RedHanded
787 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11.1K ratingsRedHanded 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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FROM THE VAULT - Episode 254 - Jennifer Pan: Tiger Blood
April 15, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 68 MBSocial media is swarming with fresh takes on the Jennifer Pan story, after a new documentary became the third-most watched show on Netflix this weekend. So we wanted to re-release this classic RedHanded episode from summer 2022 – let us know your thoughts on our socials! -- When three masked men entered the Pan family home, it seemed like an opportunistic home break-in. But on closer inspection, things just didn't add up. Why would the would-be robbers shoot Hann and Bich Pan in...
Episode 343 - Rob Parkes: The Price of Life
April 11, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBRob Parkes is not a paedophilic, drug-dealing, gang-leading tyrant. But that’s exactly what his pathologically controlling, abusive ex-wife tried to lead everyone to believe. It’s also why, she said, he had to die. In a very special episode of RedHanded, we hear directly from a man who found out there was a price on his head – and that over the years, six separate people had been approached to kill him. In interviews conducted in our studio, Rob remembers the years of coercive cont...
Episode 342 - The Panama Girls: Lisanne Froon & Kris Kremers
April 04, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBTen years ago, two young women entered the Panamanian cloud forest, accompanied by a dog named Blue. Blue was the only one to ever return. The events that transpired on Panama’s El Pianista trail that day have remained a chilling mystery for a decade now – and possibly will forever. Join us as we delve into the perplexing case of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, where speculation abounds and answers remain elusive. Exclusive bonus content: Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHand Patreo...
Episode 341 - Michael Barrymore & The Death of Stuart Lubbock
March 28, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBFound dead and with severe internal injuries in the swimming pool of the UK’s biggest TV star, Stuart Lubbock’s tragic demise became an instant tabloid sensation. Michael Barrymore’s handling of the tragedy left a lot to be desired – as did the conduct of the British press. But what really happened the night Lubbock died, and who was responsible? Exclusive bonus content: Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHand Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus Content Follow us on social media: YouTube TikTok ...
Episode 340 - The Sea Orphan
March 21, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBFound drifting on the open ocean on the brink of death, Terry Jo Duperrault’s survival was nothing short of a miracle. She’d been at sea for over 3 days, enduring harsh heat, bitter cold, and the tormenting bites of the parrot fish. Terry Jo was the survivor of an apparent yacht accident – yet when the boat’s captain was told the incredible news, he went to a motel, and took his own life. This is the gut-wrenching story of the sinking of The Bluebell, and the deaths of 4 members o...
Episode 339 - Sherri Papini: The Woman Who Fooled the World
March 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBThree weeks after going missing, Californian ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini was found running down a highway with a chain tied to her waist and the word "exodus" burned into her back. Her story defied belief. Kidnapped outside of her home, by a pair of Latina women and driven hundreds of miles with nothing but mariachi music for company, it seemed almost too strange to be true. The police investigation that followed was one of the biggest in recent memory - yet it took over four years b...
FROM THE VAULT - Episode 305 - Natalia Grace: The Orphan
March 10, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBUPDATE: Since we released our episode on the Barnetts – who said their adopted 9-year-old daughter had turned out to be a murderous, adult woman – Natalia has finally broken her silence in a six(!)-part new interview series. And the revelations are damning… Relisten to the episode to brush up first, or skip to 1:20:00 for Hannah and Suruthi’s take on the latest shocking updates! - In 2009, the Barnetts, a wealthy picture-perfect American family, adopted 6-year-old Natalia Grace...
Episode 338 - Horror in Hong Kong: The Braemar Hill Murders
March 07, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBFound raped and brutalised in the hills, just a stone’s throw from one of Hong Kong’s richest neighbourhoods, teenagers Kenneth McBride and Nicola Myers became the subjects of a national outrage. At a point of deep uncertainty in Hong Kong, the tragic murder of the two white expat teenagers became a symbol of everything that was bubbling under the surface. From accusations of racism and classism in the police, to involvement from the local triads, this would quickly become the bigg...
