Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Lobotomies: Piece of Mind
Modern medicine’s come a long way since the days of old where doctors would drill a hole in your head for a cold, prescribe you a tobacco-smoke enema, suggest you brush your teeth with urine, or give you heroin as cough medicine. But things really did get a whole hell of a lot worse before they got better…  Lobotomies were performed on tens of thousands of psychiatric patients, misbehavin...
36m Dec 29, 2022
36m
Episode 279 - Scott Peterson: Trial by Media? - Part 2
In the concluding part of our deep dive into this murky case, Suruthi and Hannah explore the high drama of the trial that everyone was talking about. And examine the evidence for and against Scott Peterson, including a dissection of those infamous tapes… Tour Tickets: redhandedpodcast.com  Merch: Percivalclo.com now for brand new, premium merch! Code: REDHANDED10 for 10% off
1hr 17m Dec 22, 2022
1hr 17m
Delphi Update: Patreon Round-Up - December 2022
There have been some very interesting developments in the Delphi case (including the release of Richard Allen’s probable cause affidavit!) And the girls did a deep dive into the ins and outs of the latest bombshell news on Under the Duvet this earlier month…   Here’s your chance to catch up! Press play now to hear the Delphi update from RedHanded’s weekly Patreon-exclusive show, Under the Du...
35m Dec 16, 2022
35m
Episode 278 - Scott Peterson: Sex, Lies & Fishing Boats - Part 1
When beautiful, eight-and-a-half-month-pregnant Laci Peterson vanished without a trace on Christmas Eve 2002, headlines across the US exploded. As much as the media and the public obsessed over the case, and the seemingly odd behaviour of her husband Scott, no one was prepared for the shocking revelations that were to come… Leaving people asking: did Scott Peterson kill his wife, or is he...
2hr Dec 15, 2022
2hr
Episode 277 - Joyce McKinney: Mormon Sex in Chains
Kirk Anderson was abducted from an LDS meeting house in Surrey by his ex-partner – and ex-beauty queen – Joyce McKinney.  He said he was taken to a small rural cottage, tied to a bed, and sexually assaulted for three days. According to McKinney, everything was above board – Kirk just liked things kinky.  But the British tabloids only cared about one thing: the wisecracking Southern belle ...
48m Dec 08, 2022
48m
Episode 276 - Alison Botha: Left for Dead
Kidnapped, attacked and left disembowelled in the desert by two men who claimed to have been possessed by demons, Alison Botha suffered one of the most torturous ordeals we’ve ever covered. The men responsible met through a shared love of cheap drinks, sexual assault and the occult, but nothing can explain the brutality of their crimes. Welcome to a case we’ve been avoiding for years… and fo...
50m Dec 01, 2022
50m
Episode 275 - The Assassination of Olof Palme
In February 1986, the prime minister of Sweden was walking home from the cinema, when a man stepped out of a shop doorway and shot him in the neck with a .357 Magnum. The killer ran down a side street – and disappeared without a trace. The mystery surrounding Olof Palme’s death is a Swedish national obsession that's barely left the headlines in the decades since. Hundreds of theories, from i...
59m Nov 24, 2022
59m
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: October 2022
Are you the kind of financially savvy Spooky Bitch who wants to try before you buy? Then why don't you have a listen to all of the very best BONUS CONTENT that we put out on Patreon last month? This month we've got some great clips of our on tour shenanigans, plus us watching some of the goriest horror movie moments as voted by you! If you like what you hear, head on over to Patreon.com...
24m Nov 18, 2022
24m
Episode 274 - Larry Hillblom: Who’s Your Daddy?
In 1995, the billionaire founder of DHL disappeared off of the face of the planet and left behind a closet full of skeletons. The aftermath stirred up one of the most colossal, convoluted shit storms you’ve never heard of. Two plane crashes, underage sex trafficking, missing DNA, cover-ups, private detectives, and a billion dollars of inheritance left in the air – this is the story of Larry Hil...
52m Nov 17, 2022
52m
Episode 273 - The Delphi Murders: The Man in the Woods - Part 2
On 28 October 2022, in a move that shocked absolutely everyone, investigators in Indiana arrested 50 year old Richard Allen for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German.In this episode (that underwent a frantic rewrite in light of these recent developments), Suruthi and Hannah discuss the arrest of Allen, the personality profile of the Delphi killer and what we do know about the crime scen...
