One April afternoon in 1988 a man named Chris Bryson jumped from the top floor window of 4315 Charlotte St in Kansas City, Missouri. He was battered, bruised and completely naked - except for a dog collar and lead hanging from his neck. He had been held captive for days, tied to a bed and brutally tortured by Bob Berdella (aka The Kansas City Butcher) - and Chris was not his first victim. Merch store: www.redhandedshop.com Sources See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Pr...
Oct 08, 2020•56 min•Ep. 168
In this week's episode Hannah and Suruthi story swap the on vaguely train related cases of 'The Brighton Trunk Murders' and the killings of Kieran Kelly - one of the UK's most prolific serial killers... Spooky Bitch MERCH out now! www.redhandedshop.com Check out the visuals for this episode here ! OR follow us on social media: @redhandedthepod on insta, and The RedHanded Podcast Group on Facebook for the accompanying visuals. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy...
Oct 01, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 167
London Podcast Festival Live Stream Tickets When 13 year old Aarushi Talwar was found dead with her throat slit in her own bedroom, it sparked the beginning of what would become one of India’s most notorious cases. A story of immeasurable corruption, incompetence, sex, scandals and secrets. References See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 166
On 1 December 1948 a fully clothed man was found dead on Somerton beach, South Australia. The bizarre discoveries that followed - including a couple of genetic abnormalities, a rare book of Persian poetry and a mysterious code - led to this becoming one of the strangest and most obsessed over mysteries in history... This is as weird as it gets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...
Sep 18, 2020•59 min•Ep. 15
In June 1999 a fire broke out at 9 Kelvin Road in Clydach, Wales. By the time emergency services arrived the residents: Mandy Power, her 80 year old mother Doris and Mandy’s 2 daughters Katie, 10 and Emily, 8 were all dead. But the cause of death wasn’t the fire; they had all been savagely beaten to death. All of the evidence, including a discovery made inside Mandy, pointed at a possibly grotesquely sexual motive and a potential police cover up... References See acast.com/privacy for privacy an...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 165
The US military has a rape problem; 20% of women who enlist are sexually assaulted or harrassed. The US military also appears to have a murder problem, because a distrubing number of women who have been victims of 'command rape' are dying in mysterious circumstances. Vanessa Guillen was a 20 year old solider stationed at Fort Hood, Texas and on 22 April 2020 she vanished. 6 weeks later her burned, dismembered and concrete encased remains were found. Vanessa, just like LaVena Johnson and so many ...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 164
This month in our Black Lives Matter series, we discuss the death of Darren Cumberbatch. Darren was a quick-witted and friendly electrician who was punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed, and tased by British Police while suffering from Acute Behavioral Disturbance in the toilet of a bail hostel in Nuneaton. This is Darren’s story. The Justice4Daz campaign Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Daz/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19....
Sep 08, 2020•16 min•Ep. 14
LONDON PODCAST FESTIVAL TICKETS When Rachel O'Reilly was brutally murdered in her own home in County Dublin, her family were told that it was a home invasion gone horribly wrong. Her devastated parents thought they'd never set foot in her house ever again; that was until Rachel's husband Joe invited them over. But to their horror Joe insisted on showing them the grisly blood-stained walls and made them watch as he re-enacted how he thought Rachel had been killed...Alarms bells rung loud and clea...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 163
In March 1995 a Kansas mechanic bought an old truck at auction; as he started to fix it up he discovered a manila envelope taped to the gas tank. To his horror, inside were 97 photos - most of them were of children being sexually abused. There was also a series of photos of a badly beaten, naked young woman. He called the police, and this harrowing discovery unbelievably solved multiple, decades-long unsolved mysteries… Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-...
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 162
On 4 August 2002, 10 year old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished from a family barbeque in Soham, Cambridgeshire. This sparked one of the biggest police hunts in UK history and when a series of grim discoveries were made, it changed the country forever. References See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 25, 2020•45 min•Ep. 13
It was after midnight on the 29th of December 2012 when 20 year old Naomi Oni was walking home in East London. Suddenly out of the darkness she saw a figure appear and a splash of liquid hit her face. The excruiating burning pain was immediate, and the horrors that followed would only be topped when she discovered just who had carried out this brutal revenge acid attack. Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art...
Aug 20, 2020•49 min•Ep. 161
Madalyn Murray O’Hair, was a woman very not of her time. In buttoned-up 50s America she called herself a militant feminist, a thinker and a drinker and - perhaps most heinous of all: an atheist. Her provocative ways quickly gained her the illustrious title of "the most hated woman in America". She was so hated in fact that in 1995 when she, her son and her granddaughter went missing no one really seemed to care - that is until in 2001 when their dismembered bodies were found on a ranch in Texas....
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 160
On 1 June 2001 a bloody massacre unfolded within the palace walls of the Nepalese royal family in Kathmandu. It left 10 members of the royal family dead - including the king, the queen and all 3 of their children. These killings sparked dangerous conspiracy theories across the globe, started a civil war and set in motion a series of events that led directly to the fall of the entire royal dynasty of Nepal. But was the right man blamed...? Was this atrocity the work of a son scorned by a love los...
Aug 06, 2020•56 min•Ep. 159
In this month's Black Lives Matter episode we discuss the murder of Breonna Taylor. #sayhername Where to help: Petition: https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor #birthdayforbreonna action items (incl email and addresses to contact the Kentucky Attorney General): https://msha.ke/30flirtyfilm/ GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor? Louisville Community Bail Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/ Recommend...
