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 hitting the headlines but haven't progressed far enough for a full-length episode. This year has bee...
Dec 23, 2020•44 min•Ep. 19
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 goings-on, whether it's politics, TV, or even our personal tales of woe. In these 2020 highlights, we...
Dec 18, 2020•49 min•Ep. 18
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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Dec 17, 2020•54 min•Ep. 178
Elisabeth Fritzl had spent her childhood being relentlessly sexually tormented by her father, Josef. But on 29th of August 1984 things escalated to a level of horror she could never have imagined, when she woke up chained to a bed in the cellar of his house... Merch: www.redhandedshop.com Sources: www.redhandedthepodcast.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-...
Dec 10, 2020•44 min•Ep. 177
On 19th April 2008, the world discovered the nightmare world Josef Fritzl had created in the labyrinthian cellar of his home in Amstetten, Austria. It seemed like too much to believe. This week in part 1 of this 3 part series, the girls explore Fritzl's fraught childhood - that was peppered with violence, abandonment and spillover trauma from Nazi concentration camps. Merch : www.redhandedshop.com Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Pr...
Dec 03, 2020•51 min•Ep. 176
Annie had it all; she was happily engaged, she was studying for her doctorate at Yale and she had huge ambitions for herself, that seemed well within reach. So when one day she vanished from her lab on campus, no one could believe it. But within days the true horrors of what had happened to Annie surfaced... 20% of all merch (plus new colour sweatshirts and hoodies!) for 72 hours using promo code 'BLACKFRIDAY' Merch: www.redhandedshop.com References: www.redhandedpodcast.com See acast.com/privac...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 175
In this month's episode of our Black Lives Matter series, we discuss the death of Sheku Bayoh in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy. Sheku died after he was pepper-sprayed and restrained by 4 police officers in 2015. The police cover-up, scandal and public inquiry that followed has made Sheku's death one of Scotland's most notorious cases. This is Sheku's story. Sources: Death in Custody: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bw8f21/disclosure-series-1-3-dead-in-police-custody https://www.bbc.co.u...
Nov 20, 2020•19 min•Ep. 17
In this week’s episode the girls delve into the aftermath of John Borovnik's discovery, the police investigation that followed, and the subsequent trial that saw Keli Lane charged with murder - more than 13 years after her baby vanished. But even after all this, major questions around what drove Keli's behaviour, and of course what happened to baby Tegan, still remain... Merch : www.redhandedshop.com Sources and recommendations: Documentaries: Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane (Amazon Prime or Netf...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 174
Between the ages of 17 and 21 Keli Lane, an elite Australian water polo player, got pregnant 5 times - and somehow managed to keep each pregnancy a total secret for years... But her lies, inconsistencies and cryptic pregnancies all came spilling out in 2001, when a social worker finally noticed that one of her daughters had vanished at just 2 days old. So, what happened to baby Tegan? Merch : www.redhandedshop.com Patreon : www.patreon.com/redhanded Sources and recommendations: Documentaries: Ex...
Nov 12, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 173
On 16 October 2020, 37 year old teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on a suburban street in France by an Islamist terrorist. Samuel had become the target of an online hate campaign after he showed his students cartoons from the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, depicting Muhammad. In this episode we discuss the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, the murder of Samuel Paty and the rise of terrorism in Europe. Merch: www.redhandedshop.com Sources : www.redhandedpodcast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy...
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 172
If there's a spiritualist spit hoover and a child's hand boiling away on the stove, it can only be part two of RedHanded's traditional Halloween story swap. This round, Hannah tells us about a murderous Indonesian sorcerer, while Suruthi racks up our air miles with a trip back to Germany to meet a barbaric Bavarian butcher. 72 FLASH SALE on all Spooky Bitch merch! For 20% off all Spooky Bitch items from 29 Oct until midnight on Halloween use promo code: spooky20off at www.redhandedshop.com Tuam:...
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 171
This month in our Black Lives Matter series, we discuss the death of Ms Dhu. During the two day's Ms Dhu spent in police custody in Western Australia, she was dropped to the floor, lifted by her hands and feet, and another prisoner was dragged into her cell to stare at her. She went through all of this while being verbally abused and suffering from sepsis. She died of preventable causes aged just twenty-two, while a white officer stood over her saying she was "faking it". This is Ms Dhu's story....
Oct 23, 2020•23 min•Ep. 16
As is Halloween tradition at RedHanded - we bring you a story swap! This year, Suruthi goes rogue with a story of colonial cannibalism, while Hannah takes us to Germany for a stomach-churning, true house of horrors... Merch: http://www.redhandedshop.com/ Sources: www.redhandedpodcast.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 ....
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 170
On Halloween night 1979, 16 year old Lynette Ledford was on her way home from a party when she vanished. The discovery of her body the next day set in motion a disturbing investigation into a pair of brutal serial killers who had raped, tortured and murdered their way across the state for months. John E Douglas - the FBI profiler who assessed the likes of Manson, BTK, Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz and Richard Speck - said of one of this pair: “He was the most disturbing man I’ve profil...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 169
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•1 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
