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.
On 1 December 1948 a fully clothed man was found dead on Somerton beach, South Australia. The bizarre discoveries that followed - including a couple of genetic abnormalities, a rare book of Persian poetry and a mysterious code - led to this becoming one of the strangest and most obsessed over mysteries in history...
This is as weird as it gets.
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In June 1999 a fire broke out at 9 Kelvin Road in Clydach, Wales. By the time emergency services arrived the residents: Mandy Power, her 80 year old mother Doris and Mandy’s 2 daughters Katie, 10 and Emily, 8 were all dead. But the cause of death wasn’t the fire; they had all been savagely beaten to death. All of the evidence, including a discovery made inside Mandy, pointed at a possibly grotesquely sexual motive and a potential police cover up...
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The US military has a rape problem; 20% of women who enlist are sexually assaulted or harrassed.
The US military also appears to have a murder problem, because a distrubing number of women who have been victims of 'command rape' are dying in mysterious circumstances.
Vanessa Guillen was a 20 year old solider stationed at Fort Hood, Texas and on 22 April 2020 she vanished. 6 weeks later her burned, dismembered and concrete encased remains were found. Vanessa, just like LaVena Johnson and so many other women in the miliatary, appears to have been planning to report a fellow solider before she was murdered...
Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com
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This month in our Black Lives Matter series, we discuss the death of Darren Cumberbatch. Darren was a quick-witted and friendly electrician who was punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed, and tased by British Police while suffering from Acute Behavioral Disturbance in the toilet of a bail hostel in Nuneaton. This is Darren’s story.
The Justice4Daz campaign Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Daz/
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When Rachel O'Reilly was brutally murdered in her own home in County Dublin, her family were told that it was a home invasion gone horribly wrong. Her devastated parents thought they'd never set foot in her house ever again; that was until Rachel's husband Joe invited them over. But to their horror Joe insisted on showing them the grisly blood-stained walls and made them watch as he re-enacted how he thought Rachel had been killed...Alarms bells rung loud and clear...
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In March 1995 a Kansas mechanic bought an old truck at auction; as he started to fix it up he discovered a manila envelope taped to the gas tank. To his horror, inside were 97 photos - most of them were of children being sexually abused. There was also a series of photos of a badly beaten, naked young woman.
He called the police, and this harrowing discovery unbelievably solved multiple, decades-long unsolved mysteries…
Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com
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On 4 August 2002, 10 year old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished from a family barbeque in Soham, Cambridgeshire. This sparked one of the biggest police hunts in UK history and when a series of grim discoveries were made, it changed the country forever.
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It was after midnight on the 29th of December 2012 when 20 year old Naomi Oni was walking home in East London. Suddenly out of the darkness she saw a figure appear and a splash of liquid hit her face. The excruiating burning pain was immediate, and the horrors that followed would only be topped when she discovered just who had carried out this brutal revenge acid attack.
Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com
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Madalyn Murray O’Hair, was a woman very not of her time. In buttoned-up 50s America she called herself a militant feminist, a thinker and a drinker and - perhaps most heinous of all: an atheist.
Her provocative ways quickly gained her the illustrious title of "the most hated woman in America". She was so hated in fact that in 1995 when she, her son and her granddaughter went missing no one really seemed to care - that is until in 2001 when their dismembered bodies were found on a ranch in Texas...
Sources can be found at www.redhandedpodcast.com
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On 1 June 2001 a bloody massacre unfolded within the palace walls of the Nepalese royal family in Kathmandu. It left 10 members of the royal family dead - including the king, the queen and all 3 of their children.
These killings sparked dangerous conspiracy theories across the globe, started a civil war and set in motion a series of events that led directly to the fall of the entire royal dynasty of Nepal.
But was the right man blamed...? Was this atrocity the work of a son scorned by a love lost, or a secret military coup designed to overthrow the powerful monarchs?
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References: www.redhandedpodcast.com
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In this month's Black Lives Matter episode we discuss the murder of Breonna Taylor.
#sayhername
Where to help:
Petition: https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor
#birthdayforbreonna action items (incl email and addresses to contact the Kentucky Attorney General): https://msha.ke/30flirtyfilm/
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor?
Louisville Community Bail Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/
Recommended reading:
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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In 2011, 17 year old Emily Longley was found dead in her boyfriend - Elliot Turner's parents' house. But it soon became clear that the story the entire Turner family were telling about how Emily died didn't quite add up...
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You Spooky Bitches have done it again! We've got another boatload of freaky tales (and quite a few laughs) to get us through the hellscape that is 2020.
We need more spooky tales! Send yours in at - redhandedpatreon@gmail.com
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In 2001 on a remote stretch of highway in Australia’s Northern Territory, British backpacker Peter Falconio vanished. His girlfriend, Joanne Lees, told police that they had been attacked by a strange man. The subsequent investigation saw local drug runner Bradley Murdoch jailed for life - but questions still linger, especially around the truthfulness of the story that Joanne told...
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In Feb 1986 the body of newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was found in the home she shared with her husband, John. It was quickly ruled a break-in gone wrong, and the case fell into the icy depths of unsolved cold cases. But over 2 decades later the truth finally began to emerge; and for the LAPD it struck closer to home than they could have ever imagined.
Poll: https://poll.ly/#/PwXbm7o3
References:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-mystery-one-of-their-own/
https://filmdaily.co/news/stephanie-lazarus/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/crimes-of-passion/12/
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-matthew-mcgough-interview-20190503-story.html
https://www.nowtolove.com.au/news/real-life/stephanie-lazarus-case-58163
https://meaww.com/lazarus-female-lapd-cop-murdered-ex-lover-wife-helped-avoid-jail-for-20-years
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/07/lapd-lazurus-murder-mystery-killer
https://www.laweekly.com/stephanie-lazarus-former-lapd-detective-gets-27-years-plus-for-murder/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-lazarus-file/308499/
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/in-plain-sight1/
https://abc7news.com/archive/8657803/
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Following reports of strange riutals and bizarre religious ceremonies, in January 2020 Panamanian police headed into the country's remote jungle. What they found in a makeshift church, in the isolated indigenous village of Alto Terrón was something straight out of a 70s exploitation horror movie...
