RedHanded

By True Crime with Suruthi & Hannah

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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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For decades, TV presenter Jimmy Savile was idolised as a national treasure in Britain. He was knighted, awarded an OBE, he rubbed shoulders with royalty, prime ministers and he ruled the roost at the BBC. Savile also raised millions for ...

RedHanded episodes:

06.10.2021 Episode 200 - Jimmy Savile: Predator in Plain Sight - Part 1 For decades, TV presenter Jimmy Savile was idolised as a national treasure in Britain. He was knighted, awarded an OBE, he rubbed shoulders with royalty, prime ministers and he ruled the roost at the BBC. Savile also raised millions for ...
06.07.2021 Bonus - Kate Webster: The Real Life Sweeney Todd Thanks to ‘NOW’, and the new show ‘The Nevers’, we’re taking all you spooky bitches on a trip to Victorian London for an extra special bonus episode. And it’s a wild one...in fact, today’s episode resulted in one of the ...
06.04.2021 Bonus - June Patreon Round-Up Hello, all you non-Patron pals! Boy, do we have a treat for you... We've cut together some of our Patreon exclusive best bits from the month of May - you know, to give you a taste of what we get ...
06.03.2021 Episode 199 - Cindy James: Invisible Torment When Cindy James' decomposing body was found bound and dumped outside an abandoned house, those who knew her best were horrified - but not entirely shocked. Cindy had been harassed and attacked by a seemingly all-knowing and malevolent stalker for ...
05.20.2021 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. ...
05.19.2021 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 ...
05.13.2021 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 ...
05.11.2021 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 ...
05.06.2021 Episode 196 - General Butt Naked: Liberia’s Cannibal Warlord During Liberia’s first bloody civil war, Joshua Milton Blahyi - aka General Butt Naked - was the nation’s most feared warlord. It is estimated that he is responsible for the deaths of at least 20,000 people, lives he destroyed as ...
04.29.2021 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 ...
04.28.2021 RedHaunted #8 - That Child Looks Scared! RedHaunted is back, and in video form (for all $10+ Patrons)! This time we learn three key things: 1. Pennsylvania is the land of civil war ghosts. 2. Don’t steal from haunted attics. 3. If your child starts chatting with ...
04.22.2021 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 ...
04.15.2021 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 ...
04.13.2021 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 ...
04.08.2021 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 ...
04.01.2021 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 ...
03.25.2021 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 ...
03.18.2021 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 ...
03.16.2021 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 ...
03.14.2021 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 ...
03.11.2021 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 ...
03.05.2021 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 ...
03.04.2021 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 ...
02.25.2021 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 ...
02.23.2021 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 ...
02.18.2021 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. ...
02.14.2021 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 ...
02.11.2021 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 ...
02.04.2021 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 ...
01.28.2021 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" ...
01.27.2021 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 - [email protected] See ...
01.21.2021 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... ...
01.15.2021 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 ...
01.14.2021 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 ...
01.07.2021 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 ...
01.01.2021 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 ...
12.28.2020 #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. ...
12.24.2020 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 ...
12.23.2020 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 ...
12.18.2020 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 ...
12.17.2020 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 ...
12.10.2020 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 ...
12.03.2020 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 2 part ...
11.26.2020 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 ...
11.20.2020 #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, ...
11.19.2020 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 ...
11.12.2020 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 ...
11.05.2020 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 ...
10.29.2020 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 ...
10.23.2020 #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, ...

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RedHanded episodes:

Episode 200 - Jimmy Savile: Predator in Plain Sight - Part 1

Bonus - Kate Webster: The Real Life Sweeney Todd

Bonus - June Patreon Round-Up

Episode 199 - Cindy James: Invisible Torment

Episode 198 - The Death of Max Spiers

Bonus - May Patreon Round-Up

Episode 197 - Ezra McCandless: Killer Girlfriend

In Conversation with Clair McGowan: Ireland's Vanishing Triangle

Episode 196 - General Butt Naked: Liberia’s Cannibal Warlord

Episode 195 - Chris Benoit: The Canadian Crippler

RedHaunted #8 - That Child Looks Scared!

Episode 194 - Ivan Milat: The Real Wolf Creek

Episode 193 - Ireland's "Scissor Sisters"

In Conversation With Emily Kenway: The Truth About Modern Slavery

Episode 192 - Operation Fort & The Truth about Modern Slavery

Episode 191 - "Bride of Christ": Swedish Sects & Sex Slaves

Episode 190 - Sylvia Likens: The Girl in the Basement

Episode 189 - Castration, Cults and Cauterisation: The Ant Hill Kids

In Conversation with Sonia Faleiro: The Good Girls

Drunk Women Caught RedHanded

Episode 188 - Michael Alig: Confessions of a Club Kid Killer

RedHaunted #7 Stay Away From Small Boys With Red Balls

Episode 187 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 2

Episode 186 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 1

In Conversation with Ryan White: The Prank Show Murder of Kim Jong-nam

Episode 185 - The Cartels Killing Women

Bonus - EmptyHanded: The Supercut

Episode 184 - The Execution of Jamal Khashoggi

Episode 183 - Anders Breivik: Norway's Nightmare

Episode 182 - Adrian Lim: Singapore's "Ritual" Child Killings - Part 2

RedHaunted #6 Don't Name Your Ghosts

Episode 181 - Adrian Lim: Singapore's "Ritual" Child Killings - Part 1

Update on the Tuam 796

Episode 180 - Lori Vallow: Doomsday

Episode 179 - The Reykjavík Confessions: Memories of Murder

Bonus: 2020 Patreon Upcycle - When Your Child Displays Psychopathic Traits...

#6 BLM - Elijah McClain

RedHaunted #5 You See Those 2 Pillars? Look In Between Them...

In The News: The 2020 Round-Up

Under The Duvet: The 2020 Round-Up

Episode 178 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar of Horror - Part 3

Episode 177 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar of Horror - Part 2

Episode 176 - Josef Fritzl & His Cellar of Horror - Part 1

Episode 175 - Annie Le & Room G22

#5 BLM - Sheku Bayoh

Episode 174 - Keli Lane: What Happened to Baby Tegan? Pt 2

Episode 173 - Keli Lane: What Happened to Baby Tegan? Pt 1

Episode 172 - Je Suis Prof: The Murder of Samuel Paty & Charlie Hebdo

Episode 171 - Halloween Special Part 2: Black Magic Saliva & A Toilet Full of Guts

#4 BLM - Ms Dhu

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