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RedHanded

RedHanded

300 episodes · Explicit

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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  1. ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 3 - The Witches Take America

    · 35 min · Episode 250 · Explicit

    At first, stories of European witch-panics were nothing more than idle gossip to the settlers of New England. But soon – faced with inexplicable blights, punishing winters, and stories of people carried off into the…

  2. ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 2 - Hunting Witches in Britain

    · 29 min · Episode 249 · Explicit

    In Part 2 of our special spooky series on all things witchy, we take a look at how the hag-hunting insanity spread to the British Isles: thanks to a paranoid new king and a 19-year-old, self-styled Witchfinder General.…

  3. Halloween Special Part 1: Nigeria’s House of Horrors & The Real Life ‘Candyman’ | #473

    · 57 min · Episode 473 · Explicit

    With Halloween fast approaching, it’s time for our annual tradition at RedHanded: a classic spooky story swap. In this first spine-tingling episode, Suruthi takes us into the forest of Ibadan, Nigeria, to a real-life…

  4. ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 1 - The European Witch Craze

    · 23 min · Episode 248 · Explicit

    Believed for over a thousand years to be local soothsayers who used their powers for everyday charms and spells, European witches' PR machine finally turned against them in the 16th and 17th centuries: when the…

  5. FROM THE VAULT - David Fuller: Monster in the Morgue | #369

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 369 · Explicit

    Since it's October, we're revisiting one of the most sickening, spine-chilling cases we've ever covered on RedHanded... The horrifying case of David Fuller: the so-called Monster in the Morgue. At first, police…

  6. ShortHand: Hell

    · 32 min · Episode 247 · Explicit

    Boiled in blood, hacked at by knives, torn apart by iron dogs… the world’s religions differ on what exactly might await sinners in the afterlife. But one thing they can all agree on is that if you were naughty on…

  7. The Murder of Sydney Loofe: Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell | #472

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 472

    Cursing the courtroom and then slashing his own throat with a contraband shiv, Aubrey Trail had lived up to his promise, turning the trial of Bailey Boswell and himself into a complete circus. Although the pair’s…

  8. Introducing Serial Killers & Murderous Minds: Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder

    · 53 min

    Today we're sharing an episode from the true crime podcast Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, hosted by Vanessa Richardson and forensic psychologist Dr. Tristin Engels. Each episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels take you deep…

  9. ShortHand: The Conjuring

    · 33 min · Episode 246 · Explicit

    In 2013, horror blockbuster The Conjuring packed out cinemas worldwide, terrifying moviegoers with its alleged ‘true story’ of a house haunted by malevolent demons. But the real truth behind the tale is far sketchier…

  10. FROM THE VAULT - Babis Anagnostopoulos: The Fitbit Killer | #389

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 389 · Explicit

    With the release of the Amazon Prime documentary about the murder of Caroline Crouch, we're reaching into the vault to bring you H&S' coverage of this tragic case. When the body of 19-year-old Caroline Crouch was…

  11. ShortHand: Exorcisms Around the World

    · 24 min · Episode 245

    Vanquishing demons lingering in a tainted soul might sound like a very Christian idea – but exorcisms are prevalent in almost every culture across the globe. From ancient China to modern Islam, there are hundreds of…

  12. The Vietnamese Gore Butcher | #471

    · 43 min · Episode 471 · Explicit

    When videos of a gruesome beheading and dismemberment surfaced on gore-fetish websites across Vietnam in 2025, the internet was shaken to its core. Not because it was the first time anyone had seen disturbing videos…

  13. ShortHand: Papua New Guinea's Black Magic Murders

    · 19 min · Episode 244 · Explicit

    Black magic, or ‘Sanguma’, is often used to explain everything from minor illnesses to sudden deaths in Papua New Guinea. Horrifyingly, it’s also behind the recent rise of brutal witch hunts sweeping the nation. An…

  14. ShortHand: Vlad the Impaler - The Real Dracula

    · 27 min · Episode 243

    To round launch our month of spooky eps, our Halloween ShortHand covers the life and afterlife of one of the most sinister, blood-thirstiest bastards in all of human history: Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Vlad…

  15. The Witches of Guaratuba: Black Magic, Child Sacrifice and a Deadly Plot | #470

    · 57 min · Episode 470 · Explicit

    In the early 1990s, the beach town of Guaratuba, Brazil had its very own witch hunt. It started with the mutilated body of a seven-year-old boy: Evandro Ramos Caetano... And it would end with a coven of accused…

  16. ShortHand: Eric Gill - British Art’s Darkest Secret

    · 29 min · Episode 242 · Explicit

    From the BBC and Westminster Cathedral to Penguin paperbacks, typeface creator Eric Gill was once lauded as the eccentric genius behind some of Britain’s most iconic visual landmarks. But behind the scenes, he was also…

