Episode 237 - The Satanic Panic: The Murder of Betty Ann Sullivan - Part 1
When Betty Anne Sullivan’s body was found - with her face carved up and eyes missing, lying in a burning house filled with books on the occult - the police of Jefferson Township knew this would be a case that would change everything.  And the unbelievably gruesome discovery made the next day, left the people of America shaken to their Christian cores… Sources: redhandedpodcast.com  
1hr 32m Mar 17, 2022
1hr 32m
Episode 236 - The Kerry Babies
On the 14th of April 1984, the body of a baby boy was found on Cahersiveen Beach, County Kerry in Ireland. The baby had been stabbed 28 times and its neck was broken.The Garda quickly found a suspect; Joanne Hayes. And soon, this police investigation became a medieval witch hunt and a dissection of motherhood itself.May 27th London Live Show Tickets:Tickets through DICE!Become a patron:PatreonO...
1hr 10m Mar 10, 2022
1hr 10m
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: February 2022
Are you the try before you buy kind Spooky Bitch? Well great! Because here's a big old taster of everything we did on Patreon last month! We've got a clip from our casual catch up show Under the Duvet, a snippet from our topical crime news show In the News, and a tasty morsel of this month's bonus episode of RedHanded all about hybristophilia. If you like it (which you will...) you can he...
38m Mar 04, 2022
38m
Episode 235 - Breck Bednar: Playing Games
Every parent's worst fear is that their child is taken away from them. Some imagine that if they relax for a second their child could be snatched from their grasp. But what if you did everything right? What if you identified the danger?What if you told the police?What if your child was tricked and manipulated right in front of your eyes?That is the living hell experienced by Lorin LaFave and Ba...
1hr 8m Mar 03, 2022
1hr 8m
Bonus - Devils in The Dark: Ed Gein, The Butcher of Plainfield
From Audioboom Studios, it's a brand new podcast from Helen Anderson. Alongside her hilarious best friend Danni Howard they'll be exploring some of the wildest, most gruesome and totally shocking killers the world has ever seen. You'll hear from psychologists and criminal experts whilst Helen and Danni tell you all the gory details... but somewhere in the dark they'll find the laughs and the...
11m Feb 28, 2022
11m
Episode 234 - The Hillsborough Disaster
The deadliest event in UK sporting history took place on the 15th of April, 1989. In the starting minutes of the  F.A. Cup semi-finals between Liverpool F.C. and Nottingham Forest, a disaster unfolded which to date has claimed the lives of 97 people. and left 766 others injured on the day. These innocent people were the victims of the complacency, ineptitude, and sheer incompetence of those who...
54m Feb 24, 2022
54m
Episode 233 - Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf
In the world of true crime, the media is often accused of inaccuracy, dramatisation, and sensational headline writing, but there's an exception to every rule. Never has a killer fitted their moniker more than Peter Kürten, 'The Vampire of Düsseldorf'...Kürten may well have had a reflection and he may not have hung from the ceiling like a bat, but in one very key aspect, he was every bit Deutsch...
57m Feb 17, 2022
57m
Episode 232 - Novichok Eau de Toilette: Sergei & Yulia
On the 4th of March, 2018, the residents of Salisbury, England, watched on in horror as British soldiers flooded their streets, and people in hazmat suits cordoned off their roads.Earlier that day, a man and a woman had collapsed on the high street; both were convulsing and foaming from the mouth.The people of Salisbury had no idea that their sleepy little town was ground zero for the first che...
1hr 12m Feb 10, 2022
1hr 12m
Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: January 2022
Have you been on the fence about becoming a patron of RedHanded for a while? Hopefully, this round-up of some of our best exclusive patron-only content from January will help you make up your mind. We've got a snippet from our bonus episode on "The Doodler" an artistic pick-up specialist turned murderer in 70's San Fransisco, a case of modern slavery from this month's In the News, and some c...
26m Feb 04, 2022
26m
Episode 231 - A Storm in a Teacup: The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko
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...
1hr 18m Feb 03, 2022
1hr 18m
Episode 230 - Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw
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 ...
1hr 25m Jan 27, 2022
1hr 25m
Episode 229 - Scientology - Part 2: How to Make Celebrity Friends and Influence People
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?"Become a patron:Pat...
1hr 36m Jan 20, 2022
1hr 36m
Episode 228 - Scientology - Part 1: The Maternity Ward of Questionable Religious Sects
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. Sources: redhandedpodcast.com  
1hr 43m Jan 13, 2022
1hr 43m
Episode 227 - The Slenderman Stabbing
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"...
51m Jan 06, 2022
51m
Episode 226 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 2
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=ePs...
1hr 17m Dec 16, 2021
1hr 17m
Bonus - December Patreon Round-Up: Best of 2021
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. S...
