Episode 198 - The Death of Max Spiers
In July 2016 Max Spiers, a British conspiracy theorist, sent his mother a series of bizarre texts about how he was terrified for his life. Days later Max was found dead, after having vomited up 2 litres of black liquid. Things only became stranger when people realised that Max was meant to speak at a conference the following day about a high power paedophile ring he’d been investigating... ...
1hr 22m May 20, 2021
1hr 22m
Bonus - May Patreon Round-Up
The pubs are re-opening indoors! And to celebrate, this week we have a gift for all of you soon-to-be spooky bitch patrons. We’ve cut together a handful of the absolute best bits from this month's exclusive RedHanded Patreon content. 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 aff...
34m May 19, 2021
34m
Episode 197 - Ezra McCandless: Killer Girlfriend
On 22 March 2018, 19 year old Ezra McCandless stood barefoot, covered in blood banging on the door of a remote Wisconsin farmhouse. She was hysterical and claimed that she’d been attacked by her ex-boyfriend, but the scene police found in the woods told a very different story... Book! (Including limited signed copies): https://linktr.ee/RedHanded_Book Subscribe to our YouTube channel:...
1hr 5m May 13, 2021
1hr 5m
In Conversation with Clair McGowan: Ireland's Vanishing Triangle
Between 1993 and 1998, eight women went missing from an area around Dublin that became known as the ‘Vanishing Triangle’. Was there a link? Speculation abounded. There were whispers of a serial killer, responsible for some, if not all, of these cases. But nobody was ever brought to justice. Twenty years later, the brutal murder of Jastine Valdez disturbs crime novelist Claire McGowan into ...
27m May 11, 2021
27m
General Butt Naked: Liberia’s Cannibal Warlord | #196
In Liberia's first bloody civil war, a feared warlord known as "General Butt Naked" believed that human sacrifice and cannibalism would give his army of child soldiers “divine” strength. Raping and ravaging his way through Liberia, Joshua Milton Blahyi is estimated to be responsible for the deaths of at least 20,000 people. In this episode, Suruthi and Hannah follow the trail of destruction cre...
1hr 21m May 06, 2021
1hr 21m
Episode 195 - Chris Benoit: The Canadian Crippler
In 2007 Chris Benoit was one of the biggest stars of the WWE. And he was known for his almost masochistic dedication to his craft, so when he didn’t show up to work one day his colleagues quickly called the police.  At the Benoit home, officers discovered a nightmarish scene that would change the face of professional wrestling forever... BOOK! Pre-order your RedHanded book here: https...
1hr 18m Apr 29, 2021
1hr 18m
RedHaunted #8 - That Child Looks Scared!
RedHaunted is back, and in video form (for all $10+ Patrons)!  This time we learn three key things: Pennsylvania is the land of civil war ghosts.  Don’t steal from haunted attics. If your child starts chatting with a ghost in the basement, don’t keep digging. If you have a spooky story of your own, send it to redhandedpatreon@gmail.com BOOK! Pre-order your RedHanded book her...
1hr Apr 28, 2021
1hr
Episode 194 - Ivan Milat: The Real Wolf Creek
Between September 1992 and November 1993 the remains of seven backpackers were found dotted around Australia’s Belanglo State Forest. The long putrefied bodies had all been shot multiple times by the same .22 calibre rifle, some had snapped spines, others had been used as target practice. Despite all signs pointing to the Milat family, the real challenge for police was finding which of the ten ...
1hr 7m Apr 22, 2021
1hr 7m
Episode 193 - Ireland's "Scissor Sisters"
On the 30th of March 2005, passers-by began to notice something odd floating down Dublin's Royal Canal. At first they told themselves it was just a mannequin, but when a leg soon popped up - complete with a sock clinging to a putrefying foot - the dismembered limbs became harder to ignore... BOOK! Pre-order your RedHanded book here: https://linktr.ee/RedHanded_Book   For tonnes of bon...
58m Apr 15, 2021
58m
In Conversation With Emily Kenway: The Truth About Modern Slavery
Emily Kenway is a writer and activist. As a former advisor to the UK's first Anti-Slavery Commissioner she was at the heart of modern slavery action. She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian and TLS. In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls...
