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Episode 319 - Lam Kor-wan: The Rainy Night Butcher

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 exci...

Episode 318 - The 67 Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With fractured knees and savage bruises – weighing just thirty kilos – 23-year-old Anneliese Michel died in 1976 under some of the strangest circu...

Episode 317 - Reverend Willie Maxwell: Harper Lee & The Killer Voodoo Preacher

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Delphi Update: Odinism & Accusations of Ritual Sacrifice

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

Episode 316 - Seth Rich: Murder in the Age of Conspiracy

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 315 - Christian Gerhartstreiter: The Talented Mr Mountbatten

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1994, in the back garden of a house on Lorain Road, San Marino, California – workers accidentally unearthed a shallow grave containing dismembere...

Episode 314 - The Gilgo Beach Killings - Part 2

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 L...

Episode 313 - The Gilgo Beach Killings - Part 1

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2010, Shannan Gilbert made a series of frantic 911 calls as she ran through the streets of Oak Beach, Long Island, screaming: “They’re trying t...

Episode 312 - Lucy Letby: “Trust me, I’m a nurse”

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On 21 August 2023, 33-year-old nurse Lucy Letby was handed a whole-of-life order for the murder of seven babies, and the attempted murder of six more....

Episode 311 - Bhagwan Rajneesh: The Rolls-Royce Driving Sex Guru

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In July 1981, the 40 residents of Antelope, Oregon watched on in bemusement as their rural village was descended upon by an Indian guru and thousands ...

Episode 310 - Brenda Spencer: ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

School shootings are now tragically commonplace in the US. But in 1979, when Brenda Spencer opened fire on Cleveland Elementary School, it took everyo...

Episode 309 - Thabo Bester: Twisted Firestarter

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At 2am, on the 3rd of May last year – inmates at Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein, South Africa, were woken up by an explosion. Word spread that Thab...

Episode 308 - Christine 'Chris Chan' Chandler: Lifelong Lolcow

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Graphic Sonic fanfiction, a botched DIY sex change, incest and relentless psychosexual trolling are just some of the hallmarks of Christine Weston Cha...

Episode 307 - Warren Jeffs: Bleeding the Beast - Part 2

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we looked at the formation of the ultra-obedient, bigamist Mormon cult, the FLDS – in which plural marriage to pregnant preteen girls is ...

Episode 306 - Warren Jeffs: God’s Chosen People - Part 1

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

According to Warren Jeffs’ thousands of followers, he was the leader of a secretive but devoted religion – their prophet, and the representative o...

Episode 305 - Natalia Grace: The Orphan

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2009, the horror film ‘Orphan’ told the tale of a couple who unwittingly adopted a 9-year-old girl, who (spoilers) turned out to be a murderous...

Episode 304 - Jasmine Richardson & Jeremy Steinke: Natural Born Killers

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Violently stabbed to death in their own home, the bodies of Debra and Marc Richardson showed the signs of an almighty struggle.The body of their eight...

Episode 303 - Anthony Gignac: Prince of Fraud

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How did an orphan from Bogotá, Colombia, become one of the most audacious white-collar criminals in the US during early 2000s? Starting his con ...

Episode 302 - Grenfell Tower

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a high-rise residential building in West London. 74 people died, and the tragedy became one of...

Episode 301 - Tupac & Biggie: 'Ready to Die' - Part 2

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our second instalment, Hannah & Suruthi turn to Christopher George Latore Wallace – better known as the Notorious B.I.G. – and his side of ...

REUPLOAD: Episode 257 - Genes & Justice: Kathleen Folbigg & Patricia Stallings

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With the news that Kathleen Folbigg has finally been pardoned, we wanted to help you revisit this case, and Kathleen's incredibly tragic story by re-u...

Episode 300 - Tupac & Biggie: ‘2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted’ - Part 1

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stories of death, drugs, and gang violence were inextricably linked, in the 90s media, to the nation’s biggest rap stars. Tupac Shakur was one ...

