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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252: Episode 252 - The Murder of Sophie Lionnet: Boyzone, Babies & Broken Bones

251: Episode 251 - Andrei Chikatilo: Doomed from the Womb - Part 2

Bonus - Hollywood & Crime: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley

250: Episode 250 - Andrei Chikatilo: Impotent Rage - Part 1

249: Episode 249 - RedHanded LIVE: The Amityville Horror

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: May 2022

248: Episode 248 - R Kelly: The Pied Piper of R&B

247: Episode 247 – The 2017 Manchester Bombing

246: Episode 246 - The Osage Reign of Terror

245: Episode 245 - ‘The Satanic Verses’: Fatwas & Faux Pas

244: Episode 244 - The Van Breda Family Axe Murders

243: Episode 243 - The Sackler Family: An American Cartel

242: Episode 242 - Tonya Harding: Cold as Ice

241: Episode 241 - Mel Ignatow: Karma's Glass Table

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: March 2022

240: Episode 240 - Kim Jong Nam: Prank Show Assassination

239: Episode 239 - The D.C. Snipers 

238: Episode 238 - The Satanic Panic: QAnon and the Case of Matthew Taylor Coleman

237: Episode 237 - The Satanic Panic: The Murder of Betty Ann Sullivan - Part 1

236: Episode 236 - The Kerry Babies

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: February 2022

235: Episode 235 - Breck Bednar: Playing Games

Bonus - Devils in The Dark: Ed Gein, The Butcher of Plainfield

234: Episode 234 - The Hillsborough Disaster

233: Episode 233 - Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf

232: Episode 232 - Novichok Eau de Toilette: Sergei & Yulia

Bonus - Patreon Round-Up: January 2022 

231: Episode 231 - A Storm in a Teacup: The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko

230: Episode 230 - Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw

229: Episode 229 - Scientology - Part 2: How to Make Celebrity Friends and Influence People

228: Episode 228 - Scientology - Part 1: The Maternity Ward of Questionable Religious Sects

227: Episode 227 - The Slenderman Stabbing

226: Episode 226 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 2

Bonus- December Patreon Round-Up: Best of 2021

225: Episode 225 - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 1

224: Episode 224 - The Guildford Four & The Maguire Seven

223: Episode 223 - Village of the Damned: The Nithari Child Murders

222: Episode 222 - Natalee Holloway 

221: Episode 221 - Koh Tao: Murder Island

220: Episode 220 - The Murder of Dylan Redwine

219: Episode 219 - Halloween Special Part 2 - The Boogyman and the Boy in the Attic

Bonus - Sinister Societies: A Sneak Peek

218: Episode 218 - Halloween Special Part 1: How Would You Make a Human Vagina?

Bonus - October Patreon Round-Up

217: Episode 217 - Stephen McDaniel: The Killer with the Key

216: Episode 216 - Issei Segawa: The Kobe Cannibal

216: Episode 215 - Robert Bales: The Kandahar Massacre

215: American Vigilante: Interview with Sam Walker

214: Episode 214: Jodi Jones: Murder in Midlothian

213: Episode 213: We Need to Talk About Paris Bennett

Bonus - August Patreon Round-Up

212: Episode 212 – 3 Guys, 1 Hammer: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

211: Episode 211 - Lorena Bobbitt & The 8-Inch Carving Knife 

Bonus - Georgia Williams: The Snuff Film Maker Down the Street

210: Episode 210 - Shamima Begum: ISIS & The Bethnal Green 3 - Part 2

209: Episode 209 - Shamima Begum: ISIS & The Bethnal Green 3 - Part 1

208: Episode 208 - Pedro Rodrigues Filho: Serial Killer Superstar

Bonus: The Columbine High School Massacre 

Bonus - June Patreon Round-Up

207: Episode 207 - Searching the Sounds: The Disappearance of Ben Smart & Olivia Hope

In the early 1900s Germany was a nation ravaged by the horrors of war, debt and death. For years, as they struggled with stagflation and starvation, all manner of depravity began to emerge; there had even been rumours of human meat being sold on Germany’s black markets.
And it was during this time, that a dangerous man roamed the streets committing a series of gruesome murders so diabolical that he terrified people who had survived the nightmares of WW1. This man, a deviant sexual sadist, went on to be known as The Butcher of Hanover...

