RedHanded

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 - so what really happened that night?

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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 computer, it was clear this twisted man had lived out his sordid sexual fantasy 20,000 leagues under the sea...

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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 Stephen’s murder, how this fed into a corrupt police investigation - and ask why 25 years later, justice has still not been done. 

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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 and the ramifications of the hate group known as ‘incels’.

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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...

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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 Heidi and Urban?

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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...

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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?

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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...

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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...

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