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When five members of the cheery, churchgoing Dupont de Ligonnès family were found dead at their home in Nantes – buried in the garden with small Catholic relics – a million questions erupted from neighbours, family and friends. But for the police, only one question mattered: where was the sixth? Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was nowhere to be found. And as they dug into his past, they uncovered a stor...

What kind of leader would say of his own people that they are “meant to suffer”? Well, maybe a savage despot who claimed to be the master of the dead – a powerful sorcerer who could use vodou to raise murderous zombies at will, read minds, and even assassinate a US president… Francois Duvalier, known as ‘Papa Doc’, is one of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th Century, responsible for the deat...

Say Hello to Junior Vice President MABEL - Hannah's new dog! 🐶 In this episode, H&S talk about the Corry Nash weekend (with a date update from H), the drone attack on the Kremlin, and the Sunderland Man who f**ked a seagull. Plus: to get in the mood for Saturday, they compare the bookies' favourite Eurovision song to win, against the UK's entry! 🎤

On Halloween morning, 1975, in one of the most exclusive gated communities in the USA, the bludgeoned body of 15-year-old Martha Moxley was discovered on her own front lawn. The shattered pieces of the murder weapon, a six-iron golf club, were found nearby. The police had the body, they had the weapon, and they had a strong indication of who took her life. But this was going to be anything but an...

In this episode H&S discuss the MET Gala theme, that Dalai Lama video, and the Ed Sheeran copyright trial. Plus: it’s the countdown to coronation day, so expect some royal-themed chit-chat, and a classic game of… Guess the Price of the Coronation Memorabilia! 👑🇬🇧 (And please comment your Margate recs below!⛱️) EDIT: We know the audio drops out every now and again on Suru's microphone, we thou...

We’re back in the bunker! This week H&S have a bloody chat all about periods, they discuss the emergency alert test that caused chaos across the country, and most importantly: Hannah shares an update on the one and only Rebecca Lasagna. All this and more on this week's Under the Duvet!

On the 15th of March, 2019, a 28-year-old man walked into a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, holding a shotgun and semi-automatic rifle – and opened fire. And what set this story apart was not just its brutality, but also the way it was staged – from the internet, for the internet. The gunman had strapped a GoPro to his helmet, and was streaming every second of the Christchurch shooting over F...

In a police interview in 1999, William Dunlop was asked a direct question by detectives: “Did you kill Julie Hogg?” He responded, yes. He even gave details – how he had taken her life, and hid the body. But Billy Dunlop wasn’t charged for murder. Legally, he couldn’t be, thanks to an 800-year-old UK law known as double jeopardy. And once he was free, it wasn’t long before his volatile temper picke...

The sleepy island of Jersey is a safe haven for wealthy Brits to live out their retirement with favourable weather, and an even more favourable tax rate. So when Nicholas and Elizabeth Newall were found bludgeoned to death in their second home, the local police were a little out of their depth. What followed was a three-year investigation involving nunchucks, covert surveillance, and ending in a c...

It’s finally happening – the Morbid X RedHanded collab! And to get everyone’s witchy juices flowing, we took a trip to the sleepy Cotswold village of Long Compton. Long Compton looks every bit the bucolic British fairytale. But for hundreds of years, stories of black magic, sorcery, necromancy and brutal murder have haunted its villagers. It’s said that in Long Compton, “The influence of witches g...

In December 2020 Gabby Petito and her fiance Brian Laundrie set off on a once-in-a-lifetime journey across the USA in their tiny little van. The trip was set to be packed full of starry nights and stunning vistas for countless happy memories, and also all the beautiful views needed to kickstart Gabby’s dream career as a travel vlogger. But when Brian returned to his family home in August 2021 with...

We recorded this on Monday 3rd April, when we still thought SH would be available for free on Amazon Music. We have taken out what we believed to be true at the time of recording, and embedded at the start of this episode the most recent video we recorded and posted yesterday talking over the most recent changes and sharing the thoughts behind our Wondery move, for anyone who’s missed it. Normal U...

