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RedHanded the podcast jumps head first into all manner of macabre madness. We cover everything from big time serial killers (and those you may never have heard of), to hauntings, possessions, disturbing mysteries, bizarre whodunits and basically anything that tickles our creepy fancy. So, join us, p...
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The Golden State Killer - Part 2: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark | #461
Michelle Eileen McNamara dedicated her life to closing the net on the man she called “The Golden State Killer’. A man whose prolific spree of violent...
ShortHand: The Bling Ring
What happens when a group of fame-obsessed teens with a passion for fashion go for a shopping spree in their favourite stars’ wardrobes?
You get...
ShortHand: Lili’uokalani - The Last Queen of Hawai’i
America the beautiful: from sea to shining sea! (...Plus a bunch of random islands 2,000 miles away in the Pacific Ocean.)
The story of why thes...
The Golden State Killer - Part 1: A Horror Beyond Belief | #460
The Golden State Killer, The Easter Area Rapist, The Visalia Ransacker, and The Original Night Stalker. All pseudonyms for a man who committed one of...
ShortHand: Alcatraz – Escape from Devil's Island
When the night guards passed Frank Morris’s cell, in San Francisco’s “inescapable” island super-prison, Alcatraz, he seemed to be sleeping soundly. Bu...
FROM THE VAULT - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento - Parts 1&2
As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases. This week we st...
ShortHand: The Space Race
The idea of human beings floating in space used to feel as likely as time travel. But after WWII, the world’s two strongest superpowers had to find a...
Juana Barraza: Mexico's Notorious 'Little Old Lady Killer' | #459
When elderly women started being murdered around Mexico City in the early 2000s, it sparked the nation’s first ever serial killer manhunt…
But t...
ShortHand: Cajun Cryptids
Louisiana has more than its fair share of real monsters hiding in its deep, dark bayous. So, settlers’ nightmares about what else was hiding there – s...
FROM THE VAULT - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Parts 1&2
As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases. This week we st...
ShortHand: The Men Who Stare at Goats & The Psychic Arms Race
If someone told you they could read your mind, levitate, walk through walls, or make your heart explode in your chest, you’d probably say they were cr...
Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 2: Canada’s Most Evil Murderer | #458
After the search of Vancouver’s missing women finally brought them to the gates of Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton’s grisly pig farm, Canadian police faced th...
ShortHand: The Real Pocahontas
Long before the ‘90s cartoon version painted with all the colours of the wind, a real Native American woman named Pocahontas inspired a romantic tale...
FROM THE VAULT - Lizzie Borden: High-Society Hatchet Homicide | #384
As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases – with a stop in...
ShortHand: What If Yellowstone Erupted?
Any moment now, we might experience an explosion that emits the power of 1,000 atomic bombs every second. An explosion so fierce that it would reduce...
Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 1: The Pig Farm Killer | #457
For years, women were vanishing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside…
But the police refused to admit it.
In the first of a two-parter on th...
ShortHand: Spontaneous Human Combustion
People who seem to have suddenly burst into flames – leaving just a pile of ash, a foot or skull, and a puddle of strange grease – have left biologist...
ShortHand: Tutankhamun's Curse
The gold-lined, intact tomb of Tutankhamun is without a doubt the most important archaeological discovery in Egypt's history. But what if Tutankhamun,...
Royal Scandal: The Murder that Shocked Buckingham Palace | #456
Tom Cressman’s brutal murder – beaten with a cricket bat by the ex-royal dresser to Sarah Ferguson, the ex-Dutchess of York – was a truly British trag...
ShortHand: How To Live to 100
Reliably living to 100 years old – a once unthinkable goal – is slowly creeping closer to becoming a reality. But there’s a catch: we’re still not ent...
ShortHand: So You’ve Fallen Out of a Plane…
You’re free falling towards the ground at 120mph, and below you all you can see is an expanse of open wilderness. What are you going to do? Had you no...
Barbara Daly Baekeland: Maternal Incest & Murder | #455
They say money can’t buy happiness…
And that certainly proved true in 1972, when Tony Baekeland – heir to the Bakelite plastic dynasty – plunged...
ShortHand: The Church of Kardashian
From crypto scams to ‘diet tea’, intellectual property fraud and everything in between, clan Kardashian has set the blueprint for turning followers an...
ShortHand: The Men Who Stare at Goats & the Psychic Arms Race
If someone told you they could read your mind, levitate, walk through walls, or make your heart explode in your chest, you’d probably either say they...
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting | #454
When Omar Mateen stepped into Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and fired into the crowd, 10 years ago this week, it was the start of three hours of unimagina...
ShortHand: The Princes in the Tower
Back in 1483, two young princes mysteriously vanished from the Tower of London…
And more than 500 years later, we’re still arguing about what ha...
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285
Netflix's new drama 'The Witness' and documentary 'The Murder of Rachel Nickell' have brought Rachel Nickell's case back into public attention. For th...
ShortHand: The Secrets of Göbekli Tepe
The 1994 excavation of curious buried ruins in southeastern Turkey might have chucked a big rock through the window of archaeological history – shatte...
David “D4vd” Burke - Part Two: The Arrest & Trial | #453
Two chainsaws and a paddling pool; a very public relationship; along with a litany of texts and Discord messages, all pointing to one thing: David “D4...
ShortHand: The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Naked, clutching the telephone receiver, and with a stomach full of prescription meds, Marilyn Monroe was pronounced dead at 4:25am on the 5th of Augu...
ShortHand: The Ku Klux Klan
The KKK are the OG far-right trolls: one of the most evil groups in US history, and the best-known purveyors of white racism in the United States.
David “D4vd” Burke - Part One: The Killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez | #452
Dismembered and stuffed into the “frunk” of David “D4vd” Burke’s Tesla: 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was found more than four months aft...
ShortHand: Harambe
Shot and killed in front of a crowd of terrified onlookers, Harambe, a western lowland gorilla, will go down in history. His death – seemingly while t...
A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
She was days away from a major race. A rising star in cycling. Then, she was found shot to death in a friend's apartment.
We're sharing an episo...
ShortHand: Nestlé & the 'Baby Killer' Scandal
What if we told you that the brand responsible for some of your favourite foods and drinks, has also been accused of being responsible for the deaths...
RedHanded x The Upshot: The Enhanced Games | #451
“Juiced to his gills” on a combination of testosterone, steroids, and god knows what else, three times Olympic medalist James Magnussen put on over 30...
ShortHand: Anne Boleyn – The "Great Whore" Queen
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, changed the course of English history – despite being queen for just 1,000 days before her beheading at th...
FROM THE VAULT – ShortHand: Mandy Matney – A Murdaugh Update
In 2024, a year on from RedHanded’s episode on the Murdaugh Family Murders, we had the great pleasure of talking to Mandy Matney, the foremost indepen...
FROM THE VAULT – The Murdaugh Family Murders | #287
BREAKING NEWS: Alex Murdaugh WILL face a new trial. A South Carolina court has overturned the 2023 murder convictions of ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh. Five...
Leo Schofield – Part 2: The Wrong Man | #450
As wrongful convictions go, the trial of Leo Schofield – who stood accused of killing his young wife Michelle Schofield – had it all: bias, speculatio...