Episode 299 - La Maison de L'Horreur: The Dupont de Ligonnès Family Murder

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When five members of the cheery, churchgoing Dupont de Ligonnès family were found dead at their home in Nantes – buried in the garden with small Ca...

TRIAL UPDATE & REUPLOAD: Episode 180 - Lori Vallow: Doomsday

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To make sure that none of you miss out we've updated our episode on Lori Vallow to include an update on her trial! Listen to this episode and this wee...

Episode 298 - Papa Doc: Haiti’s Vodou Dictator

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What kind of leader would say of his own people that they are “meant to suffer”? Well, maybe a savage despot who claimed to be the master of the d...

Episode 297 - Martha Moxley: Death & Dynasty

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On Halloween morning, 1975, in one of the most exclusive gated communities in the USA, the bludgeoned body of 15-year-old Martha Moxley was discovered...

Episode 296 - Evil Genius: The ‘Pizza Bomber’

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When delivery driver Brian Wells wound up with a bomb strapped to his neck after trying to fulfill a seemingly normal order of 2 pepperoni pizzas, loc...

Episode 295 - The Christchurch Massacre

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the 15th of March, 2019, a 28-year-old man walked into a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, holding a shotgun and semi-automatic rifle – and op...

Filthy Ritual: A Brand New Podcast by Suruthi & Hannah

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Filthy Ritual - our brand new 6-part series on the Hoax Healer of Hampstead 💸🐒There's voodoo, shamanism, black magic, a tree of life ...

Episode 294 - Roderick Newall: Death in Paradise

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The sleepy island of Jersey is a safe haven for wealthy Brits to live out their retirement with favourable weather, and an even more favourable tax ra...

Morbid Caught RedHanded: The Witches of Long Compton

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s finally happening – the Morbid X RedHanded collab! And to get everyone’s witchy juices flowing, we took a trip to the sleepy Cotswold villa...

Episode 293 - Gabby Petito: Isolated

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In December 2020 Gabby Petito and her fiance Brian Laundrie set off on a once-in-a-lifetime journey across the USA in their tiny little van. The trip ...

Episode 292 - Griekwastad: The Steenkamp Family Massacre

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The sleepy town of Griekwastad South Africa woke up to absolute horror on Good Friday 2012. Three members of the local Steenkamp family had been bruta...

Episode 291 - The Silk Road: Drugs, Data & The Dread Pirate Roberts

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For some, the end of the world's most infamous online marketplace was a major victory in the never ending war on drugs. But for others, the global, mu...

Episode 290 - Jack Parsons: The Occultist Sex-Crazed Father of Modern Rocketry

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From Copernicus to Newton, the greatest minds in history have had a crater named after them on the moon. But one name you may not know is Jack Parsons...

Episode 289 - David vs Robin: The Bain Family Killings - Part 2

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Last week we left off with the absolutely batshit-craziness of Margaret’s “Bel”-filled diaries and the rumoured accusations of incest made by La...

Episode 288 - Black Magic, Incest & Murder: The Bain Family Killings - Part 1

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On 29 June 1994 the entire Bain family, except for eldest son David, were found murdered in their house in Dunedin. The investigation that followed w...

Episode 287 – The Murdaugh Family Murders

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Murdaugh murders are not one story; they are a seemingly endless web of lies, entitlement, and confusion.  At the centre of the web are the bodi...

Episode 286 - Emanuela Orlandi: The Vatican’s Only Missing Citizen

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Organised crime, sex scandals, terror plots, hundreds of millions of missing dollars, a gangster known as ‘God’s Banker’ found hanging from a br...

Episode 285 - The Murder of Rachel Nickell

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Nickell’s brutalised body was found on Wimbledon Common with her two-year-old son Alex wiping her bloodied face and begging her to 'wake up'....