54m Apr 13, 2021
54m
Episode 192 - Operation Fort & The Truth about Modern Slavery
In 2019 a few hungry men went looking for food at a local soup kitchen in Birmingham; here they met an aid worker who was horrified to discover the suffering they had endured at the hands of a notorious Polish crime family. Following this encounter Operation Fort - the biggest modern slavery investigation in the history of the UK - was sparked. In this episode Hannah and Suruthi explore what pe...
1hr 8m Apr 08, 2021
1hr 8m
Episode 191 - "Bride of Christ": Swedish Sects & Sex Slaves
In the late 90s Pastor Åsa Waldau became the leader of the Knutby Pentecostal church. She had already been sacked from such a post in Uppsala after having "inappropriate relationships'' with the teenage boys in her congregation, but that wasn't about to stop Åsa. In Knutby she doubled the size of the sect and soon decided that she was in fact the bride of none other than Jesus Christ. Needless ...
1hr 12m Apr 01, 2021
1hr 12m
Episode 190 - Sylvia Likens: The Girl in the Basement
On 26 October 1965, in the basement of a house in Indianapolis, the police found the body of 16 year old Sylvia Likens. Her remains were covered in over 150 wounds consistent with unspeakable cruelty, torture and sexual abuse. As the truth came out behind just who had been responsible, the nation looked on in disbelief... MERCH out now: redhandedshop.com  Check out our Patreon: p...
1hr 11m Mar 25, 2021
1hr 11m
Episode 189 - Castration, Cults and Cauterisation: The Ant Hill Kids
As the secret project deadline hangs ominously over us, we have dug up an absolute stonker from the Patreon vaults to keep you all going!  In the early 1980s, in a small hamlet in Central Ontario, there was a cult leader with a messiah complex so big he thought he could operate as a surgeon on the living and use his genitals to bring back the dead. Roch Thériault held a vice-like grip over...
30m Mar 18, 2021
30m
In Conversation with Sonia Faleiro: The Good Girls
In May 2014, the bodies of 2 teenage girls were found hanging from a tree in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India. It was reported that the girls had been victims of a gang rape. This story sparked scandal and rage across the nation - but there were serious questions raised about the truth of what had occurred - author and journalist Sonia Faleiro spent four long years in...
47m Mar 16, 2021
47m
Drunk Women Caught RedHanded
Welcome to our Acast Red Nose Day Mashup podcast for Comic Relief For Red Nose day two of the UK’s finest crime podcasts have mashed up for an episode unlike any other. Join Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala from RedHanded alongside Hannah George, Catie Wilkins, and Taylor Glenn from Drunk Women Solving Crime to bring us 'Drunk Women Caught Redhanded'.  This powerhouse of super-sleuths...
59m Mar 14, 2021
59m
Episode 188 - Michael Alig: Confessions of a Club Kid Killer
In a world where drug use was rampant and controversy was currency, confessions of murder weren't even enough to raise heavily painted eyebrows. This is the story of how one of New York's hottest promoters fell from grace to cause the death of a man and the death of New York's club scene. In this week's episode of RedHanded, we discuss the killing of Angel Melendez and how Michael Alig wen...
1hr 9m Mar 11, 2021
1hr 9m
RedHaunted #7 Stay Away From Small Boys With Red Balls
Alien encounters in the Australian outback, the Irish folk horror story of Half-Hanged McNaughton, the man behind the curtain in a haunted theatre, and a blood chilling tale about the ghost of a little boy named Timothy.... These are your spooky stories, and real life experiences of the paranormal and we can't get enough. Brace yourselves! Send your stories to - redhandedpatreon@gmail.com...
39m Mar 05, 2021
39m
Episode 187 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 2
In the concluding part of this grisly series Leonarda Cianciulli sinks deeper into depravity. The fear reaches boiling point as her continued experiments, making human soap from the fat of her victims, fail to deliver. And with Leonarda's beloved son Giuseppe about to head to war - she knows she has just one last shot left to save him - and for that another woman must die... Merch: www.red...
56m Mar 04, 2021
56m
Episode 186 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 1
Leonarda Cianciulli was consumed by fear thanks to a curse her mother had placed on her. She had learned all she could about black magic from the Romani travellers who passed through her little Italian town, but still the deadly effects of the hex persisted - at least in Leonarda's mind. As she grew desperate, and immersed herself further into the occult, Leonarda realised it was all about the...
