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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Cheyenne Flying Podcasts
Partners in life and crime, Cheyenne and Jennifer, unleash their southern accents as they discuss true crime and conspiracies that rocked the nation. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fireside-crime/id1512618045
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In my podcast will explain my true life my podcast will be truthful, I am 14 years old but my age will change. This is not a diary, let me think and express my brain. Let me talk,and please enjoy! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cheyennes-truelife/support
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DAY 9: The Conjuring (ShortHand’s 13 Days of Halloween)
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33:44In the last 13 days before Halloween, a different ShortHand will rise from the archives for 24 hours only – before disappearing back into the vault. Get exclusive access to every ShortHand episode ad free only on Amazon Music Unlimited. -- In 2013, horror blockbuster The Conjuring packed out cinemas worldwide, terrifying moviegoers with its alleged…
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Exploring Britain’s Most Evil Church (ft. Ghost Huns) | #422
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50:17For our first of two Halloween specials we set off on a spooky adventure ghost hunting with Ghost Huns at Clophill, allegedly the one of the most haunted and evil locations in the UK. Today we’re going to tell you the dark history of Britain’s most horrifying church, including satanic rituals, and the local priest driving around with a dead woman’s…
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The police knew their suspect was a sexual sadist – one who had trapped a young boy for days and took great pleasure in slowly, methodically, snapping every bone in his legs. What they didn’t expect was that this ghastly resident of Baraboo, Wisconsin was still just 17 years old. And it wasn’t his first time. H&S spin the sinister tale of a twisted…
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FROM THE VAULT: Ian Watkins: Rock Star, Paedophile, Nepiophile
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1:02:40*Update* Ian Watkins has been stabbed to death in Wakefield Prison by two fellow inmates, on Saturday 11th October 2025. He was previously stabbed in 2023, when he was taken hostage for six hours by a group of inmates. Here is our full episode from 2019. -- Ian Watkins was the lead singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets. He toured all over the worl…
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Unit 731: Japan’s Secret Human Testing Program | #420
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1:06:53One of WWII’s lesser-known horrors, Japan’s secret biological warfare testing program is so brutal and inhumane that it’s hard to believe it could ever happen. And at its helm was a twisted microbiologist Shiro Ishi. Victims, known inside as “logs”, were injected and exposed to countless pathogens including typhoid, cholera, and the plague, then wa…
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Arne Cheyenne Johnson: The Devil Made Me Do It | #419
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1:00:51In 1981, nineteen-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabbed his landlord to death – but claimed he wasn’t guilty. Why? Because he was possessed by the literal Devil. With a wild alibi starring a possessed tween, budget exorcisms and even a cameo from America’s most notorious spooky grifters Ed and Lorraine Warren, Satan was going on trial... But would…
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Madeline Soto: Handed to a Monster | #418
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1:34:19Almost immediately after 13-year-old Madeline Soto was reported missing in February 2024, something didn’t seem quite right. Her mother Jennifer Soto – and Jennifer’s boyfriend Stephan Sterns – gave a series of strange interviews in the press. And over the next five days, as investigators picked apart the lives (and sleeping arrangements) of those …
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Ed Gein: America’s Real-Life Psycho | #417
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1:19:18We’re finally diving into the case of infamous bodysnatcher, human-skin-furniture-maker, and OG mummy’s boy...Ed Gein. A shy bachelor who terrorised a tiny Wisconsin town with his nightmarish farmhouse of horrors in the 1950s, Ed Gein inspired some of the creepiest characters in scary-movie history: from Psycho’s Norman Bates to Buffalo Bill from T…
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FROM THE VAULT - Thabo Bester: Twisted Firestarter
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49:15Due to a huge number of requests following a new Netflix doc on Thabo Bester, we're re-releasing our 2023 episode on the shocking, shameless, madder-than-fiction South African saga. -- At 2am, on the 3rd of May 2022 – inmates at Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein, South Africa, were woken up by an explosion. Word spread that Thabo Bester, the infamous…
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With cyberbullying and catfishing stories back in the news it felt like the perfect time to revisit this early episode from back in 2019. -- Someone was cyberbullying Jenelle Potter: hurling online abuse and threatening her life with claims that she was "too pretty to live". As things escalated, inexplicably, the CIA seemed to become involved and J…
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Tania Head: 9/11 Trauma Fraud | #416