Sources:
The Missionary podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-missionary-61230211/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46336355
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/a-missionary-on-trial
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/young-missionaries/551585/
https://www.zegrahm.com/blog/indigenous-cultures-panama-introductory-guide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/panama-sect-massacre-indigenous-official-neglect
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/16/panama-burial-pit-children-exorcisms-religious-sect
https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/2020/01/16/congreso-ngaebe-lleva-registro/2445714.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51144629
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In April 2016 millionaire author, Helen Bailey vanished. After months of searching, she was found much closer to home than anyone could have imagined...
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Ian Stewart full 999 call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsS8X4Zspr4&t=510s
Ian Stewart arrest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQnHMHXjx00
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/helen-bailey-murder-how-killer-13873266
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36814157
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On Nova Scotia’s South Mountain, just a few miles away from the apple blossom fares and prosperous farms of the Annapolis Valley, a despicable evil had gone unnoticed for generations. In 1984 Sandra Goler, a 14 year old girl, finally broke the silence when she revealed the true horror of her family’s predilection for horrific incest abuse and torture.
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Book: "On South Mountain" by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths
Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctOzHsqvF80
https://listverse.com/2018/12/14/10-dark-facts-about-the-incestuous-goler-clan/
https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1986/3/10/the-scars-of-poverty
https://www.d2l.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Statistics_4_Risk_Factors.pdf
https://www.psychology.org.au/inpsych/2013/october/davis
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-016-1071-7
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-016-1071-7
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A little boy in a trenchcoat, a terrifying doorbell of death and biting tarot cards....this month, in their continued effort to scare us into forgetting about the world’s problems, Hannah and Suruthi tell their scariest tales yet, courtesy of you Spooky Bitches.
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In 2011 a fire tore through the Bartlam home in Nottingham, England. 14 year old Daniel, his little brother Dominic and the family dog all made it safely outside, but Jacqui, their mum didn't. She had been beaten to death with a hammer and left inside the burning building. Daniel told investigators a masked intruder had killed his mum, but discoveries they made on the boy's computer soon put him at the top of the suspect list.
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Sources:
Documentary: http://crimedocumentary.com/daniel-bartlam-murderers-mothers-coronation-street-killer/
Other References:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/02/teenager-daniel-bartlam-jailed-murder
https://mycrimelibrary.com/daniel-bartlam-teen-killer/
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/daniel-bartlam-14-year-old-255698
https://www.crimetraveller.org/2015/08/children-who-kill-daniel-bartlam/
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/coronation-street-copycat-killer-murdered-17116982
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/how-long-children-who-kill-12515206
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-17540452
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-coronation-street-copycat-killer-7940474
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On 4 June 2008, 30 year old Mormon businessman Travis Alexander was found dead in his shower. He’d been shot in the head, stabbed 27 times and his throat had been slit from ear to ear. The only person any of his friends could think that would want to hurt him was his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias. She maintained her innocence, but the murder trial that followed was filled with scandals, secrets and sordid details.
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Sources:
YouTube Dr Grande on Jodi Arias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wKVy8z5rQs&t=653s
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jodi-arias-retrial-updates_n_6032282?ri18n=true
https://abcnews.go.com/US/shocking-moments-jodi-arias-trial/story?id=19135206
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k94wj/psychology-of-stalking-treatment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eYbvWOoTo
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-trial-timeline-events-arizona-murder-case/story?id=18123295
https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2015/03/03/jodi-arias-trial-timeline/24326127/
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a47623/jodi-arias-now/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-denied-guilt-told-sex-photos-palm/story?id=18211547
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One night Cyntoia Brown was picked up by a man named Johnny Allen, he offered her $150 for sex, she agreed and they went back to his house. By the end of the night Cyntoia had shot and killed Johnny Allen. She was just 16 years old. This is the story of Cyntoia's journey through the American justice system.
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Sources:
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a32301407/where-is-cyntoia-brown-now/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/us/cyntoia-brown-release.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50082326
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/29/cyntoia-brown-kim-kardashian-become-involved-case-12628191/
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2020/04/9758949/where-cyntoia-brown-now-story-netflix-documentary
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a32263064/cyntoia-brown-now/
https://time.com/5828724/cyntoia-brown-netflix-documentary/
https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/a32301817/cyntoia-brown-husband-j-long-marriage/
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/07/us/tennessee-cyntoia-brown-granted-clemency/index.html
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This episode focuses on the murder of George Floyd.
Places to donate and petitions to sign:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#petitions
Black Voters Matter: https://movement.vote/funds/black-voter-fund/
The George Floyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
Act Blue:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd
NAACP Defense Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/
Fair Fight: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fairfight-2020-dtd
Recommendations to watch:
Full report of complaints against Chauvin:
http://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/27-CR-20-12646-complaint.pdf
The Derek Chauvin flyer analysed:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/derek-chauvin-flyer-accuracy/
How Black votes are being suppressed:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/black-voter-suppression-rights-america-trum
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52861726
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On 13 January 2018, a 17 year old girl made a break for freedom from the house of horrors in which she’d been held captive. She called 911 and soon police stormed the disgusting house in Perris, California. They discovered several children chained to filthy beds in a nightmarish room where the floors were lined with faeces.
The children were the escapees’ siblings, and those responsible for the torture and imprisonment, were their very own parents.
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References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcPhyMb5cc
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6jochd
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47991829
https://allthatsinteresting.com/turpin-family-children
https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/turpin-family?CMP=ILC-refresh
https://abcnews.go.com/US/david-louise-turpin-parents-allegedly-tortured-held-kids/story?id=62431899
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/20/us/turpin-family-911-call/index.html
http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/turpin-family-children-hidden-in-plain-sight/
https://www.today.com/news/house-horrors-how-turpin-children-are-doing-1-year-later-t146841
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/turpin-family.html
https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-to-turpin-children
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Let’s leave lockdown behind and find something else to be scared of for a bit...
In this bonus paranormal episode Hannah and Suruthi bring you ghostly tales from some fellow Spooky Bitches!
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29 year old Nisha Patel-Nasri had it all; she was happily married, she ran 2 businesses and she even found time to volunteer as a Special Constable for the London Metropolitan Police. So the entire nation was horrified when one night in 2006 Nisha was stabbed to death in her own home...