The sleepy town of Griekwastad South Africa woke up to absolute horror on Good Friday 2012.  Three members of the local Steenkamp family had been brutally murdered, leaving their 17-year-old son Don as the only survivor.  As the dust settled people blamed everything from a so-called ‘white genocide farm attack’ to a Satanic Cult. However, the reality and the family secrets that emerged were far da...

Dubbed ‘The Mexican Madonna’, Gloria Trevi was the bad-ass female rockstar who brought girl power to Mexico, and was the IT girl of the 90s in Latin America. But at the height of her fame, Gloria landed herself on Mexico’s most wanted list; evaded an international manhunt through 3 countries; started a prison scandal in Brazil, and found herself accused of luring children into sexual slavery for o...

22 years ago, a triple homicide case hit the headlines in Denmark that left the country reeling.  Not just because of the brutality of the crimes committed, or the incredible oversights by authorities, but because millions of Danes had seen this killer before.  To this day it remains the nation's most infamous criminal case - press play to find out why. 

Between 1828 and 1997, over 150,000 indigenous Canadian children were forcibly taken from their families, and placed in church-run ‘residential schools’.  Their heads were shaved, they were forbidden from speaking their native languages, and their cultures were forcibly and violently suppressed.  This is the story of one of the darkest chapters in Canada’s colonial history, and the cultural genoci...

When the mutilated body of four-year-old Brian Howe was found, with an ‘M’ crudely carved into his stomach, two girls seemed to have all the answers. But Newcastle’s police kept coming up against one question: could a ten- and thirteen-year-old really be responsible for such a violent and sadistic crime? And if so – why?  Find out everything you need to know about Mary Bell ‘The Tyneside Strangler...

On the 28th of December 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons put down his gun and surrendered himself to the Russellville police. Over the 7 days surrounding Christmas Day, Gene murdered 16 people – including 14 members of his own family – in what many consider to be the worst mass murder in Arkansas history.

Known as the ‘the first Amish serial killer’ Eli Stutzman has been linked with the deaths of five innocent people; his wife, his child, and three men he met on the road. Raised in a world where buttons were forbidden and beards were mandatory, it’s easy to see how Stutzman could have felt out of place and even unwanted, but was that really enough to push him to murder?  Find out on this month’s bo...

This infamous case is part Stranger Things, part courtroom drama. When the bodies of 3 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 more specifically, at 3 teenagers accused of being in a witches’ coven and league with the devil himself... 2022 LIVE SHOW TICKET LINKS: &g...

One minute, young couple Channon Christian and Chris Newsom were chatting, kissing and catching up by Channon’s car. The next, they were in the back seat, being held at gunpoint, and pleading for their lives. And it would only get much, much worse. The horrifying final hours of Channon and Chris’ lives were pored over in a lengthy, rollercoaster trial. But after all these years, the question of wh...

There is an island in the Bay of Bengal populated by indigenous hunter-gatherers, who live much like our ancestors did some 60,000 years ago. They’ve made it clear they want no contact with the outside world, and in the 50s, India made it illegal for anyone to go within five miles of its shoreline. But a few years ago one man, who thought he was above that rule, snuck onto the island proclaiming t...

Modern medicine’s come a long way since the days of old where doctors would drill a hole in your head for a cold, prescribe you a tobacco smoke enema, suggest you brushed your teeth with urine, or gave you heroin as cough medicine. But things really did get a whole hell of a lot worse before they got better…  Lobotomies were performed on tens of thousands of psychiatric patients, misbehaving child...

After the murders of two young girls rocked the village of Narborough in Leicestershire, the community was terrified that the killer would s After the murders of two young girls rocked the village of Narborough in Leicestershire, the community was terrified that the killer would strike again. But the police were totally at a loss. That is, until a researcher at the University of Leicester discover...

There aren't many true crime figures bigger than Joe Metheny. The 450-pound killer cook, who rampaged his way through south Baltimore's homeless community in the early 90s, claimed to have taken the lives of at least 10 victims...  But how does someone go from a quiet, high-achieving young boy to a homeless crack addict with a taste for murder? Merch: https://redhandedshop.com   Sources: https://w...