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1:21:55Being in the World Trade Centre when the second plane hit the South Tower; watching her assistant be decapitated; crawling over the bodies of her dead and injured co-workers; and becoming one of only nineteen people to survive being at or above the point of impact: these are all things Tania Head did not experience. Yet for six years, Tania (real n…
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Charles Bronson: Britain’s Most Dangerous Prisoner | #415
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1:28:25What do you do with a prisoner so unhinged that he’s been kicked out of 120 prisons to date? How have Britain’s most secure facilities dealt with a man who could explode in a frenzy of brutal violence and destruction at any moment? What happens to a man who spends more than 25 years in solitary confinement? And most importantly: now that Britain’s …
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In 2006, the body of Polish student Angelika Kluk was found hidden in the most unthinkable place: stuffed beneath the floorboards of a Glasgow church. The man who put her there – greyhaired handyman Peter Tobin – was about to have his own sins laid bare. And what police found would reveal a predator whose impact stretched far beyond the church wall…
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Recorded LIVE in New York’s Town Hall in front of a sold-out crowd, RedHanded’s Confessions Tour show takes in everything from Mormon sex scandals to intergalactic baby-making missions to save the planet. Plus: more than we ever wanted to know about our lovely audience… For the full experience, watch the slideshow on our YouTube channel: Exclusive …
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Iqbal Masih: Enslaved, Empowered, Assassinated | #412
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54:32Sold into slavery at just four years old, Iqbal Masih’s future was not bright. He was set to be one of the millions of children and adults across Asia trapped in bonded labour. But Iqbal was no ordinary child: he would escape slavery, campaign tirelessly to free fellow children, be recognised on the global stage – and then tragically be assassinate…
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Football’s Abuse Scandal: The FA’s Darkest Secret | #411
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1:15:19In 2016, ex-footballer Andy Woodward revealed on live TV that he and countless other boys were sexually abused by their former youth coach, Barry Bennell, whilst training in Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra’s acclaimed “football factories” as youngsters in the 1980s and 90s. In doing so, he blew the whistle on one of the UK’s most prolific child…
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Erin Patterson & The Mushroom Murders: Part Two | #410
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1:23:05In our second and final part on Erin Patterson’s deadly beef Wellington dinner, we focus on the jaw-dropping trial. So: did she purposefully forage for death cap mushrooms, then cook and serve them to her extended family with the express purpose of giving them a slow and painful death? Did she really lie about having cancer? Or was it all just an i…
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Jeffrey Epstein – the billionaire financier-turned-serial-sex-trafficker – is back in the news, in another new guise that no one saw coming: political football. So let's take a look at what we know (and, more pertinently, what we will never know) about the so-called “Epstein files”. Exclusive bonus content: Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHand Patreon - A…
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FROM THE VAULT - Jeffrey Epstein: Parts 1&2
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2:23:37NOTE: Our update on the Epstein files will be released TOMORROW (Tuesday July 29th) to everyone. In the meantime, for all the context, here’s our two-parter in full! -- The story of Jeffrey Epstein – the billionaire financier with an industrial-scale web of child abuse implicating some of the most powerful people in the world – sounds like some hal…
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Erin Patterson & The Mushroom Murders: Part One | #409
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1:31:59At lunchtime, a family in southeast Australia sat down for beef wellington with a mushroom duxelles, creamy mash and buttery green beans. The next morning, most of the guests would be violently ill. A week later, three of them would be dead. Only one diner was totally unaffected: the host, Erin Patterson… who later would stand trial for murder by p…
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On Wednesday 2 July 2025, a jury found Sean Combs NOT GUILTY of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy – his two most serious charges, which carried a potential sentence of life in prison. He was found guilty on lesser charges of transportation to engage in prostitution. So, despite all the clear evidence of guilt, how did the jury come to thi…
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UPDATE - Constance Marten & Mark Gordon
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1:28:24This week, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were found GUILTY of gross negligence manslaughter. So, on top of our rereleased episode from last year, here is everything you need to know from the bizarre retrial: unbelievable revelations about Mark Gordon's past crimes, an answer on Constance's mysterious 'fall' from a balcony, and more delays and fi…
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JFK Part Two: Deniably Plausible | #407
