RedHanded

Episode 49 - Dinner with a Cannibal: Armin Meiwes

<p>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.</p><p>Even at the dawn of the internet there were dark corners where you could find anything you wanted - as Armin Meiwes and Bernd Branders knew only all too well. They were a perfect online match, Armin wanted to dine and Bernd wanted to be dinner...</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FUWmA9B9Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FUWmA9B9Y</a></p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 48 - Can Dreams Kill? - The Ryan Ferguson Story

<p>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 friend Ryan Ferguson had killed a man that night, went to the police and confessed to the murder of local man Kent Heitholt. Ryan was adamant this never happened, and there was no physical evidence linking either of them to the crime - so what really happened that night?</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 47 - Snuff Films &amp; Submarines: The Murder of Kim Wall

<p>In 2017 intrepid super-journalist Kim Wall scored an underwater submarine interview with eccentric Danish 'inventrepreneur' Peter Madsen.</p><p>17 hours later Madsen was rescued from the sinking vessel, but Kim was no where to be seen. </p><p>Exactly what happened during those 17 hours is hard to tell, but as Kim's dismembered body began to surface, alongside the library of torture porn Madsen had on his computer, it was clear this twisted man had lived out his sordid sexual fantasy 20,000 leagues under the sea...</p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 46 - Stephen Lawrence

<p>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 revealed the shocking institutional racism that lay at the heart of the London Metropolitan Police. In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi trace this difficult, but desperately important, story from the climate of race relations before Stephen’s murder, how this fed into a corrupt police investigation - and ask why 25 years later, justice has still not been done. </p><p><br></p><p>Vote for us in the Podcast Awards here: </p><p><a href="https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote/">https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote/</a> </p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 45 - The Virgin Killer &amp; The Angry World of the 'Incel'

<p>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 led to the recent Toronto attack and the Isla Vista Massacre in 2014. Join Hannah and Suruthi as they reveal what they discovered when they went creeping into the grimy depths of the ‘manosphere’ to understand this rage, the radicalisation and the ramifications of the hate group known as ‘incels’.</p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 44 - Sex, Drugs &amp; Satanism: Miranda Barbour

<p>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 being no clear motive it seemed an open and shut case, until the 19 year old woman confessed to being a demonically possessed, satanic serial killer - who had already killed 22 people...</p><p><br></p><p>Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards here:</p><p><a href="https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote%20">https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote </a></p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 43 - The 'Swedish Case'

<p>In 1989, Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and her fiancé Urban Hoglin disappeared into the bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ.</p><p>A local man, David Tamihere, was convicted of their murders - and it seemed like it was case closed, until they found Urban's body that is...</p><p>Because the story his remains told was very different to the one which sent Tamihere away.</p><p>What really happened to Heidi and Urban?</p><p><br></p><p>Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards here: <a href="https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote/">https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote/</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 42 - Murder or Suicide: The Mysterious Death of Rebecca Zahau

<p>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 Rebecca's apparent suicide she had been babysitting Max when he was fatally injured - had Rebecca taken her own life out of guilt? The evidence suggests otherwise...</p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 41 - How Not to Fake Your Death: John Darwin - Canoe Man

<p>Dying is easy, coming back is hard.</p><p>In 2002 John Darwin took his red, handmade canoe out to sea and disappeared. He was eventually declared dead, but 5 years later in 2007 he walked into a police station claiming to have no memory of the past half decade. How had John Darwin vanished? And why had he come back?</p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 40 - How Larry David Saved a Man From Death Row

<p>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?</p><p><br></p><p>When 16 year old Martha Puebla was shot dead, Juan Catalan faced this exact nightmare situation - and his life seemed doomed - until he was saved in the most unexpected way...</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 39 - A Killer in the Family: The Murder of Becky Watts

<p>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 from her home. </p><p>As the true motivations behind the murder were revealed it quickly became clear that someone in the family knew more than they were letting on...</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Audio Mastered by Conrad Hughes </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 38 - Phil Spector &amp; Lana Clarkson: Murder &amp; Music Production

<p>The Los Angeles celebrity justice system comes under scrutiny this week. Convicted murderer and one time music producer Phil Spector sits in a Californian prison medical centre, actor Lana Clarkson is dead and <em>River Deep Mountain High </em>is regrettably still a banger. </p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered and Hannah's editing tantrum patiently endured by Conrad Hughes. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 37 - Where is Sabrina Aisenberg?