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References:
Footage of Fadi Nasri making appeal: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/femail/video-1544419/Arrogant-killer-Nasri-lets-slip-sly-smile-TV-appeal.html
http://www.justjustice.org/prank.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jun/25/ukcrime
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/may/28/ukcrime2
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/hiring-a-hitman/590620/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201603/the-psychology-murder-hire
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On 11 July 2011, 8 year old Leiby Kletzy was walking home from school when he vanished. After an extensive police hunt for CCTV, Leiby’s tight-knit Hasidic community were shocked to see that the man who had taken the little boy was wearing a yarmulke; he was one of their own...
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Sources:
https://nymag.com/news/features/levi-aron-2011-12/
https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/aron-levi.htm
https://wildabouttrial.com/trial-coverage/levi-aron/
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sundown-lieby-kletzky-killer-pleads-guilty
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/levi-arons-interview-from-rikers
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/missing-hasidic-boy-found-murdered
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sundown-signs-of-struggle-before-kletzky-murder
https://crownheights.info/jewish-news/445459/today-3rd-yahrtzeit-of-leiby-kletzky-obm/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-man-pleads-guilty-in-leiby-kletzkys-murder/
https://www.aish.com/jw/s/In_Memory_of_Leiby_Kletzky.html
https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11778297
https://nypost.com/2017/06/02/brother-of-man-who-dismembered-child-found-dead-in-closet/
https://collive.com/leiby-kletzkys-killer-indicted/
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Tales of the paranormal and unexplained sent in by listeners, dramatically retold by Suruthi and Hannah.
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In 2003, 14 year old Charlene Downes disappeared. Rumours quickly spread that she had been murdered, dismembered and her remains had been sold as kebab meat in local takeaway shops. Her story brought to light a dark secret that had lay hidden for years under the illuminations and arcade noises of the English seaside town of Blackpool.
Support the show and get access to weekly bonus content at patreon.com/redhanded
Sources:
The Murder of Charlene Downes documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_obctJ9eA
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/may/30/ukcrime.childprotection
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zmpqvx/murder-charlene-downes-blackpool
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We’re all on lockdown, so just for a bit of fun (and because you all really deserve it right now for staying home/being an amazing key worker) we thought we’d bring you a little bit of extra content, and hopefully a smile!
In this very special bonus episode see how much Hannah and Suruthi know about true crime, their own podcast and each other...
Plus, meet the latest Spooky Bitch to join the RedHanded ranks.
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In October 2005 police walked into a flat, above a voodoo temple, in New Orleans. What they discovered was straight out of the grisliest of horror films. In this episode Hannah and Suruthi delve into the case of the so-called “Katrina Cannibal” for a story of murder, suicide, Iraqi torture prisons, voodoo temples, marinaded human remains and potential necrophilia…
Support the show and access bonus content on Patreon: www.patreon.com
Sources:
Graveyard Love doc: https://vimeo.com/135476736
https://www.historicmysteries.com/zach-bowen-addie-hall-murder/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/aoi7nf/the_murdersuicide_of_zach_bowen_and_addie_hall/
NPR pod: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5246990
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In December 2018, 21 year old Grace Millane was backpacking around New Zealand. One evening she agreed to a date with a man, tragically by the following morning Grace would be dead. The man claimed it was all just an accident, a result of consensual “rough sex” - but the evidence suggested otherwise...
We Can't Consent To This: https://wecantconsenttothis.uk/
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/21/grace-millane-trial-closing-arguments-new-zealand
https://www.vox.com/2019/11/21/20976064/grace-millane-death-new-zealand
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/21/world/grace-millane-sex-game-gone-wrong-intl-gbr/index.html
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-02-21/grace-millanes-killer-jailed-why-cant-we-name-him/
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a29887214/grace-millane-murderer-not-named/
https://www.theweek.co.uk/98326/grace-millane-killer-sentenced-to-life
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When Chuck Morgan was found dead in the desert - shot in the head, wearing a bulletproof vest and with a $2 note hidden on his body covered in mysterious bible code - it was unbelievably ruled a suicide.
And it was just the beginning of a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths that seem to go all the way to the top...
Tin foil hats on everyone.
Sources:
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Doug_Johnston
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Morgan
https://unsolved.com/gallery/chuck-morgan/
https://www.cochise.az.gov/sites/default/files/treasurer/WillcoxMurder.pdf
https://www.creepyhollows.com/faq/index.php?solution_id=2577
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu5izP_kvX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s78GB_0xpk
https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-279150.htm
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Nirbhaya means "the fearless one", and it was the name given by the Indian media to a 23 year old woman - Jyoti Singh - after she was brutally gang raped on a bus by 6 men.
Jyoti’s rape and murder was a watershed moment in India, it made grisly headlines across the world, and brought tens of thousands of protesters onto the streets of Delhi to demand a change in how the nation deals with violence against women and girls. This horrific attack still continues to dominate the news as the four remaining convicted men are set to be hanged any day now...
Help support the show and get bonus content at: Patreon.com/redhanded
References:
Vimeo link for India's Daughter: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/indiasdaughter
https://hyperallergic.com/169022/indias-newest-superhero-is-a-rape-victim/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25855719
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/indias-tribal-councils-under-fire-after-gang-rape
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/worst-countries-for-women?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
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In this exciting bonus episode Hannah and Suruthi sit down with former DCI Colin Sutton - the Senior Investigating Officer who caught serial killer Levi Bellfield.
They dig into the behind the scenes work that went into such and important investigation - but also find out a bit more.
The Kray Twins even make a surprise appearance.
You can buy Colin's book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07LGHWYFF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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In 2002 13 year old Milly Dowler vanished from a bus stop on her way home from school; this sparked one of the nation’s biggest investigations, but sadly her remains were found 6 months later.
Over the next few years, one by one more women started being attacked across South London. The MO was often different, the vehicle was always different, but the police were convinced that they had a serial killer on their hands...
Bonus RedHanded content available now via Patreon: patreon.com/redhanded
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8_kLtN8Wk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6x3vPfzZf0&t=2363s
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/23/milly-dowler-family-court-verdict
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/24/dowler-family-bellfield-trial-mental-torture
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14017661
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/26/crime.uk
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Under the Duvet is RedHanded's brand new weekly post-show, mini-show! It's developed exclusively for $5+ patrons - but this week we are giving everyone a little sneak peek of what usually goes down after we stop recording! So enjoy last week’s Valentine’s Day + despot themed episode.
