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Introducing Serial Killers & Murderous Minds: Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder Oct 14, 2026

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Today we're sharing an episode from the true crime podcast Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, hosted by Vanessa Richardson and forensic psychologist Dr. Tristin Engels. Each episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels take you deep into the psychology of history’s most chilling murderers. They blend gripping true crime storytelling, with expert analysis to uncover what drives people to kill.

In this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels untangle a murder case that began in 2012, when Dave Kroupa met a woman named Liz Golyar on a dating app. Months later, Dave started seeing someone else, a woman named Cari Farver. Cari vanished overnight, and a flood of threatening messages began arriving in her name. As the harassment escalated from digital terror to arson, investigators began to realise the truth was far darker than a jealous ex...

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ShortHand: The Conjuring Oct 13, 2026

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In 2013, horror blockbuster The Conjuring packed out cinemas worldwide, terrifying moviegoers with its alleged ‘true story’ of a house haunted by malevolent demons.
But the real truthbehind the tale is far sketchier than we might think – with marital discord, pissed-off neighbours, and a ghost-busting power couple spearheading a very unfair smear campaign against a 19th century farmer’s wife.

This is the ShortHand.

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FROM THE VAULT - Babis Anagnostopoulos: The Fitbit Killer | #389 Oct 12, 2026

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With the release of the Amazon Prime documentary about the murder of Caroline Crouch, we're reaching into the vault to bring you H&S' coverage of this tragic case.

When the body of 19-year-old Caroline Crouch was found in her attic room after an apparent home invasion – with her 11-month-old daughter crying next to her, and her puppy hanging from the bannister – the nation of Greece mourned with her widower, Babis Anagnostopoulos.

A handsome helicopter pilot, Anagnostopoulos had led the tributes since her death. But one month on, at a clifftop memorial service, Athenian police revealed that new analysis of the couple’s smart devices revealed a new culprit. One who’d fooled not just the police – but the whole nation.

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ShortHand: Exorcisms Around the World Oct 09, 2026

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Vanquishing demons lingering in a tainted soul might sound like a very Christian idea – but exorcisms are prevalent in almost every culture across the globe. From ancient China to modern Islam, there are hundreds of ways to free someone from the grips of an evil spirit. This week Hannah and Suruthi run down a few of the most interesting – and discuss why, before modern medicine, possession seemed like such a likely explanation.

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The Vietnamese Gore Butcher | #471 Oct 08, 2026

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When videos of a gruesome beheading and dismemberment surfaced on gore-fetish websites across Vietnam in 2025, the internet was shaken to its core.

Not because it was the first time anyone had seen disturbing videos online. But because this time, the victim seemed to have been actively involved in planning his own murder.

But is it less of a crime if you have the victim’s consent? And could this be the world’s first ever real snuff film?

Enter one of the most insane open-source murder investigations in history, as a community of crime-addicted cybersleuths tried to crack this grisly case themselves…

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ShortHand: Papua New Guinea's Black Magic Murders Oct 06, 2026

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Black magic, or ‘Sanguma’, is often used to explain everything from minor illnesses to sudden deaths in Papua New Guinea.

Horrifyingly, it’s also behind the recent rise of brutal witch hunts sweeping the nation. An epidemic of violence in which, predominantly, women and girls are being publicly tortured and murdered.

Why? Find out on this week’s ShortHand.

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ShortHand: Vlad the Impaler - The Real Dracula Oct 02, 2026

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To round launch our month of spooky eps, our Halloween ShortHand covers the life and afterlife of one of the most sinister, blood-thirstiest bastards in all of human history: Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Vlad Dracula.

We dig into the legends surrounding the savage ruler – including an al fresco lunch among hundreds of thousands of twitching, impaled enemies – and see how they tie into the modern, blood-sucking vampire legend. Happy Halloween…

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The Witches of Guaratuba: Black Magic, Child Sacrifice and a Deadly Plot | #470 Oct 01, 2026

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In the early 1990s, the beach town of Guaratuba, Brazil had its very own witch hunt.

It started with the mutilated body of a seven-year-old boy: Evandro Ramos Caetano...

And it would end with a coven of accused ‘black magic’ practitioners – including the mayor’s own wife and daughter – sentenced to decades behind bars for alleged child sacrifice rituals.

But as shocking claims emerged of political scheming and torture-fuelled confessions, was that really the whole story? Or did the trouble brewing in Guaratuba run far deeper?

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ShortHand: Eric Gill - British Art’s Darkest Secret Sep 29, 2026

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From the BBC and Westminster Cathedral to Penguin paperbacks, typeface creator Eric Gill was once lauded as the eccentric genius behind some of Britain’s most iconic visual landmarks. But behind the scenes, he was also a sex-mad monster who shamelessly abusedhis own daughterswithin the rural Catholic artisanal communes where he lived and worked…

And the art world covered it all up for decades.

TL;DR – Did you know one of the UK’s most celebrated sculptors and graphic designers was actually a notorious nonce? Neither did we.

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ShortHand: Should We Support Paedophile Catchers? Sep 25, 2026

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To some paedophile catchers like Chris Hansen are online superheroes, protecting children and putting predators behind bars. To others they're vigilantes who enforce their own form of justice while putting people in danger. But do they have a place in the system?

This week Hannah and Suruthi are jumping into the murky waters of self styled sting operations, hidden cameras, and entrapment to find out.

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