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206: Episode 206 - Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hannover 

Anton LaVey, founder and head priest of the Church of Satan, led a controversial life; he was linked to the death of a famous Hollywood starlet and even a Kennedy brother. In this episode Hannah and Suruthi explore LaVey's early life, from burlesque organ player, to occultist, to being labelled by some as "the most evil man in the world".
Join the girls for a deep dive into America's satanic panic, the origins of Satanism and how it has evolved over the decades.

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205: Episode 205 - Anton LaVey & The Church of Satan

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RedHaunted: Some Say This Baby Video Is Haunted, Do You Hear It?

In 1983, in an unassuming suburb of North London ,some plumbers were called out to fix an un-flushable toilet. This already unpleasant job was made much worse by the distinctly hand shaped bones mixed in with lumps of human flesh blocking the drains. This discovery would lead to the arrest of Britain's most notorious necrophile, Dennis Nilsen. The body Nilsen had chopped up, diligently flushed down the toilet and blocked the with was his last victim, but it was nowhere near his first...

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Episode 204 - Dennis Nilsen: The North London Necrophile 

It’s July, we’re RedHanded and football is (maybe) coming home! 
So, to celebrate, we’re delivering some of our Patreon exclusive best bits straight to your ear holes.

With highlights from In the News, our monthly true crime news round-up, Under the Duvet our post-show after-party where we discuss everything from current affairs to our latest empty-handed news, and our monthly exclusive bonus episode which, this month, was on the utterly horrific ‘Dunblane Massacre’.

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30th December 2000, in Setagaya Japan, the Miyazawa family were preparing for the upcoming festivities. Tragically, however, the family wouldn't live to see the new year because that night they were all brutally murdered in their own home. A plethora of evidence was left behind at the scene, including DNA, fingerprints, half-eaten food and even an entire outfit, but still to this day this case remains one of Japan's most notorious unsolved murders. 

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203: Episode 203 - The Miyazawa Family Massacre 

Content Warning - this episode contains quotes pertaining to homophobic and discriminatory language which some listeners may find upsetting.

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On the 7th of October 1998, 21-year old Matthew Shepard was found tied to a prairie fence at the end of a remote dirt track in Laramie, Wyoming. The young gay man had been pistol-whipped in the head over 20 times, and his brain stem had been crushed. He died 6 days later in hospital. 
This case went on to become arguably the most infamous gay hate crime in modern history, and for many Matthew became a martyr. 
In this episode, the girls examine what happened that night, the defendants’ muddled legal decisions, and the latest "bombshell evidence"…

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202: Episode 202 - The Haunting Murder of Matthew Shepard

The concluding part of this series explores Savile’s strange relationship with his mother, God and the BBC. The girls examine the mountains of evidence that piled up long before Savile’s death and ask how everyone turned a blind eye to child abuse, rape and necrophilia… 

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201: Episode 201 - Jimmy Savile: Predator in Plain Sight - Part 2

For decades, TV presenter Jimmy Savile was idolised as a national treasure in Britain. He was knighted, awarded an OBE, he rubbed shoulders with royalty, prime ministers and he ruled the roost at the BBC. Savile also raised millions for charity, for which he was rewarded with the literal keys to hospitals and children's homes across the country. The power and adoration Savile enjoyed was matched only by his perversions and depravity...
In part 1 of this 2 part series, Hannah and Suruthi explore the truth behind Jimmy Savile's eccentric facade, delve into his secretive childhood and ask why no one stopped this monstrous predator.

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200: Episode 200 - Jimmy Savile: Predator in Plain Sight - Part 1

Thanks to ‘NOW’, and the new show ‘The Nevers’, we’re taking all you spooky bitches on a trip to Victorian London for an extra special bonus episode. And it’s a wild one...in fact, today’s episode resulted in one of the most sensational trials of the time - so big, that the future King of Sweden made the trip all the way to The Old Bailey just to watch!

In January 1879 Mrs Julia Martha Thomas hired Kate Webster, a petty criminal, to be her live-in maid. A month later Mrs Thomas’s neighbours would complain of a foul stench coming from the woman’s home. Things only became weirder when Kate was seen wearing her boss’s clothes and allegedly selling jars of ‘Best Dripping’ to pub landlords…

Was Kate Webster the real-life Sweeney Todd?

Strap yourself in for theft, murder, an interesting stew, and even a cameo from the great Sir David Attenborough.

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Hello, all you non-Patron pals! Boy, do we have a treat for you... We've cut together some of our Patreon exclusive best bits from the month of May - you know, to give you a taste of what we get up to over here. 

This round-up includes highlights from 'In The News' our monthly show that gets stuck into the headlines of all things true crime, 'Under The Duvet' our aftershow discussion in which we catch up with one another about our lives and interesting things we've seen, and finally a segment from our latest Bonus Episode which this time involves a Nazi Cult based in Chile...

