About RedHanded
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, plug in, sit back and prepare for scares.
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#467Lindsay Clancy - Part 2: The Trial | #467
· 2:28:01
Did Lindsay Clancy kill her children? Despite what was portrayed online, this was not the question at the heart of a trial which has gripped a nation. Both the defence and the prosecution agreed, that tragically, the...
#236ShortHand: Joan of Arc
· 30:53
Jeanne D’Arc – the teenage girl guided by saintly voices to command actual French armies into actual military victories – is one of history’s best-known names. Not bad for a 13-year-old. But that's not all. This week...
#235ShortHand: Hikikomori - Japan’s Modern Day Hermits
· 27:47
Societal recluses exist in every culture. But in Japan, the number of permanent shut-ins has risen to incredible levels. There are estimated to be around one million Hikikomori, or ‘modern-day hermits’, in Japan today...
#466Lindsay Clancy - Part 1: The Killing of the Clancy Children | #466
· 1:53:04
According to her husband Patrick, Lindsay Clancy was found laying on the ground, semi-conscious, having cut her neck and wrists, and thrown herself from a second story window in an apparent attempt to take her own life...
#234ShortHand: The World's Forbidden Places
· 23:45
Ever thought about exploring the places on this mysterious planet where your passport won’t take you? Join for a whistlestop tour of the world’s most off-limits destinations – from radioactive wastelands to...
Real People. Real Crimes. | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT
· 7:07
Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love going down internet rabbit holes, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina...
#233ShortHand: Akhenaten - The Heretical Forgotten Pharaoh
· 28:06
More people know about the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten today than knew about him just 100 years after his death. But Akhentaten was no average ruler. He fundamentally changed religious worship forever, and may even have...
#465Louisiana: Axe Murders, Outlaws & Legends (ft. National Park After Dark) | #465
· 1:00:23
This week, RedHanded is joined by Cassie and Danielle from National Park After Dark for an exploration of the myths, outlaws and bloody history of Louisiana. First up: legendary “land pirate” John Murrell, the...
#232ShortHand: E-Pimping – Exploitation & Abuse on OnlyFans
· 18:30
At first, OnlyFans seemed like a shiny new frontier for safer sex work – a platform that promised unprecedented financial autonomy for its creators. But wherever there’s sex work, there will inevitably be men who try to...
#231ShortHand: Dahvie Vanity – Juggalo Enemy #1
· 23:59
In 2007, child protection officers in Pinella County, Florida, spoke with a 14-year-old girl who’d been sexually assaulted by a musician she’d met on MySpace. But thanks to their failed investigation, more than 20...
#464The Hart Family Murders | #464
· 1:18:30
In 2018, married couple Jen and Sarah Hart accelerated their SUV over the edge of a 100ft cliff in Mendocino County, California… with their six Black adopted children in the back. The world was left in total shock. Jen...
#230ShortHand: The Great Stink
· 22:32
Remember the time London was overcome by a stench so foul that it shut down Parliament, and convinced terrified city-dwellers that the end was surely near? No? Well let us remind you of the grim summer of 1858...
Introducing “The Poet” from The Binge
· 35:50
Today, catch the first episode of The Poet, a new six-part true crime series from The Binge. Hosted by journalist Rachel Browne, The Poet is an investigation that drops you into Wichita, Kansas in 1977, where a woman...
#229ShortHand: Gladiators
· 32:36
Watching slaves being ritually hacked to pieces may not seem like many people’s idea of a great day out. But 2,000 years ago, Romans turned up in their thousands to watch exactly that. So, with Gladiator back on our...
#463The Golden State Killer - Part 4: Joseph James DeAngelo | #463
· 1:20:58
Joseph James DeAngelo is a burglar, a killer, and a rapist. A vile man with a proclivity for terrorising and sexually violating women. But that wasn’t everyone’s perception of the elderly man who was arrested in the...
#228ShortHand: Cannibalism
· 23:18
What could drive a person to eat another human being? Well, as it turns out, humankind has actually been surprisingly open to a little cannibalistic carpaccio. From funeral traditions where families gather to gobble up...
#227ShortHand: Cursed Films
· 31:37
For almost as long as we’ve made films, we’ve made horror films – but what happens when the terror isn’t just on screen? Movie-making lore is riddled with stories of bizarre accidents on set, creepy coincidences and...
#462The Golden State Killer - Part 3: The Dark Arts of DNA Databases | #462
· 1:03:34
To find the most prolific and violent serial rapist and killer the state of California had ever seen, took over fifty years, and some ethically questionable methods. Public DNA databases were trawled without their users...
#226ShortHand: Kapustin Yar – Russia's Area 51
· 19:22
For decades, the Soviet Union’s top-secret testing site Kapustin Yar didn’t appear on any maps. It was so top-secret, the government relocated an entire town just to make sure none of its residents ever discovered it...
UPDATE: Will Bryan Kohberger Actually Get A Trial?
· 15:21
Bryan Kohberger is now claiming his innocence in the Idaho Student Murders. And he wants a trial to prove it. A year after admitting to the horrific murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Gonçalves, Maddie...
