When Wendi Adelson was left feeling trapped in Tallahassee, following her divorce from FSU professor Dan Markel, she told her big brother Charlie. What…
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Episode 332 - Jean-Claude Romand: Doubling Down
Prospect medical student turned slacker spree-killer is hardly a normal turn of events. Yet Jean-Claude Romand managed to throw his entire life away by simply…
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Episode 331 - The Friedmans: A Family Affair
The Friedmans were your average upper-middle-class family in ‘70s America, but everything changed when one day accusations of mass child sexual abuse landed on…
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Episode 330 - Sarah Everard: The Betrayal
Deep in the middle of the UK’s shambolic COVID lockdown, 33 year old Sarah Everard went for a walk. That night she crossed paths with a man who would abduct…
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Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Rodney Marks: Murder at The Bottom of the World
Thanks to COVID, we all now know, better than ever the impact that social isolation can have on our mental health. Depression, confused thinking, and emotional…
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Bonus Patreon Upcycle - The Bloody Benders: America’s First Serial Killer Family
When countless lone travellers began to vanish without a trace along the Great Osage Trail in the early 1870s, the people of Labette County, Kansas, were…
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329 - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Part 2
The trial of Michael Peterson remains one of the most baffling we’ve ever come across. Red neurons, missing blood spatter and of course that pesky blow poke…
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Episode 328 - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Part 1
From the outside the Petersons had it all; the perfect family, a beautiful mansion and more money than they could spend. But on 9th December 2001 all that…
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Episode 327 - Murder in Ulvila
At 3 am on the 1st of December 2006, Anneli Auer phoned Finnish emergency services – to tell them an intruder was stabbing her husband to death as she spoke…
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Episode 326 - Sarah Payne: Into Thin Air
Vanishing in seconds when her older brother turned away, 8-year-old Sarah Payne’s high-profile disappearance gripped the nation. But as mother and father…
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Episode 325 - The Vanishing of Lynette Dawson - Part 2
The evidence against Chris Dawson was overwhelming from the start - so why did it take several investigations, 2 coronial enquiries and 40 years of agony for…
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Episode 324 - The Vanishing of Lynette Dawson - Part 1
When Lynette Dawson vanished without a trace in January 1982, her husband played the heartbroken victim. He was an abandoned father of two, with no choice but…
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Bonus - Israel Keyes: Plan of Attack
You asked for it – to say a huge final THANK YOU to all of you who brought us Gold in the Listeners' Choice category in this year’s BPAs, we promised you a…
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Episode 323 - The Murder of Marvin Gaye ft. Disgraceland
The 1984 murder of one of Motown’s biggest stars – at the hands of his abusive, alcoholic, cross-dressing Pentecostal-preacher father – stunned the industry…
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Episode 322 - The Body, the P.I. & the Hole in the Wall
In 2010, the body of a man was discovered in a locked hotel room in Beaumont, Texas. Apart from some minor bruising on his groin, the man didn’t have a mark on…
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RedHaunted Special: Ghost Hunting at The Ancient Ram Inn – Audio Preview
Happy Halloween Spooky B*tches! To celebrate our favourite time of year - and for getting GOLD at the British Podcast Awards - we took on one of the most…
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Episode 321 - LIVE: Halloween Special Part 2 – Corpsewood Manor and Burke & Hare
’Tis the season, the SpOoKy season… And that means part two of our annual Halloween story swap, this time LIVE from Dallas, Texas!!! Listen up as Suruthi tells…
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Episode 320 - Halloween Special Part 1: The Vampiress of Barcelona & The Dardeen Family Massacre
Spooky season is upon us once again, and that can only mean one thing: another instalment of RedHanded’s Halloween story swap! For the first of two story-swaps…
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Episode 319 - Lam Kor-wan: The Rainy Night Butcher
In August 1982, a Kodak technician was processing some photos when he saw the image of a naked young woman appear. He took a closer look, and any excitement he…
RedHandedEpisode 318 - The 67 Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel
With fractured knees and savage bruises – weighing just thirty kilos – 23-year-old Anneliese Michel died in 1976 under some of the strangest circumstances…
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Episode 317 - Reverend Willie Maxwell: Harper Lee & The Killer Voodoo Preacher
In summer 1977, in Alexander City, Alabama, a man stood up in front of 300 mourners at the funeral of a 16-year-old girl – and shot a reverend three times in…
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Delphi Update: Odinism & Accusations of Ritual Sacrifice
This week, Richard Allen’s defence team dropped a 136-page document challenging the warrant that police used to search his house. But it’s not as boring as it…
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Episode 316 - Seth Rich: Murder in the Age of Conspiracy
If Seth Rich had had any other job – or if it had been any other year – his tragic death would likely have joined the 65 other unsolved murders in his part of…
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Episode 315 - Christian Gerhartstreiter: The Talented Mr Mountbatten
In 1994, in the back garden of a house on Lorain Road, San Marino, California – workers accidentally unearthed a shallow grave containing dismembered human…
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Episode 314 - The Gilgo Beach Killings - Part 2
On 13 July 2023 - after decades of corruption and inaction - police arrested 59-year-old New York architect Rex Heuermann, on suspicion of being the LISK. In…