RedHanded

The theory “1 sudden infant death is a tragedy, 2 is suspicious and 3 is murder” has pervaded criminal investigations for decades – so when Kathleen Folbigg’s daughter, Laura, became her fourth to die mysteriously, Kathleen found herself labeled “Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer”. Today the girls delve into two unbelievable miscarrriages of justice – mothers wrongfully convicted of killing their children – which highlight the immense challenges of the intersection between science and justice in the courtroom. 

And discover how a series of bizarre circumstances and medical anomalies could have led to the deaths of 5 babies and the imprisonment of two women.

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The notorious Norwegian black metal scene of the early 90s – driven by Per Olin, aka 'Dead', and his band of teenage outcasts, Mayhem – started with pigs’ heads impaled on spikes, buried clothes wrapped around dead birds, and other notorious onstage antics. In three years, it spiralled into dozens of church burnings around Norway, violent bigotry – and the gruesome deaths of three people.

In this week’s episode, the girls chart the bloody origins of Mayhem; its central figures Dead, Euronymous, Varg Vikernes and more; and how they fostered the most feared music scene in history…

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In 2013, when paramedics found the strangled body of 40-year-old Caleb Harrison lying in his bed in Mississauga, Ontario, there was an eerie sense of familiarity. Because this wasn’t the first time that the paramedics had found a dead body at the Harrison family home.

In fact, in the space of just five years, three members of the Harrison family had died in separate and bizarre incidents in the same house… Was the house haunted by a murderous ghost, or was the family being preyed upon by a calculated and patient killer?

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When three masked men entered Jennifer Pan's family home in Markham, Ontario, it seemed like an opportunistic home break-in. But on closer inspection, all the clues pointed back inside the house – and a family murder beyond all comprehension.

After all, why would the would-be robbers shoot Hann and Bich Pan in cold blood, but leave their 24-year-old daughter Jennifer Pan relatively unharmed? Why didn’t they drive off in the expensive Lexus that was parked in the drive? And why would Hann Pan run from the house, leaving his daughter tied to a bannister?

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When police discovered that ex-soldier Victoria Cilliers' parachute had been sabotaged – it could only have been one thing: murder at 10,000 feet.

Speeding towards the ground at over 60 miles per hour, former soldier and parachute instructor Victoria Cilliers was about to make history. She would be the first person in over a decade to experience a double parachute failure. 

Miraculously, she survived the impact. But when Victoria’s equipment was examined, it became clear there was more to this “freak accident” than met the eye. There were gas leaks, gaslights and grounds to divorce.

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Sophie Lionnet was a 21-year-old French au pair, murdered in London after months of psychological abuse and coercive control.

Boyzone obsessions and black magic paedophile rings consumed the mind of Sabrina Koudier. But her neighbours turned a blind eye to the strange woman's violent outbursts, and vile treatment of her French au pair, Sophie. It wasn't their place to get involved.

But even the well-to-do residents of Southfields couldn't ignore the billowing plume of black smoke and the unmistakable smell of burning hair and flesh...

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With nothing but a vague suspect profile, and with mutilated bodies piling up around the USSR, Soviet police were battling to bring the Rostov Ripper's reign of terror to an end. All the while, Andre Chikatilo tore through victims, with no clear pattern, rhyme, reason, or motive. The police were stumped. 

But with a dogged detective hot on his tail, Chikatilo made a costly mistake. In this second and final instalment of this story, we take you through the events that led to his downfall.

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Eluding the USSR's law enforcement for over thirty years, Soviet serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo slaughtered more than 50 women and children across the troubled nation. 

In the first episode of our two-parter, we take you through Chikatilo’s early years, the horrors he lived through in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and how the surrounding chaos turned him into one of the most prolific serial killers in history.
 
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