RedHanded

By RedHanded

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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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283: Episode 283 – Rasputin...

02.02.2023

The much-told legend of Rasputin – the giant, wild-eyed, well-hung, wandering Siberian monk who seduced the Tsarina herself – is mostly a bunch of absolute borscht. But the real story is just as wild. H&S; look at the life of ...

RedHanded episodes:

02.02.2023 283: Episode 283 – Rasputin: Russia’s Greatest Love Machine – Influence or Coincidence? The much-told legend of Rasputin – the giant, wild-eyed, well-hung, wandering Siberian monk who seduced the Tsarina herself – is mostly a bunch of absolute borscht. But the real story is just as wild. H&S; look at the life of ...
01.31.2023 ShortHand: Canada’s Residential School System Between 1828 and 1997, over 150,000 indigenous Canadian children were forcibly taken from their families, and placed in church-run ‘residential schools’. Their heads were shaved, they were forbidden from speaking their native languages, and their cultures were forcibly and violently ...
01.26.2023 282: Episode 282 - Jeffrey Epstein: Foul Play - Part 2 In 2009, having served just 13 months of the cushiest jail sentence this side of Scandinavia, Jeffrey Epstein was free – and legally protected from any future punishment. But there were hundreds of people that knew what he really was: ...
01.24.2023 ShortHand: Medieval Torture Medieval torture, the very words probably fill you with equal parts fear and curiosity…and that’s because no period of human history were the methods employed more devious, imaginative, and downright excruciating than in Medieval times. Join H&S; as they take ...
01.19.2023 281: Episode 281 - Jeffrey Epstein: Along Came a Spider - Part 1 The story of Jeffrey Epstein – the billionaire financier with an industrial-scale web of child abuse implicating some of the most powerful people in the world – sounds like some half-baked conspiracy theory. But it’s all true. And to answer ...
01.17.2023 ShortHand: Visions of Murder – Crime & Clairvoyants With over 200,000 unsolved cases of murder and missing persons in the US alone, even the most advanced forensic technology and top criminal investigators can't crack them all. But fear not – for there are some who believe that the ...
01.13.2023 Introducing COLD: The Search for Sheree Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree ...
01.12.2023 280: Episode 280 - The Idaho Student Murders On 13 November 2022, four University of Idaho students – Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin – were found stabbed to death in their beds. Six weeks later the police (under the glare of immense public scrutiny) ...
01.10.2023 ShortHand: Saddam Hussein’s Blood Quran In a vault, underneath a mosque in Baghdad, is a book whose very existence is considered morally and spiritually unforgivable. Three keys are required to open the vault: one owned by a spiritual leader, one by the chief of police, ...
01.05.2023 Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Joe Metheny: Hate, Heroin & Human Hog Roasts There aren't many true crime figures bigger than Joe Metheny. The 450-pound killer cook, who rampaged his way through south Baltimore's homeless community in the early 90s, claimed to have taken the lives of at least 10 victims... But how ...
01.03.2023 ShortHand: The Death of Princess Diana As one of the most influential, beloved, and reported figures in recent history, the death of the Princess of Wales caused an international state of mourning. But as the dust settled, a narrative started to develop; one in which Diana’s ...
12.29.2022 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 ...
12.22.2022 279: 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 ...
12.16.2022 RedHanded Merch Drop! It’s time for new merch! Yes, that’s right, our brand new line of merch will be available for pre-order from 16 December! But this is no ordinary podcast merch...this one-off range is brought to you in collaboration with the premium ...
12.16.2022 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 ...
12.15.2022 278: 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 ...
12.13.2022 ShortHand: Big Man on Krampus & Further Festive Folklore This Christmas, we thought it was only fitting to take you on a tour of the most frightening festive folklore we could find. We’ve got spectral horses, metal-nosed crones, flagellating fiends and, most importantly, hairy little gremlins with enormous dicks… ...
12.08.2022 277: 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 ...
12.06.2022 ShortHand: The Warrior Gene For centuries, a question has fascinated scientists: can you identify a murderer based on their physical or neurological characteristics? And, if so – what could you do about it? In this week’s ShortHand, we sum up the research into criminal ...
12.01.2022 276: 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 ...