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When Cindy James' decomposing body was found bound and dumped outside an abandoned house, those who knew her best were horrified - but not entirely shocked.
Cindy had been harassed and attacked by a seemingly all-knowing and malevolent stalker for almost a decade. But, in all those years, despite the thousands of hours of police work spent trying to find Cindy's tormentor, detectives had nothing more than a bizarre phone message to show for it...

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199: Episode 199 - Cindy James: Invisible Torment

In July 2016 Max Spiers, a British conspiracy theorist, sent his mother a series of bizarre texts about how he was terrified for his life. Days later Max was found dead, after having vomited up 2 litres of black liquid. Things only became stranger when people realised that Max was meant to speak at a conference the following day about a high power paedophile ring he’d been investigating...

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198: Episode 198 - The Death of Max Spiers

The pubs are re-opening indoors! And to celebrate, this week we have a gift for all of you soon-to-be spooky bitch patrons. We’ve cut together a handful of the absolute best bits from this month's exclusive RedHanded Patreon content.

With highlights from In the News, our monthly true crime news round-up, Under the Duvet our post-show after-party where we discuss everything from current affairs to our latest empty-handed news, and our monthly exclusive bonus episode which, this month, was on the utterly horrific ‘Broken Arrow Massacre’.

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On 22 March 2018, 19 year old Ezra McCandless stood barefoot, covered in blood banging on the door of a remote Wisconsin farmhouse. She was hysterical and claimed that she’d been attacked by her ex-boyfriend, but the scene police found in the woods told a very different story...

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197: Episode 197 - Ezra McCandless: Killer Girlfriend

Between 1993 and 1998, eight women went missing from an area around Dublin that became known as the ‘Vanishing Triangle’. Was there a link? Speculation abounded. There were whispers of a serial killer, responsible for some, if not all, of these cases. But nobody was ever brought to justice.

Twenty years later, the brutal murder of Jastine Valdez disturbs crime novelist Claire McGowan into action. 

Reminded, like many in Ireland, of those previous missing women, McGowan brought her skills as a novelist to the real world, setting out to uncover the truth of the vanishing triangle. As she dug deeper, she found something terrible lurking behind the idyllic image of rural Ireland and the 21st-century success story of the ‘Celtic Tiger'. 
In this exclusive interview, Claire speaks with the girls about her brand new Audible Original: 'The Vanishing Triangle', and in which attempts to uncover new evidence and solve the many questions surrounding Ireland's Vanishing Triangle. 

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In Conversation with Clair McGowan: Ireland's Vanishing Triangle 

During Liberia’s first bloody civil war, Joshua Milton Blahyi - aka General Butt Naked - was the nation’s most feared warlord. It is estimated that he is responsible for the deaths of at least 20,000 people, lives he destroyed as he raped and ravaged his way through Liberia using human sacrifice and cannibalism to give him and his army of child soldiers “divine” strength. In this episode, Suruthi and Hannah follow the trail of destruction created by Blahyi, and ask can a man once dubbed “the most evil man in the world” really change?

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196: Episode 196 - General Butt Naked: Liberia’s Cannibal Warlord

In 2007 Chris Benoit was one of the biggest stars of the WWE. And he was known for his almost masochistic dedication to his craft, so when he didn’t show up to work one day his colleagues quickly called the police. 

At the Benoit home, officers discovered a nightmarish scene that would change the face of professional wrestling forever...

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195: Episode 195 - Chris Benoit: The Canadian Crippler

RedHaunted is back, and in video form (for all $10+ Patrons)! 

This time we learn three key things:

 1. Pennsylvania is the land of civil war ghosts. 
 2. Don’t steal from haunted attics.
 3. If your child starts chatting with a ghost in the basement, don’t keep digging.

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RedHaunted #8 - That Child Looks Scared!

Between September 1992 and November 1993 the remains of seven backpackers were found dotted around Australia’s Belanglo State Forest. The long putrefied bodies had all been shot multiple times by the same .22 calibre rifle, some had snapped spines, others had been used as target practice. Despite all signs pointing to the Milat family, the real challenge for police was finding which of the ten Milat brothers to point the finger at...

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194: Episode 194 - Ivan Milat: The Real Wolf Creek

On the 30th of March 2005, passers-by began to notice something odd floating down Dublin's Royal Canal. At first they told themselves it was just a mannequin, but when a leg soon popped up - complete with a sock clinging to a putrefying foot - the dismembered limbs became harder to ignore...