1hr 21m Nov 10, 2022
1hr 21m
Episode 272 - The Delphi Murders: In Plain Sight - Part 1
On 14 February 2017, the bodies of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German were found in the woods in Delphi, Indiana. Libby’s phone was discovered not far from the crime scene, and the videos she  had recorded on it quickly made this case one of the most infamous of recent decades… Sources: redhandedpodcast.com  
1hr Nov 03, 2022
1hr
Episode 271 - LIVE: Halloween Special Part 2 – Stalin’s Cannibal Island & Marcel Petiot
Recorded live in Columbus, Ohio, at Obsessed Fest 2022, H&S bring you a historical Halloween special. The girls look back at the horrors of Stalin’s cannibal island, and at one of the world’s most prolific serial killers, who terrorised Nazi-occupied Paris.Episode with slideshow: https://youtu.be/vDarJBeELEY
53m Oct 27, 2022
53m
Episode 270 - Halloween Special Part 1: The Liske Family Murders & Suzy Lamplugh
Lock your doors and shut your windows – it’s that time of year again! H&S are back with their annual Halloween story swap. In part one, the girls bring you the tragic case of the Liske family, followed by the chilling, unsolved disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh. 2022 LIVE SHOW TICKET LINKS:https://redhandedpodcast.com
41m Oct 20, 2022
41m
Episode 269 - Devil’s Dorp
This is the story of a godly rivalry that spun out of control – taking in vampires, werewolves and the murders of eleven people. And behind it all, a 48th-generational satanic witch with 1,000 multiple personalities and a score to settle. Krugersdorp, a town northwest of Johannesburg, has always had high levels of violent crime. But when South Africa’s own satanic panic kicked into full forc...
57m Oct 13, 2022
57m
Episode 268 - Blake Leibel: A Blueprint for Evil
This case takes the notion of life imitating art to a newly macabre extreme. In 2010, Blake Leibel released his graphic novel, Syndrome. Described as The Truman Show meets Se7en, the story follows a rogue neuropathologist as he attempts to find a cure for evil, using a condemned serial killer as his guinea pig. Initially met with a lukewarm response, the novel garnered international attentio...
33m Oct 06, 2022
33m
Episode 267 – The Unbelievable Saga of Thomas Quick
In the early 1990s, a patient at Säter mental institution was undergoing the facility’s revolutionary memory-recovery therapy, when he revealed a shocking incident from his past. Back in 1980, he had killed an 11-year-old boy. As the therapy continued, more and more brutal confessions came, until he was linked to 39 of Sweden’s most infamous murders. He became known as the nation’s answer to...
1hr Sep 29, 2022
1hr
Episode 266 - The Burari Deaths: Ritual Slaughter
In the early morning of 1 July 2018, Gurcharan Singh went to check on his neighbours in the Burari district of Delhi. When he got there, he found a crime scene so chilling that the whole city was thrown into a frenzy.  Ten members of the Chundawat family were hanging from the ceiling. Another, the 80-year-old grandmother, was found strangled in the next room. And the police, the public, and ...
1hr 8m Sep 22, 2022
1hr 8m
Episode 265 - Susan Cox Powell: Mormon Murder Mystery - Part 2
With a 28-year-old Mormon mum still missing – and her husband and father-in-law behaving increasingly erratically – police edged ever closer to finding their culprit. And a string of shocking discoveries, including hard drives full of hentai, a collection of tampons and a suspicious car accident, only helped their case. What they didn’t know was that before it was all over, in a shocking fin...
52m Sep 15, 2022
52m
Killers, Cults and Queens - A Sneak Peek!
SURPRISE!!! We've got an exclusive sneak peek of a brand new show called Killers, Cults and Queens! From Audioboom Studios, Cheryl Hole and Nikki Druce are on a whistle stop tour of the weirdest corners of the universe. They’ll be stopping to learn about the craziest true crime cases in history, spooky paranormal activities, truly bonkers internet mythology, very convincing cults and much mu...
11m Sep 09, 2022
11m
Episode 264 - Susan Cox Powell: Mormon Murder Mystery - Part 1
On the 6th of December, 2009, when Susan Cox Powell disappeared while her husband Josh was away on a “spontaneous camping trip”, their community was sent reeling.  This Mormon family had long had its issues, but with the revelation of major debts, rampant psychological abuse, and an obsessive and disturbing father-in-law who filmed Susan’s every move, everyone suspected the worst. Yet a...
