Episode 50 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 1
Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - a seemingly ordinary pair of twenty-somethings abducted, tortured and killed 5 children in North West England. The Moors Murders, so named because the victims' bodies were found on the barren and remote Saddleworth Moor, still remain Britain's most infamous case half a century later. But what drove these two to commit crimes so heinous that t...
33m Jun 14, 2018
33m
Episode 49 - Dinner with a Cannibal: Armin Meiwes
If you want to be killed, is it still a murder? This is the question that sits at the heart of this week's case of cannibalism and consent. Even at the dawn of the internet there were dark corners where you could find anything you wanted - as Armin Meiwes and Bernd Branders knew only all too well. They were a perfect online match, Armin wanted to dine and Bernd wanted to be dinner... ...
38m Jun 07, 2018
38m
Episode 48 - Can Dreams Kill? - The Ryan Ferguson Story
On Halloween night 2001 Chuck Erickson got blackout drunk with his friends. 2 years later a 19 year old Chuck, who had been plagued with dreams that he and his friend Ryan Ferguson had killed a man that night, went to the police and confessed to the murder of local man Kent Heitholt. Ryan was adamant this never happened, and there was no physical evidence linking either of them to the crime - s...
39m May 31, 2018
39m
Episode 47 - Snuff Films & Submarines: The Murder of Kim Wall
In 2017 intrepid super-journalist Kim Wall scored an underwater submarine interview with eccentric Danish 'inventrepreneur' Peter Madsen. 17 hours later Madsen was rescued from the sinking vessel, but Kim was no where to be seen.  Exactly what happened during those 17 hours is hard to tell, but as Kim's dismembered body began to surface, alongside the library of torture porn Madsen had on his...
42m May 24, 2018
42m
Episode 46 - Stephen Lawrence
The brutal, racially motivated murder of 18 year old Stephen Lawrence on the streets of South East London was a watershed moment in British history. It revealed the shocking institutional racism that lay at the heart of the London Metropolitan Police. In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi trace this difficult, but desperately important, story from the climate of race relations before Stephe...
52m May 16, 2018
52m
Episode 45 - The Virgin Killer & The Angry World of the 'Incel'
Rage fuelled by violent misogyny; the defining trait of the ‘incel’, or so-called ‘involuntary celibate’. It's rage like this, coupled with psychopathy, that led to the recent Toronto attack and the Isla Vista Massacre in 2014. Join Hannah and Suruthi as they reveal what they discovered when they went creeping into the grimy depths of the ‘manosphere’ to understand this rage, the radicalisation...
42m May 09, 2018
42m
Episode 44 - Sex, Drugs & Satanism: Miranda Barbour
A man is found stabbed to death in a small Pennsylvanian town and unbelievably a young, local couple were arrested and charged with his murder. Despite there being no clear motive it seemed an open and shut case, until the 19 year old woman confessed to being a demonically possessed, satanic serial killer - who had already killed 22 people... Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards here:...
45m May 03, 2018
45m
Episode 43 - The 'Swedish Case'
In 1989, Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and her fiancé Urban Hoglin disappeared into the bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ. A local man, David Tamihere, was convicted of their murders - and it seemed like it was case closed, until they found Urban's body that is... Because the story his remains told was very different to the one which sent Tamihere away. What really happened to Hei...
36m Apr 26, 2018
36m
Episode 42 - Murder or Suicide: The Mysterious Death of Rebecca Zahau
Rebecca Zahau’s naked body was found hanging in the mansion she shared with her millionaire boyfriend Jonah Shacknai and his son, Max. Just days before Rebecca's apparent suicide she had been babysitting Max when he was fatally injured - had Rebecca taken her own life out of guilt? The evidence suggests otherwise... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...
