RedHanded
Episodes
Episode 81 - Ian Watkins: Rock Star, Paedophile, Nepiophile
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week the girls delve into the all too common world of the celebrity paedophile and institutions who turn a blind eye. Ian Watkins was the lead si...
Episode 80 - Ball Gags, BDSM & A Body in the Woods: The Murder of Elaine O'Hara
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week the girls head to Ireland to cover the "nearly perfect murder" of Elaine O'Hara. So called, because it was only a year after Elaine mysterio...
Episode 79 - Incest, Murder, Suicide: Steven & Katie Pladl
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To the outside world they looked like a normal couple, but they were anything but “normal”. Steven Pladl was not only his wife’s lover, but al...
Episode 78 - Ariel Castro & The Horror at 2207 Seymour Avenue
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Between 2002 and 2004 Ariel Castro abducted three young women and chained them up in his basement at 2207 Seymour Avenue. Over the course of the next ...
Episode 77 - Chris Watts: Family Annihilator
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2018 Shannan Watts’ body was found buried on a remote oil field in rural Weld County. In a oil tank nearby were the bodies of her two youn...
Episode 76 - Sandy Charles: The Boy Who Wanted to Serve Satan
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At just 14 Sandy Charles started hearing voices. He thought the voices were ghosts, and they were telling him to kill. On July 8 1995 Sandy obliged by...
Episode 75 - William Melchert-Dinkel: "Webcam Suicide Nurse"
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Celia Blay knew that William Melchert-Dinkel was a dangerous predator. He had been lurking in internet forums for years, manipulating vulnerable peopl...
Episode 74 - Tracie Andrews: The Road Rage Killer
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On Dec 1 1996, Tracie Andrews and her fiancé Lee Harvey were driving home from an evening at the pub when they got caught up in a cat and mouse game ...
Episode 73 - Mary Vincent: Survivor
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mary was just 15 and desperately looking for a way to get home to her family when she accepted a ride from a kindly old looking man. What transpired ...
Episode 72 - Darlie Routier: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997 Darlie Routier was convicted of murdering her 5 year old son, Damon, and sentenced to death. But for 21 years she has sat on death row protest...
Episode 71 - Satanic Panic: The Fall River Cult Murders
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s the US was in the throes of a unique cultural phenomenon - the ‘satanic panic’. The devil and devil worshipping cults were everywhere...
Episode 70 - Dylann Roof & The Charleston Church Shootings
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On June 17 2015, 13 people sat down for bible study at the historically black Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston. But one of them was a stranger - an...
Episode 69 - The Vampire of Bucharest
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1970 a serial killer stalked the streets of Romania's capital, assaulting over twenty young women and brutally murdering at least four. He was quic...
Episode 68 - Halloween Special Part 2: There's Someone in the Attic with Incest
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Halloween continues at RedHanded this week as Hannah and Suruthi bring you two more disturbing cases to keep you up all night. So, if you're not up fo...
Episode 67 - Halloween Special Part 1: Scary Tupperware & Drywall Knives
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's Halloween, so in RedHanded tradition, the girls switch up the format and pull together the most disturbing and little known cases they can find t...
Episode 66 - Little Boy Pot Pie: The Depraved Mind of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 cl...
Episode 65 - Witchcraft, “Muti” & Murder: The Case of Victoria Climbié
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 we...
Episode 64 - A Modern Maori Exorcism: The Death of Janet Moses
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On the 12th of October 2007, 22 year old mother of two, Janet Moses drowned...in the middle of her family's living room. Janet's family had become tro...
Episode 63 - An Imperfect Witness: The Story of Kevin Green
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 D...
Episode 62 - The Sims Family Murders
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 61 - Marc Dutroux: The Beast of Belgium
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of two summers across Belgium six young girls went missing - their captor, Marc Dutroux, seemed untouchable as he brazenly abducted, i...
Episode 60 - Ken McElroy: The Town That Got Away With Murder
06 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 59 - Danny Casolaro: The Man Who Knew Too Much
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Episode 58 - Sharon Lopatka: The Woman Who Dreamt of Being Tortured to Death
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 deat...
Episode 57 - House of Horrors: The Murder of Tia Sharp
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 lovi...
Episode 56 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 2
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the concluding episode of the harrowing Snowtown saga; John Bunting and Robert Wagner start to spiral. As they killed with increasing imp...
Episode 55 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 1
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 foun...
Episode 54 - Charlie Brandt & His Demons
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 br...
Episode 53 - Crocodile Tears, Sex Caravans & Arson: The Mick Philpott Story
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Episode 52 - Cruise Crime: The Disappearance of Amy Bradley
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Episode 51 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 2
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Myra Hindley and Ian Brady escalate; abducting, torturing, raping and murdering four more children. In their arrogance and hedo...
Episode 50 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 1
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - a seemingly ordinary pair of twenty-somethings abducted, tortured and killed 5 children in North W...
Episode 49 - Dinner with a Cannibal: Armin Meiwes
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Even at t...
Episode 48 - Can Dreams Kill? - The Ryan Ferguson Story
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Episode 47 - Snuff Films & Submarines: The Murder of Kim Wall
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017 intrepid super-journalist Kim Wall scored an underwater submarine interview with eccentric Danish 'inventrepreneur' Peter Madsen. 17 hours lat...
Episode 46 - Stephen Lawrence
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. I...
Episode 45 - The Virgin Killer & The Angry World of the 'Incel'
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rage fuelled by violent misogyny; the defining trait of the ‘incel’, or so-called ‘involuntary celibate’. It's rage like this, coupled with ps...
Episode 44 - Sex, Drugs & Satanism: Miranda Barbour
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Despit...
