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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 ...
Bonus - Devils in The Dark: Ed Gein, The Butcher of Plainfield
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Audioboom Studios, it's a brand new podcast from Helen Anderson. Alongside her hilarious best friend Danni Howard they'll be exploring some of th...
Episode 234 - The Hillsborough Disaster
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The deadliest event in UK sporting history took place on the 15th of April, 1989. In the starting minutes of the F.A. Cup semi-finals between Liverp...
Episode 233 - Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of true crime, the media is often accused of inaccuracy, dramatisation, and sensational headline writing, but there's an exception to eve...
Episode 232 - Novichok Eau de Toilette: Sergei & Yulia
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the 4th of March, 2018, the residents of Salisbury, England, watched on in horror as British soldiers flooded their streets, and people in hazmat s...
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: January 2022
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you been on the fence about becoming a patron of RedHanded for a while? Hopefully, this round-up of some of our best exclusive patron-only conten...
Episode 231 - A Storm in a Teacup: The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If a man in his mid-forties crashed into your local hospital being violently sick and claiming to have been poisoned by the Russian State, you'd be fo...
Episode 230 - Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In early January of 1956, Glasgow police received a phone call about a break-in at the home of the Smart family. The scene they walked in on however w...
Episode 229 - Scientology - Part 2: How to Make Celebrity Friends and Influence People
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Hannah and Suruthi finish their two-part attempt to unravel the mysteries of Scientology (and get themselves fair-gamed) by discussing Scien...
Episode 228 - Scientology - Part 1: The Maternity Ward of Questionable Religious Sects
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In part 1 of this 2 part series, Hannah and Suruthi peer under the slippery stone of Scientology’s sinister origins. They track the life of founder ...
Episode 227 - The Slenderman Stabbing
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their best friend Payton Leutner into the woods ...
Episode 226 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 2
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in the concluding part of our Casey Anthony series - Hannah and Suruthi head into a courtroom full to the brim with bulldog lawyers, yet mo...
Bonus - December Patreon Round-Up: Best of 2021
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the end of another amazing year on Patreon and our whopping 16% off Patreon annual membership FLASH SALE (details below), we're bringing ...
Episode 225 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 1
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When 22-year-old Casey Anthony was arrested on 16 July 2008, her two-year-old daughter Caylee hadn't been seen for over a month. Casey's history of ly...
Episode 224 - The Guildford Four & The Maguire Seven
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the 5th of October 1974, the Provisional Irish Republican Army blew up a military pub in Guildford, killing four soldiers, one civilian and injurin...
Village of the Damned: The Nithari Child Murders | #223
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every couple of weeks like clockwork, another child would vanish from Nithari, Delhi. The police didn't seem concerned, and no one wanted to take a cl...
Episode 222 - Natalee Holloway
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway and her friends flew from Alabama to Aruba to celebrate their graduation. Just five days later, when th...
Episode 221 - Koh Tao: Murder Island
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2015 the brutalised bodies of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on the tropical island paradise of Koh Ta...
Episode 220 - The Murder of Dylan Redwine
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the 18th of November, 13 year old Dylan Redwine boarded a plane to visit his dad, Mark. Dylan really didn’t want to go - Mark lived in the middle...
Episode 219 - Halloween Special Part 2 - The Boogyman and the Boy in the Attic
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're bringing you part two of our annual Halloween story-swap. We've got two terrifying tales of true crime Halloween-horror including Th...
Bonus - Sinister Societies: A Sneak Peek
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a bit of a treat for you, our dedicated Spooky Bitches, we've decided to give you a little sneak peek of our new show Sinister Societies, which deb...
Episode 218 - Halloween Special Part 1: How Would You Make a Human Vagina?
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's Halloween time, that means at RedHanded - it's story swap time! This week Suruthi takes us to a TB ward in the 1930s for some "sexy" body-steali...
Bonus - October Patreon Round-Up
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time again, where we give you a sneak peek of what goes on over at the glorious RedHanded Patreon page, so we're giving you some of the juic...
Episode 217 - Stephen McDaniel: The Killer with the Key
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Giddings had a strange feeling; she couldn’t shake the sense that someone had been coming into her apartment. But nothing was ever out of pla...
Episode 216 - Issei Segawa: The Kobe Cannibal
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over 30 years ago, Issei Sagawa murdered, raped and ate a young woman named Renée Hartevelt. Despite his guilt never having been in question, Sagawa ...
Episode 215 - Robert Bales: The Kandahar Massacre
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Panjwai, a district in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan, on the 11th of March 2012, U.S Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales committed what is cons...
American Vigilante: Interview with Sam Walker
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special bonus episode of RedHanded, we sit down with former BBC journalist Sam Walker to discuss her latest investigation into the terrif...
Episode 214: Jodi Jones: Murder in Midlothian
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the 3rd of June 2003, 14-year-old Jodi Jones ran home from school and begged her mum Judith to let her go out. Eventually, mum relented and Jodi ru...