52m Apr 19, 2018
52m
Episode 41 - How Not to Fake Your Death: John Darwin - Canoe Man
Dying is easy, coming back is hard. In 2002 John Darwin took his red, handmade canoe out to sea and disappeared. He was eventually declared dead, but 5 years later in 2007 he walked into a police station claiming to have no memory of the past half decade. How had John Darwin vanished? And why had he come back? Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-...
45m Apr 12, 2018
45m
Episode 40 - How Larry David Saved a Man From Death Row
What would you do if you were arrested for a crime you didn't commit? What would you say if the police told you they had definitive proof it was you? When 16 year old Martha Puebla was shot dead, Juan Catalan faced this exact nightmare situation - and his life seemed doomed - until he was saved in the most unexpected way... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes.    See acast.com/priv...
36m Apr 05, 2018
36m
Episode 39 - A Killer in the Family: The Murder of Becky Watts
In 2015, when shy 16 year old Becky Watts suddenly went missing no one could believe it. But tragically within days her dismembered body was found just a mile from her home.  As the true motivations behind the murder were revealed it quickly became clear that someone in the family knew more than they were letting on... Audio Mastered by Conrad Hughes    See acast.com/privacy for pr...
33m Mar 29, 2018
33m
Episode 38 - Phil Spector & Lana Clarkson: Murder & Music Production
The Los Angeles celebrity justice system comes under scrutiny this week. Convicted murderer and one time music producer Phil Spector sits in a Californian prison medical centre, actor Lana Clarkson is dead and River Deep Mountain High is regrettably still a banger.  Audio mastered and Hannah's editing tantrum patiently endured by Conrad Hughes.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o...
33m Mar 22, 2018
33m
Episode 37 - Where is Sabrina Aisenberg?
In a frantic 911 call on the 24th of November 1997 Marlene Aisenberg reported her 5 month old baby, Sabrina, missing. The FBI launched a nationwide search and the media relentlessly covered the story. But soon the parents’ odd behaviour left onlookers wondering what they really knew about their daughter’s disappearance... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes 48 Hours Mystery -...
38m Mar 15, 2018
38m
Episode 36 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 2
In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi follow a spiraling, unmedicated and (literally) bloodthirsty Richard Chase as he dives into a brutal killing spree. With suburban home invasions, bloody eviscerations, necrophilia and vampiric lore made real, this is truly a disturbing and haunting finale.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
39m Mar 08, 2018
39m
Episode 35 - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Part 1
Clinical vampirism, terrifying delusions and paranoid schizophrenia. This week the girls enter the bloody world of their very first truly psychotic spree killer, Richard Trenton Chase. Join them as they follow his evolution from cat-murdering child, to drug-addicted teen, to blood-smeared twenty-something; unpicking the unbelievably shocking story of one of America’s bloodiest killers.   See...
30m Mar 01, 2018
30m
Episode 34 - The Most Dangerous Prisoner in Britain
In a Perspex box, in Wakefield maximum security prison sits alleged cannibal, confirmed killer and rumoured inspiration behind "Hannibal" - Robert Maudsely. Named the most dangerous prisoner in Britain, after 39 years in solitary, Maudsely now also holds the record for the longest time served in soltiary confinement in the world. Join the girls this week as they get knee-deep in prison politics...
31m Feb 22, 2018
31m
Episode 33 - Oscar Pistorius & Reeva Steenkamp: The Valentine's Day Murder
In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2014, 29 year old model Reeva Steenkamp was shot to death by her partner; South African Olympic sprint runner and double amputee, Oscar Pistorius. He still claims that it was a tragic case of mistaken identity, but the forensics and the messages Reeva left before her death tell a very different story.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out infor...