Episode 43 - The 'Swedish Case'
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1989, Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and her fiancé Urban Hoglin disappeared into the bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ. A local man, Da...
Episode 42 - Murder or Suicide: The Mysterious Death of Rebecca Zahau
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 bef...
Episode 41 - How Not to Fake Your Death: John Darwin - Canoe Man
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dying is easy, coming back is hard. In 2002 John Darwin took his red, handmade canoe out to sea and disappeared. He was eventually declared dead, but ...
Episode 40 - How Larry David Saved a Man From Death Row
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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? ...
Episode 39 - A Killer in the Family: The Murder of Becky Watts
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 jus...
Episode 38 - Phil Spector & Lana Clarkson: Murder & Music Production
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Los Angeles celebrity justice system comes under scrutiny this week. Convicted murderer and one time music producer Phil Spector sits in a Califor...
Episode 37 - Where is Sabrina Aisenberg?
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 se...
Episode 36 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 2
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi follow a spiraling, unmedicated and (literally) bloodthirsty Richard Chase as he dives into a brutal killi...
Episode 35 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 1
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Clinical vampirism, terrifying delusions and paranoid schizophrenia. This week the girls enter the bloody world of their very first truly psychotic sp...
Episode 34 - The Most Dangerous Prisoner in Britain
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a Perspex box, in Wakefield maximum security prison sits alleged cannibal, confirmed killer and rumoured inspiration behind "Hannibal" - Robert Mau...
Episode 33 - Oscar Pistorius & Reeva Steenkamp: The Valentine's Day Murder
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
Episode 32 - The Brit on Death Row: Linda Carty
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Starting on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth and ending up in Texas via the Caribbean, Suruthi & Hannah unpick how a British grandmother and DEA...
Episode 31 - The Lady Killer and the Human Pelt
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Toxic masculinity, Borderline Personality Disorder and a whole lot of abattoirs. We're off to Australia this week to unravel why Australian big hitter...
Episode 30 - The Chucky Doll Killer
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week the girls explore the phenomenon of ‘amphetamine induced psychosis’ in one of most violent cases they’ve ever covered. Join them as th...
Episode 29 - The Cult with No Name
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Episode 28 - The Wests & The Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 2
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. A...
Episode 27 - The Wests & the Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 1
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ro...
Episode 26 - Madness, Murder & Munchausen by Proxy: The Case of Gypsy Rose Blancharde
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Things aren't always what they seem... To the world Dee Dee Blancharde was the perfect mum. She dedicated her life as a single mother to taking care o...
Episode 25 - The Grindr Killer
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 apar...
Episode 24 - Murder in the Alps
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 23 - The Girl in the Box: Colleen Stan
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ano...
Episode 22 - How Ancestry.com Solved a 32 Year Old Cold Case
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Abandoned at age five, Lisa never knew where she came from. It was her quest to uncover her birth parents via sites like ancestry.com that unraveled...
Episode 21 - What Killed Zigmund Adamski?
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One day Zigmund Adamski mysteriously disappeared, and if his family thought that this was strange - nothing would prepare them for what was to come. B...
Episode 20 - Halloween Special Part 2
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 19 - Halloween Special Part 1
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For Halloween, the girls bring you the most disturbing cases they could find for their very own treehouse of horror, filled with kiddnapping, a Buffal...
Episode 18 - The Love Triangle Killing
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a stranger turns up at your front door and hands you a bouquet of petrol station flowers? Broken hearts, English countryside and an...
Episode 17 - Who Killed Billie-Jo Jenkins?
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One afternoon 13 year old Billie-Jo Jenkins was bludgeoned to death with an 18 inch tent spike whilst doing chores “home alone”. Suspicion immedia...
Episode 16 - The Drag Queen & Her Costume Cupboard Corpse
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dorian Corey, drag queen superstar, was the queen of queens in life - but when she died, a bizarre and horrifying mystery was revealed. What her frien...
Episode 15 - The Spy in the Bag
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2010, 31 year old MI6 cryptologist Gareth Williams was found dead, in his flat, in his bath, padlocked inside a bag. Pretty much zero forens...
Episode 14 - The Three Trials of Timothy Hennis
30 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Episode 13 - Serial Killer Survivor to YouTube Star
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Stranded on the side of a Californian desert with no way home, would you refuse a lift from a stranger? This is how our case this week begins as we ex...
Episode 12 - The Dexter Copycat Killer
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Exasperation station this episode as Suruthi & Hannah take you through the crimes of aspiring horror filmmaker, The Edmonton Killer and the cracki...
Episode 11 - The Butcher Baker of Alaska
09 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 10 - The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 9 - The Beast with a Human Face
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 sha...
Episode 8 - The Honeymoon Murder
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 D...
Episode 7 - The Lake Bodom Murders
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Four teenagers go camping on the shores of Lake Bodom in Finland. Three are brutally murdered and one survives. Then three confessions, two suicides a...
Episode 6 - The White House Farm Massacre
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A secluded farmhouse, religious mania, psychosis and a total bloodbath. Today we attempt to untangle one of the most notorious cases in British histor...
Episode 5 - Bible John
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A real mystery for you, as we head to Scotland for the case of Bible John, an unknown serial killer who raped and murdered 3 women between 1968-1969. ...
Episode 4 - The Enfield Poltergeist - What Really Happened?
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Today we dip our eager feet into the paranormal with this puzzling case that left the police, occult experts and an entire nation transfixed and terri...
Minisode 1 - Grisly Deaths from the Violin Cupboard
09 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happened one Sunday afternoon when the girls try out a makeshift "studio" and end up locked in a 1x0.5m cupboard. How do they escape? What were t...