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193: Episode 193 - Ireland's "Scissor Sisters"

Emily Kenway is a writer and activist. As a former advisor to the UK's first Anti-Slavery Commissioner she was at the heart of modern slavery action. She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian and TLS.

In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail bars, we're told that modern slavery is all around us, operating in plain sight.

But is this really slavery, and is it even a new phenomenon? Why has the British Conservative Party called it 'one of the great human rights issues of our time', when they usually ignore the exploitation of those at the bottom of the economic pile? The Truth About Modern Slavery reveals how modern slavery has been created as a political tool by those in power. It shows how anti-slavery action acts as a moral cloak, hiding the harms of the 'hostile environment' towards migrants, legiti...

In Conversation With Emily Kenway: The Truth About Modern Slavery 

In 2019 a few hungry men went looking for food at a local soup kitchen in Birmingham; here they met an aid worker who was horrified to discover the suffering they had endured at the hands of a notorious Polish crime family. Following this encounter Operation Fort - the biggest modern slavery investigation in the history of the UK - was sparked. In this episode Hannah and Suruthi explore what people trafficking really is as they delve into the UK's prolific slavery network.

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Episode 192 - Operation Fort & The Truth about Modern Slavery

In the late 90s Pastor Åsa Waldau became the leader of the Knutby Pentecostal church. She had already been sacked from such a post in Uppsala after having "inappropriate relationships'' with the teenage boys in her congregation, but that wasn't about to stop Åsa. In Knutby she doubled the size of the sect and soon decided that she was in fact the bride of none other than Jesus Christ. Needless to say, the community soon found itself in cult territory...

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191: Episode 191 - "Bride of Christ": Swedish Sects & Sex Slaves

On 26 October 1965, in the basement of a house in Indianapolis, the police found the body of 16 year old Sylvia Likens. Her remains were covered in over 150 wounds consistent with unspeakable cruelty, torture and sexual abuse.

As the truth came out behind just who had been responsible, the nation looked on in disbelief...

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190: Episode 190 - Sylvia Likens: The Girl in the Basement 

As the secret project deadline hangs ominously over us, we have dug up an absolute stonker from the Patreon vaults to keep you all going! 

In the early 1980s, in a small hamlet in Central Ontario, there was a cult leader with a messiah complex so big he thought he could operate as a surgeon on the living and use his genitals to bring back the dead. Roch Thériault held a vice-like grip over his loyal followers, so tight that they would abandon their children to his surgical madness, and so firm they would abandon their partners for his harem. He called them The Ant Hill Kids, and with him, life was a living hell.

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189: Episode 189 - Castration, Cults and Cauterisation: The Ant Hill Kids

In May 2014, the bodies of 2 teenage girls were found hanging from a tree in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India. It was reported that the girls had been victims of a gang rape.

This story sparked scandal and rage across the nation - but there were serious questions raised about the truth of what had occurred - author and journalist Sonia Faleiro spent four long years investigating the case, talking to relatives, the police, and even the accused...

We had the amazing opportunity to speak with Sonia about her book The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, which details her investigation and the events that took place. We also had the chance to pick her brains on the wider religious, societal and cultural problems plaguing the women and girls of India.

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In Conversation with Sonia Faleiro: The Good Girls

Welcome to our Acast Red Nose Day Mashup podcast for Comic Relief

For Red Nose day two of the UK’s finest crime podcasts have mashed up for an episode unlike any other. Join Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala from RedHanded alongside Hannah George, Catie Wilkins, and Taylor Glenn from Drunk Women Solving Crime to bring us 'Drunk Women Caught Redhanded'. 

This powerhouse of super-sleuths leaves no stone unturned in solving a true crime from history, whilst imbibing their favorite adult beverages and inviting us to play along too. 
We also get to hear some personal true crime tales of woe from hosts and listeners alike and whilst the gang may not be able to solve everything, they sure as hell don't make it worse.  

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Drunk Women Caught RedHanded 

In a world where drug use was rampant and controversy was currency, confessions of murder weren't even enough to raise heavily painted eyebrows. This is the story of how one of New York's hottest promoters fell from grace to cause the death of a man and the death of New York's club scene.

In this week's episode of RedHanded, we discuss the killing of Angel Melendez and how Michael Alig went from making TV appearances at the forefront of the groundbreaking Club Kid movement, to killing a man, and then chopping him up in exchange for ten bags of heroin. 