56m Sep 08, 2022
56m
Episode 263 - Larry Nassar: Mental Gymnastics
In the gruelling world of elite gymnastics, Larry Nassar was seen by a lot of young athletes as a friendly face in tough times. As the USA Gymnastics National Medical Coordinator, he performed treatments on children as young as ten, for almost 30 years.  And under cover of those treatments, he was routinely molesting hundreds of young girls for decades – sometimes multiple times a day, often...
1hr Sep 01, 2022
1hr
Episode 262 - West Memphis 3 - Part 2
In the second and final installment of our two-part episode, we enter the courtroom to hear some flimsy evidence and absolutely bizarre testimony. Get ready for witchcraft, covens, and satanism that convicted three teenagers of triple child murder. Damien, Jessie, and Jason would spend the next 18 years in prison. And as the rusty cogs of the US justice system slowly turned, a final bitter p...
1hr 7m Aug 26, 2022
1hr 7m
Episode 261 - West Memphis 3 - Part 1
This infamous case is part Stranger Things, part courtroom drama. When the bodies of 3 young boys were found, battered, sexually mutilated and hogtied with their own shoelaces in a local creek, the finger was pointed in the most 80s direction of all… Satan. Or more specifically, at three teenagers accused of being in a witches’ coven, and in league with the devil himself... 2022 LIVE SHO...
1hr 3m Aug 26, 2022
1hr 3m
Episode 260 - Hotel K & The Bali 9
What do Gordon Ramsey’s brother, drug traffickers, rapists, gangsters, terrorists, thieves, and some of the unluckiest tourists in the world have in common? They’ve all spent time in Bali’s infamous Kerobokan prison, otherwise known as Hotel K.  Built around 40 years ago to house 300 inmates, Hotel K is now home to over 1400, over three-quarters of whom are in for drug charges, in a count...
1hr 6m Aug 25, 2022
1hr 6m
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: July 2022
Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon? Well, here's a tasty sample of just some of the content from the past month that your ear-holes have been missing out on. In this month's Patreon Round-Up we bring you clips from two episodes of our weekly Patreon show, Under the Duvet, and a snippet from this month's...
31m Aug 19, 2022
31m
Episode 259 - Richard Huckle: Britain's Worst Paedophile
In October of 2019, prison officers at HMP Full Sutton in West Yorkshire discovered the body of a prisoner who'd been subjected to 89 minutes of torture before being strangled to death by another inmate. The victim was 33-year-old Richard Huckle. Dubbed by the media as "The Gap Year Paedophile", Huckle was serving a life sentence for carrying out a 9-year-long, systematic campaign of abuse agai...
59m Aug 18, 2022
59m
Episode 258 - Alex Skeel: Two Years of Torture
Described by the first officer to arrive as “the worst domestic scene” they’d ever witnessed, the brutality of what Alex Skeel endured was shocking. Alex had deep gashes on his arms, burns upon burns, and according to his family, he smelt like he was dead. But his years of isolation and abuse weren’t the work of a kidnapper – they came from the woman he loved.Become a patron:PatreonOrder a copy...
52m Aug 11, 2022
52m
Episode 257 - Genes & Justice: Kathleen Folbigg & Patricia Stallings
“1 sudden infant death is a tragedy, 2 is suspicious and 3 is murder”; this theory has pervaded criminal investigations for decades. And so when Kathleen Folbigg’s daughter, Laura, became her fourth child to die mysteriously - Kathleen found herself labeled “Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer”.Today the girls delve into 2 unbelievable cases which highlight the immense challenges of the inte...
52m Aug 04, 2022
52m
Episode 256 - Norwegian Black Metal: Pure F**king Armageddon
The Norwegian black metal scene of the early 90s started with pigs’ heads impaled on spikes, buried clothes wrapped around dead birds, and other notorious onstage antics. In three years, it spiralled into dozens of ancient churches going up in flames, violent bigotry – and the gruesome deaths of three people.In this week’s episode, the girls chart the bloody origins of one band, Mayhem, and how...
52m Jul 28, 2022
52m
Episode 255 - Who Killed the Harrisons?
In 2013, paramedics were called to a home in Mississauga, Ontario.There they found the body of 40-year-old Caleb Harrison lying in bed, with red marks around his neck.But this wasn’t the first time that the paramedics had found a dead body at the Harrison family home.In fact, in the space of just five years, three members of the Harrison family had died in separate and bizarre incidents in the ...