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When 18 year old, Peter, woke up in a mystery flat after a night out he was scared. It was then with horror that he realised he couldn't move his arms, and a strange man was sexually assaulting him...
That man was Reynhard Sinaga; and thanks to Peter, in January 2020, Sinaga was finally convicted of 159 sexual offences, including 136 counts of rape.
For years he'd been preying on the men of Manchester, England - attacking with impunity and going totally undetected thanks in large part to his innocent looks, and the copious amounts of GHB that he plied his victims with.
This week we uncover the man behind the mugshot.
You can reach Greater Manchester Police via the Major Incident Public Portal - Operation Island
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51027404
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50688975
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When 18 year old Conrad Roy was found dead in his truck it looked like an obvious suicide.
But as detectives started their investigation it soon became clear that this was anything but obvious. Conrad and his 17 year old online girlfriend, Michelle Carter, had exchanged a series of troubling messages in the lead up to his death. Ones in which Michelle seemingly encouraged Conrad to kill himself.
Today RedHanded asks the question - did Michelle Carter cause Roy Conrad’s suicide, or was it a tragic perfect storm based on teenager’s romantic fantasy?
References:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/michelle-carter-i-love-you-now-die.html
https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a27704746/who-is-michelle-carter/
https://thetab.com/uk/2019/10/07/michelle-carter-case-true-story-now-127963
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a12091057/michelle-carter-untold-story/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a57125/michelle-carter-trial/
https://www.insider.com/supreme-court-denies-michelle-carter-appeal-2020-1
https://apnews.com/f5d6d8cc5039c6b701e67950e37b6271
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/michelle-carter-awaiting-early-release-from-mass-jail/2066122/
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/23/us/michelle-carter-text-suicide-release/index.html
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When 8 month old Matthew Eappen was admitted to hospital with signs of a severe head trauma, and died just days later of his injuries, doctors and police suspected abuse.
Louise Woodward, Matthew’s 18 year old British au pair, was quickly arrested and tried for his murder; and although she denied ever hurting the baby, many experts seriously doubted her story.
With the medical evidence pointing in every direction, in this week’s episode Suruthi and Hannah put shaken baby syndrome and the case of Louise Woodward under the microscope...
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWVHYKvCVO4
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/louise-woodward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAHCc96-YE
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nanny-controversy-flares-again/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nanny-controversy-flares-again/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/doctor-admits-head-fracture-could-have-been-weeks-old-1.113939
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Jeremy Bamber is currently 35 years into of a whole of life sentence for murdering 5 members of his own family.
To this day he claims to be innocent, and on 6 December 2019 Bamber launched a high court challenge to the Crown Prosecution accusing them of failing to disclose material evidence that undermines the safety of his 1986 conviction.
He wants to build a challenge by contesting key pieces of evidence, so in this episode we are revisiting White House Farm to look into his claims.
A massive thank you to ITV for sharing the masses of evidence that they have gathered in the development of their upcoming 6 part drama on this tragic case - it starts Wednesday 8th Jan 2020, on ITV at 9pm.
Check it out, they know what they are doing.
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On the 31 of December 1999 10 year old Krystal Surles woke up to find a man standing in her room. She watched in horror as he killed her friend Katy, slit her own throat and then walked out.
Somehow Krystal survived and went on to testify against her attacker; he turned out to be one of America’s most prolific serial killers.
Sources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sells-tommy-lynn.htm
ABC News created a 10-minute mini-documentary 'Tommy Lynn Sells - The Mind of a Psychopath'.[
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2014-04-02/death-watch-most-notorious/
https://latterly.org/reasonable-doubt/
https://www.thoughtco.com/serial-killer-tommy-lynn-sells-973154
Poems
http://minutesbeforesix.blogspot.com/2014/04/in-memory-of-tommy.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sells-tommy-lynn.htm
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When 6 year old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family’s mansion on Boxing Day 1996 - it sparked a relentless mystery that still endures 25 years later.
Leave what you think you know behind and join Hannah and Suruthi to try and sort fact from fiction...Happy Christmas.
References:
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jonbenet-ramsey
https://twentytwowords.com/unsettling-facts-about-the-mysterious-death-of-jonbenet-ramsey/
https://www.newidea.com.au/jonbenet-ramsey-case-everything-you-need-to-know
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/jonbenet-ramsey/
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/jonbenet-ramsey-brother-burke-cbs-lawsuit-settlement
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2017/07/jonbenet_murder_mystery_solved_not_by_psychics/
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/jonbenét-ramsey-case-the-quiz
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/26/us/ramsey-indictments.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Churchwell-t.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/us/10ramsey.html
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For “The Family” or “The Great White Brotherhood”; Anne Hamilton-Byrne was the female reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and her word was final.
Unfortunately her word mainly consisted of stealing babies, beating, abusing and injecting terrified children with LSD and poisoning unsuspecting people in order to carry out her “miracles”...
Documentaries:
The Cult That Stole Children:
60 Mins Australia - Interview with Anne Hamilton-Byrne:
Other sources:
https://www.mamamia.com.au/the-family-cult-anne-hamilton-byrne/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anne-hamilton-byrne-obituary-dg9fxbhdq
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In the early hours of the 26th of August 2008, a fire ripped through Osbaston House a 5 bedroom mansion set in 16 acres of beautiful land in Shropshire, England. It was home to the Foster family.
The investigation quickly revealed that the fire was indeed arson, and once the police stepped into the remains of the destroyed mansion, one by one the family's dark secrets started to surface...
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In February 2019 in The District Court of New South Wales a woman named Jeni Haynes entered the witness box - but she wasn't alone. 6 different personalities spoke that day through Jeni's body; in a landmark case that saw a person with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder) testify in her many alters, and secure a conviction.
This week the ladies cover this truly inspirational story.
Jeni's DID came from the abuse that she had suffered as a child at the hands of her father, Jeni's mind split into over 2000 “self-states” or personalities. These alters were there to protect Jeni - and to this day she is adamant that her DID saved her soul.