Episode 284 - Dorothea Puente: The Boarding House of Death

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dorothea Puente may have looked every bit the placid old lady she played. In reality, she was in her early fifties, and was using her self-made status...

Episode 283 - Rasputin: Russia’s Greatest Love Machine

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The much-told legend of Rasputin – the giant, wild-eyed, well-hung, wandering Siberian monk who seduced the Tsarina herself – is mostly a bunch of...

Episode 282 - Jeffrey Epstein: Foul Play - Part 2

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2009, having served just 13 months of the cushiest jail sentence this side of Scandinavia, Jeffrey Epstein was free – and legally protected from ...

Episode 281 - Jeffrey Epstein: Along Came a Spider - Part 1

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The story of Jeffrey Epstein – the billionaire financier with an industrial-scale web of child abuse implicating some of the most powerful people in...

The Idaho Student Murders | #280

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On 13 November 2022, four University of Idaho students were found stabbed to death in their beds. Six weeks later, the police (under the glare of imme...

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Joe Metheny: Hate, Heroin & Human Hog Roasts

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There aren't many true crime figures bigger than Joe Metheny. The 450-pound killer cook, who rampaged his way through south Baltimore's homeless commu...

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Lobotomies: Piece of Mind

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Modern medicine’s come a long way since the days of old where doctors would drill a hole in your head for a cold, prescribe you a tobacco-smoke enem...

Episode 279 - Scott Peterson: Trial by Media? - Part 2

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the concluding part of our deep dive into this murky case, Suruthi and Hannah explore the high drama of the trial that everyone was talking about. ...

Delphi Update: Patreon Round-Up - December 2022

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There have been some very interesting developments in the Delphi case (including the release of Richard Allen’s probable cause affidavit!) And the g...

Episode 278 - Scott Peterson: Sex, Lies & Fishing Boats - Part 1

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When beautiful, eight-and-a-half-month-pregnant Laci Peterson vanished without a trace on Christmas Eve 2002, headlines across the US exploded. As mu...

Episode 277 - Joyce McKinney: Mormon Sex in Chains

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kirk Anderson was abducted from an LDS meeting house in Surrey by his ex-partner – and ex-beauty queen – Joyce McKinney.  He said he was taken t...

Episode 276 - Alison Botha: Left for Dead

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kidnapped, attacked and left disembowelled in the desert by two men who claimed to have been possessed by demons, Alison Botha suffered one of the mos...

Episode 275 - The Assassination of Olof Palme

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In February 1986, the prime minister of Sweden was walking home from the cinema, when a man stepped out of a shop doorway and shot him in the neck wit...

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: October 2022

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you the kind of financially savvy Spooky Bitch who wants to try before you buy? Then why don't you have a listen to all of the very best BONUS CO...

Episode 274 - Larry Hillblom: Who’s Your Daddy?

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1995, the billionaire founder of DHL disappeared off of the face of the planet and left behind a closet full of skeletons. The aftermath stirred up...

Episode 273 - The Delphi Murders: The Man in the Woods - Part 2

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On 28 October 2022, in a move that shocked absolutely everyone, investigators in Indiana arrested 50 year old Richard Allen for the murders of Abby Wi...

Episode 272 - The Delphi Murders: In Plain Sight - Part 1

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On 14 February 2017, the bodies of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German were found in the woods in Delphi, Indiana. Libby’s phone...

Episode 271 - LIVE: Halloween Special Part 2 – Stalin’s Cannibal Island & Marcel Petiot

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live in Columbus, Ohio, at Obsessed Fest 2022, H&S bring you a historical Halloween special. The girls look back at the horrors of Stalin...

Episode 270 - Halloween Special Part 1: The Liske Family Murders & Suzy Lamplugh

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lock your doors and shut your windows – it’s that time of year again! H&S are back with their annual Halloween story swap. In part one, the gi...