59m Feb 25, 2021
59m
In Conversation with Ryan White: The Prank Show Murder of Kim Jong-nam
On the 13th of February 2017, the world witnessed the most high profile political assassination in decades when Kim Jong-nam was exposed to a deadly nerve agent known as VX in the centre of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The two women who killed the exiled half-brother of Kim Jon-un, claimed they had been tricked and that they thought they were taking part in a Japanese YouTube prank show....
33m Feb 23, 2021
33m
Episode 185 - The Cartels Killing Women
On 9 February 2020, 25 year old Ingrid Escamilla was found murdered in her home. She had been stabbed to death by her partner, and then horrifically mutilated. It was just the beginning of one of Mexico's bloodiest years ever. Femicide in Mexico is at epidemic levels - and the link between the rampant murder of women, corruption and cartels is undeinable. In this episode we explore the horror,...
54m Feb 18, 2021
54m
Bonus - EmptyHanded: The Supercut
Happy Valentine's Day! (Whatever that means...)  This week as a special gift for all of you, we’ve cut together all of the best bits of a segment we do on our after show Under the Duvet called “EmptyHanded”. EmptyHanded is the everlasting discussion of the occasional highs and inevitable lows of our dating lives. We’ve got Japanese Horror Porn, we’ve got Kermit GIFs, we’ve even got blue ti...
24m Feb 14, 2021
24m
Episode 184 - The Execution of Jamal Khashoggi
At 1:14pm on 2 October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Within minutes he was killed and dismembered by a 15 man hit squad sent from Riyadh. To this day Jamal’s remains have never been found. And aside from a secretive trial conducted by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - the man who according to the CIA and Turkish intelligence ...
1hr 11m Feb 11, 2021
1hr 11m
Episode 183 - Anders Breivik: Norway's Nightmare
On 22 July 2011, Anders Breivik sent out thousands of the same email. The subject line read: "The Islamisation of Western Europe and the State of the European Resistance Movements", and attached was his 1500 page manifesto. He then detonated a bomb in the government quarter of Oslo, before heading to the island of Utøya, where he would become Norway's worst mass murderer - after taking the live...
1hr 34m Feb 04, 2021
1hr 34m
Episode 182 - Adrian Lim: Singapore's "Ritual" Child Killings - Part 2
This episode explores the aftermath of the arrests, the strange confessions of ritual black magic and child sacrifice, and the bizarre death penalty trial that followed. Singapore reeled as it soon became apparent that Adrian Lim and his "holy wives" had been targetting children long before their first murder...  Sources: Book - Unholy Trinity by Alan John  www.redhandedpodcast.com   ...
1hr Jan 28, 2021
1hr
RedHaunted #6 Don't Name Your Ghosts
A civil war ghost named Toby, tribal curses, granddad's ghost, and Banshees in Ireland.... These are your spooky stories, and real life experiences of the paranormal and we can't get enough. Strap in! Send yours in to - redhandedpatreon@gmail.com    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
44m Jan 27, 2021
44m
Episode 181 - Adrian Lim: Singapore's "Ritual" Child Killings - Part 1
Adrian Lim's fascination with the occult, and his obsession with power, drove him to transform himself into a black magic "bomoh". He promised his followers whatever they desired, but in exchange he would need from them, everything that he desired... Lim's depravity quickly escalated; he became increasingly violent, turned his attention to younger and younger victims, revelled in torture, rape...
54m Jan 21, 2021
54m
Update on the Tuam 796
In 1975 the skull of a child was discovered on the site of an old mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland. It lead to the discovery of hundreds more children's remains that had been disguarded by nuns who ran the home. Years later fearless campaigner and historian Catherine Corless made sure everyone knew about it and enough pressure was put on the Irish government that an investigation commissio...
17m Jan 15, 2021
17m
Episode 180 - Lori Vallow: Doomsday
47 year old mum of 3, Lori Vallow was convinced of two things; she was a god and the world was ending. Her job was to prepare her people for the second coming of Christ, in July 2020... But even as her behaviour became increasingly erratic, and even as those around her started to die in mysterious ways, and even when 2 of her kids - J.J. and Tylee - vanished, it took a shockingly long time for...
