RedHanded

On 26 October 1965, in the basement of a house in Indianapolis, the police found the body of 16 year old Sylvia Likens. Her remains were covered in over 150 wounds consistent with unspeakable cruelty, torture and sexual abuse. As the truth came out behind just who had been responsible, the nation looked on in disbelief... MERCH out now: redhandedshop.com   Check out our Patreon: patreon.com/redhan...

As the secret project deadline hangs ominously over us, we have dug up an absolute stonker from the Patreon vaults to keep you all going!  In the early 1980s, in a small hamlet in Central Ontario, there was a cult leader with a messiah complex so big he thought he could operate as a surgeon on the living and use his genitals to bring back the dead. Roch Thériault held a vice-like grip over his loy...

In May 2014, the bodies of 2 teenage girls were found hanging from a tree in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India. It was reported that the girls had been victims of a gang rape. This story sparked scandal and rage across the nation - but there were serious questions raised about the truth of what had occurred - author and journalist Sonia Faleiro spent four long years investigat...

Welcome to our Acast Red Nose Day Mashup podcast for Comic Relief For Red Nose day two of the UK’s finest crime podcasts have mashed up for an episode unlike any other. Join Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala from RedHanded alongside Hannah George, Catie Wilkins, and Taylor Glenn from Drunk Women Solving Crime to bring us 'Drunk Women Caught  Redhanded '.  This powerhouse of super-sleuths leaves no s...

In a world where drug use was rampant and controversy was currency, confessions of murder weren't even enough to raise heavily painted eyebrows. This is the story of how one of New York's hottest promoters fell from grace to cause the death of a man and the death of New York's club scene. In this week's episode of RedHanded, we discuss the killing of Angel Melendez and how Michael Alig went from m...

Alien encounters in the Australian outback, the Irish folk horror story of Half-Hanged McNaughton, the man behind the curtain in a haunted theatre, and a blood chilling tale about the ghost of a little boy named Timothy.... These are your spooky stories, and real life experiences of the paranormal and we can't get enough. Brace yourselves! Send your stories to -  redhandedpatreon@gmail.com     See...

In the concluding part of this grisly series Leonarda Cianciulli sinks deeper into depravity. The fear reaches boiling point as her continued experiments, making human soap from the fat of her victims, fail to deliver. And with Leonarda's beloved son Giuseppe about to head to war - she knows she has just one last shot left to save him - and for that another woman must die... Merch: www.redhandedsh...

Leonarda Cianciulli was consumed by fear thanks to a curse her mother had placed on her. She had learned all she could about black magic from the Romani travellers who passed through her little Italian town, but still the deadly effects of the hex persisted - at least in Leonarda's mind. As she grew desperate, and immersed herself further into the occult, Leonarda realised it was all about the 'la...

On the 13th of February 2017, the world witnessed the most high profile political assassination in decades when Kim Jong-nam was exposed to a deadly nerve agent known as VX in the centre of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The two women who killed the exiled half-brother of Kim Jon-un, claimed they had been tricked and that they thought they were taking part in a Japanese YouTube prank show. We...

On 9 February 2020, 25 year old Ingrid Escamilla was found murdered in her home. She had been stabbed to death by her partner, and then horrifically mutilated. It was just the beginning of one of Mexico's bloodiest years ever. Femicide in Mexico is at epidemic levels - and the link between the rampant murder of women, corruption and cartels is undeinable. In this episode we explore the horror, the...

Happy Valentine's Day! (Whatever that means...)  This week as a special gift for all of you, we’ve cut together all of the best bits of a segment we do on our after show Under the Duvet called “EmptyHanded”. EmptyHanded is the everlasting discussion of the occasional highs and inevitable lows of our dating lives. We’ve got Japanese Horror Porn, we’ve got Kermit GIFs, we’ve even got blue ticks. It’...

At 1:14pm on 2 October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Within minutes he was killed and dismembered by a 15 man hit squad sent from Riyadh. To this day Jamal’s remains have never been found. And aside from a secretive trial conducted by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - the man who according to the CIA and Turkish intelligence orde...