FROM THE VAULT - Episode 59 - Danny Casolaro: The Man Who Knew Too Much
March 01, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBNow that a new Netflix doc has got everyone talking about Danny Casolaro – we wanted to rerelease one of our favourite past episodes, to give you the full RedHanded rundown. Let us know your theories on our socials! Governments kill people who try to uncover their dirty dealings, that’s a fact. But is that what happened to Danny Casolaro? Danny claimed to be on the verge of connecting the dots between multiple governmental scandals and uncovering an international network of unbelie...
Episode 337 - MH370: "Good Night, Malaysia Three Seven Zero”
February 29, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBOn the 8th March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was making a routine red-eye flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, when it seemingly vanished in the clouds. The 175-tonne Boeing 777 – and all 239 people on board – have never been seen again. And 10 years on, there are still no solid answers as to what happened. In this episode, we’ll take you through the facts and theories behind what remains the greatest mystery in the history of aviation. Exclusive bonus content: Wonde...
Episode 336 - Maura Murray: Not Without Peril
February 22, 2024 08:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBIn 2004, amid a horrific snowstorm in a remote mountain town, a talented yet troubled young woman crashed her car and vanished off the face of the Earth. The more you learn about the life of Maura Murray, and the things she got up to in the days before her mysterious disappearance, lead to more questions than answers. Was she trying to kill herself? Was she trying to disappear? Was she abducted, and were the police involved? This is one of the most infamous missing persons case...
Episode 335: Shannon Matthews - Under the Bed
February 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBOn 19 February 2008, 9-year-old Shannon Matthews left school, waved goodbye to her best friend, and then vanished on the half-mile walk home. West Yorkshire police, and a determined group of locals from Shannon’s estate, spent weeks doing all they could to find the missing little girl. But when the truth behind Shannon’s disappearance was eventually uncovered, it was more shocking than anybody could have imagined. Exclusive bonus content: Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHand Patreon -...
Episode 335 - Shannon Matthews: Under the Bed
February 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBOn 19 February 2008, 9-year-old Shannon Matthews left school, waved goodbye to her best friend, and then vanished on the half-mile walk home. West Yorkshire police, and a determined group of locals from Shannon’s estate, spent weeks doing all they could to find the missing little girl. But when the truth behind Shannon’s disappearance was eventually uncovered, it was more shocking than anybody could have imagined. Exclusive bonus content: Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHand Patreon -...
Episode 334 - Charlie Adelson: The Dentist & The Hitmen - Part 2
February 08, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBFollowing the conviction of Charlie Adelson in November 2023, his mother Donna allegedly attempted to flee the US for Vietnam. Arrested on the runway, awaiting take off, the 73 year old now denies any involvement in the murder of her son-in-law, Dan Markel. In this concluding episode we take a look at the entire Adelson clan, with a focus on what the “grieving ex-wife” Wendi Adelson likely knew, and when… Exclusive bonus content: Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHand Patreon - Ad-free & ...
Episode 333 - Charlie Adelson: The Dentist & The Hitmen - Part 1
February 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBWhen Wendi Adelson was left feeling trapped in Tallahassee, following her divorce from FSU professor Dan Markel, she told her big brother Charlie. What happened next is beyond anything anyone could have imagined. In a bizarre murder for hire plot involving hundreds of hours of FBI wiretapping, an owl loving hitman, coded calls about pot belly pigs and a tv repairman, this case has been bubbling away in Florida for the past decade. But finally in November 2023, some shocking truths...
Episode 332 - Jean-Claude Romand: Doubling Down
January 25, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBProspect medical student turned slacker spree-killer is hardly a normal turn of events. Yet Jean-Claude Romand managed to throw his entire life away by simply doing nothing. No school, no job, and no income, all propped up by a tower of ever increasing lies. A secret life spanning over thirty years, and ending in the deaths of his wife, their two children, both his parents, and their family dog, all to avoid telling the truth. This is what happens when you tell that one little lie...