Join Suruthi and Hannah as they delve into her astonishing condition, the tragic impact it’s all had on her life and also her brave pursuit of justice.
60 Minutes Australia documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXFcbPbvI4&t=2s
MedCircle DID (Encina):
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In a filthy clinic in West Philadelphia that had been left uninspected for years, despite a sizeable drugs bust, Dr Kermit Gosnell was exploiting poor, desperate women seeking to terminate their pregnancies after the legal limit of 24 weeks.
His absolute callous recklessness makes this one of the more grisly crimes that RedHanded has delved into - given the subject matter, listener discretion is advised.
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References:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/10/05/the-true-story-of-kermit-gosnell-and-his-victims/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/us-abortion-doctor-found-guilty-of-murder-1.1392098
In this second instalment of Halloween at RedHanded the girls come to you live from London’s Shoreditch House with tales of a mysterious ghost ship and a killer with a penchant for all things tree.
Join Hannah and Suruthi as they ask the important questions like: could it have been aliens? What’s the perfect squirrel ice lolly recipe? And what even was WW1?
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It’s Halloween so that means that it’s time for a troubling story swap. Join Hannah and Suruthi in part one of this Halloween special as they turn their stomachs with the case of a cult-ish Anglican exorcism, and harrowing stories of modern-day Indian child sacrifice...
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In May 1999 a scared 14 year old girl walked into a Hong Kong police station and told the confused officers that she was being terrorised by a ghost. At first the police didn’t take her seriously, but then she elaborated that the reason this ghost was haunting her, was because she had helped to torture a young woman named Fan Man-yee to death. The girl then led police to a flat in the city, and what they found there shocked even a nation going through an already unbelievably violent decade...
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https://www.ranker.com/list/hello-kitty-murder-facts/cat-mcauliffe
https://allthatsinteresting.com/hello-kitty-murder
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1858067/five-hong-kong-most-notorious-crimes-80s
http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/09/12/the-horrifying-true-story-of-the-hello-kitty-murder/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49071502
https://china-underground.com/2012/10/24/the-hello-kitty-murder/
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For weeks 17 year old Hannah Foster had been experiencing an uneasy feeling; she was sure that a strange man was following her.
Terrifyingly, she wasn’t just imagining things...
And one night, when Hannah was just yards from her front door, she was abducted. 6 days later her body was found.
The stellar police investigation that followed quickly identified a suspect, but unbelievably he had already fled the UK and disappeared to India, a nation of over a billion people. Navigating racial tensions and cross nation cooperation meant that bringing Hannah’s killer to justice was not going to be an easy task.
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References:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3203251/Last-words-of-Hannah-Foster-played-to-murder-jury.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/25/ukcrime2
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/13/hannah-foster-suspect
https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kohli-maninder.htm
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hannah-foster-murder-suspect-confesses-on-television-80n33h5kns5
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7741562.stm
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-forensic-scientist-helped-solve-2142516
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/magazine/7748046.stm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44871218
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv5uCKVWZX0
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In 1978, five men piled into a car after a local basketball game, they stopped at a shop to pick up some snacks and then they vanished. The next day their car was found on a mountain road, without a scratch, half a tank of petrol and in perfect running order. Why would the men have left the car and entered the freezing wilderness?
It wasn’t until the summer that four of the men were found, well at least their bodies were...but the discoveries only deepened the mystery; one of the men was even found in a trailer, surrounded by food - but had seemingly starved to death.
To this day Gary Mathias, man number five, remains missing - leaving us asking the question what happened to the Yuba 5?
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Between 1986 and 1987 in Pennsylvania, self-appointed “Bishop” Gary Heidnik abducted six women and held them prisoner in a pit that he’d dug into the floor of his basement. The brutal torture that these women suffered at Heidnik’s hands is incomprehensible - especially when you consider that the entire time Heidnik was running his own church just meters above where these women were trapped.
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2 years after Gable Tostee was arrested for the murder of Warriena Wright he stood trial. In this week’s episode the girls delve into the aftermath, the court case, Tostee’s bizarre past behaviour towards women - and vitally all of the information that the jury weren’t told at his trial...
Sources:
What The Gable Tostee Jury Wasn't Told
Gable Tostee could face fresh charges for death of Tinder date Warriena Wright on Gold Coast
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12189542
Gable Tostee's parents have defended his actions on the night Warriena Wright died.
https://www.mamamia.com.au/gable-tostee-parents-60-minutes/
Gable Tostee murder trial hears Warriena Wright's body severely mangled
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On August 8, 2014 28 year old Gable Tostee and 26 year old Warriena Wright met for a first date in Surfer’s Paradise on The Gold Coast. The pair had matched on Tinder - and the date was only ever meant to be a casual hook up, so they went straight to Tostee’s 14th floor flat.
In the early hours of the following morning Warriena plunged to her death from Tostee’s balcony.
This case truly is a mystery, and normally it would be impossible for anyone to deduce what had happened behind closed doors that night - but unbelievably with this story we have over 3 hours of audio recorded by Tostee himself...
Sources:
60 Minutes Australia podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/60-minutes-true-crime-podcast/id1445801763?i=1000425558113
60 Minutes Australia documentary:
Raw Audio:
Full Transcript:
https://en.mogaznews.com/World-News/amp/214900
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On the 16th of April 1996 James Patterson Smith walked into Gorton police station and told officers that his 17 year old girlfriend had drowned in the bath. This was of course a lie; Kelly Anne had sustained weeks of torture at the hands of Smith - and her story left even seasoned detectives and pathologists lost for words. So brutal was the crime that it was the first time in Manchester Crown Court that jurors were offered counselling, every single one accepted.
This week’s episode is not for the faint of heart.
Sources:
Britain's Darkest Taboos doc on Kelly Anne's case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SRFU2mMQg8&t=2553s
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In 1977 an intruder entered the beautiful Glensheen mansion on the shores of Lake Superior. In the night of terror that followed, in a macabre game of Cluedo come to life, the wealthy heiress and her nurse were savagely murdered. There were suspects aplenty but the police knew from the start that the answers lay close to home...
Sources:
'Glensheen's Daughter: The Marjorie Congdon Story' by Sharon Darby Hendry
'Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings' by Gail Feichtinger
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In 2001 Andrea Yates did the unthinkable when one-by-one she killed all 5 of her children; what had possessed this seemingly ordinary, loving mother? Well, according to Andrea it was Satan himself. Join the girls this week as they ask did the devil really make Andrea do it?