  17. ShortHand: Should We Support Paedophile Catchers?

    · 25 min · Episode 241

    To some paedophile catchers like Chris Hansen are online superheroes, protecting children and putting predators behind bars. To others they're vigilantes who enforce their own form of justice while putting people in…

  18. The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part Two: The Investigation | #469

    · 1 h 24 min · Episode 269

    Fetal abduction is incredibly rare, so it’s no surprise that it wasn’t top of the list of possible motives when a heavily pregnant 22-year-old Rebecca Park first went missing. Yet when looking back over the countless…

  19. ShortHand: Deadly Beauty Practices

    · 27 min · Episode 240 · Explicit

    From Belladonna eye drops to literally eating arsenic, human vanity has taken us to some pretty dark places in our quest to look drop dead gorgeous… But would you risk your life for the perfect makeover? In this…

  20. ShortHand: Princess Anne’s Kidnap Chaos

    · 34 min · Episode 239

    This week, we’re taking you back to 1974 for a rollocking royal story that The Crown won’t tell you - the time a young Princess Anne was almost kidnapped by a gun-toting loner outside Buckingham Palace, in a shower of…

  21. The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part One: Cortney Bartholomew | #468

    · 1 h 04 min · Episode 268

    Families are complicated, but when Rebecca Park went missing while heavily pregnant with the child of her mother’s ex-boyfriend, it raised eyebrows. Rebecca disappeared on the 3rd November 2025 after going to visit her…

  22. ShortHand: The Black Death

    · 29 min · Episode 238

    In just seven years, the bubonic plague killed half of all Europeans – more than 50 million people. We look at its surprising origins on the Mongolian battlefield (where diseased bodies were literally catapulted at the…

  23. ShortHand: Julian Assange

    · 38 min · Episode 237

    When Julian Assange created WikiLeaks in 2006, it was the aim of rooting out corruption and improving transparency. And its successes were unprecedented, exposing hard-kept, dirty secrets from the very highest levels…

  24. Lindsay Clancy - Part 2: The Trial | #467

    · 2 h 28 min · Episode 467 · Explicit

    Did Lindsay Clancy kill her children? Despite what was portrayed online, this was not the question at the heart of a trial which has gripped a nation. Both the defence and the prosecution agreed, that tragically, the…

  25. ShortHand: Joan of Arc

    · 31 min · Episode 236

    Jeanne D’Arc – the teenage girl guided by saintly voices to command actual French armies into actual military victories – is one of history’s best-known names. Not bad for a 13-year-old. But that's not all. This week,…

  26. ShortHand: Hikikomori - Japan’s Modern Day Hermits

    · 28 min · Episode 235

    Societal recluses exist in every culture. But in Japan, the number of permanent shut-ins has risen to incredible levels. There are estimated to be around one million Hikikomori, or ‘modern-day hermits’, in Japan today,…

  27. Lindsay Clancy - Part 1: The Killing of the Clancy Children | #466

    · 1 h 53 min · Episode 466

    According to her husband Patrick, Lindsay Clancy was found laying on the ground, semi-conscious, having cut her neck and wrists, and thrown herself from a second story window in an apparent attempt to take her own…

  28. ShortHand: The World's Forbidden Places

    · 24 min · Episode 234 · Explicit

    Ever thought about exploring the places on this mysterious planet where your passport won’t take you? Join for a whistlestop tour of the world’s most off-limits destinations – from radioactive wastelands to…

  29. Real People. Real Crimes. | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT

    · 7:07

    Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love going down internet rabbit holes, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina…

  30. ShortHand: Akhenaten - The Heretical Forgotten Pharaoh

    · 28 min · Episode 233 · Explicit

    More people know about the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten today than knew about him just 100 years after his death. But Akhentaten was no average ruler. He fundamentally changed religious worship forever, and may even…

  31. Louisiana: Axe Murders, Outlaws & Legends (ft. National Park After Dark) | #465

    · 1 h 00 min · Episode 465

    This week, RedHanded is joined by Cassie and Danielle from National Park After Dark for an exploration of the myths, outlaws and bloody history of Louisiana. First up: legendary “land pirate” John Murrell, the…

  32. ShortHand: E-Pimping – Exploitation & Abuse on OnlyFans

    · 18 min · Episode 232 · Explicit

    At first, OnlyFans seemed like a shiny new frontier for safer sex work – a platform that promised unprecedented financial autonomy for its creators. But wherever there’s sex work, there will inevitably be men who try…

  33. ShortHand: Dahvie Vanity – Juggalo Enemy #1

    · 24 min · Episode 231 · Explicit

    In 2007, child protection officers in Pinella County, Florida, spoke with a 14-year-old girl who’d been sexually assaulted by a musician she’d met on MySpace. But thanks to their failed investigation, more than 20…