Episode 331 - The Friedmans: A Family Affair
January 18, 2024 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBThe Friedmans were your average upper-middle-class family in ‘70s America, but everything changed when one day accusations of mass child sexual abuse landed on the father and one son. What followed was a chaotic investigation of slippery memories, attempted hypnosis, coercive police questioning, disturbing confessions, folk devils and real-life villains – nothing about this case is black-white. In this episode, we tell you the story of the Friedman family as we know it, not that w...
Episode 330 - Sarah Everard: The Betrayal
January 11, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBDeep in the middle of the UK’s shambolic COVID lockdown, 33 year old Sarah Everard went for a walk. That night she crossed paths with a man who would abduct, rape and kill her. Within days detectives had a man named Wayne Couzens on their radar, but with this breakthrough came a huge reckoning for investigators - because Couzens was a serving London Metropolitan police officer. Exclusive bonus content: Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHand Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus Content Follow us o...
Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Rodney Marks: Murder at The Bottom of the World
January 04, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBThanks to COVID, we all now know, better than ever the impact that social isolation can have on our mental health. Depression, confused thinking, and emotional instability were symptoms many of us became all too familiar with; but imagine you had been in lockdown somewhere thousands of miles away from the nearest city, in perpetual darkness for 6-months of the year, and subjected to temperatures as low as -80 degrees celsius... Oh, and you're locked down with your co-workers... T...
Bonus Patreon Upcycle - The Bloody Benders: America’s First Serial Killer Family
December 28, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBWhen countless lone travellers began to vanish without a trace along the Great Osage Trail in the early 1870s, the people of Labette County, Kansas, were gripped with fear. Soon enough, the county’s residents realised that all the victims had one thing in common: they’d all visited the Bender Inn, a small cabin run by a mysterious German family. But by then it was too late. The Benders were gone with the wind – and as for who they were and where they went, well, that remained a m...
329 - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Part 2
December 21, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBThe trial of Michael Peterson remains one of the most baffling we’ve ever come across. Red neurons, missing blood spatter and of course that pesky blow poke. What led the jury to land on the decision they made? Was evidence overlooked, or was this a cover-up? And finally, if Michael Peterson isn’t guilty, how and why did Kathleen really die? Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Visit our website: Website Sources available on redhandedpodcast.com See Privacy Policy ...
Episode 328 - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Part 1
December 14, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBFrom the outside the Petersons had it all; the perfect family, a beautiful mansion and more money than they could spend. But on 9th December 2001 all that changed, when Michael Peterson claimed to have found his wife, Kathleen, dead at the bottom of their stairs. What followed would become a bizarre tale of strange family secrets, shocking revelations and a true crime case obsessed over like nothing before, or since. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Visit our websit...
Episode 327 - Murder in Ulvila
December 07, 2023 08:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBAt 3 am on the 1st of December 2006, Anneli Auer phoned Finnish emergency services – to tell them an intruder was stabbing her husband to death as she spoke. Police arrived on the scene in less than 10 minutes, but it was too late, and the mysterious killer had seemingly vanished into thin air. Judicial madness, police fuck-ups, greed, undercover lovers, Satanic child abuse rituals, DNA mix-ups, a family torn apart, and a murder mystery that divided a nation: this is the murder o...
Episode 326 - The Murder of Sarah Payne
November 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBVanishing in seconds when her older brother turned away, 8-year-old Sarah Payne’s high-profile disappearance gripped the nation. But as mother and father begged for answers and hoped to see their little girl again, sadly it would leave a very different legacy. This truly heartbreaking case would change the British legal system forever – not before Rebekah Brooks and ‘News of The World’ brought the British media into absolute chaos. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter V...
Episode 326 - Sarah Payne: Into Thin Air
November 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBVanishing in seconds when her older brother turned away, 8-year-old Sarah Payne’s high-profile disappearance gripped the nation. But as mother and father begged for answers and hoped to see their little girl again, sadly it would leave a very different legacy. This truly heartbreaking case would change the British legal system forever – not before Rebekah Brooks and ‘News of The World’ brought the British media into absolute chaos. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter V...