Recommended viewing:
Andrea Yates: A Mother’s Madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsYS-guaNHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2pNZPJPdoc
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It’s “Lolita” on the English Rivera this week as the girls follow the story of a 30 year old Maths teacher, Jeremy Forrest, and his obsession with a 15 year old student - Gemma Grant*.
Their relationship escalated from casual conversations to constant messaging, to kissing to a full blow sexual affair; and soon the whole world knew. In 2012, taking a final stab at being together, the pair ran off to France sparking an international manhunt which left both of their lives in tatters.
*Name changed
Sources:
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Qandeel Baloch was a social media sensation, women’s rights activist - and a queen of controversy. In 2016 Qandeel released a series of photos and videos that she had captured with one of Pakistan’s most influential and powerful clerics. She also accused him of sexually harassing her - 25 days later Qandeel was murdered; rocking Pakistan as much in death as she had done in life.
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Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/09/qandeel-baloch-murder-pakistan-social-media-star
A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch by Sanam Maher
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woman-Like-Her-Qandeel-Baloch/dp/152660759X
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Vera hadn't had it easy; she was a vulnerable woman who had coped with ADHD, serious learning difficulties and sexual abuse all her life. At the age of 22 she began dating a 16 year old boy named Zachary Brooks. And while this may sound predatory, it wasn't Vera who was the dangerous one. It was the matriarch of the Brooks family - Cheri Brooks aka "Sugar Babe".
When Vera got pregnant, Cheri's determination to meet her grandchild created a horrifyingly dangerous situation for the young mother.
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In 1988 Julie Ward headed off on the trip of a lifetime to Kenya, but just a week before she was set to return home she took one last trip into the Massai Mara game reserve - and vanished. Julies Father John flew to Kenya immediately to help with the search, but in a cruel twist just a week later it was he who found his daughters dismembered remains in a remote spot on the park. This set in motion a story that would be riddled with mystery, rumours and lies - and leave Julie's family still fighting for justice some 30 years later.
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On the 26th of May 2010 Peter Gee, caretaker of a block of flats in Bradford was checking the CCTV when something going on outside flat 33 caught his eye. The man who lived there often had sex workers over so when Peter saw a woman going into the flat he wasn't surprised, but he was not prepared for what happened next. A few minutes later he saw the woman running out of the flat, the man was chasing her. Then, he took out a crossbow and shot her. The man was the self-proclaimed "Crossbow Cannibal".
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This week the girls do some much needed myth-busting surrounding the notorious Daniel LaPlante. With a story that features seances, multiple murders, creepy suitors and an alleged invader dressed in a wedding dress hiding in a family's cupboard. It's not hard to see why this case has grown to horror movie-esque proportions.
Join Hannah and Suruthi as they work to separate fact from fiction, and discover that the truth is just as scary as the lies.
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Ruthless cult - The Nation of Yahweh - hit its peak in the late 80s as the self-proclaimed leader, and son of God, Yahweh ben Yahweh promised the people of Miami salvation through messages of black power, total devotion and obedience. His message spread, but so did the fear and control as reports of beatings, extortion, arson, and grisly murders - at the hands of his notorious "Death Angels" - shocked a nation.
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In this week's episode the girls are off to the ditches of Peterborough to cover the case of spree killer Joanna Dennehy, only the third woman in Britain to ever receive a whole of life sentence. Joanna was just 30 years old when she went on a 14 day killing spree that left 3 men dead, dumped in the ditches in rural Cambridgeshire. They were found covered in stab wounds consistent with a frenzied attack, and placed in humiliating poses - what led such a young woman to kill with such rage?
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In 2012 Kathleen Valle started to become suspicious of her New York City police officer husband Gilberto.
He was spending all of his time on the computer, and Kathleen, who had just had their baby was afraid he was being unfaithful.
When she finally broke and checked his online activity - what she found was far more horrifying than anything she had imagined.
Gilberto Valle had been on cannibal fetish forums talking to strangers about how he wanted to abduct, rape, torture, kill and eat women - including Kathleen.
In the trial, and the media frenzy, that followed - the question became; when does a thought become a crime?
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This week the girls are off to Malaysia to cover a case of money, murder, black magic and Malaysian pop music. Mona Fandey was a one hit wonder in the 80s - but when she realised that her singing career was going nowhere, she and her husband turned to black magic...which of course, ended in murder.
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In this very special 'thank you' episode the girls cover the brutal case of the Ken and Barbie killers, a Canadian couple who abducted, viciously raped and murdered multiple women, including Karla's own teenage sister Tammy. After the pair were caught Karla was quick to put the blame solely on Paul but the evidence casts considerable doubt on her claims of helplessness
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One Saturday morning in November 2010 Sally Challen walked into the kitchen and hit her husband Richard in the head with a hammer. She hit him over 20 times. In the trial that followed Sally was painted as a possessive, jealous woman who murdered her husband in cold-blood. This year, in 2019, Sally won a land mark appeal to have her conviction overturned as a fresh defence was shaped around her mental state owing to the years of emotional and psychological abuse she had suffered at the hands of her husband.
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In the late 2000s a spate of South Asian and Middle Eastern Men in Toronto's Gay Village vanished. The local community noticed almost immediately by the police seemed unable or unwilling to investigate the disappearances. By the time they realised that they had a serial killer on their hands the situation had escalated into horror movie proportions.
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In 1975, two little boys, Frannie and Barry were playing on the site of an old Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, when they discovered a pit full of bones.
Later that same year, Mary Moriarty fell into a tunnel in the same spot, where she saw piles little bundles laid on top of each other like steps.
It would take the tireless research of Catherine Coreless to uncover the grim reality of what they actually saw. Catherine's discovery would shake Ireland and shed light on the Catholic Church's not so secret past.
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In 2006 all of Abraham Shakespeares' dreams came true.
He won 30 million dollars on the lottery, it looked like all his troubles were over.
But within 3 years all of his money disappeared and soon after, Abraham disappeared too.