  34. The Hart Family Murders | #464

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 464 · Explicit

    In 2018, married couple Jen and Sarah Hart accelerated their SUV over the edge of a 100ft cliff in Mendocino County, California… with their six Black adopted children in the back. The world was left in total shock.…

  35. ShortHand: The Great Stink

    · 22 min · Episode 230 · Explicit

    Remember the time London was overcome by a stench so foul that it shut down Parliament, and convinced terrified city-dwellers that the end was surely near? No? Well let us remind you of the grim summer of 1858:…

  36. Introducing “The Poet” from The Binge

    · 36 min

    Today, catch the first episode of The Poet, a new six-part true crime series from The Binge. Hosted by journalist Rachel Browne, The Poet is an investigation that drops you into Wichita, Kansas in 1977, where a woman…

  37. ShortHand: Gladiators

    · 33 min · Episode 229 · Explicit

    Watching slaves being ritually hacked to pieces may not seem like many people’s idea of a great day out. But 2,000 years ago, Romans turned up in their thousands to watch exactly that. So, with Gladiator back on our…

  38. The Golden State Killer - Part 4: Joseph James DeAngelo | #463

    · 1 h 21 min · Episode 463

    Joseph James DeAngelo is a burglar, a killer, and a rapist. A vile man with a proclivity for terrorising and sexually violating women. But that wasn’t everyone’s perception of the elderly man who was arrested in the…

  39. ShortHand: Cannibalism

    · 23 min · Episode 228 · Explicit

    What could drive a person to eat another human being? Well, as it turns out, humankind has actually been surprisingly open to a little cannibalistic carpaccio. From funeral traditions where families gather to gobble…

  40. ShortHand: Cursed Films

    · 32 min · Episode 227

    For almost as long as we’ve made films, we’ve made horror films – but what happens when the terror isn’t just on screen? Movie-making lore is riddled with stories of bizarre accidents on set, creepy coincidences and…

  41. The Golden State Killer - Part 3: The Dark Arts of DNA Databases | #462

    · 1 h 04 min · Episode 462

    To find the most prolific and violent serial rapist and killer the state of California had ever seen, took over fifty years, and some ethically questionable methods. Public DNA databases were trawled without their…

  42. ShortHand: Kapustin Yar – Russia's Area 51

    · 19 min · Episode 226 · Explicit

    For decades, the Soviet Union’s top-secret testing site Kapustin Yar didn’t appear on any maps. It was so top-secret, the government relocated an entire town just to make sure none of its residents ever discovered it.…

  43. UPDATE: Will Bryan Kohberger Actually Get A Trial?

    · 15 min · Explicit

    Bryan Kohberger is now claiming his innocence in the Idaho Student Murders. And he wants a trial to prove it. A year after admitting to the horrific murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Gonçalves, Maddie…

  44. ShortHand: Roanoke

    · 24 min · Episode 228 · Explicit

    When 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children disappeared without a trace – leaving behind nothing but a single cryptic word carved into a tree – it began a mystery that’s lasted centuries. From bloody battles with Native…

  45. The Golden State Killer - Part 2: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark | #461

    · 59 min · Episode 461

    Michelle Eileen McNamara dedicated her life to closing the net on the man she called “The Golden State Killer’. A man whose prolific spree of violent home invasions, rapes, and murders was so large and covered such a…

  46. ShortHand: The Bling Ring

    · 24 min · Episode 225 · Explicit

    What happens when a group of fame-obsessed teens with a passion for fashion go for a shopping spree in their favourite stars’ wardrobes? You get the Bling Ring: the unlikely architects behind a string of burglaries in…

  47. ShortHand: Lili’uokalani - The Last Queen of Hawai’i

    · 29 min · Episode 226 · Explicit

    America the beautiful: from sea to shining sea! (...Plus a bunch of random islands 2,000 miles away in the Pacific Ocean.) The story of why these seven Polynesian islands became part of the US of A is a wild one,…

  48. The Golden State Killer - Part 1: A Horror Beyond Belief | #460

    · 1 h 28 min · Episode 460

    The Golden State Killer, The Easter Area Rapist, The Visalia Ransacker, and The Original Night Stalker. All pseudonyms for a man who committed one of the largest and most prolific sprees of home invasions, rapes, and…

  49. ShortHand: Alcatraz – Escape from Devil's Island

    · 24 min · Episode 224 · Explicit

    When the night guards passed Frank Morris’s cell, in San Francisco’s “inescapable” island super-prison, Alcatraz, he seemed to be sleeping soundly. But what they saw was a dummy head made of plaster, soap and real…

  50. FROM THE VAULT - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento - Parts 1&2

    · 1 h 10 min · Episode 10055

    As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases. This week we stop off in Sacramento, to revisit on of the single most disturbing…

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