43m Jul 21, 2022
43m
Episode 254 - Jennifer Pan: Tiger Blood
When three masked men entered the Pan family home, it seemed like an opportunistic home break-in. But on closer inspection, things just didn't add up. Why would the would-be robbers shoot Hann and Bich Pan in cold blood, but leave their 24-year-old daughter Jennifer relatively unharmed? Why didn’t they drive off in the expensive Lexus that was parked in the drive? And why would Hann Pan run fro...
1hr 17m Jul 14, 2022
1hr 17m
Episode 253 - Victoria Cilliers: Terminal Velocity
Speeding towards the ground at over 60 miles per hour, former soldier and parachute instructor Victoria Cilliers was about to make history. She would be the first person in over a decade to experience a double parachute failure. Miraculously, she survived the impact. But when Victoria’s equipment was examined, it became clear there was more to this “freak accident” than met the eye. There were ...
54m Jul 07, 2022
54m
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: June 2022
Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon?  Well, here's a tasty sample of just some of the content from the past month that your ear-holes have been missing out on.  In this month's Patreon Round-Up we bring you clips from our weekly Patreon show, Under the Duvet, and a snippet from this month's bonus episode: ...
30m Jul 01, 2022
30m
Episode 252 - The Murder of Sophie Lionnet: Boyzone, Babies & Broken Bones
Boyzone obsessions and black magic paedophile rings consumed the mind of Sabrina Koudier. And her neighbours turned a blind eye to the strange woman's violent outbursts and vile treatment of her au pair. It wasn't their place to get involved.But even the well-to-do residents of Southfields couldn't ignore a billowing plume of black smoke and the unmistakable smell of burning hair and flesh.Clic...
1hr 6m Jun 30, 2022
1hr 6m
Episode 251 - Andrei Chikatilo: Doomed from the Womb - Part 2
With nothing but a vague suspect profile to go on, and with mutilated bodies piling up around the USSR, Soviet police were battling to bring the Rostov Ripper's reign of terror to an end. All the while Andre Chikatilo tore through his victims, constantly changing who he went after. The police were stumped. But with a dogged detective hot on his tail, Chikatilo made a costly mistake.In this seco...
52m Jun 23, 2022
52m
Episode 250 - Andrei Chikatilo: Impotent Rage - Part 1
For over thirty years, Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo eluded law enforcement as he slaughtered more than 50 women and children across the USSR. In the first of this two-part episode, we take you through Chikatilo’s early years, the horrors he lived through in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and how the surrounding chaos turned him into one of the most prolific serial killers in history.Classic merch is out...
1hr 12m Jun 16, 2022
1hr 12m
Episode 249 - The Amityville Horror | RedHanded LIVE
Join Hannah and Suruthi live on stage at a packed out Islington Assembly Hall as they describe the demonic possessions, bouncing beds, ghostly green goo and red-eyed pig-monsters linked to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. The six brutal murders and explosive demonic haunting depicted in ‘The Amityville Horror’ are now a part of horror folklore. But what really happened? Did something m...
1hr 31m Jun 09, 2022
1hr 31m
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: May 2022
It's that time of year again! We've cranked the discount slider on Patreon as far as it will go! For the next 7 days (until June 15th) you can get 12 months of amazing Patreon content for the price of 10!! That's eight Under the Duvets, two episodes of In the News, and two full-length bonus episodes FOR FREE!!! All you need to do is head on over to patreon.com/redhanded and sign up for an...
38m Jun 07, 2022
38m
Episode 248 - R Kelly: The Pied Piper of R&B
In 2021, a 51-year-old man referred to as “Daddy” by the followers of his alleged sex cult, was found guilty of 8 counts of sex trafficking. Breaking any of Daddy’s rules would result in brutal punishment; including beatings, solitary confinement, and starvation. “Daddy” kept his victims – most of them teenagers – locked up in his mansion. And all the while, he was topping music charts across t...
1hr 7m Jun 02, 2022
1hr 7m
Episode 247 – The 2017 Manchester Bombing
On 22 May 2017, as Ariana Grande hit the high notes of her final song to a sold-out Manchester Arena, Salman Abedi hit the button on a homemade bomb. The resulting explosion killed Abedi and 22 other innocent people, and left over 1,000 more injured. The country mourned, millions of pounds were raised, and we all promised not to let hate win.But as the dust settled, a worrying question started ...