Episode 325 - The Murder of Lynette Dawson - Part 2
November 23, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBThe evidence against Chris Dawson was overwhelming from the start - so why did it take several investigations, 2 coronial enquiries and 40 years of agony for Lyon’s family for New South Wales police to even make an arrest? In our final episode on the murder of Lynette Dawson we discuss the day of her disappearance and the unfathomable lack of effort put into finding her. Not to mention why the police were so unwilling to investigate a man several officers referred to lovingly as ‘D...
Episode 325 - The Vanishing of Lynette Dawson - Part 2
November 23, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBThe evidence against Chris Dawson was overwhelming from the start - so why did it take several investigations, 2 coronial enquiries and 40 years of agony for Lyon’s family for New South Wales police to even make an arrest? In our final episode on the murder of Lynette Dawson we discuss the day of her disappearance and the unfathomable lack of effort put into finding her. Not to mention why the police were so unwilling to investigate a man several officers referred to lovingly as ‘D...
Episode 324 - The Murder of Lynette Dawson - Part 1
November 16, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBWhen Lynette Dawson vanished without a trace in January 1982, her husband played the heartbroken victim. He was an abandoned father of two, with no choice but to move a 16-year-old student into the family home to help him out… This is part 1 of the strange Australian tale. Expect shocking police corruption; rampant sex abuse running wild in the high schools of Sydney’s Northern Beaches; a man who thought he could get away with anything; and his strangely close relationship with his...
Episode 324 - The Vanishing of Lynette Dawson - Part 1
November 16, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBWhen Lynette Dawson vanished without a trace in January 1982, her husband played the heartbroken victim. He was an abandoned father of two, with no choice but to move a 16-year-old student into the family home to help him out… This is part 1 of the strange Australian tale. Expect shocking police corruption; rampant sex abuse running wild in the high schools of Sydney’s Northern Beaches; a man who thought he could get away with anything; and his strangely close relationship with his...
Listen Now: Legacy
November 15, 2023 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.8 MBAfua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the pers...
Bonus - Israel Keyes: Plan of Attack
November 13, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBYou asked for it – to say a huge final THANK YOU to all of you who brought us Gold in the Listeners' Choice category in this year’s BPAs, we promised you a bonus episode of your choice. And you voted in your thousands, for an episode on horrifying serial-killer scumbag, Israel Keyes. Keyes didn’t earn his place among America’s most terrifying serial killers only for his brutality, or coldness. The most horrifying thing about his tale is how comprehensively he got away with it. Tra...
Episode 323 - The Murder of Marvin Gaye ft. Disgraceland
November 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBThe 1984 murder of one of Motown’s biggest stars – at the hands of his abusive, alcoholic, cross-dressing Pentecostal-preacher father – stunned the industry. But despite the media frenzy, almost no justice was served… In this episode we look at Gaye’s life story, drawing a line from his early traumas to the whirlwind of violence, drugs and sex that seemed to follow him everywhere. And to tell the whole story, we’re joined this week by Jake Brennan – host of the most-downloaded mus...
Episode 322 - The Body, the P.I. & the Hole in the Wall
November 02, 2023 08:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBIn 2010, the body of a man was discovered in a locked hotel room in Beaumont, Texas. Apart from some minor bruising on his groin, the man didn’t have a mark on him – yet he had the internal damage of a severe car crash victim. There was no sign of forced entry or a struggle. He had no enemies, and nobody in the hotel had seen or heard a thing. The police were at their wit’s end, and after months of investigating, the case of the body in room 348 went cold. That is, until legen...
RedHaunted Special: Ghost Hunting at The Ancient Ram Inn – Audio Preview
October 31, 2023 17:30 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBHappy Halloween Spooky B*tches! To celebrate our favourite time of year - and for getting GOLD at the British Podcast Awards - we took on one of the most demonic locations in the UK… The Ancient Ram Inn. In this audio preview of our full-length special (which is on YouTube NOW), the owner of The Ram, Caroline Humphries, tells all on the building’s dark past; we get some creepy contact through our ghost-hunting equipment; and we wind down with some creepy RedHaunted stories - sent i...