50m Dec 10, 2021
50m
Episode 225 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 1
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, f...
1hr 39m Dec 09, 2021
1hr 39m
Episode 224 - The Guildford Four & The Maguire Seven
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-...
1hr 14m Dec 02, 2021
1hr 14m
Village of the Damned: The Nithari Child Murders | #223
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 wou...
1hr 26m Nov 25, 2021
1hr 26m
Episode 222 - Natalee Holloway
In May 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway and her friends flew from Alabama to Aruba to celebrate their graduation.Just five days later, when the group were set to fly back to the States, Natalee was nowhere to be found. The investigation that followed uncovered sex-trafficking gangs, potential police cover-ups and a terrifying teenage psychopath, all turning this case into America’s favourite ...
1hr 3m Nov 18, 2021
1hr 3m
Episode 221 - Koh Tao: Murder Island
In September 2015 the brutalised bodies of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on the tropical island paradise of Koh Tao. The island off the coast of mainland Thailand, has long been a hotspot for partygoers lured in by the cheap alcohol, stunning beaches, and of course its infamous full moon parties.With the whole world watching, two suspects for the brutal murde...
59m Nov 11, 2021
59m
Episode 220 - The Murder of Dylan Redwine
On the 18th of November, 13 year old Dylan Redwine boarded a plane to visit his dad, Mark. Dylan really didn’t want to go - Mark lived in the middle of nowhere and the relationship between the 2 had been strained since the Redwine’s divorce. But no one could have expected the nightmare that was about to unfold, and the unbelievably shocking family secrets that would be spilled…Become a patron:P...
55m Nov 04, 2021
55m
Episode 219 - Halloween Special Part 2 - The Boogyman and the Boy in the Attic
This week we're bringing you part two of our annual Halloween story-swap. We've got two terrifying tales of true crime Halloween-horror including Thailand's real-life answer to The Boogyman, and the infamous case of Ireland's "Boy in the Attic". Become a patron:PatreonOrder a copy of the book here (US & Canada):Order on Wellesley BooksOrder on Amazon.comOrder a copy of the book here (UK, Irelan...
58m Oct 28, 2021
58m
Bonus - Sinister Societies: A Sneak Peek
As a bit of a treat for you, our dedicated Spooky Bitches, we've decided to give you a little sneak peek of our new show Sinister Societies, which debuted last week exclusively on Spotify. The show comes out every Tuesday and features the same RedHanded flavour you love but covers the world of faith followings, dodgy clandestine organisations, and of course, sinister societies (basically cul...
14m Oct 25, 2021
14m
Episode 218 - Halloween Special Part 1: How Would You Make a Human Vagina?
It's Halloween time, that means at RedHanded - it's story swap time!This week Suruthi takes us to a TB ward in the 1930s for some "sexy" body-stealing, while Hannah shares the tale of the Kurim cult that was cracked thanks to a terrifying baby monitor...UK TOUR 2021 - new dates added! Get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/RedHandedthepodBecome a patron:PatreonUK TOUR 2021 - new dates added! ...
1hr 16m Oct 21, 2021
1hr 16m
Bonus - October Patreon Round-Up
It's that time again, where we give you a sneak peek of what goes on over at the glorious RedHanded Patreon page, so we're giving you some of the juiciest highlights from the previous month of bonus content.  This time you get to hear all about Raoul Moat from our Patreon exclusive episode Raoul Moat: Terror of Tyneside. On top of that, there's our latest segment on Under the Duvet called "E...
28m Oct 15, 2021
28m
Episode 217 - Stephen McDaniel: The Killer with the Key
Lauren Giddings had a strange feeling; she couldn’t shake the sense that someone had been coming into her apartment. But nothing was ever out of place and nothing was ever missing, so she tried to put the scary thought out of her head.Less than a month later Lauren’s torso was found wrapped in a plastic sheet in the bins behind her building.UK TOUR 2021 - new dates added! Get your tickets here:...
1hr 3m Oct 14, 2021
1hr 3m
Episode 216 - Issei Segawa: The Kobe Cannibal
Over 30 years ago, Issei Sagawa murdered, raped and ate a young woman named Renée Hartevelt. Despite his guilt never having been in question, Sagawa would not stand trial or spend any significant amount of time behind bars. And today, in the sleepy Tokyo district of Yurioka, this known murderer, necrophile and cannibal walks the streets not only as a free man - but as a twisted celebrity…
1hr 24m Oct 07, 2021
1hr 24m
Episode 215 - Robert Bales: The Kandahar Massacre
In Panjwai, a district in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan, on the 11th of March 2012, U.S Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales committed what is considered to be the deadliest war crime blamed on a single member of the U.S Armed Forces since the Vietnam War.During this brutal massacre, Robert Bales took the lives of 16 innocent Afghan civilians – 9 of them were children. In this week's episode...