1hr 2m May 26, 2022
1hr 2m
Episode 246 - The Osage Reign of Terror
Cowboys, private eyes, poisonings, bomb plots, shootings, and the birth of the FBI.This is the story of how in the 1920s, one Native American tribe became the richest human beings per capita in the world and the diabolical conspiracy that led to hundreds of their people being murdered in cold blood.Classic merch is out now:redhandedshop.com Become a patron:PatreonOrder a copy of the book here (...
52m May 19, 2022
52m
Episode 245 - ‘The Satanic Verses’: Fatwas & Faux Pas
If the contents of a 546-page book can get one man murdered, two more seriously injured and its author forced into hiding for nine years, you can be confident of its subject: religion. But despite its reputation, ‘The Satanic Verses’ isn’t a page-by-page deconstruction of Islam. It’s a work of fiction; one that prompted the leader of Iran to call for a worldwide manhunt of anyone involved in it...
1hr 17m May 12, 2022
1hr 17m
Episode 244 - The Van Breda Family Axe Murders
When police rushed to respond to a triple murder in one of South Africa’s most exclusive gated communities, it seemed as though Henri van Breda had had a lucky escape. They found him standing on his family lawn, dead-eyed and covered in blood and urine. According to the neighbours, he had been eerily waving to them while he waited for the police. All understandable, when three of your loved one...
1hr 9m May 05, 2022
1hr 9m
Episode 243 - The Sackler Family: An American Cartel
What if we told you that there was a family out there, who are still free to this day, whose actions are responsible for over half a million American deaths over the past 22 years? We are, of course, talking about infamous scumbags the Sackler family, whose greed unleashed a plague on the people of North America. Sources: redhandedpodcast.com  
1hr 8m Apr 28, 2022
1hr 8m
Episode 242 - Tonya Harding: Cold as Ice
What would you do if you put in all the hard work, pushing yourself to the pinnacle of your sport, and you still didn’t get the recognition you deserved?Would you give up? Would you take matters into your own hands and get a bitch kneecapped as she walked back to her changing room?Or would your ex-husband do it and throw you under the bus?Sources:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS7023l3QBwhttps...
1hr 8m Apr 21, 2022
1hr 8m
Episode 241 - Mel Ignatow: Karma's Glass Table
When pulling up the carpets in your new dream home, you'll probably be hoping to find beautiful shiny hardwood floors. What you won't be hoping to find, however, is the former homeowner's secret stash spot of camera rolls. Especially when the said former homeowner was a sexual sadist who'd just been acquitted of murdering his girlfriend. As for what was on those camera rolls... well, you'll jus...
1hr 19m Apr 14, 2022
1hr 19m
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: March 2022
What do Will Smith, Sherri Papini, and an antarctic research station have in common?  They all featured in this month's Patreon round-up, where we take some of the best bits from our month on Patreon and give you lot a cheeky taster! Have a listen on the RedHanded feed anywhere you listen to podcasts, and if you like what you hear consider becoming a patron of RedHanded. If you do decide t...
42m Apr 12, 2022
42m
Episode 240 - Kim Jong Nam: Prank Show Assassination
On the 13th of February 2017, two young women - believing that they were taking part in a bizarre Japanese game show -  smeared baby oil across the face of a stranger at Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia.  The truth, however, was that there was no Japanese game show; the baby oil wasn't baby oil; and these two women had just unknowingly assassinated the estranged half-brother of North Korea's on...
1hr 4m Apr 07, 2022
1hr 4m
Episode 239 - The D.C. Snipers
In the space of 3 weeks in October 2002, Washington D.C was terrorised by a pair of spree killers carrying out a spate of deadly sniper-style attacks. They killed 10 people and injured 3 others.Their choice of victims was shockingly random; they crossed racial, gender, age and socioeconomic lines - ensuring that everyone was absolutely terrified.And when the pair were finally apprehended, autho...
1hr 5m Mar 31, 2022
1hr 5m
Episode 238 - The Satanic Panic: QAnon and the Case of Matthew Taylor Coleman
What could drag a seemingly normal man, from being a fun-loving Christian surf instructor to killing his own children in fear of their "serpent DNA"? In part two of our deep-dive into the evolution of the Satanic Panic, we talk bout how anonymous messages left on 4chan became a global cult and started a chain of events that has led to real-world violence including the 2021 Capitol riots, and th...
1hr 8m Mar 24, 2022
1hr 8m