#228ShortHand: Roanoke
· 24:21
When 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children disappeared without a trace – leaving behind nothing but a single cryptic word carved into a tree – it began a mystery that’s lasted centuries. From bloody battles with Native...
#461The Golden State Killer - Part 2: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark | #461
· 58:53
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 home invasions, rapes, and murders was so large and covered such a...
#225ShortHand: The Bling Ring
· 24:18
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 the Bling Ring: the unlikely architects behind a string of burglaries in...
#226ShortHand: Lili’uokalani - The Last Queen of Hawai’i
· 28:48
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 these seven Polynesian islands became part of the US of A is a wild one, taking...
#460The Golden State Killer - Part 1: A Horror Beyond Belief | #460
· 1:27:51
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 the largest and most prolific sprees of home invasions, rapes, and...
#224ShortHand: Alcatraz – Escape from Devil's Island
· 24:26
When the night guards passed Frank Morris’s cell, in San Francisco’s “inescapable” island super-prison, Alcatraz, he seemed to be sleeping soundly. But what they saw was a dummy head made of plaster, soap and real human...
#10055FROM THE VAULT - Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento - Parts 1&2
· 1:10:09
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 stop off in Sacramento, to revisit on of the single most disturbing...
#224ShortHand: The Space Race
· 27:44
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 way of outdoing each other that didn’t involve the total eradication...
#459Juana Barraza: Mexico's Notorious 'Little Old Lady Killer' | #459
· 1:09:31
When elderly women started being murdered around Mexico City in the early 2000s, it sparked the nation’s first ever serial killer manhunt… But the fearsome monster targeting the city’s beloved grandmas? She was actually...
#223ShortHand: Cajun Cryptids
· 18:27
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 – spiced up with African folk beliefs, plus Cajun and Creole folklore...
#10055FROM THE VAULT - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Parts 1&2
· 2:32:42
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 stop off in North Carolina, to revisit the infamous staircase of...
#222ShortHand: The Men Who Stare at Goats & The Psychic Arms Race
· 26:13
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 crazy. But for over 30 years, the US government spent tens of millions...
#458Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 2: Canada’s Most Evil Murderer | #458
· 50:27
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 the gigantic task of bringing the country’s most prolific serial killer...
#221ShortHand: The Real Pocahontas
· 25:29
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 that would endure for centuries… But how much of her story is fact –...
#10054FROM THE VAULT - Lizzie Borden: High-Society Hatchet Homicide | #384
· 59:49
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 Massachusetts sparking spooky memories of our visit to the Lizzie...
#221ShortHand: What If Yellowstone Erupted?
· 34:32
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 the world’s most powerful country to an ash-covered wasteland – and...
#457Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 1: The Pig Farm Killer | #457
· 1:01:20
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 the grisly crimes of Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton, we uncover the investigation into the...
#220ShortHand: Spontaneous Human Combustion
· 23:23
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 biologists and police stumped for hundreds of years. And as recently as 2010...
#219ShortHand: Tutankhamun's Curse
· 27:14
The gold-lined, intact tomb of Tutankhamun is without a doubt the most important archaeological discovery in Egypt's history. But what if Tutankhamun, the teenage God King, took something in return? After the young...
#456Royal Scandal: The Murder that Shocked Buckingham Palace | #456
· 1:14:31
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 tragedy. Jane Andrews’s act of violence dominated the headlines in the...
#218ShortHand: How To Live to 100
· 22:16
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 entirely sure how it works… On the one hand, a healthy, stress-free, and...
#217ShortHand: So You’ve Fallen Out of a Plane…
· 19:52
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 not listened to this ShortHand, you’d most likely panic and die...
#455Barbara Daly Baekeland: Maternal Incest & Murder | #455
· 1:20:52
They say money can’t buy happiness… And that certainly proved true in 1972, when Tony Baekeland – heir to the Bakelite plastic dynasty – plunged a knife into his mother Barbara’s heart in their London penthouse. But...
#216ShortHand: The Church of Kardashian
· 24:48
From crypto scams to ‘diet tea’, intellectual property fraud and everything in between, clan Kardashian has set the blueprint for turning followers and influence into cold, hard cash. This is the run down on how Kim...
#215ShortHand: The Men Who Stare at Goats & the Psychic Arms Race
· 26:36
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 were crazy or wait to hear the punchline, and you’d be right to do...
#454The Pulse Nightclub Shooting | #454
· 1:16:09
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 unimaginable terror for the city’s gay community. The Islamic State claimed...
#214ShortHand: The Princes in the Tower
· 30:30
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 happened to them. Were Edward V and his little brother Richard murdered on...
#10054FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell | #285
· 56:42
Netflix's new drama 'The Witness' and documentary 'The Murder of Rachel Nickell' have brought Rachel Nickell's case back into public attention. For the true story behind the murder that rocked the UK, we've resurfaced...
#213ShortHand: The Secrets of Göbekli Tepe
· 32:26
The 1994 excavation of curious buried ruins in southeastern Turkey might have chucked a big rock through the window of archaeological history – shattering everything we thought we knew about our ancient ancestors. With...
#453David “D4vd” Burke - Part Two: The Arrest & Trial | #453
· 52:23
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 “D4vd” Burke killed Celeste Rivas Hernandez. In the eyes of the public...
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