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RedHanded
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.
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Episode 36 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 2
Mar 8, 2018 39 min<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>
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Episode 35 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 1
Mar 1, 2018 30 min<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>
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Episode 34 - The Most Dangerous Prisoner in Britain
Feb 22, 2018 31 min<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>
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Episode 33 - Oscar Pistorius & Reeva Steenkamp: The Valentine's Day Murder
Feb 15, 2018 37 min<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>
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Episode 32 - The Brit on Death Row: Linda Carty
Feb 8, 2018 45 min<p>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 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>
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Episode 31 - The Lady Killer and the Human Pelt
Feb 1, 2018 46 min<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>
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Episode 30 - The Chucky Doll Killer
Jan 25, 2018 37 min<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>
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Episode 29 - The Cult with No Name
Jan 18, 2018 1h 3m<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>
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Episode 28 - The Wests & The Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 2
Jan 11, 2018 1h<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>
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Episode 27 - The Wests & the Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 1
Jan 4, 2018 42 min<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>
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Episode 26 - Madness, Murder & Munchausen by Proxy: The Case of Gypsy Rose Blancharde
Dec 28, 2017 1h 16m<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>
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Episode 25 - The Grindr Killer
Dec 21, 2017 47 min<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>
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Episode 24 - Murder in the Alps
Dec 14, 2017 54 min<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>
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Episode 23 - The Girl in the Box: Colleen Stan
Dec 7, 2017 1h 1m<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>
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Episode 22 - How Ancestry.com Solved a 32 Year Old Cold Case
Nov 30, 2017 48 min<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>
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Episode 21 - What Killed Zigmund Adamski?
Nov 16, 2017 39 min<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>
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Episode 20 - Halloween Special Part 2
Nov 9, 2017 55 min<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>
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Episode 19 - Halloween Special Part 1
Oct 31, 2017 37 min<p>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 copy cat and shivers for days. Get cosy and grab the dog as Hannah & Suruthi take you through 2 harrowing cases, told to each other for the first time. </p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 18 - The Love Triangle Killing
Oct 26, 2017 36 min<p>What happens when a stranger turns up at your front door and hands you a bouquet of petrol station flowers?</p><p>Broken hearts, English countryside and an electric blue Renault Clio set the scene for today's episode as Suruthi and Hannah unpick the tragic death of super sucessful business woman Sadie Hartley. </p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 17 - Who Killed Billie-Jo Jenkins?
Oct 19, 2017 48 min<p>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 around her foster father Sion Jenkins - but 3 trials and 20 years later he is a free man. Did Sion Jenkins really murder Billie? And if so, then why? Join the girls this episode as they explore the truth behind the disturbing murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins.</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 16 - The Drag Queen & Her Costume Cupboard Corpse
Oct 12, 2017 46 min<p>Dorian Corey, drag queen superstar, was the queen of queens in life - but when she died, a bizarre and horrifying mystery was revealed.</p><p>What her friends found hidden in the back of her costume cupboard, zipped up in a dress bag, shocked the world.</p><p>We still don't know exactly what happened, but join the girls this episode as they try unravel this confusing case.</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 15 - The Spy in the Bag
Oct 5, 2017 37 min<p>In August 2010, 31 year old MI6 cryptologist Gareth Williams was found dead, in his flat, in his bath, padlocked inside a bag.</p><p>Pretty much zero forensics would be found, and the case still remains unsolved to this day.Was Gareth murdered? If so, then who by? And why?</p><p>And is it likely that a spook could be murdered in his home, just yards from MI6 HQ, and they can't find who did it? Join the girls this week as they try to decipher what really happened.</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 14 - The Three Trials of Timothy Hennis
Sep 30, 2017 44 min<p>It's 1985 in North Carolina and a crying baby is found alone in her home surrounded by the dead bodies of her family. With only one clear suspect in this brutal massacre, the police bring in Staff Sergeant Timothy Hennis. But do they have enough? This is the story of an unprecedented side stepping of double jeopardy...</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 13 - Serial Killer Survivor to YouTube Star
Sep 24, 2017 46 min<p>Stranded on the side of a Californian desert with no way home, would you refuse a lift from a stranger?</p><p>This is how our case this week begins as we explore the story of Jennifer Asbenson, a woman who escaped violent rapist and serial killer - Andrew Urdiales</p><p>Join us as we detail her escape, his atrocities and the bizarre fame Asbenson has cultivated since her ordeal.</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 12 - The Dexter Copycat Killer
Sep 14, 2017 39 min<p>Exasperation station this episode as Suruthi & Hannah take you through the crimes of aspiring horror filmmaker, The Edmonton Killer and the cracking police work that stopped him in his tracks. Incapable of a single original idea in addition to a desperate need for fame, Mark Twitchell impersonated TV show character Dexter Morgan online and took on his dark passenger.</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 11 - The Butcher Baker of Alaska
Sep 9, 2017 40 min<p>Today we explore one of the most nightmarish cases we’ve covered. Robert Hansen aka The Butcher Baker of Alaska, was a small town family man, quiet and unassuming - but beneath the surface a monster was lurking. He would abduct women off the streets, take them to his secluded cabin, rape them, strip them naked and set them free in the surrounding woods - so that he could fulfil his second passion - and hunt them like game…</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 10 - The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
Aug 31, 2017 1h 4m<p>In the summer of 1977 on the very first night at Camp Scott, the tents shook against a raging thunderstorm as a dark and sinister presence stalked the woods. By morning 3 young girls would be dead; molested and murdered in the middle of the night.</p><p> </p><p>40 years later this brutal crime still remains unsolved - what really happened to the murdered Oklahoma Girl Scouts?</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 9 - The Beast with a Human Face
Aug 23, 2017 51 min<p>In 2002, missing hostess, Lucie Blackman was found dead. Her body had been dismembered and her head encased in concrete. She was found buried in a shallow grave under a bathtub in a cave on a secluded beach in Miura, Kanagawa - just South of Tokyo.</p><p>Where this discovery would lead Japanese police shocked the world.</p><p>Join us this week as we follow this disturbing case to understand the evil that stole Lucie, and ask how many victims truly fell prey to ‘The Beast with a Human Face’...</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 8 - The Honeymoon Murder
Aug 17, 2017 58 min<p>What happened on their honeymoon that left Anni Dewani dead (in one of Cape Town's most notorious townships) and her husband of just 2 weeks, Shrien Dewani under suspicion of her murder?</p><p>Join us as we tread the twisted timeline of a bizarre honeymoon murder this week - and ask if it really was the husband...</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
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Episode 7 - The Lake Bodom Murders
Aug 8, 2017 1h 7m<p>Four teenagers go camping on the shores of Lake Bodom in Finland. Three are brutally murdered and one survives. Then three confessions, two suicides and a high-profile trial 44 years later - the case <strong>still</strong> remains unsolved. So today we explore who murdered the Bodom Three? And why? If you think you know this one, think again.</p> <br><p>See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>