37m Feb 15, 2018
37m
Episode 32 - The Brit on Death Row: Linda Carty
Starting on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth and ending up in Texas via the Caribbean, Suruthi & Hannah unpick how a British grandmother and DEA informant ended up on death row. Many campaign for Linda Carty’s release, but is she as innocent as they would have you believe?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
45m Feb 08, 2018
45m
Episode 31 - The Lady Killer and the Human Pelt
Toxic masculinity, Borderline Personality Disorder and a whole lot of abattoirs. We're off to Australia this week to unravel why Australian big hitter Katherine Knight skinned John Price and hung him up like a pair of curtains.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
46m Feb 01, 2018
46m
Episode 30 - The Chucky Doll Killer
This week the girls explore the phenomenon of ‘amphetamine induced psychosis’ in one of most violent cases they’ve ever covered. Join them as they follow the brutal torture and murder of 16 year old Suzanne Capper by the manipulative ‘Chucky Doll Killer’ - Bernadette McNeilly - a woman later described as ‘the most evil inmate’ on a prison wing she shared with notorious child killers Rose West a...
37m Jan 25, 2018
37m
Episode 29 - The Cult with No Name
This week it's cults and the girls follow the Pied Piper of Death to Matamoros Mexico to explore the ‘the cult with no name’(sometimes dubbed by the press as ‘The Narcosatanistas’ or ‘The Believers’). This cult was led by Palo Mayombe priest, ‘El Padrino’ and consisted of a dedicated group of disciples who believed that rites of human sacrifice made them untouchable - but this very belief is w...
1hr 3m Jan 18, 2018
1hr 3m
Episode 28 - The Wests & The Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 2
This week the girls head into the infamous torture cellar at 25 Cromwell St. to uncover the horrifying truth about the Wests’ years of depravity. As body after body was found, a haunted Fred confessed to it all - but Rose stayed silent. Today hear the incredible survivor testimony that broke a nation’s heart and finally labelled Rosemary West as one of the most evil female serial killers in his...
1hr Jan 11, 2018
1hr
Episode 27 - The Wests & the Cellar at Number 25 Cromwell Street - Part 1
Incest, rape, murder and torture dungeons; in a harrowing part 1 the girls take on one of Britain's most notorious serial killer couples - Fred and Rose West. Over a span of 25 years this pair of sexual sadists carried out unspeakable evil in their cellar at the now infamous 25 Cromwell St, and when the truth was finally revealed it shocked the world.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...
42m Jan 04, 2018
42m
Episode 26 - Madness, Murder & Munchausen by Proxy: The Case of Gypsy Rose Blancharde
Things aren't always what they seem... To the world Dee Dee Blancharde was the perfect mum. She dedicated her life as a single mother to taking care of her incredibly ill and disabled child. But one night Dee Dee was brutally murdered, and what was revealed shocked the world. It turned out that her daughter Gypsy had never been sick at all.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out in...
1hr 16m Dec 28, 2017
1hr 16m
Episode 25 - The Grindr Killer
Join the girls today as they delve into the murky world of London’s most recent serial killer, the Grindr Killer - Stephen Port. They’ll pull apart this bizarre case of GHB poisoning, catfishing galore, the world’s most fake suicide note and utterly sh*t body disposal, to ask the very serious question of how Port’s crimes were missed   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
47m Dec 21, 2017
47m
Episode 24 - Murder in the Alps
On a remote mountain road, high in the Alps, a French cyclist and a British Iraqi family face an ambush blitz attack. Within a minute four people are dead. But who was the real target of this execution? What was the true motive in this senseless slaughter? What secrets lay beneath the seemingly ordinary facades of those killed? Join the girls today as they delve into this bizarre mystery - cr...
54m Dec 14, 2017
54m
Episode 23 - The Girl in the Box: Colleen Stan
20 year old Colleen Stan was abducted in 1977, she wouldn't be free for 7 years and what happened to her in between is unimaginable. If you needed another reason to stop hitchhiking, this is it.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
1hr Dec 07, 2017
1hr
Episode 22 - How Ancestry.com Solved a 32 Year Old Cold Case
Abandoned at age five, Lisa never knew where she came from. It was her quest to uncover her birth parents via sites like ancestry.com that unraveled a chilling quadruple homicide that had been left unsolved for 32 years. Be careful who you send your DNA to.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
48m Nov 30, 2017
48m
Episode 21 - What Killed Zigmund Adamski?