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188: Episode 188 - Michael Alig: Confessions of a Club Kid Killer

Alien encounters in the Australian outback, the Irish folk horror story of Half-Hanged McNaughton, the man behind the curtain in a haunted theatre, and a blood chilling tale about the ghost of a little boy named Timothy....
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RedHaunted #7 Stay Away From Small Boys With Red Balls

In the concluding part of this grisly series Leonarda Cianciulli sinks deeper into depravity. The fear reaches boiling point as her continued experiments, making human soap from the fat of her victims, fail to deliver. And with Leonarda's beloved son Giuseppe about to head to war - she knows she has just one last shot left to save him - and for that another woman must die...

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187: Episode 187 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 2

Leonarda Cianciulli was consumed by fear thanks to a curse her mother had placed on her. She had learned all she could about black magic from the Romani travellers who passed through her little Italian town, but still the deadly effects of the hex persisted - at least in Leonarda's mind.
As she grew desperate, and immersed herself further into the occult, Leonarda realised it was all about the 'law of equivalent exchange'; to save a life, she'd have to take a life...
In part 1 of this 2 part series we explore the roots of Leonarda Cianciulli's life, and what shaped her into Italy's first female serial killer.

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186: Episode 186 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 1

On the 13th of February 2017, the world witnessed the most high profile political assassination in decades when Kim Jong-nam was exposed to a deadly nerve agent known as VX in the centre of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The two women who killed the exiled half-brother of Kim Jon-un, claimed they had been tricked and that they thought they were taking part in a Japanese YouTube prank show.
We had the amazing opportunity to talk to Ryan White about the case and his new film Assassins, that follows the two legal teams who fought to save the two women (Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hươn) from Malaysia's mandatory death penalty for murder.

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In Conversation with Ryan White: The Prank Show Murder of Kim Jong-nam

On 9 February 2020, 25 year old Ingrid Escamilla was found murdered in her home. She had been stabbed to death by her partner, and then horrifically mutilated. It was just the beginning of one of Mexico's bloodiest years ever.
Femicide in Mexico is at epidemic levels - and the link between the rampant murder of women, corruption and cartels is undeinable. In this episode we explore the horror, the violence and the impunity of what is happening across the nation - and particularly in Ciudad Juarez.

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185: Episode 185 - The Cartels Killing Women

Happy Valentine's Day! (Whatever that means...) 

This week as a special gift for all of you, we’ve cut together all of the best bits of a segment we do on our after show Under the Duvet called “EmptyHanded”. EmptyHanded is the everlasting discussion of the occasional highs and inevitable lows of our dating lives. We’ve got Japanese Horror Porn, we’ve got Kermit GIFs, we’ve even got blue ticks. It’s a dumpster fire, and we wouldn’t have it any other way (or perhaps we would…).

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At 1:14pm on 2 October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Within minutes he was killed and dismembered by a 15 man hit squad sent from Riyadh.
To this day Jamal’s remains have never been found. And aside from a secretive trial conducted by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - the man who according to the CIA and Turkish intelligence ordered the hit - Jamal has had no justice.

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184: Episode 184 - The Execution of Jamal Khashoggi

On 22 July 2011, Anders Breivik sent out thousands of the same email. The subject line read: "The Islamisation of Western Europe and the State of the European Resistance Movements", and attached was his 1500 page manifesto. He then detonated a bomb in the government quarter of Oslo, before heading to the island of Utøya, where he would become Norway's worst mass murderer - after taking the lives of 77 people, mainly teenagers.
In this episode Hannah and Suruthi take a look at the childhood and life that led Anders Breivik to carry out one of the worst European terror attacks of the last decade.

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183: Episode 183 - Anders Breivik: Norway's Nightmare

This episode explores the aftermath of the arrests, the strange confessions of ritual black magic and child sacrifice, and the bizarre death penalty trial that followed.
Singapore reeled as it soon became apparent that Adrian Lim and his "holy wives" had been targetting children long before their first murder... 

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182: Episode 182 - Adrian Lim: Singapore's "Ritual" Child Killings - Part 2

A civil war ghost named Toby, tribal curses, granddad's ghost, and Banshees in Ireland....
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RedHaunted #6 Don't Name Your Ghosts

Adrian Lim's fascination with the occult, and his obsession with power, drove him to transform himself into a black magic "bomoh". He promised his followers whatever they desired, but in exchange he would need from them, everything that he desired...
Lim's depravity quickly escalated; he became increasingly violent, turned his attention to younger and younger victims, revelled in torture, rape and eventually murder.

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