Episode 321 - LIVE: Halloween Special Part 2 – Corpsewood Manor and Burke & Hare
October 26, 2023 06:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MB’Tis the season, the SpOoKy season… And that means part two of our annual Halloween story swap, this time LIVE from Dallas, Texas!!! Listen up as Suruthi tells you all about the aptly named Corpsewood Manor and Hannah discusses the murderous Victorian antics of Burke & Hare. WATCH THIS EPISODE LIVE WITH THE SLIDES AT: https://youtu.be/3dnlbuxf8f8 Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Visit our website: Website Sources available on redhandedpodcast.com See Privacy P...
Episode 320 - Halloween Special Part 1: The Vampiress of Barcelona & The Dardeen Family Massacre
October 19, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBSpooky season is upon us once again, and that can only mean one thing: another instalment of RedHanded’s Halloween story swap! For the first of two story-swaps this year, Hannah takes us back to pasto-times Barcelona where an Epstein-esque vampiress stalks the city’s children, and Suruthi regales us with the blood-chilling mystery of the Dardeen family killings… Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Visit our website: Website Sources available on redhandedpodcast.com ...
Episode 319 - Lam Kor-wan: The Rainy Night Butcher
October 12, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBIn August 1982, a Kodak technician was processing some photos when he saw the image of a naked young woman appear. He took a closer look, and any excitement he may have felt quickly disappeared when he realised she had been severely mutilated… The ensuing investigation led to the conviction of Hong Kong’s first ever serial killer: Lam Kor-wan, known as the ‘Rainy Night Butcher’, or ‘Jars Killer’. Lam had been conducting sick dissections in a tiny bedroom he shared with his unwittin...
Episode 318 - The 67 Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel
October 05, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBWith fractured knees and savage bruises – weighing just thirty kilos – 23-year-old Anneliese Michel died in 1976 under some of the strangest circumstances imaginable. But despite looking like she’d been held and tortured against her will, she consented to all sixty-seven of the exorcisms she was subjected to. Why? Because Anneliese, her parents, and two-priests all believed she’d been possessed by a demon, and had become the mouthpiece of Adolf Hitler, Judas Iscariot, and even Luc...
Episode 317 - Reverend Willie Maxwell: Harper Lee & The Killer Voodoo Preacher
September 28, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBIn summer 1977, in Alexander City, Alabama, a man stood up in front of 300 mourners at the funeral of a 16-year-old girl – and shot a reverend three times in the head. When the shooter’s murder trial began, it caught the attention of the renowned author, Harper Lee, who went on to spend years researching the story for her next book. But it wasn’t the shooting that had piqued her interest. It was the series of suspicious deaths surrounding the reverend – Willie Maxwell – known in ...
Delphi Update: Odinism & Accusations of Ritual Sacrifice
September 22, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week, Richard Allen’s defence team dropped a 136-page document challenging the warrant that police used to search his house. But it’s not as boring as it sounds – because the bulk of this filing consists of claims that Abby and Libby were in fact killed by an Odinite, white-suprematist cult. And in doing so the defence team has revealed a lot of new information regarding the crime scene. In this update, Suruthi digs into what the hell is going on. See Privacy Policy at https...
Episode 316 - Seth Rich: Murder in the Age of Conspiracy
September 21, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBIf Seth Rich had had any other job – or if it had been any other year – his tragic death would likely have joined the 65 other unsolved murders in his part of Washington DC that year. But Seth worked for the Democratic Party – and this was the summer of 2016. And while his family tried to grieve, Seth’s story was co-opted by every side. Through social media echo-chambering and shameless self-promotion, it grew to include accusations of bloodthirsty politicians; allegations of forei...
Episode 315 - Christian Gerhartstreiter: The Talented Mr Mountbatten
September 14, 2023 06:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBIn 1994, in the back garden of a house on Lorain Road, San Marino, California – workers accidentally unearthed a shallow grave containing dismembered human remains. Investigators were convinced that the discovery had something to do with a charming British man who’d lived at the property a decade before. Not only had he been a member of the British royal family, a celebrated actor, a director, an art collector, a physicist and a naval captain… but he was also a member of the Rocke...