One day Zigmund Adamski mysteriously disappeared, and if his family thought that this was strange - nothing would prepare them for what was to come. Because five days later Zigmund was found dead at the top of 12ft coal pile in a locked up coal-yard, and still that was just the beginning of the bizarre events that played out in the summer of 1980 in Yorkshire, England… Who, or what killed, Zi...
39m Nov 16, 2017
39m
Episode 20 - Halloween Special Part 2
Halloween continues at RedHanded this week as the girls plan to traumatise themselves, each other and you with tales of a blackout home invasion and a satanic cannibal cult. So, keep the spirit of Halloween alive and listen now, if you're ready for round 2 that is...   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
55m Nov 09, 2017
55m
Episode 19 - Halloween Special Part 1
For Halloween, the girls bring you the most disturbing cases they could find for their very own treehouse of horror, filled with kiddnapping, a Buffallo Bill copy cat and shivers for days. Get cosy and grab the dog as Hannah & Suruthi take you through 2 harrowing cases, told to each other for the first time.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
37m Oct 31, 2017
37m
Episode 18 - The Love Triangle Killing
What happens when a stranger turns up at your front door and hands you a bouquet of petrol station flowers? Broken hearts, English countryside and an electric blue Renault Clio set the scene for today's episode as Suruthi and Hannah unpick the tragic death of super sucessful business woman Sadie Hartley.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
36m Oct 26, 2017
36m
Episode 17 - Who Killed Billie-Jo Jenkins?
One afternoon 13 year old Billie-Jo Jenkins was bludgeoned to death with an 18 inch tent spike whilst doing chores “home alone”. Suspicion immediately grew around her foster father Sion Jenkins - but 3 trials and 20 years later he is a free man. Did Sion Jenkins really murder Billie? And if so, then why? Join the girls this episode as they explore the truth behind the disturbing murder of Billi...
48m Oct 19, 2017
48m
Episode 16 - The Drag Queen & Her Costume Cupboard Corpse
Dorian Corey, drag queen superstar, was the queen of queens in life - but when she died, a bizarre and horrifying mystery was revealed. What her friends found hidden in the back of her costume cupboard, zipped up in a dress bag, shocked the world. We still don't know exactly what happened, but join the girls this episode as they try unravel this confusing case.   See acast.com/privacy for ...
46m Oct 12, 2017
46m
Episode 15 - The Spy in the Bag
In August 2010, 31 year old MI6 cryptologist Gareth Williams was found dead, in his flat, in his bath, padlocked inside a bag. Pretty much zero forensics would be found, and the case still remains unsolved to this day.Was Gareth murdered? If so, then who by? And why? And is it likely that a spook could be murdered in his home, just yards from MI6 HQ, and they can't find who did it? Join the g...
37m Oct 05, 2017
37m
Episode 14 - The Three Trials of Timothy Hennis
It's 1985 in North Carolina and a crying baby is found alone in her home surrounded by the dead bodies of her family. With only one clear suspect in this brutal massacre, the police bring in Staff Sergeant Timothy Hennis. But do they have enough? This is the story of an unprecedented side stepping of double jeopardy...   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
44m Sep 30, 2017
44m
Episode 13 - Serial Killer Survivor to YouTube Star
Stranded on the side of a Californian desert with no way home, would you refuse a lift from a stranger? This is how our case this week begins as we explore the story of Jennifer Asbenson, a woman who escaped violent rapist and serial killer - Andrew Urdiales Join us as we detail her escape, his atrocities and the bizarre fame Asbenson has cultivated since her ordeal.   See acast.com/privac...
