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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.

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Episode 231 - A Storm in a Teacup: The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko Feb 03, 2022

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If a man in his mid-forties crashed into your local hospital being violently sick and claiming to have been poisoned by the Russian State, you'd be forgiven for thinking he was just another drunk member of the public. However, what Alexander Litvinenko had ingested was a little bit stronger than anything available at your local pub.
Pop on your ushankas and buy a first-class ticket to Moscow, it's time for round one of RedHanded vs The Kremlin.

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Sources:
Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOWK-Vj7_M&t=148s
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/58088#symptoms

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30929940

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/world/europe/25spy.html

https://time.com/5725041/uk-russian-assassins-heidi-blake/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-14-suspected-hits-on-british-soil

https://time.com/5725041/uk-russian-assassins-heidi-blake/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43299598

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/22/annexing-crimea-putin-make-russia-great-again

Episode 230 - Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw Jan 27, 2022

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In early January of 1956, Glasgow police received a phone call about a break-in at the home of the Smart family. The scene they walked in on however was something far more sinister. Peter Smart, his wife, Doris, and their 10-year-old son Michael had all been shot dead at point-blank range in their beds.
It was clear to detectives that the Smarts had been dead for almost a week, but if that was true, it didn’t explain who’d been feeding their cat…

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Sources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/manuel-peter.htm https://www.mulhollandbooks.com/guest-posts/denise-mina-peter-manuel/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/revealed-sex-secrets-of-scottish-serial-997157 https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201505/what-happens-when-psychopath-falls-in-love https://blackpoolcrime.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/blackpool-serial-killers-peter-manuel-did-hannibal-lecter-serve-ice-creams-on-the-golden-mile/https://murderpedia.org/male.M/images/manuel_peter/Part1.pdf https://murderpedia.org/male.M/images/manuel_peter/PeterManuelFiles.pdf https://murderpedia.org/male.M/images/manuel_peter/Part4.pdf https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QBkjAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT5&dq=peter+manuel+serial+killer&ots=BuRsz0ZsMD&sig=hLu19tNjZIqn5WkHKn5GIilOGbs&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/peter-manuel#The%20Investigation http://www.policemuseum.org.uk/crime-casebook/interesting-cases/the-manuel-murders-1956-58/

Episode 229 - Scientology - Part 2: How to Make Celebrity Friends and Influence People Jan 20, 2022

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This week Hannah and Suruthi finish their two-part attempt to unravel the mysteries of Scientology (and get themselves fair-gamed) by discussing Scientology's most important questions like: "what is the current structure of The Church of Scientology?", "where does Tom Cruise fit in?" and most importantly "where on Xenu's green earth is dead-eyed Dave's wife Shelly Miscavige?"
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Sources:
Wright, Lawrence. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief . Silvertail Books. Kindle Edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emtjD_s6SHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpoAm0i61Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1qL1M4P5Rc
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/rj-36.mp3
https://www.reddit.com/r/scientology/comments/rtpjvr/scientology_the_life_of_a_child_in_scientology/
https://tonyortega.org

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12cdw1

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5bwcw6

https://people.com/tv/laura-prepon-on-motherhood-and-leaving-scientology/

https://www.whoismikerinder.com

https://www.leahreminiaftermath.com/articles/leah-reminis-family-expose-leahs-lies.html

https://www.aaaa.org/timeline-event/brooke-shields-sparks-controversy-calvin-klein-jeans/

Episode 228 - Scientology - Part 1: The Maternity Ward of Questionable Religious Sects Jan 13, 2022

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In part 1 of this 2 part series, Hannah and Suruthi peer under the slippery stone of Scientology’s sinister origins. They track the life of founder L. Ron Hubbard, from the birth of Dianetics, to the constantly shifting goalposts of engrams, and of course the conception of the Sea Org.
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Episode 227 - The Slenderman Stabbing Jan 06, 2022

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On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their best friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times.
They claimed it was in an attempt to become proxies of the fictional character Slender Man.
It was a case that gained the attention of the press internationally, bringing children's internet usage and "creepypastas" to the forefront of public attention. But what really happened in the woods that day?
Text sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/21/slender-man-case-anissa-weier-sentenced https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42913133 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27776894#:~:text=The%20Slender%20Man%20meme%20began,with%20which%20to%20terrify%20people.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man https://hazlitt.net/longreads/living-slenderman https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK541211/#:~:text=Shared%20psychotic%20disorder%20(Folie%20a%20deux)%20is%20an%20unusual%20mental,secondary)%20with%20a%20specific%20belief.https://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2017/10/out-came-girls Video Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dgwJxVQpLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXsB5lLgeH8 Beware The Slender Man - Amazon Prime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJzKcxhJII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmjbfq1dUA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8arxEC_6Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9p3jLeDblg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbP1wUx8mYw

Episode 226 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 2 Dec 16, 2021

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This week, in the concluding part of our Casey Anthony series - Hannah and Suruthi head into a courtroom full to the brim with bulldog lawyers, yet more lies, accusations of incest and forensic fuck-ups.