On 22 July 2011, Anders Breivik sent out thousands of the same email. The subject line read: "The Islamisation of Western Europe and the State of the European Resistance Movements", and attached was his 1500 page manifesto. He then detonated a bomb in the government quarter of Oslo, before heading to the island of Utøya, where he would become Norway's worst mass murderer - after taking the lives o...

This episode explores the aftermath of the arrests, the strange confessions of ritual black magic and child sacrifice, and the bizarre death penalty trial that followed. Singapore reeled as it soon became apparent that Adrian Lim and his "holy wives" had been targetting children long before their first murder...  Sources: Book - Unholy Trinity by Alan John   www.redhandedpodcast.com   See acast.co...

A civil war ghost named Toby, tribal curses, granddad's ghost, and Banshees in Ireland.... These are your spooky stories, and real life experiences of the paranormal and we can't get enough. Strap in! Send yours in to -  redhandedpatreon@gmail.com     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adrian Lim's fascination with the occult, and his obsession with power, drove him to transform himself into a black magic "bomoh". He promised his followers whatever they desired, but in exchange he would need from them, everything that he desired... Lim's depravity quickly escalated; he became increasingly violent, turned his attention to younger and younger victims, revelled in torture, rape and...

In 1975 the skull of a child was discovered on the site of an old mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland. It lead to the discovery of hundreds more children's remains that had been disguarded by nuns who ran the home. Years later fearless campaigner and historian Catherine Corless made sure everyone knew about it and enough pressure was put on the Irish government that an investigation commission w...

47 year old mum of 3, Lori Vallow was convinced of two things; she was a god and the world was ending. Her job was to prepare her people for the second coming of Christ, in July 2020... But even as her behaviour became increasingly erratic, and even as those around her started to die in mysterious ways, and even when 2 of her kids - J.J. and Tylee - vanished, it took a shockingly long time for the...

This is the bizarre story of 2 mysterious disappearances, 1 strange dream and 6 people who ended up confessing to murders they couldn't even remember...What happened on the treacherous lava fields of Iceland back in 1974 that ruined the lives of so many, and crept its way so deep into the Icelandic culture, that this story still makes headlines today? Book: Out of Thin Air by Anthony Adeane Source...

We wanted to celebrate and share some of our top picks from our 2020 Patreon releases, so here is possibly our most requested episode from the $10+ Patreon archives! In this bonus episode we released last summer, we talked with long time Spooky Bitches, Cassie and Mike as they told us about the challenges and difficulties that their family have faced in the midst of their son Arthur’s serious beha...

In August 2019, 23 year old Elijah McClain was walking home with some ice tea he had bought for his cousin. On the way he was stopped by police; within minutes Elijah was being restrained and placed in a chokehold. Things escalted further when the police had the young man, who by this point was slipping in and out of consciouness, injected with ketamine. Elijah died 3 days later in hospital, this...

2020 has been absolutely terrifying, so how better to wrap up this shit show than with a very special episode of RedHaunted! Hopefully these bizarre tales of a rattling doorknob, a haunted asylum and a creepy kennel, will help you get you through whatever nightmare awaits us next... (We're guessing we will all need more spooky tales, and more laughs, next year so send your ghostly encounter storie...

Merry Christmas Spooky Bitches! This year as a present for all the incredible things you guys have achieved (The Listener's Choice and Spotify No:1) we've decided to give you all some bonus content Christmas Presents. We've scoured through the hours of extra content we put up on Patreon to bring you 2020's greatest hits. This episode is In The News, our monthly episode on the cases that have been...

Merry Christmas Spooky Bitches! This year as a present for all the incredible things you guys have achieved (The Listener's Choice and Spotify No:1) we've decided to give you all some bonus content Christmas Presents. We've scoured through the hours of extra content we put up on Patreon to bring you 2020's greatest hits. This episode is Under The Duvet, the after-show where we discuss the week's g...

In the concluding part of this terrifying series, we learn how Josef Fritzl's terrible secret was finally discovered, how his bizarre trial unfolded and what became of Elisabeth and her children. Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com   Merch: www.redhandedshop.com     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.