Jul 31, 2020•21 min•Ep. 12
In 2011, 17 year old Emily Longley was found dead in her boyfriend - Elliot Turner's parents' house. But it soon became clear that the story the entire Turner family were telling about how Emily died didn't quite add up... References See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 30, 2020•59 min•Ep. 158
You Spooky Bitches have done it again! We've got another boatload of freaky tales (and quite a few laughs) to get us through the hellscape that is 2020. We need more spooky tales! Send yours in at - [email protected] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 27, 2020•36 min•Ep. 11
In 2001 on a remote stretch of highway in Australia’s Northern Territory, British backpacker Peter Falconio vanished. His girlfriend, Joanne Lees, told police that they had been attacked by a strange man. The subsequent investigation saw local drug runner Bradley Murdoch jailed for life - but questions still linger, especially around the truthfulness of the story that Joanne told... References See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...
Jul 23, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 157
In Feb 1986 the body of newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was found in the home she shared with her husband, John. It was quickly ruled a break-in gone wrong, and the case fell into the icy depths of unsolved cold cases. But over 2 decades later the truth finally began to emerge; and for the LAPD it struck closer to home than they could have ever imagined. Poll: https://poll.ly/#/PwXbm7o3 References: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-mystery-one-of-their-own/ https://filmdaily.co/news/stephanie-laza...
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 156
Following reports of strange riutals and bizarre religious ceremonies, in January 2020 Panamanian police headed into the country's remote jungle. What they found in a makeshift church, in the isolated indigenous village of Alto Terrón was something straight out of a 70s exploitation horror movie... Sources: The Missionary podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-missionary-61230211/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46336355 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/a-missionary-on-tr...
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 155
In April 2016 millionaire author, Helen Bailey vanished. After months of searching, she was found much closer to home than anyone could have imagined... VOTE : https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote Ian Stewart full 999 call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsS8X4Zspr4&t=510s Ian Stewart arrest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQnHMHXjx00 https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/shows/what-the-killer-did-next/articles/the-strange-tragedy-of-helen-bailey https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 154
On Nova Scotia’s South Mountain, just a few miles away from the apple blossom fairs and prosperous farms of the Annapolis Valley, a despicable evil had gone unnoticed for generations. In 1984 Sandra Goler, a 14 year old girl, finally broke the silence when she revealed the true horror of her family’s predilection for incest, horrific abuse and torture. Sources: redhandedpodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-s...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 153
A little boy in a trenchcoat, a terrifying doorbell of death and biting tarot cards....this month, in their continued effort to scare us into forgetting about the world’s problems, Hannah and Suruthi tell their scariest tales yet, courtesy of you Spooky Bitches. VOTE: www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 24, 2020•28 min•Ep. 10
In 2011 a fire tore through the Bartlam home in Nottingham, England. 14 year old Daniel, his little brother Dominic and the family dog all made it safely outside, but Jacqui, their mum didn't. She had been beaten to death with a hammer and left inside the burning building. Daniel told investigators a masked intruder had killed his mum, but discoveries they made on the boy's computer soon put him at the top of the suspect list. Vote: www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote Sources: Documentary: http://...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 152
On 4 June 2008, 30 year old Mormon businessman Travis Alexander was found dead in his shower. He’d been shot in the head, stabbed 27 times and his throat had been slit from ear to ear. The only person any of his friends could think that would want to hurt him was his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias. She maintained her innocence, but the murder trial that followed was filled with scandals, secrets and sordid details. Vote: www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote Merch: www.redhandedshop.com Sources: YouTube D...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 151
One night Cyntoia Brown was picked up by a man named Johnny Allen, he offered her $150 for sex, she agreed and they went back to his house. By the end of the night Cyntoia had shot and killed Johnny Allen. She was just 16 years old. This is the story of Cyntoia's journey through the American justice system. Merch Here: https://redhandedshop.com/ Vote Here: www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote Sources: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1277647/Murder-to-Mercy-who-is-Cyntoia-Brown-where-is-C...
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 150
This episode focuses on the murder of George Floyd. Places to donate and petitions to sign: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#petitions Black Voters Matter: https://movement.vote/funds/black-voter-fund/ The George Floyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd Act Blue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd NAACP Defense Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/ Fair Fight: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fairfight-2020-dtd Recommendations to watch: The 13th T...
Jun 03, 2020•31 min•Ep. 9
In June 2016 the chaos of Brexit reached fever pitch in the UK. One week before the referendum vote was set to take place, politician Jo Cox was savagely shot and stabbed to death outside a public library in the middle of the day. According to eyewitnesses, the assailant screamed “Britain first” as he attacked the defenceless MP. The man was soon revealed to be Thomas Mair, a dedicated neo-Nazi whose decades-long rage had seemingly been sparked into violence by Brexit. Listeners' Choice - vote h...
May 28, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 149
On 13 January 2018, a 17 year old girl made a break for freedom from the house of horrors in which she’d been held captive. She called 911 and soon police stormed the disgusting house in Perris, California. They discovered several children chained to filthy beds in a nightmarish room where the floors were lined with faeces. The children were the escapees’ siblings, and those responsible for the torture and imprisonment, were their very own parents. MERCH : www.redhandedshop.com References: https...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 148
Let’s leave lockdown behind and find something else to be scared of for a bit... In this bonus paranormal episode Hannah and Suruthi bring you ghostly tales from some fellow Spooky Bitches! Merch: www.redhandedshop.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 19, 2020•30 min•Ep. 8
29 year old Nisha Patel-Nasri had it all; she was happily married, she ran 2 businesses and she even found time to volunteer as a Special Constable for the London Metropolitan Police. So the entire nation was horrified when one night in 2006 Nisha was stabbed to death in her own home... MERCH: www.redhandedshop.com References: Footage of Fadi Nasri making appeal: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/femail/video-1544419/Arrogant-killer-Nasri-lets-slip-sly-smile-TV-appeal.html http://www.justjustice...
May 14, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 147