Episode 213: We Need to Talk About Paris Bennett
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As she sat with her two children in Abilene Texas one January morning in 2007, Charity Lee pondered, that she may not be a perfect mother, but she di...
Bonus - August Patreon Round-Up
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this month's juicy sneak-peek behind the Patreon curtain, we have our In the News coverage of a Doctor tuned Exorcist, our Under the Duvet coverage...
Episode 212 – 3 Guys, 1 Hammer: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2007, a blurry 8-minute long video shot on a mobile phone, titled “3 guys, 1 Hammer”, was uploaded to a shock video website. The video sho...
Episode 211 - Lorena Bobbitt & The 8-Inch Carving Knife
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lorena Bobbitt, the penis severing incident and the resulting Frankenpenis porn star hit the front pages almost 30 years ago. And since then, this is ...
Bonus - Georgia Williams: The Snuff Film Maker Down the Street
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this second instalment of our promise to deliver two bonus episodes after we won GOLD at the British Podcast Awards, we cover the heartbreaking cas...
Episode 210 - Shamima Begum: ISIS & The Bethnal Green 3 - Part 2
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Suruthi and Hannah head into a place widely regarded as one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East right now - the notorious al-Haw...
Episode 209 - Shamima Begum: ISIS & The Bethnal Green 3 - Part 1
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Sunday the 22nd of February 2015, three London schoolgirls aged between 15 and 16 boarded a Turkish Airlines plane from Gatwick – they were heade...
Episode 208 - Pedro Rodrigues Filho: Serial Killer Superstar
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pedro Rodrigues Filho, aka Pedhrino Matador, Killer Petey or The Brazilian Dexter, is a bit of an anomaly as far as serial killers go. He brutally kil...
Bonus: The Columbine High School Massacre
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year we promised that if we won gold in the BPA Listeners' Choice category, we would deliver two bonus episodes chosen by the Spooky Bitc...
Bonus - June Patreon Round-Up
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello you lovely listeners! We’ve cut together some snippets of what we’ve been up to on Patreon this month… With highlights from In the News,...
Episode 207 - Searching the Sounds: The Disappearance of Ben Smart & Olivia Hope
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Award winning champions of the people RedHanded bring you a boat themed mystery for the ages. In the early hours of New Years Day 1998 Ben Smart and O...
Episode 206 - Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hannover
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1900s Germany was a nation ravaged by the horrors of war, debt and death. For years, as they struggled with stagflation and starvation, a...
Episode 205 - Anton LaVey & The Church of Satan
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anton LaVey, founder and head priest of the Church of Satan, led a controversial life; he was linked to the deaths of a famous Hollywood starlet and a...
RedHaunted: Some Say This Baby Video Is Haunted, Do You Hear It?
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5EQGk3H77w&t=49s&ab_channel=RedHanded Calling all Spooky Bitches! Did you kn...
Episode 204 - Dennis Nilsen: The North London Necrophile
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, in an unassuming suburb of North London, some plumbers were called out to fix an un-flushable toilet. This already unpleasant job was made mu...
Bonus - July Patreon Round-Up
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s July, we’re RedHanded and football is (maybe) coming home! So, to celebrate, we’re delivering some of our Patreon exclusive best bits str...
Episode 203 - The Miyazawa Family Massacre
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
30th December 2000, in Setagaya Japan, the Miyazawa family were preparing for the upcoming festivities. Tragically, however, the family wouldn't ...
Episode 202 - The Haunting Murder of Matthew Shepard
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Content Warning - this episode contains quotes pertaining to homophobic and discriminatory language which some listeners may find upsetting.Listener d...
Episode 201 - Jimmy Savile: Predator in Plain Sight - Part 2
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The concluding part of this series explores Savile’s strange relationship with his mother, God and the BBC. The girls examine the mountains of evide...
Episode 200 - Jimmy Savile: Predator in Plain Sight - Part 1
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, TV presenter Jimmy Savile was idolised as a national treasure in Britain. But the power and adoration Savile enjoyed was matched only by ...
Bonus - Kate Webster: The Real Life Sweeney Todd
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to ‘NOW’, and the new show ‘The Nevers’, we’re taking all you spooky bitches on a trip to Victorian London for an extra special bonus...
Bonus - June Patreon Round-Up
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, all you non-Patron pals! Boy, do we have a treat for you... We've cut together some of our Patreon exclusive best bits from the month of May - ...
Episode 199 - Cindy James: Invisible Torment
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Cindy James' decomposing body was found bound and dumped outside an abandoned house, those who knew her best were horrified - but not entirely sh...
Episode 198 - The Death of Max Spiers
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2016 Max Spiers, a British conspiracy theorist, sent his mother a series of bizarre texts about how he was terrified for his life. Days later ...