46m Sep 24, 2017
46m
Episode 12 - The Dexter Copycat Killer
Exasperation station this episode as Suruthi & Hannah take you through the crimes of aspiring horror filmmaker, The Edmonton Killer and the cracking police work that stopped him in his tracks. Incapable of a single original idea in addition to a desperate need for fame, Mark Twitchell impersonated TV show character Dexter Morgan online and took on his dark passenger.  See acast.com/privacy for ...
39m Sep 14, 2017
39m
Episode 11 - The Butcher Baker of Alaska
Today we explore one of the most nightmarish cases we’ve covered. Robert Hansen aka The Butcher Baker of Alaska, was a small town family man, quiet and unassuming - but beneath the surface a monster was lurking. He would abduct women off the streets, take them to his secluded cabin, rape them, strip them naked and set them free in the surrounding woods - so that he could fulfil his second passi...
40m Sep 09, 2017
40m
Episode 10 - The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
In the summer of 1977 on the very first night at Camp Scott, the tents shook against a raging thunderstorm as a dark and sinister presence stalked the woods. By morning 3 young girls would be dead; molested and murdered in the middle of the night.   40 years later this brutal crime still remains unsolved - what really happened to the murdered Oklahoma Girl Scouts?   See acast.com/privacy f...
1hr 4m Aug 31, 2017
1hr 4m
Episode 9 - The Beast with a Human Face
In 2002, missing hostess, Lucie Blackman was found dead. Her body had been dismembered and her head encased in concrete. She was found buried in a shallow grave under a bathtub in a cave on a secluded beach in Miura, Kanagawa - just South of Tokyo. Where this discovery would lead Japanese police shocked the world. Join us this week as we follow this disturbing case to understand the evil that...
51m Aug 23, 2017
51m
Episode 8 - The Honeymoon Murder
What happened on their honeymoon that left Anni Dewani dead (in one of Cape Town's most notorious townships) and her husband of just 2 weeks, Shrien Dewani under suspicion of her murder? Join us as we tread the twisted timeline of a bizarre honeymoon murder this week - and ask if it really was the husband...   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
58m Aug 17, 2017
58m
Episode 7 - The Lake Bodom Murders
Four teenagers go camping on the shores of Lake Bodom in Finland. Three are brutally murdered and one survives. Then three confessions, two suicides and a high-profile trial 44 years later - the case still remains unsolved. So today we explore who murdered the Bodom Three? And why? If you think you know this one, think again.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
1hr 6m Aug 08, 2017
1hr 6m
Episode 6 - The White House Farm Massacre
A secluded farmhouse, religious mania, psychosis and a total bloodbath. Today we attempt to untangle one of the most notorious cases in British history. When five members of the Bamber family were slaughtered in one bloody night - what really happened? What does the evidence say and why does so much of it seem totally contradictory? We examine the old evidence, the new evidence and even poke a...
58m Aug 01, 2017
58m
Episode 5 - Bible John
A real mystery for you, as we head to Scotland for the case of Bible John, an unknown serial killer who raped and murdered 3 women between 1968-1969. Apart from their physical similarities and the MO there was one alarming point to note, all the women were menstruating on the nights they were attacked. How did he know? What did it have to do with anything? And crucially, who was he? We have som...
48m Jul 26, 2017
48m
Episode 4 - The Enfield Poltergeist - What Really Happened?
Today we dip our eager feet into the paranormal with this puzzling case that left the police, occult experts and an entire nation transfixed and terrified. With so much evidence of ghostly goings on, from demonic voices caught on tape, possessed children screaming and barking to flying furniture scaring police and reporters, what was really happening to 11 year old Janet Hodgson?   See acast...
39m Jul 11, 2017
39m
Minisode 1 - Grisly Deaths from the Violin Cupboard
What happened one Sunday afternoon when the girls try out a makeshift "studio" and end up locked in a 1x0.5m cupboard. How do they escape? What were they thinking? And most importantly, did the sound quality improve?   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
10m Jul 09, 2017
10m