In a case that just gets stranger and stranger, the shocks really do come right at the end...

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNh3RbxU8v

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePs5TjFmk4c

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/25/casey-anthony-suffocation-google/1725253/

Bonus - December Patreon Round-Up: Best of 2021 Dec 10, 2021

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To celebrate the end of another amazing year on Patreon and our whopping 16% off Patreon annual membership FLASH SALE (details below), we're bringing you some of our highlights from this years Patreon bonus content!
We have clips from our bonus episode on Flat Earth "Theory", an In the News segment about a very lifelike manikin, and of course some EmyptyHanded caller woes from Under the Duvet.
So tuck in, and think about becoming a Patron of the show at patreon.com/redhanded
FLASH SALE: Until midnight tonight GMT, you can get 16% off your RedHanded Patreon subscription - when you sign up for an ANNUAL subscription at ANY tier.
The discount is AUTOMATICALLY applied at checkout - so no need for any codes!
16% off is the equivalent of two months of free exclusive bonus content, ad-free mainfeed episodes and access to the full back catalogue of existing Patreon content!
This offer is only available until this Friday (Dec 10th) at midnight GMT ⏱️.
That means if you have a parent, partner or poodle who wants some extra RedHanded goodness for Christmas, you have three days to get your hands on this juicy discount! (Or, just buy it for yourself as a discount-self-love-treat for the holidays.)
So just go to patreon.com/redhanded now and sign up for a years’ worth of RedHanded patreonship - and get 12 months for the price of just 10….or forever hold in your buy-less remorse! - Love H&S x
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Episode 225 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 1 Dec 09, 2021

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When 22-year-old Casey Anthony was arrested on 16 July 2008, her two-year-old daughter Caylee hadn't been seen for over a month. Casey's history of lying and manipulation, as well as her strangely distant attitude towards her missing child, was setting off all kinds of alarm bells... and the smell of death coming from the boot of her car didn't help either.
Prepare for bizarre phone calls, fascinating police interviews, and generally some of the strangest behaviour we've ever witnessed, as we cover one of the most infamous true-crime cases of all time.
Sources: redhandedpodcast.com

Episode 224 - The Guildford Four & The Maguire Seven Dec 02, 2021

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On the 5th of October 1974, the Provisional Irish Republican Army blew up a military pub in Guildford, killing four soldiers, one civilian and injuring sixty-five others.
The responsibility for the heinous act of terror was quickly thrown at three young Irish men and a seventeen-year-old English girl. On top of this, accusations of running a "bomb factory" was soon being shouldered by a middle-aged Irish woman who'd lived in England for twenty years.
The British justice system had no evidence to prove the Guildford Four or Maguire Seven were connected to any bombings, but a large helping of police brutality and a bit of systemic corruption would soon sort that out.
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Sources:
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English
Making Sense of the Troubles: A history of conflict in Northern Ireland by David McKittrick and David McVea
In The Name of the Son: The Gerald Conlan Story by Ricard O’Rawe

https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/infamous-no-irish-no-blacks-no-dogs-signs-may-never-have-existed-148416
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/no-reason-to-doubt-no-irish-no-blacks-signs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlmgQDluhk4
https://www.thejournal.ie/paddy-armstrong-documentary-1792119-Nov2014/
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/25/british-injustice-maguire-story-review-family
https://www.thejusticegap.com/guildford-four-how-the-innocent-were-framed-and-the-truth-buried
https://magill.ie/archive/guildford-four-and-one-law-irish
https://everything.explained.today/Gerry_Conlon/
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/03/23/special-branch-knew-who-the-real-birmingham-bombers-were-from-1975/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/12/opinion/l-sins-of-the-guildford-four-prosecution-447099.html
https://innocenceproject.org/how-the-uk-police-interview-suspects/
https://education.niassembly.gov.uk/post_16/snapshots_of_devolution/gfa
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/gerry-conlon-hadnt-an-ounce-of-republicanism-in-him-says-biographer-and-boyhood-pal-36201704.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/blair-apology-to-guilford-four-and-maguire-six-1.1174017
https://group.irishecho.com/2011/02/a-view-north-of-bin-lids-and-head-bangers-in-northern-ireland/
https://stairnaheireann.net/2020/10/19/otd-in-1989-after-serving-15-years-in-prison-the-guildford-four-are-released-in-what-is-considered-to-be-one-of-the-biggest-ever-miscarriages-of-justice-in-britain-3/

Village of the Damned: The Nithari Child Murders | #223 Nov 25, 2021

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Every couple of weeks like clockwork, another child would vanish from Nithari, Delhi. The police didn't seem concerned, and no one wanted to take a closer look at the "black hole" – the alleyway from where all the kids had disappeared.
What the locals would eventually find in the sewers surrounding bungalow D5 would expose a terrifying paedophile, necrophile and cannibal – in a case that would change India forever.
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