1hr 19m Sep 30, 2021
1hr 19m
American Vigilante: Interview with Sam Walker
In this very special bonus episode of RedHanded, we sit down with former BBC journalist Sam Walker to discuss her latest investigation into the terrifying world of real-life violent vigilantes.  Over the course of months, Sam interviewed a mysterious man known only as “KC”. He told her all about his brutal exploits as he and his gang roam the country dishing out their own brand of savage jus...
46m Sep 28, 2021
46m
Episode 214: Jodi Jones: Murder in Midlothian
On the 3rd of June 2003, 14-year-old Jodi Jones ran home from school and begged her mum Judith to let her go out. Eventually, mum relented and Jodi rushed out saying she was off to meet her boyfriend, a local 14-year-old boy Luke Mitchell.6 hours later Jodi's naked, mutilated body was found in the woods just a mile from her house, by the very same boy. UK TOUR 2021 - new dates added! Get your t...
1hr 25m Sep 23, 2021
1hr 25m
Episode 213: We Need to Talk About Paris Bennett
As she sat with her two children in Abilene Texas one January morning in 2007, Charity Lee pondered, that she may not be a perfect mother, but she did live in a safe neighbourhood, so her children wouldn't be killed in their beds. She was wrong. Join the girls for an in-depth exploration of inter-sibling homicide, a crash course in psychopathy, and a cameo from Piers Morgan. Follow us ...
1hr 6m Sep 16, 2021
1hr 6m
Bonus - August Patreon Round-Up
On this month's juicy sneak-peek behind the Patreon curtain, we have our In the News coverage of a Doctor tuned Exorcist, our Under the Duvet coverage of the tragedy in Plymouth, and a snippet from our full-length Patreon bonus episode of Georgia Williams and her snuff film-loving murderer. If you want to listen to any of these episodes in full or listen to our entire Patreon back catalogue...
32m Sep 10, 2021
32m
Episode 212 – 3 Guys, 1 Hammer: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
In July 2007, a blurry 8-minute long video shot on a mobile phone, titled “3 guys, 1 Hammer”, was uploaded to a shock video website. The video showed two men using a hammer and a screwdriver to brutally murder a terrified man. Once they finished, the two killers even posed next to the man's body doing a sieg heil; just another shot to add to their growing photo album of murder…
1hr 7m Sep 09, 2021
1hr 7m
Episode 211 - Lorena Bobbitt & The 8-Inch Carving Knife
Lorena Bobbitt, the penis severing incident and the resulting Frankenpenis porn star hit the front pages almost 30 years ago. And since then, this is a case that has never left the public consciousness.  However, there is a lot more to Lorena Bobbitt's story than a man's member and a hotdog box. There's a story with two sides and a perfect case study on how society treats survivors. Becom...
1hr 9m Sep 02, 2021
1hr 9m
Bonus - Georgia Williams: The Snuff Film Maker Down the Street
In this second instalment of our promise to deliver two bonus episodes after we won GOLD at the British Podcast Awards, we cover the heartbreaking case of Georgia Williams. Georgia was a high-achieving and kind teenager who was always willing to help those who asked, and her killer knew this. 23-year-old Jamie Reynolds had an obsession with violent pornography and snuff movies. In May 2013 he u...
50m Aug 27, 2021
50m
Episode 210 - Shamima Begum: ISIS & The Bethnal Green 3 - Part 2
This week Suruthi and Hannah head into a place widely regarded as one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East right now - the notorious al-Hawl camp. It's where, in 2019, a British journalist found an 18-year-old, 9-month pregnant Shamima Begum. Soon after this discovery, Shamima Begum would have her British citizenship revoked, leaving her stateless in the desert hell-hole. In the ...
1hr 30m Aug 26, 2021
1hr 30m
Episode 209 - Shamima Begum: ISIS & The Bethnal Green 3 - Part 1
On Sunday the 22nd of February 2015, three London schoolgirls aged between 15 and 16 boarded a Turkish Airlines plane from Gatwick – they were headed to Syria, to join ISIS. In part one of this two-part series, Suruthi and Hannah explore the rise of ISIS, their recruitment tactics, and the motivations of those who willingly enter a warzone to join a death cult. Sources: redhandedpodcast...
1hr 13m Aug 19, 2021
1hr 13m
Episode 208 - Pedro Rodrigues Filho: Serial Killer Superstar
Pedro Rodrigues Filho, aka Pedhrino Matador, Killer Petey or The Brazilian Dexter, is a bit of an anomaly as far as serial killers go. He brutally killed at least 71 people, including his own father, but still many people in Brazil revere and applaud him for his "work"... So much so in fact that today, unbelievably, Filho is free and living his best life as a YouTube sensation with hundreds...