11.29.2022 ShortHand: Josef Mengele - The Angel of Death The Holocaust is possibly the most infamous genocide in history – and through it all, one man, in particular, stood out for his brutality. His sadistic actions, and depraved “medical experiments” during the Holocaust earned him the name “Angel of ...
11.24.2022 275: 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 ...
11.22.2022 ShortHand: Did Gonorrhoea Give Us Grandparents? There are plenty of things that separate us from the animal kingdom. But one of the weirdest and most inexplicable is that we can grow so bloody old – way past reproductive age. And one theory is that we owe ...
11.18.2022 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 ...
11.17.2022 274: 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 ...
11.15.2022 ShortHand: Jared Fogle - Subway’s Paedophile PR Disaster Jared Fogle was an all-American megastar. Famous for losing almost half his body weight on a diet consisting of Subway sandwiches, crisps and diet soda, Jared became one of the richest stars in TV advertising history. He also started The ...
11.10.2022 273: 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 ...
11.08.2022 ShortHand: The European Witch Craze – Part 2 In part two of our special on Europe’s witch craze, we take a look at how the insanity spread to the UK thanks to a paranoid new king and a 19-year-old, self-styled Witchfinder General. Plus: what really goes down at ...
11.03.2022 272: 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 ...
11.01.2022 ShortHand: The European Witch Craze – Part 1 For over a thousand years, witches were believed to be local soothsayers who used their powers for everyday charms and spells. But in the 16th and 17th centuries, Europe was suddenly gripped by a new idea: that witches were part ...
10.27.2022 271: 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 ...
10.25.2022 ShortHand: Drunk Women Caught RedHanded LIVE In this highly anticipated mash-up at the London Podcast Festival 2022, Drunk Women Solving Crime meet RedHanded for a night of cava, chaos and olden-timey crime… Check out Drunk Women Solving Crime, every week, wherever you listen to your podcasts. ...
10.20.2022 270: 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 ...
10.18.2022 ShortHand: Why Did Anyone Believe in Elizabeth Holmes? Elizabeth Holmes and her startup, Theranos, are now infamous. With millions of lives put at risk, and hundreds of millions of dollars flushed down the toilet, they serve as the ultimate cautionary tale of “fake it till you make it” ...
10.13.2022 269: Episode 269 - Devil’s Dorp 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 force in the early 90s, its citizens had an altogether more unholy threat on their hands. ...
10.11.2022 ShortHand: Japan’s Suicide Forest Few places live up to their reputation like Aokigahara, known in the West as Japan’s ‘Suicide Forest’. Dense woodland, purported magnetic interference and tales of ghostly Yurei make navigating the forest difficult – but finding a secluded place to contemplate ...
10.06.2022 268: 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 ...
10.04.2022 ShortHand: 2 Guys 1 Horse – Mr Hands Charles Bukowski once said, “Find what you love and let it kill you”. Which are good words to live by. Unless that is, what you love happens to be getting freaky with a horse. In this week’s Shorthand, we’ll be ...
09.29.2022 267: 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 ...
09.27.2022 ShortHand: The Güevedoces In a small town in the Dominican Republic, more than one percent of boys are born as ‘Güevedoces’. The name, which translates to ‘penis at twelve’, refers to children who are assigned female at birth, but develop male genitalia only ...
09.22.2022 266: 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 ...
09.20.2022 ShortHand: Jeremy Kyle - Death on Daytime Throughout the 2000s tabloid TV was at its peak. The Jeremy Kyle Show didn’t follow celebrities into China Whites on a Thursday, it humiliated white working-class people every day at 9:30 am. And we all watched it. The Jeremy Kyle ...
09.15.2022 265: 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 ...
09.13.2022 ShortHand: HIV’s “Patient Zero” Starting in June 1981, the AIDS epidemic ravaged communities all over the world. Since then, the retrovirus has taken 36.3 million lives, and there are reported to have been as many as 100 million confirmed cases the world over. Its ...
09.09.2022 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 ...
09.08.2022 264: 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 ...
09.06.2022 ShortHand: Morbid Memorabilia What is it that possesses us to collect things? To meticulously curate a store of anything from stamps to taxidermied cats? And when that collection focuses on the macabre – like Nazi uniforms, murder weapons, and serial killer memorabilia (AKA ...
09.01.2022 263: 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, ...
08.30.2022 ShortHand: Is Stockholm Syndrome Real? 50 years ago, a man walked into a bank in Stockholm, Sweden with a machine gun, shot at the ceiling, and screamed "THE PARTY HAS JUST BEGUN!" Little did he know, that this party would turn into a six-day long ...
08.26.2022 262: 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, ...

