RedHanded

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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Jun 27, 2018 · 1 hr 3 min
Episode 52 - Cruise Crime: The Disappearance of Amy Bradley
One morning 23 year old Amy Bradley got up, got dressed, grabbed her cigarettes - seemingly went for a walk - and vanished. And what makes this case even stranger is that Amy was on a ship, out at sea on a Caribbean cruise with her family. How does one just disappear from a ship, never to be seen again? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jun 21, 2018 · 44 min
Episode 51 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 2
In this week's episode Myra Hindley and Ian Brady escalate; abducting, torturing, raping and murdering four more children. In their arrogance and hedonistic pursuit of violent pleasure, they make the grave mistake of trying to involve a new accomplice - one who would ultimately reveal their evil to the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jun 14, 2018 · 32 min
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 they scarred the psyche of a generation? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jun 7, 2018 · 38 min
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... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FUWmA9B9Y See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
May 31, 2018 · 38 min
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 - so what really happened that night? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
May 24, 2018 · 41 min
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 computer, it was clear this twisted man had lived out his sordid sexual fantasy 20,000 leagues under the sea... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
May 16, 2018 · 52 min
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 Stephen’s murder, how this fed into a corrupt police investigation - and ask why 25 years later, justice has still not been done. Vote for us in the Podcast Awards here: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote/ Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
May 9, 2018 · 42 min
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 and the ramifications of the hate group known as ‘incels’. Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
May 3, 2018 · 44 min
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: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Apr 26, 2018 · 35 min
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 Heidi and Urban? Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards here: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote/ Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Apr 19, 2018 · 52 min
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 opt-out information.
Apr 12, 2018 · 45 min
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-out information.
Apr 5, 2018 · 36 min
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/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mar 29, 2018 · 32 min
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 privacy and opt-out information.
Mar 22, 2018 · 33 min
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 opt-out information.
Mar 15, 2018 · 38 min
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 - Where's Our Baby? - Dateline NBC See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mar 8, 2018 · 38 min
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.
Mar 1, 2018 · 29 min
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 acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Feb 22, 2018 · 30 min
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 and the reality of managing a man like Robert Maudsley. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Feb 15, 2018 · 36 min
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 information.