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In 1947 the NYPD had to break down the door of the infamous Collyer Mansion in Harlem after the smell of death was reported by a neighbour. A rabbit warren of tunnels made from junk, lined with booby traps waited for them on the other side.
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In 2018 on the tiny Scottish island of the Isle of Bute, 6 year old Alesha MacPhail vanished from her bed in the middle of the night. The community was left reeling when just a few hours later her body was found. The question that tore though the small town now was who could have done this? And when the truth was revealed it was more shocking than anyone could have imagined.
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This week, in the concluding part of the David Parker Ray series, the girls head into the infamous torture trailer - “The Toy Box”.
This episode is not for the faint-hearted as Suruthi and Hannah discuss the terrifying torture tactics Parker Ray used on his victims...
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In this week's episode the girls head to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico to cover the case of arguably the most terrifying offender they have encountered; David Parker Ray aka The Toy-Box Killer. In 1999 a 911 call altered police in Elephant Butte to a naked woman, covered in blood running down the dusty desert streets - she had a dog collar around her neck and a 6 foot metal chain trailing behind her. Upon investigation this small town police team uncovered the truly unbelievably horrors that had been unfolding right under their noses in an innocuous looking trailer behind 513 Bass Road...
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is the new Ted Bundy film; in this very special episode of RedHanded Joe Berlinger, the director, joins the girls for an exclusive Q&A to delve into the psychology of Ted Bundy. On the panel is also Mary Fenwick, agony aunt for Psychologies magazine, who has her own take on what drives men like Bundy and the people who love them.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a Sky Cinema Original and is in cinemas and on Sky Cinema May 3.
We hope you enjoy this bonus episode to get you ready for the film’s release!
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On April 20th 2011, 15 year old Raymond Buys was pronounced dead. Some of the doctors who treated him were so traumatised by the injuries sustained by the emaciated young boy that they needed counselling to cope. But what really happened to Raymond at the Echo Wild Game Rangers Camp that promised to "make men out of boys"
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In 2008 28 year old Kanika Powell, an army veteran, experienced a series of odd encounters on her doorstep. Mysterious men in different guises were turning up at her home asking for her by name. Kanika, knowing that something about their behaviour was very wrong, never opened the door. Scared by the strangers she started to take precautions to stay safe, but one day when Kanika returned home she found a man waiting for her.
He killed Kanika and to this day no one has any idea who he was, or why he killed her.
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In 2003 16 year old Shafilea Ahmed disappeared from her family home in Warrington, she was presumed missing but the truth was much more horrific. She’d been killed by her own parents because the “dishonour” she was bringing to her family was just too high a price to pay for her to live. Join the girls this week as the delve into the infuriating and heartbreaking world of “honour” based violence and murder.
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In March 2013 college student Elisa Lam checked into The Cecil Hotel on LA’s infamous skid row. Soon she started displaying some odd behaviour; some of which was caught on CCTV - this footage then went viral on the internet after Elisa’s body was found 3 weeks later in a water tank on the roof of the hotel. Forums still buzz with theories about what really happened to Elisa.
Was it murder? Suicide? An accident? The paranormal? Or a hit?
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"Six revolver shots shattered the Easter Sunday calm of Hampstead, and a beautiful platinum blonde stood with her back to the wall. In her hand was a revolver." These were the headlines that the hit the nation after Ruth Ellis, a young, welsh-born hostess shot and killed her lover - David Blakely - in broad daylight. The pair had had a violent and tumultuous affair, and there was no doubt that it had been Ruth who had pulled the trigger, but had another one of her lovers primed her to kill? Join the girls this week as they delve into the story of the last woman to be executed in the UK, and understand why her story captured the public imagination like nothing before.
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The Kirtland Cult were an offshoot of an offshoot that broke away from the Reorganised Church of Latter Day Saints in 1987. Like most cults they were led by a single-minded, self-appointed, narcissistic leader - Jeff Lundgren - who demanded absolute control of his followers; exploiting them psychologically, sexually and financially. Soon after the group moved onto a remote compound in Kirtland, Ohio the stockpiling and the paranoia began - and it would end in the brutal murder of a family of 5.
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In 1989 5 young black and Latino boys from Harlem were accused and convicted of the rape and assault of Trisha Meili, a young white woman. They spent between 5 and 13 years in prison until finally in 2003 their sentences were vacated. As we approach the 30th anniversary of this notorious case join the girls, and their special guest - Tracy Clayton - for an in depth look into a brutal crime, and racially charged social, political and media response that still resonates today.
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This case starts with a pretty mundane crime; an accusation of poster theft. But it ends in the mysterious and tragic death of a 22 year old man - Otto Warmbier.
Otto died after he was arrested while on holiday in the secretive and mysterious nation of North Korea. But what really happened to Otto? The evidence is anything but clear cut...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/us/otto-warmbier-north-korea-dies.html
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At just 23 Omaima Nelson killed her 56 year old husband, Bill. 3 days after the murder police entered the Nelson home and found a nightmare scene; not only had Omaima killed and dismembered Bill, she'd also been cooking his remains...
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Someone was cyberbullying Jenelle Potter; they hurling online abuse and threatening her life with claims that she was "too pretty to live". As things escalated, inexplicably, the CIA seemed to become involved and Jenelle's parents felt the only way to save their vulnerable daughter was to take matters into their own hands.
But once her "bullies" were dead questions quickly surfaced about Jenelle's behaviour...
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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 singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets. He toured all over the world, playing to sold out stadiums of adoring fans - so in 2012 when he was arrested and charged with 13 counts of child sex offences, including against a child as young as 11 months old, the world was shocked.
This is a particularly troubling case because it of course covers the abuse this depraved man doled out to incredibly young victims, but there are also deeply troubling questions raised about why authorities missed chance after chance to catch Watkins.
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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 mysteriously vanished that police made a series of chance discoveries so unbelievable that they would make a CSI script writer squirm...
But these discoveries did go on to unmask a devious killer and rip him from his idyllic suburban life to pay for a brutal murder.
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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 also her biological father - and needless to say this story doesn't end with a happily ever after. In April 2018, less than a year after they were married Pladl shot and killed his daughter/wife Katie, their 7 month old son and Katie's adoptive father - Tony Fusco.
Join the girls this week as they delve into the mysterious world of genetic sexual attraction and the tragedy it brought in this case.
