RedHanded

Episode 66 - Little Boy Pot Pie: The Depraved Mind of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah

<p>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 early childhood, and due in part to a lack of consequences for his dangerous behaviour, things only escalated. Eventually Bar-Jonah was arrested and what police officers found in his house led to one of the most stomach churning investigations in US history. It appeared that Bar-Jonah had not only been eating his victims but also feeding them to his unsuspecting neighbours. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 65 - Witchcraft, “Muti” &amp; Murder: The Case of Victoria Climbié

<p>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 episode the girls follow the story of 8 year old Victoria's journey to London from the Ivory Coast and how she met her end at the hands of an abusive man who claimed that she was possessed by the devil. In this disturbing episode Suruthi and Hannah also explore other notorious cases of ‘Muti murder’ right here in the UK - like that of the little boy “Adam” and the torso in the Thames...</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 64 - A Modern Maori Exorcism: The Death of Janet Moses

<p>On the 12th of October 2007, 22 year old mother of two, Janet Moses drowned...in the middle of her family's living room.</p><p>Janet's family had become troubled by her increasingly odd behaviour in the days preceding her death. After consulting with a Maori priest they believed that she had been possessed by a demon; water, chanting and eye gouging became their only weapons in their desperate fight against the "Makutu" devouring Janet's soul. Join the girls this week as they ask; when a young woman is killed by her own family - claiming pure intentions - what does justice look like?</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 63 - An Imperfect Witness: The Story of Kevin Green

<p>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 lost her unborn baby, she lost her ability to speak and she completely lost her memory surrounding the attack. That was until a few weeks later when she pointed the finger at her seemingly grieving husband. But with a serial killer also on the loose at the time, who was the real attacker? </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 62 - The Sims Family Murders

<p>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, nothing was left behind, there was no sign of forced entry and no one reported seeing anyone suspicious in the area - police were stumped.</p><p>But massive overkill on 12 year old Joy Sims suggests that not only was she the intended target, but that this was personal. Join the girls this week as the delve into the coldest of cold cases with a little help from a former attorney closely connected with the Sims case...</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 61 - Marc Dutroux: The Beast of Belgium

<p>Over the course of two summers across Belgium six young girls went missing - their captor, Marc Dutroux, seemed untouchable as he brazenly abducted, imprisoned, raped and murdered his young victims.</p><p>But this is much more than a sad story about a sick, sadistic pedophile; how Dutroux evaded arrest time and time again raises serious questions as to whether he was just a small part of a powerful pedophile network stretching to the highest levels of Belgian society...</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 60 - Ken McElroy: The Town That Got Away With Murder

<p>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 and to this day his murder remains unsolved. But people weren't afraid of Ken's killers, this was vigilante street justice exacted against a violent bully and pedophile, who had raped, abused, assaulted - and generally terrorised the people of Skidmore, Missouri. Finally the terrified residents had taken matters into their own hands.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 59 - Danny Casolaro: The Man Who Knew Too Much

<p>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 of connecting the dots between multiple governmental scandals and uncovering an international network of unbelievable crimes. 2 days after meeting his final source, Danny was found dead, could he have been onto something? </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 58 - Sharon Lopatka: The Woman Who Dreamt of Being Tortured to Death

<p>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 day Sharon had enough and decided to make her fantasy a reality; she met her dream man online - a man who dreamt of torturing women. </p><p>Eventually Sharon was found buried in a shallow grave, but the state of her remains left many unanswered questions about what really happened to her...</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 57 - House of Horrors: The Murder of Tia Sharp

<p>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”. But unbeknownst to anyone in the family Hazell, a man with a dark past, was starting to have sick sexual fantasies about Tia...</p><p>One day, out of the blue she vanished and her panic stricken family had no idea that they would eventually find her closer to home than they could ever have imagined.</p><p><br></p><p>Merch shop: <a href="https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/redhanded">https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/redhanded</a></p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 56 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 2

<p>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, the net began to close - and their eventual capture led to a trial so gruesome members of jury walked out in disgust.</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 55 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 1

<p>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 barrels full to brim with decomposing human remains. Little did they know, this was just the beginning of what would become one of Australia’s most unrelenting and harrowing cases.</p><p><br></p><p>Australia Expert - Kelly Ryan</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 54 - Charlie Brandt &amp; His Demons

<p>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 beyond belief, and no one could make sense of what had happened - until his sister Angela turned up to reveal Charlie's dark childhood secret.</p><p>All families have secrets, but none quite so dark as the one the Brandts had kept hidden for almost 30 years. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 53 - Crocodile Tears, Sex Caravans &amp; Arson: The Mick Philpott Story

<p>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 Philpott children died and the nation mourned for a grieving Mick and Mairead Philpott. But as the days passed, their behaviour, and their stories about what had happened that night started to raise serious suspicion...</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frmdzbTAdQc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frmdzbTAdQc</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IrbrO7SQ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IrbrO7SQ0</a></p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 52 - Cruise Crime: The Disappearance of Amy Bradley

<p>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 stranger is that Amy was on a ship, out at sea on a Caribbean cruise with her family. How does one just disappear from a ship, never to be seen again?</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 51 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 2

<p>In this week's episode Myra Hindley and Ian Brady escalate; abducting, torturing, raping and murdering four more children. In their arrogance and hedonistic pursuit of violent pleasure, they make the grave mistake of trying to involve a new accomplice - one who would ultimately reveal their evil to the world. </p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Episode 50 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 1

<p>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 England. The Moors Murders, so named because the victims' bodies were found on the barren and remote Saddleworth Moor, still remain Britain's most infamous case half a century later.</p><p>But what drove these two to commit crimes so heinous that they scarred the psyche of a generation?</p>  <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

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>