1hr 32m Jan 14, 2021
1hr 32m
Episode 179 - The Reykjavík Confessions: Memories of Murder
This is the bizarre story of 2 mysterious disappearances, 1 strange dream and 6 people who ended up confessing to murders they couldn't even remember...What happened on the treacherous lava fields of Iceland back in 1974 that ruined the lives of so many, and crept its way so deep into the Icelandic culture, that this story still makes headlines today? Book: Out of Thin Air by Anthony Adean...
1hr 25m Jan 07, 2021
1hr 25m
Bonus: 2020 Patreon Upcycle - When Your Child Displays Psychopathic Traits...
We wanted to celebrate and share some of our top picks from our 2020 Patreon releases, so here is possibly our most requested episode from the $10+ Patreon archives! In this bonus episode we released last summer, we talked with long time Spooky Bitches, Cassie and Mike as they told us about the challenges and difficulties that their family have faced in the midst of their son Arthur’s seri...
45m Jan 01, 2021
45m
#6 BLM - Elijah McClain
In August 2019, 23 year old Elijah McClain was walking home with some ice tea he had bought for his cousin. On the way he was stopped by police; within minutes Elijah was being restrained and placed in a chokehold. Things escalted further when the police had the young man, who by this point was slipping in and out of consciouness, injected with ketamine. Elijah died 3 days later in hospita...
37m Dec 28, 2020
37m
RedHaunted #5 You See Those 2 Pillars? Look In Between Them...
2020 has been absolutely terrifying, so how better to wrap up this shit show than with a very special episode of RedHaunted! Hopefully these bizarre tales of a rattling doorknob, a haunted asylum and a creepy kennel, will help you get you through whatever nightmare awaits us next... (We're guessing we will all need more spooky tales, and more laughs, next year so send your ghostly encounte...
53m Dec 24, 2020
53m
In The News: The 2020 Round-Up
Merry Christmas Spooky Bitches! This year as a present for all the incredible things you guys have achieved (The Listener's Choice and Spotify No:1) we've decided to give you all some bonus content Christmas Presents. We've scoured through the hours of extra content we put up on Patreon to bring you 2020's greatest hits. This episode is In The News, our monthly episode on the cases that ha...
44m Dec 23, 2020
44m
Under The Duvet: The 2020 Round-Up
Merry Christmas Spooky Bitches! This year as a present for all the incredible things you guys have achieved (The Listener's Choice and Spotify No:1) we've decided to give you all some bonus content Christmas Presents. We've scoured through the hours of extra content we put up on Patreon to bring you 2020's greatest hits. This episode is Under The Duvet, the after-show where we discuss the ...
49m Dec 18, 2020
49m
Episode 178 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar of Horror - Part 3
In the concluding part of this terrifying series, we learn how Josef Fritzl's terrible secret was finally discovered, how his bizarre trial unfolded and what became of Elisabeth and her children. Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com  Merch: www.redhandedshop.com    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
54m Dec 17, 2020
54m
Episode 177 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar of Horror - Part 2
Elisabeth Fritzl had spent her childhood being relentlessly sexually tormented by her father, Josef. But on 29th of August 1984 things escalated to a level of horror she could never have imagined, when she woke up chained to a bed in the cellar of his house... Merch: www.redhandedshop.com Sources: www.redhandedthepodcast.com   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
44m Dec 10, 2020
44m
Episode 176 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar of Horror - Part 1
On 19th April 2008, the world discovered the nightmare world Josef Fritzl had created in the labyrinthian cellar of his home in Amstetten, Austria. It seemed like too much to believe. This week in part 1 of this 3 part series, the girls explore Fritzl's fraught childhood - that was peppered with violence, abandonment and spillover trauma from Nazi concentration camps.  Merch: www.redhanded...
51m Dec 03, 2020
51m
Episode 175 - Annie Le & Room G22
Annie had it all; she was happily engaged, she was studying for her doctorate at Yale and she had huge ambitions for herself, that seemed well within reach. So when one day she vanished from her lab on campus, no one could believe it. But within days the true horrors of what had happened to Annie surfaced... 20% of all merch (plus new colour sweatshirts and hoodies!) for 72 hours using pro...
1hr 18m Nov 26, 2020
1hr 18m
#5 BLM - Sheku Bayoh
In this month's episode of our Black Lives Matter series, we discuss the death of Sheku Bayoh in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy. Sheku died after he was pepper-sprayed and restrained by 4 police officers in 2015. The police cover-up, scandal and public inquiry that followed has made Sheku's death one of Scotland's most notorious cases. This is Sheku's story. Sources: Death in Custody: ht...