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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 decade he systematically broke them down, tortured them, raped them, brutalised them - until finally, and miraculously they escaped.
This week we cover the case of Ariel Castro and the three remarkable women who survived an unbelievable ordeal; Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.
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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 young daughters; Bella and Celeste.
With only one real suspect who fit the crime, this case left the world asking - what makes a seemingly ordinary man, who appeared to have it all, kill his pregnant wife and children?
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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 luring 7 year old Johnathan Thimpsen out into the woods.
What Sandy did to Johnathan, in the hopes of "pleasing Satan", shocked the world.
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Celia Blay knew that William Melchert-Dinkel was a dangerous predator.
He had been lurking in internet forums for years, manipulating vulnerable people into disingenuous suicide pacts . This week Hannah and Suruthi follow the bizarre case of the so called "webcam suicide nurse" and the woman who wouldn't stop until justice was served, even after authorities told her to look the other way.
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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 with a couple of maniacs in another car. The road rage turned into a brutal attack and Lee Harvey died after being stabbed over 40 times; and despite also being attacked Tracie survived.
At least this was the story that Tracie told police, the press and anyone who would listen.
But it turned out that this hadn't been a random stranger attack at all, Tracie Andrews had killed her fiancé in cold blood. And the more she cried on TV, the more suspicious the nation became...
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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 that night however is the stuff of nightmares. The man, Lawrence Singleton, abducted, raped and maimed Mary with an axe, leaving her for dead at the bottom of a 30ft ravine.
But Mary survived.
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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 protesting her innocence, claiming that the real killer was a stranger who broke into the house and attacked her and her sons.
Is she a lying cold-blooded killer, or a tragic victim of brutal injustice? The evidence seems to point in every direction.
Join the girls this week as they tackle one of their most frustratingly convoluted cases yet.
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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 and they were coming to get you. This week Hannah and Suruthi follow the case of the Fall River cult murders, a brutal killing spree carried out by a group of self-proclaimed devil worshippers that saw 2 young women bound, raped and tortured to death, and a third missing with only skull fragments and a harrowing story left behind.
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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 - and by the end of the night, in a brutal attack, 9 of the congregants would be viciously murdered. When the killer, Dylann Roof, was captured it became clear that he was driven by a racist ideology of white supremacy and the dream of sparking a violent race war.
Join the girls this week as they navigate the terrifying world of online hate groups and a senseless mass murder that shook the US.
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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 quickly dubbed "the vampire of Bucharest" after his victims were found with chunks of their flesh missing and holes poked in their necks, as if someone had been feeding on them.
When the killer was eventually captured further twists surfaced as authorities began to wonder if vampirism and serial killing ran in this man's family...
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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 for hearing about a murderous man secretly living in a family's attic, or about a stomach churning incestuous relationship between a mother and her adult son; I'd give this one a miss...
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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 to freak everyone the F out. This week's episode features a rather grim serial killer with some serious Ed Gein vibes, and a woman who will go to any grisly lengths to get what she wants. So curl up, hit play and prepare for scares.
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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.
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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...
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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 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?
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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?
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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.
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...
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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.
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...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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...
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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...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
All families have secrets, but none quite so dark as the one the Brandts had kept hidden for almost 30 years.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
But what drove these two to commit crimes so heinous that they scarred the psyche of a generation?
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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 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...
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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?
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In 2017 intrepid super-journalist Kim Wall scored an underwater submarine interview with eccentric Danish 'inventrepreneur' Peter Madsen.
17 hours later Madsen was rescued from the sinking vessel, but Kim was no where to be seen.
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...
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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.
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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’.
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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...
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In 1989, Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and her fiancé Urban Hoglin disappeared into the bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ.
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...
Because the story his remains told was very different to the one which sent Tamihere away.
What really happened to Heidi and Urban?
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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...
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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 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?
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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?
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...
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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.
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...
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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 River Deep Mountain High is regrettably still a banger.
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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.
But soon the parents’ odd behaviour left onlookers wondering what they really knew about their daughter’s disappearance...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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’).
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...
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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.
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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.
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.
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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 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.
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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
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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.
But who was the real target of this execution? What was the true motive in this senseless slaughter?
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.
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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.
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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 a chilling quadruple homicide that had been left unsolved for 32 years. Be careful who you send your DNA to.
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One day Zigmund Adamski mysteriously disappeared, and if his family thought that this was strange - nothing would prepare them for what was to come.
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…
Who, or what killed, Zigmund Adamski?
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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...
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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 friends found hidden in the back of her costume cupboard, zipped up in a dress bag, shocked the world.
We still don't know exactly what happened, but join the girls this episode as they try unravel this confusing case.
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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 forensics would be found, and the case still remains unsolved to this day.Was Gareth murdered? If so, then who by? And why?
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.
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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...
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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 explore the story of Jennifer Asbenson, a woman who escaped violent rapist and serial killer - Andrew Urdiales
Join us as we detail her escape, his atrocities and the bizarre fame Asbenson has cultivated since her ordeal.
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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.
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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…
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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.
40 years later this brutal crime still remains unsolved - what really happened to the murdered Oklahoma Girl Scouts?
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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.
Where this discovery would lead Japanese police shocked the world.
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’...
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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?
Join us as we tread the twisted timeline of a bizarre honeymoon murder this week - and ask if it really was the husband...
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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 still remains unsolved. So today we explore who murdered the Bodom Three? And why? If you think you know this one, think again.
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A secluded farmhouse, religious mania, psychosis and a total bloodbath. Today we attempt to untangle one of the most notorious cases in British history. When five members of the Bamber family were slaughtered in one bloody night - what really happened?
What does the evidence say and why does so much of it seem totally contradictory? We examine the old evidence, the new evidence and even poke around the ‘missing’ evidence to ask if justice has really been served.
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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. Apart from their physical similarities and the MO there was one alarming point to note, all the women were menstruating on the nights they were attacked. How did he know? What did it have to do with anything? And crucially, who was he? We have some theories...
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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 terrified. With so much evidence of ghostly goings on, from demonic voices caught on tape, possessed children screaming and barking to flying furniture scaring police and reporters, what was really happening to 11 year old Janet Hodgson?
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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 they thinking? And most importantly, did the sound quality improve?
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