Episode 314 - The Gilgo Beach Killings - Part 2
September 07, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBOn 13 July 2023 - after decades of corruption and inaction - police arrested 59-year-old New York architect Rex Heuermann, on suspicion of being the LISK. In this episode, we’ll look at Heuermann’s family life, his background - and delve into the 33-page bail document that offers us an in-depth look at how investigators finally caught this notorious, modern American serial killer. To vote for us at the British Podcast Awards, click here: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting...
Episode 313 - The Gilgo Beach Killings - Part 1
August 31, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBIn 2010, Shannan Gilbert made a series of frantic 911 calls as she ran through the streets of Oak Beach, Long Island, screaming: “They’re trying to kill me”. Then she vanished. A few months later a body was found near where Shannan, vanished - but it wasn’t her. And neither were the next 9 sets of human remains they found along Ocean Parkway. Now, over a decade later, with the arrest of Rex Heuermann - the police believe they’ve found the elusive Long Island Serial Killer. B...
Episode 312 - Lucy Letby: “Trust me, I’m a nurse”
August 24, 2023 10:08 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBOn 21 August 2023, 33-year-old nurse Lucy Letby was handed a whole-of-life order for the murder of seven babies, and the attempted murder of six more. She is only the fourth woman in British history to receive the sentence. And now this seemingly young, meek, slightly goofy, “vanilla” girl – whose bedroom was filled with stuffed animals – is now Britain’s most prolific child serial killer. So what really happened? How was she allowed to kill so many? Why did she do it? And how w...
Episode 311 - Bhagwan Rajneesh: The Rolls-Royce Driving Sex Guru
August 17, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBIn July 1981, the 40 residents of Antelope, Oregon watched on in bemusement as their rural village was descended upon by an Indian guru and thousands of his followers. Little did they know at the time, that these maroon-robed chanting hippies and their money-loving spiritual leader would go on to overthrow the local government, attempt wide-scale voter fraud, plot to fill a plane with explosives and eventually, carry out the most significant act of bioterrorism in US history. Thi...
Episode 310 - Brenda Spencer: ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’
August 10, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSchool shootings are now tragically commonplace in the US. But in 1979, when Brenda Spencer opened fire on Cleveland Elementary School, it took everyone by surprise. Killing two adults and injuring nine children – allegedly just because she didn’t like Mondays – Brenda has lived on in infamy as one of America’s first school shooters, immortalised by Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Visit our website: Website Sources available on ...
Episode 309 - Thabo Bester: Twisted Firestarter
August 03, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBAt 2am, on the 3rd of May last year – inmates at Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein, South Africa, were woken up by an explosion. Word spread that Thabo Bester, the infamous “Facebook Rapist”, had set himself and his cell on fire. And all that remained after the dramatic blaze were a lighter, and a body, burnt beyond recognition. But that’s far from the end of the story. With daily revelations from the trial still hitting headlines, expect a farcical morgue-robbing scheme, a massive-...
Episode 308 - Christine 'Chris Chan' Chandler: Lifelong Lolcow
July 27, 2023 06:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBGraphic Sonic fanfiction, a botched DIY sex change, incest and relentless psychosexual trolling are just some of the hallmarks of Christine Weston Chandler's story. As one of the most documented people in history – with 2,500 Wiki articles covering everything from school reports to her parents’ friends – her almost biblical tale leaves little to the imagination. Yet most people have never heard of her. Despite decades of online abuse, manipulation, and even extortion, the majority...
Episode 307 - Warren Jeffs: Bleeding the Beast - Part 2
July 20, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBLast week, we looked at the formation of the ultra-obedient, bigamist Mormon cult, the FLDS – in which plural marriage to pregnant preteen girls is just the tip of the fundamentalist iceberg. In this second part, we look at how its new prophet, Warren Jeffs, took his so-called religion to ever stricter and more terrifying depths. With followers so beaten down that they were banned from even laughing; the prophet on the lam, living it up at Disneyland; and a team of ex-faithfuls an...