19m Nov 20, 2020
19m
Episode 174 - Keli Lane: What Happened to Baby Tegan? Pt 2
In this week’s episode the girls delve into the aftermath of John Borovnik's discovery, the police investigation that followed, and the subsequent trial that saw Keli Lane charged with murder -  more than 13 years after her baby vanished. But even after all this, major questions around what drove Keli's behaviour, and of course what happened to baby Tegan, still remain... Merch: www.redha...
1hr 9m Nov 19, 2020
1hr 9m
Episode 173 - Keli Lane: What Happened to Baby Tegan? Pt 1
Between the ages of 17 and 21 Keli Lane, an elite Australian water polo player, got pregnant 5 times - and somehow managed to keep each pregnancy a total secret for years... But her lies, inconsistencies and cryptic pregnancies all came spilling out in 2001, when a social worker finally noticed that one of her daughters had vanished at just 2 days old. So, what happened to baby Tegan? Mer...
1hr 12m Nov 12, 2020
1hr 12m
Episode 172 - Je Suis Prof: The Murder of Samuel Paty & Charlie Hebdo
On 16 October 2020, 37 year old teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on a suburban street in France by an Islamist terrorist. Samuel had become the target of an online hate campaign after he showed his students cartoons from the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, depicting Muhammad.  In this episode we discuss the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, the murder of Samuel Paty and the rise of terrorism in ...
1hr 10m Nov 05, 2020
1hr 10m
Episode 171 - Halloween Special Part 2: Black Magic Saliva & A Toilet Full of Guts
If there's a spiritualist spit hoover and a child's hand boiling away on the stove, it can only be part two of RedHanded's traditional Halloween story swap. This round, Hannah tells us about a murderous Indonesian sorcerer, while Suruthi racks up our air miles with a trip back to Germany to meet a barbaric Bavarian butcher. 72 FLASH SALE on all Spooky Bitch merch! For 20% off all Spooky B...
1hr 6m Oct 29, 2020
1hr 6m
#4 BLM - Ms Dhu
This month in our Black Lives Matter series, we discuss the death of Ms Dhu. During the two day's Ms Dhu spent in police custody in Western Australia, she was dropped to the floor, lifted by her hands and feet, and another prisoner was dragged into her cell to stare at her. She went through all of this while being verbally abused and suffering from sepsis. She died of preventable causes aged ju...
23m Oct 23, 2020
23m
Episode 170 - Halloween Special Pt 1: Whiskey Cannibals & Blanket Hags
As is Halloween tradition at RedHanded - we bring you a story swap! This year, Suruthi goes rogue with a story of colonial cannibalism, while Hannah takes us to Germany for a stomach-churning, true house of horrors... Merch: http://www.redhandedshop.com/ Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
1hr 10m Oct 22, 2020
1hr 10m
Episode 169 - The Toolbox Killers: Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris
On Halloween night 1979, 16 year old Lynette Ledford was on her way home from a party when she vanished. The discovery of her body the next day set in motion a disturbing investigation into a pair of brutal serial killers who had raped, tortured and murdered their way across the state for months.  John E Douglas - the FBI profiler who assessed the likes of Manson, BTK, Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, ...
1hr 4m Oct 15, 2020
1hr 4m
Episode 168 - The Kansas City Butcher: Robert Berdella
One April afternoon in 1988 a man named Chris Bryson jumped from the top floor window of 4315 Charlotte St in Kansas City, Missouri. He was battered, bruised and completely naked - except for a dog collar and lead hanging from his neck. He had been held captive for days, tied to a bed and brutally tortured by Bob Berdella (aka The Kansas City Butcher) - and Chris was not his first victim. ...
56m Oct 08, 2020
56m
Episode 167 - Live from The 2020 London Podcast Festival
In this week's episode Hannah and Suruthi story swap the on vaguely train related cases of 'The Brighton Trunk Murders' and the killings of Kieran Kelly - one of the UK's most prolific serial killers... Spooky Bitch MERCH out now! www.redhandedshop.com  Check out the visuals for this episode here! OR follow us on social media: @redhandedthepod on insta, and The RedHanded Podcast Gro...
1hr 30m Oct 01, 2020
1hr 30m