Episode 269 - Devil’s Dorp

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the story of a godly rivalry that spun out of control – taking in vampires, werewolves and the murders of eleven people. And behind it all, ...

Episode 268 - Blake Leibel: A Blueprint for Evil

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This case takes the notion of life imitating art to a newly macabre extreme. In 2010, Blake Leibel released his graphic novel, Syndrome. Described as ...

Episode 267 – The Unbelievable Saga of Thomas Quick

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1990s, a patient at Säter mental institution was undergoing the facility’s revolutionary memory-recovery therapy, when he revealed a s...

Episode 266 - The Burari Deaths: Ritual Slaughter

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the early morning of 1 July 2018, Gurcharan Singh went to check on his neighbours in the Burari district of Delhi. When he got there, he found a cr...

Episode 265 - Susan Cox Powell: Mormon Murder Mystery - Part 2

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With a 28-year-old Mormon mum still missing – and her husband and father-in-law behaving increasingly erratically – police edged ever closer to fi...

Killers, Cults and Queens - A Sneak Peek!

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

SURPRISE!!! We've got an exclusive sneak peek of a brand new show called Killers, Cults and Queens! From Audioboom Studios, Cheryl Hole and Nikki Dru...

Episode 264 - Susan Cox Powell: Mormon Murder Mystery - Part 1

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On the 6th of December, 2009, when Susan Cox Powell disappeared while her husband Josh was away on a “spontaneous camping trip”, their community...

Episode 263 - Larry Nassar: Mental Gymnastics

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the gruelling world of elite gymnastics, Larry Nassar was seen by a lot of young athletes as a friendly face in tough times. As the USA Gymnastics ...

Episode 262 - West Memphis 3 - Part 2

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the second and final installment of our two-part episode, we enter the courtroom to hear some flimsy evidence and absolutely bizarre testimony. Get...

Episode 261 - West Memphis 3 - Part 1

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This infamous case is part Stranger Things, part courtroom drama. When the bodies of 3 young boys were found, battered, sexually mutilated and hogtied...

Episode 260 - Hotel K & The Bali 9

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do Gordon Ramsey’s brother, drug traffickers, rapists, gangsters, terrorists, thieves, and some of the unluckiest tourists in the world have in...

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: July 2022

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon? Well, here's a tasty sampl...

Episode 259 - Richard Huckle: Britain's Worst Paedophile

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In October of 2019, prison officers at HMP Full Sutton in West Yorkshire discovered the body of a prisoner who'd been subjected to 89 minutes of tortu...

Episode 258 - Alex Skeel: Two Years of Torture

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Described by the first officer to arrive as “the worst domestic scene” they’d ever witnessed, the brutality of what Alex Skeel endured was shock...

Episode 257 - Genes & Justice: Kathleen Folbigg & Patricia Stallings

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“1 sudden infant death is a tragedy, 2 is suspicious and 3 is murder”; this theory has pervaded criminal investigations for decades. And so when K...

Episode 256 - Norwegian Black Metal: Pure F**king Armageddon

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Norwegian black metal scene of the early 90s started with pigs’ heads impaled on spikes, buried clothes wrapped around dead birds, and other not...

Episode 255 - Who Killed the Harrisons?

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2013, paramedics were called to a home in Mississauga, Ontario. There they found the body of 40-year-old Caleb Harrison lying in bed, with red ma...

Episode 254 - Jennifer Pan: Tiger Blood

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When three masked men entered the Pan family home, it seemed like an opportunistic home break-in. But on closer inspection, things just didn't add up....

Episode 253 - Victoria Cilliers: Terminal Velocity

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Speeding towards the ground at over 60 miles per hour, former soldier and parachute instructor Victoria Cilliers was about to make history. She would ...

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: June 2022

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon?  Well, here's a tasty samp...

Episode 252 - The Murder of Sophie Lionnet: Boyzone, Babies & Broken Bones

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Boyzone obsessions and black magic paedophile rings consumed the mind of Sabrina Koudier. And her neighbours turned a blind eye to the strange woman's...

