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The Burari Deaths – eleven members of the same family found dead in their Delhi home under deeply disturbing circumstances – still haunt the city today. In the early morning of 1 July 2018, Gurcharan Singh went to check on his neighbours in the Burari district of Delhi. When he got there, he found a scene of mass hanging so chilling that the whole city was thrown into a frenzy.  Ten members of the...

With a 28-year-old Mormon mum Susan Cox Powell still missing – and her husband and father-in-law behaving increasingly erratically – police edged ever closer to finding their culprit. And a string of shocking discoveries, including hard drives full of hentai, a collection of tampons and a suspicious car accident, only helped their case. What they didn’t know was that before it was all over, in a s...

SURPRISE!!! We've got an exclusive sneak peek of a brand new show called Killers, Cults and Queens ! From Audioboom Studios, Cheryl Hole and Nikki Druce are on a whistle stop tour of the weirdest corners of the universe. They’ll be stopping to learn about the craziest true crime cases in history, spooky paranormal activities, truly bonkers internet mythology, very convincing cults and much much mo...

On the 6th of December, 2009, when Susan Cox Powell disappeared while her husband Josh Powell was away on a “spontaneous camping trip”, their community was sent reeling.  This Mormon family from West Valley City, Utah, had long had its issues, but with the revelation of major debts, rampant psychological abuse, child welfare failures, and an obsessive and disturbing father-in-law who filmed Susan’...

In the gruelling world of elite gymnastics, Larry Nassar was seen by a lot of young athletes as a friendly face in tough times. But the USA Gymnastics National Medical Coordinator sexually abused hundreds of girls as young as ten, under the guise of treatments, for almost 30 years – often with their parents sitting just metres away. After multiple investigations, including by his first hunting gro...

In the second and final installment of our two-part episode, we enter the courtroom to hear some flimsy evidence, coerced confessions and absolutely bizarre testimony. Get ready for witchcraft, covens, and satanism that convicted three teenagers of triple child murder. Damien, Jessie, and Jason would spend the next 18 years in prison. And as the rusty cogs of the US justice system slowly turned, f...

The infamous case of three teenagers, who were wrongfully convicted of murdering three children in Arkansas during the height of the 1990s satanic panic, is part Stranger Things, part courtroom drama. When the bodies of three young boys were found, battered, sexually mutilated and hogtied with their own shoelaces in a local creek, the finger was pointed in the most 80s direction of all… Satan. Or...

What do Gordon Ramsey’s brother, drug traffickers, rapists, gangsters, terrorists, thieves, and some of the unluckiest tourists in the world have in common? They’ve all spent time in Bali’s infamous Kerobokan prison, otherwise known as Hotel K: the name that strikes fear into Australian travellers everywhere.  Built around 40 years ago to house 300 inmates, Hotel K is now home to over 1400, over t...

Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon? Well, here's a tasty sample of just some of the content from the past month that your ear-holes have been missing out on. In this month's Patreon Round-Up we bring you clips from two episodes of our weekly Patreon show, Under the Duvet, and a snippet from this month's bonus epis...

Richard Huckle's grooming, exploitation and sexual abuse against some of the world's poorest children were posted on the dark web all to see. From Malaysia, Britain's "Gap Year Paedophile" conducted a nine-year-long, systematic campaign of abuse, authored a how-to-guide for paedophiles, and contributed to one of the largest child sexual abuse networks ever discovered. Then, in October of 2019, pri...

Alex Skeel's torture, imprisonment, isolation and starvation at the hands of his girlfriend, Jordan Worth, is one of the UK's worst cases of domestic abuse against a male victim. Described by the first officer to arrive as “the worst domestic scene” they’d ever witnessed, the brutality of what Alex Skeel endured was shocking. Alex had deep gashes on his arms, burns upon burns, and according to his...

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 t...

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...

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 sa...

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 d...

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 survi...

Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon?  Well, here's a tasty sample of just some of the content from the past month that your ear-holes have been missing out on.  In this month's Patreon Round-Up we bring you clips from our weekly Patreon show, Under the Duvet, and a snippet from this month's bonus episode: Martin Ma...

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 we...

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...

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 ki...

Join Hannah and Suruthi live on stage at a packed out Islington Assembly Hall as they describe the demonic possessions, bouncing beds, ghostly green goo and red-eyed pig-monsters linked to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. The six brutal murders and explosive demonic haunting depicted in ‘The Amityville Horror’ are now a part of horror folklore. But what really happened? Did something mali...

It's that time of year again! We've cranked the discount slider on Patreon as far as it will go! For the next 7 days (until June 15th) you can get 12 months of amazing Patreon content for the price of 10!! That's eight Under the Duvets, two episodes of In the News, and two full-length bonus episodes FOR FREE!!! All you need to do is head on over to patreon.com/redhanded and sign up for an ANNUAL M...

In 2021, a 51-year-old man referred to as “Daddy” by the followers of his alleged sex cult, was found guilty of 8 counts of sex trafficking. Breaking any of Daddy’s rules would result in brutal punishment; including beatings, solitary confinement, and starvation.  “Daddy” kept his victims – most of them teenagers – locked up in his mansion. And all the while, he was topping music charts across the...

On 22 May 2017, as Ariana Grande hit the high notes of her final song to a sold-out Manchester Arena, Salman Abedi hit the button on a homemade bomb. The resulting explosion killed Abedi and 22 other innocent people, and left over 1,000 more injured.  The country mourned, millions of pounds were raised, and we all promised not to let hate win. But as the dust settled, a worrying question started b...

Cowboys, private eyes, poisonings, bomb plots, shootings, and the birth of the FBI. This is the story of how in the 1920s, one Native American tribe became the richest human beings per capita in the world and the diabolical conspiracy that led to hundreds of their people being murdered in cold blood. Classic merch is out now: redhandedshop.com Become a patron: Patreon Order a copy of the book here...