<p>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 the media relentlessly covered the story.</p><p>But soon the parents’ odd behaviour left onlookers wondering what they really knew about their daughter’s disappearance...</p><p><br></p><p>Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>48 Hours Mystery - Where's Our Baby? - Dateline NBC</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 36 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 2

<p>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. With suburban home invasions, bloody eviscerations, necrophilia and vampiric lore made real, this is truly a disturbing and haunting finale. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 35 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 1

<p>Clinical vampirism, terrifying delusions and paranoid schizophrenia. This week the girls enter the bloody world of their very first truly psychotic spree killer, Richard Trenton Chase. Join them as they follow his evolution from cat-murdering child, to drug-addicted teen, to blood-smeared twenty-something; unpicking the unbelievably shocking story of one of America’s bloodiest killers.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 34 - The Most Dangerous Prisoner in Britain

<p>In a Perspex box, in Wakefield maximum security prison sits alleged cannibal, confirmed killer and rumoured inspiration behind "Hannibal" - Robert Maudsely. Named the most dangerous prisoner in Britain, after 39 years in solitary, Maudsely now also holds the record for the longest time served in soltiary confinement in the world. Join the girls this week as they get knee-deep in prison politics and the reality of managing a man like Robert Maudsley.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 33 - Oscar Pistorius &amp; Reeva Steenkamp: The Valentine's Day Murder

<p>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 amputee, Oscar Pistorius. He still claims that it was a tragic case of mistaken identity, but the forensics and the messages Reeva left before her death tell a very different story.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 32 - The Brit on Death Row: Linda Carty

<p>Starting on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth and ending up in Texas via the Caribbean, Suruthi &amp; Hannah unpick how a British grandmother and DEA informant ended up on death row. Many campaign for Linda Carty’s release, but is she as innocent as they would have you believe?</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 31 - The Lady Killer and the Human Pelt

<p>Toxic masculinity, Borderline Personality Disorder and a whole lot of abattoirs. We're off to Australia this week to unravel why Australian big hitter Katherine Knight skinned John Price and hung him up like a pair of curtains. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 30 - The Chucky Doll Killer

<p>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 brutal torture and murder of 16 year old Suzanne Capper by the manipulative ‘Chucky Doll Killer’ - Bernadette McNeilly - a woman later described as ‘the most evil inmate’ on a prison wing she shared with notorious child killers Rose West and Myra Hindley.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 29 - The Cult with No Name

<p>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 ‘The Narcosatanistas’ or ‘The Believers’).</p><p>This cult was led by Palo Mayombe priest, ‘El Padrino’ and consisted of a dedicated group of disciples who believed that rites of human sacrifice made them untouchable - but this very belief is what finally led police to uncover the truth about what lay out at Ranch Santa Elena...</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 28 - The Wests &amp; The Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 2

<p>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 body was found, a haunted Fred confessed to it all - but Rose stayed silent. Today hear the incredible survivor testimony that broke a nation’s heart and finally labelled Rosemary West as one of the most evil female serial killers in history.</p><p> </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 27 - The Wests &amp; the Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 1

<p>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.</p><p>Over a span of 25 years this pair of sexual sadists carried out unspeakable evil in their cellar at the now infamous 25 Cromwell St, and when the truth was finally revealed it shocked the world.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 26 - Madness, Murder &amp; Munchausen by Proxy: The Case of Gypsy Rose Blancharde

<p>Things aren't always what they seem...</p><p>To the world Dee Dee Blancharde was the perfect mum. She dedicated her life as a single mother to taking care of her incredibly ill and disabled child. But one night Dee Dee was brutally murdered, and what was revealed shocked the world. It turned out that her daughter Gypsy had never been sick at all.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 25 - The Grindr Killer

<p>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 bizarre case of GHB poisoning, catfishing galore, the world’s most fake suicide note and utterly sh*t body disposal, to ask the very serious question of how Port’s crimes were missed</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 24 - Murder in the Alps

<p>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.</p><p>But who was the <strong>real</strong> target of this execution? What was the true motive in this senseless slaughter?</p><p>What secrets lay beneath the seemingly ordinary facades of those killed? Join the girls today as they delve into this bizarre mystery - crisscrossing between international espionage and dark family secrets.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 23 - The Girl in the Box: Colleen Stan

<p>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 reason to stop hitchhiking, this is it. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 22 - How Ancestry.com Solved a 32 Year Old Cold Case

<p>Abandoned at age five, Lisa never knew where she came from. It was her quest to uncover her birth parents via sites like <a href="http://ancestry.com/">ancestry.com</a> that unraveled a chilling quadruple homicide that had been left unsolved for 32 years. Be careful who you send your DNA to.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 21 - What Killed Zigmund Adamski?

<p>One day Zigmund Adamski mysteriously disappeared, and if his family thought that this was strange - nothing would prepare them for what was to come.</p><p>Because five days later Zigmund was found dead at the top of 12ft coal pile in a locked up coal-yard, and still that was just the beginning of the bizarre events that played out in the summer of 1980 in Yorkshire, England…</p><p>Who, or what killed, Zigmund Adamski?</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 20 - Halloween Special Part 2

<p>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 cannibal cult. So, keep the spirit of Halloween alive and listen now, if you're ready for round 2 that is...</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>