Bonus - May Patreon Round-Up
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pubs are re-opening indoors! And to celebrate, this week we have a gift for all of you soon-to-be spooky bitch patrons. We’ve cut together a han...
Episode 197 - Ezra McCandless: Killer Girlfriend
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 22 March 2018, 19 year old Ezra McCandless stood barefoot, covered in blood banging on the door of a remote Wisconsin farmhouse. She was hysterical...
In Conversation with Clair McGowan: Ireland's Vanishing Triangle
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1993 and 1998, eight women went missing from an area around Dublin that became known as the ‘Vanishing Triangle’. Was there a link? Specul...
General Butt Naked: Liberia’s Cannibal Warlord | #196
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Liberia's first bloody civil war, a feared warlord known as "General Butt Naked" believed that human sacrifice and cannibalism would give his army ...
Episode 195 - Chris Benoit: The Canadian Crippler
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007 Chris Benoit was one of the biggest stars of the WWE. And he was known for his almost masochistic dedication to his craft, so when he didn’t...
RedHaunted #8 - That Child Looks Scared!
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
RedHaunted is back, and in video form (for all $10+ Patrons)! This time we learn three key things: Pennsylvania is the land of civil war ghosts...
Episode 194 - Ivan Milat: The Real Wolf Creek
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between September 1992 and November 1993 the remains of seven backpackers were found dotted around Australia’s Belanglo State Forest. The long putre...
Episode 193 - Ireland's "Scissor Sisters"
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the 30th of March 2005, passers-by began to notice something odd floating down Dublin's Royal Canal. At first they told themselves it was just a ma...
In Conversation With Emily Kenway: The Truth About Modern Slavery
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Kenway is a writer and activist. As a former advisor to the UK's first Anti-Slavery Commissioner she was at the heart of modern slavery action. ...
Episode 192 - Operation Fort & The Truth about Modern Slavery
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019 a few hungry men went looking for food at a local soup kitchen in Birmingham; here they met an aid worker who was horrified to discover the su...
Episode 191 - "Bride of Christ": Swedish Sects & Sex Slaves
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 90s Pastor Åsa Waldau became the leader of the Knutby Pentecostal church. She had already been sacked from such a post in Uppsala after h...
Episode 190 - Sylvia Likens: The Girl in the Basement
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 26 October 1965, in the basement of a house in Indianapolis, the police found the body of 16 year old Sylvia Likens. Her remains were covered in ov...
Episode 189 - Castration, Cults and Cauterisation: The Ant Hill Kids
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the secret project deadline hangs ominously over us, we have dug up an absolute stonker from the Patreon vaults to keep you all going! In the e...
In Conversation with Sonia Faleiro: The Good Girls
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2014, the bodies of 2 teenage girls were found hanging from a tree in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India. It was reported t...
Drunk Women Caught RedHanded
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our Acast Red Nose Day Mashup podcast for Comic Relief For Red Nose day two of the UK’s finest crime podcasts have mashed up for an ep...
Episode 188 - Michael Alig: Confessions of a Club Kid Killer
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where drug use was rampant and controversy was currency, confessions of murder weren't even enough to raise heavily painted eyebrows. This ...
RedHaunted #7 Stay Away From Small Boys With Red Balls
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alien encounters in the Australian outback, the Irish folk horror story of Half-Hanged McNaughton, the man behind the curtain in a haunted theatre, an...
Episode 187 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 2
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the concluding part of this grisly series Leonarda Cianciulli sinks deeper into depravity. The fear reaches boiling point as her continued experime...
Episode 186 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 1
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leonarda Cianciulli was consumed by fear thanks to a curse her mother had placed on her. She had learned all she could about black magic from the Roma...
In Conversation with Ryan White: The Prank Show Murder of Kim Jong-nam
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the 13th of February 2017, the world witnessed the most high profile political assassination in decades when Kim Jong-nam was exposed to a deadly n...
Episode 185 - The Cartels Killing Women
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 9 February 2020, 25 year old Ingrid Escamilla was found murdered in her home. She had been stabbed to death by her partner, and then horrifically m...
Bonus - EmptyHanded: The Supercut
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Valentine's Day! (Whatever that means...) This week as a special gift for all of you, we’ve cut together all of the best bits of a segment...
Episode 184 - The Execution of Jamal Khashoggi
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At 1:14pm on 2 October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Within minutes he was killed and ...
Episode 183 - Anders Breivik: Norway's Nightmare
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 22 July 2011, Anders Breivik sent out thousands of the same email. The subject line read: "The Islamisation of Western Europe and the State of the ...
Episode 182 - Adrian Lim: Singapore's "Ritual" Child Killings - Part 2
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the aftermath of the arrests, the strange confessions of ritual black magic and child sacrifice, and the bizarre death penalty t...
RedHaunted #6 Don't Name Your Ghosts
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A civil war ghost named Toby, tribal curses, granddad's ghost, and Banshees in Ireland.... These are your spooky stories, and real life experiences of...