1hr 7m Aug 12, 2021
1hr 7m
Bonus: The Columbine High School Massacre
Earlier this year we promised that if we won gold in the BPA Listeners' Choice category, we would deliver two bonus episodes chosen by the Spooky Bitches. This is the first of those episodes - The Columbine High School Massacre.The months leading up to the 20th of April 1999 - and the mindsets of both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - have been very well documented. And yet the story of The Colum...
1hr 3m Aug 09, 2021
1hr 3m
Bonus - June Patreon Round-Up
Hello you lovely listeners! We’ve cut together some snippets of what we’ve been up to on Patreon this month… With highlights from In the News, our monthly true crime news round-up, Under the Duvet our post-show after-party where we discuss everything from current affairs to our latest empty-handed news, and our monthly exclusive bonus episode which, this month, was on the utterly terrifying ...
31m Aug 06, 2021
31m
Episode 207 - Searching the Sounds: The Disappearance of Ben Smart & Olivia Hope
Award winning champions of the people RedHanded bring you a boat themed mystery for the ages. In the early hours of New Years Day 1998 Ben Smart and Olivia Hope boarded a mystery yacht and vanished without a trace. Their bodies have never been found, yet one man has been imprisoned for the double murder. He has always maintained his innocence, but the question is can we believe Scott Watson? ...
1hr 15m Aug 05, 2021
1hr 15m
Episode 206 - Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hannover
In the early 1900s Germany was a nation ravaged by the horrors of war, debt and death. For years, as they struggled with stagflation and starvation, all manner of depravity began to emerge; there had even been rumours of human meat being sold on Germany’s black markets. And it was during this time, that a dangerous man roamed the streets committing a series of gruesome murders so diabolical th...
1hr 10m Jul 29, 2021
1hr 10m
Episode 205 - Anton LaVey & The Church of Satan
Anton LaVey, founder and head priest of the Church of Satan, led a controversial life; he was linked to the deaths of a famous Hollywood starlet and a Kennedy brother. Join Hannah and Suruthi for a deep dive into America's satanic panic, the origins of Satanism and how it has evolved over the decades. They explore LaVey's early life, from burlesque organ player, to occultist, to becoming consid...
1hr 24m Jul 22, 2021
1hr 24m
RedHaunted: Some Say This Baby Video Is Haunted, Do You Hear It?
Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5EQGk3H77w&t=49s&ab_channel=RedHandedCalling all Spooky Bitches!Did you know that RedHaunted is back and better than ever on the RedHanded YouTube channel?! 👻In case you missed it, we’ve decided to upload this little audio highlight for you to feast your ears on…If you like what you hear then be sure to head on over to the RedHanded ...
14m Jul 16, 2021
14m
Episode 204 - Dennis Nilsen: The North London Necrophile
In 1983, in an unassuming suburb of North London, some plumbers were called out to fix an un-flushable toilet. This already unpleasant job was made much worse by the distinctly hand-shaped bones mixed in with lumps of human flesh blocking the drains. This discovery would lead to the arrest of Britain's most notorious necrophile, Dennis Nilsen. The body Nilsen had chopped up, diligently flushed ...
1hr 8m Jul 08, 2021
1hr 8m
Bonus - July Patreon Round-Up
It’s July, we’re RedHanded and football is (maybe) coming home!  So, to celebrate, we’re delivering some of our Patreon exclusive best bits straight to your ear holes. With highlights from In the News, our monthly true crime news round-up, Under the Duvet our post-show after-party where we discuss everything from current affairs to our latest empty-handed news, and our monthly exclusive b...
30m Jul 02, 2021
30m
Episode 203 - The Miyazawa Family Massacre
30th December 2000, in Setagaya Japan, the Miyazawa family were preparing for the upcoming festivities. Tragically, however, the family wouldn't live to see the new year because that night they were all brutally murdered in their own home. A plethora of evidence was left behind at the scene, including DNA, fingerprints, half-eaten food and even an entire outfit, but still to this day this case ...
59m Jul 01, 2021
59m
Episode 202 - The Haunting Murder of Matthew Shepard
Content Warning - this episode contains quotes pertaining to homophobic and discriminatory language which some listeners may find upsetting. Listener discretion is advised. On the 7th of October 1998, 21-year old Matthew Shepard was found tied to a prairie fence at the end of a remote dirt track in Laramie, Wyoming. The young gay man had been pistol-whipped in the head over 20 times, an...
1hr 4m Jun 24, 2021
1hr 4m
Episode 201 - Jimmy Savile: Predator in Plain Sight - Part 2
The concluding part of this series explores Savile’s strange relationship with his mother, God and the BBC. The girls examine the mountains of evidence that piled up long before Savile’s death and ask how everyone turned a blind eye to child abuse, rape and necrophilia…  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook  
1hr 16m Jun 17, 2021
1hr 16m