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RedHanded episodes:

283: Episode 283 – Rasputin: Russia’s Greatest Love Machine – Influence or Coincidence?

ShortHand: Canada’s Residential School System

282: Episode 282 - Jeffrey Epstein: Foul Play - Part 2

ShortHand: Medieval Torture

281: Episode 281 - Jeffrey Epstein: Along Came a Spider - Part 1

ShortHand: Visions of Murder – Crime & Clairvoyants

Introducing COLD: The Search for Sheree

280: Episode 280 - The Idaho Student Murders

ShortHand: Saddam Hussein’s Blood Quran

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Joe Metheny: Hate, Heroin & Human Hog Roasts

ShortHand: The Death of Princess Diana

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Lobotomies: Piece of Mind

279: Episode 279 - Scott Peterson: Trial by Media? - Part 2

RedHanded Merch Drop!

Delphi Update: Patreon Round-Up - December 2022

278: Episode 278 - Scott Peterson: Sex, Lies & Fishing Boats - Part 1

ShortHand: Big Man on Krampus & Further Festive Folklore

277: Episode 277 - Joyce McKinney: Mormon Sex in Chains

ShortHand: The Warrior Gene

276: Episode 276 - Alison Botha: Left for Dead

ShortHand: Josef Mengele - The Angel of Death

275: Episode 275 - The Assassination of Olof Palme

ShortHand: Did Gonorrhoea Give Us Grandparents?

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: October 2022

274: Episode 274 - Larry Hillblom: Who’s Your Daddy?

ShortHand: Jared Fogle - Subway’s Paedophile PR Disaster

273: Episode 273 - The Delphi Murders: The Man in the Woods - Part 2

ShortHand: The European Witch Craze – Part 2

272: Episode 272 - The Delphi Murders: In Plain Sight - Part 1

ShortHand: The European Witch Craze – Part 1

271: Episode 271 - LIVE: Halloween Special Part 2 – Stalin’s Cannibal Island & Marcel Petiot

ShortHand: Drunk Women Caught RedHanded LIVE

270: Episode 270 - Halloween Special Part 1: The Liske Family Murders & Suzy Lamplugh

ShortHand: Why Did Anyone Believe in Elizabeth Holmes?

269: Episode 269 - Devil’s Dorp

ShortHand: Japan’s Suicide Forest

268: Episode 268 - Blake Leibel: A Blueprint for Evil

ShortHand: 2 Guys 1 Horse – Mr Hands

267: Episode 267 – The Unbelievable Saga of Thomas Quick

ShortHand: The Güevedoces

266: Episode 266 - The Burari Deaths: Ritual Slaughter

ShortHand: Jeremy Kyle - Death on Daytime

265: Episode 265 - Susan Cox Powell: Mormon Murder Mystery - Part 2

ShortHand: HIV’s “Patient Zero”

Killers, Cults and Queens - A Sneak Peek!

264: Episode 264 - Susan Cox Powell: Mormon Murder Mystery - Part 1

ShortHand: Morbid Memorabilia

263: Episode 263 - Larry Nassar: Mental Gymnastics

ShortHand: Is Stockholm Syndrome Real?

262: Episode 262 - West Memphis 3 - Part 2

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