Episode 251 - Andrei Chikatilo: Doomed from the Womb - Part 2

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With nothing but a vague suspect profile to go on, and with mutilated bodies piling up around the USSR, Soviet police were battling to bring the Rosto...

Episode 250 - Andrei Chikatilo: Impotent Rage - Part 1

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For over thirty years, Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo eluded law enforcement as he slaughtered more than 50 women and children across the USSR. In the fi...

Episode 249 - The Amityville Horror | RedHanded LIVE

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join Hannah and Suruthi live on stage at a packed out Islington Assembly Hall as they describe the demonic possessions, bouncing beds, ghostly green g...

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: May 2022

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's that time of year again! We've cranked the discount slider on Patreon as far as it will go! For the next 7 days (until June 15th) you can get 12...

Episode 248 - R Kelly: The Pied Piper of R&B

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021, a 51-year-old man referred to as “Daddy” by the followers of his alleged sex cult, was found guilty of 8 counts of sex trafficking. Brea...

Episode 247 – The 2017 Manchester Bombing

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On 22 May 2017, as Ariana Grande hit the high notes of her final song to a sold-out Manchester Arena, Salman Abedi hit the button on a homemade bomb. ...

Episode 246 - The Osage Reign of Terror

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cowboys, private eyes, poisonings, bomb plots, shootings, and the birth of the FBI. This is the story of how in the 1920s, one Native American trib...

Episode 245 - ‘The Satanic Verses’: Fatwas & Faux Pas

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If the contents of a 546-page book can get one man murdered, two more seriously injured and its author forced into hiding for nine years, you can be c...

Episode 244 - The Van Breda Family Axe Murders

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When police rushed to respond to a triple murder in one of South Africa’s most exclusive gated communities, it seemed as though Henri van Breda had ...

Episode 243 - The Sackler Family: An American Cartel

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What if we told you that there was a family out there, who are still free to this day, whose actions are responsible for over half a million American ...

Episode 242 - Tonya Harding: Cold as Ice

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What would you do if you put in all the hard work, pushing yourself to the pinnacle of your sport, and you still didn’t get the recognition you dese...

Episode 241 - Mel Ignatow: Karma's Glass Table

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When pulling up the carpets in your new dream home, you'll probably be hoping to find beautiful shiny hardwood floors. What you won't be hoping to fin...

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: March 2022

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do Will Smith, Sherri Papini, and an antarctic research station have in common?  They all featured in this month's Patreon round-up, where we ta...

Episode 240 - Kim Jong Nam: Prank Show Assassination

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On the 13th of February 2017, two young women - believing that they were taking part in a bizarre Japanese game show -  smeared baby oil across the...

Episode 239 - The D.C. Snipers

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the space of 3 weeks in October 2002, Washington D.C was terrorised by a pair of spree killers carrying out a spate of deadly sniper-style attacks....

Episode 238 - The Satanic Panic: QAnon and the Case of Matthew Taylor Coleman

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What could drag a seemingly normal man, from being a fun-loving Christian surf instructor to killing his own children in fear of their "serpent DNA"? ...

Episode 237 - The Satanic Panic: The Murder of Betty Ann Sullivan - Part 1

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Betty Anne Sullivan’s body was found - with her face carved up and eyes missing, lying in a burning house filled with books on the occult - the...

Episode 236 - The Kerry Babies

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On the 14th of April 1984, the body of a baby boy was found on Cahersiveen Beach, County Kerry in Ireland. The baby had been stabbed 28 times and its ...

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: February 2022

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you the try before you buy kind Spooky Bitch? Well great! Because here's a big old taster of everything we did on Patreon last month! We've got a...

Episode 235 - Breck Bednar: Playing Games

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Every parent's worst fear is that their child is taken away from them.  Some imagine that if they relax for a second their child could be snatched ...