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1:19:37The report into Kennedy's assassination brought in a new era of mistrust in the government... and that was just the beginning. Because if you look for even a second – the official version just doesn't add up. In this second part, we take a closer look at Lee Harvey Oswald's shaky history, meet JFK's other worst enemy (the Mafia), and, finally decid…
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UPDATE: Bryan Kohberger & The Idaho Student Murders
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2:02:20This week in a shocking twist Bryan Kohberger accepted a plea deal for the brutal murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. In this update – taken from this week's Under the Duvet on our Patreon – we discuss what evidence the prosecution had, why he accepted this deal that will see him die behind bars, and if justi…
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JFK Part One: America on the Edge | #406
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1:38:39Who shot JFK is irrelevant, how many people shot him is the real question. Once you have decided there was more than one shooter, the fate of the world is sealed forever. This is the original conspiracy theory, the dawn of the tin foil hat era. The assassination of the President in broad daylight, in front of hundreds, it had everyone asking questi…
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The Paedophile Diaries: Dr Joël Le Scouarnec | #405
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1:45:48“I am a paedophile… and I’m very happy about it.” The thousands of handwritten entries in the so-called ‘black notebooks’ of France’s worst ever child sex offender revealed more than 30 years of horrendous abuse. In devastating detail, they described acts carried out on young patients in his work as a surgeon, in hospitals across western France. He…
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Party girl Tiffany Cole had always relied on the kindness of strangers – including her former neighbours, Reggie and Carol Sumner. This frail older couple helped Tiffany out as if she were their own daughter… And she repaid their kindness by digging their grave. Literally. Tiffany claimed it was all her boyfriend’s idea, and she never meant for the…
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FROM THE VAULT - Scientology: Parts 1&2
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3:16:25With Scientology’s biggest poster boy back on the big screen, the church is ramping up the recruitment drive. And to make sure you STAY AWAY from this sinister, star-studded sci-fi cult posing as a world religion, we’re rereleasing our two-parter as a bumper bonus episode... -- Hannah and Suruthi peer under the slippery stone of Scientology’s sinis…
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Melanie McGuire: The Suitcase Killer | #403
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1:18:09Melanie McGuire was a beautiful young nurse who wouldn’t hurt a fly. So when her husband’s chopped-up remains were found in three separate suitcases in the Chesapeake Bay, she suddenly had a lot to answer for… Was this petite New Jersey mum capable of killing her husband and disposing of his body in such a gruesome way? Or was this – as she claimed…
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The Zodiac Killer: Part Three | #402
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1:20:56Who was The Zodiac? Did he kill Cheri Jo Bates? And how did three hobbyist cryptographers crack his ‘impossible’ code 50 years after it was written? These are just a few of the questions we answer in our final episode on The Zodiac Killer. Join us as we try to conclude the inconcludable, cold case that has haunted California for half a century. Exc…
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Last week we left you with the absolutely massive cliffhanger of a 408-character cipher, which in theory contained valuable information on the Bay Area’s most infamous killer “The Zodiac”. But first it needed to be solved. And amazingly it wasn’t cracked by the police, or the FBI: it was solved by a 41-year-old history teacher and his wife, and we’…
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Violent attacks, sadistic taunting, and uncrackable puzzles; in some ways “The Zodiac” laid the foundations for every murderous TV psychopath and movie villain of the next half-century. For our 400th episode we decided to dedicate three whole episodes to the potentially the most famous serial killer in history: how he operated, how his puzzles were…
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Sarbjit Kaur Athwal: Life Without Honour | #399
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1:28:11When her sister-in-law never returned from a trip to India, Sarbjit Kaur Athwal knew exactly what had happened: her mother-in-law had made no secret of her plan to “get rid of” Surjit – the outspoken thorn in the family’s side. But Sarbjit also knew what she was up against: a strict code of honour; the threat of shame and total rejection by her com…
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FROM THE VAULT - Fred & Rose West: Parts 1&2
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1:38:33With the release of a new Netflix documentary on the Wests, we dove into the archive (way way back to episodes 27 and 28) to get you up to date with our in-depth two-parter on one of the UK's most infamous cases. -- Incest, rape, murder and torture dungeons; the girls take on one of Britain's most notorious serial killer couples - Fred and Rose Wes…
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ShortHand is released weekly for Wondery+ and Amazon Music subscribers. Listen exclusively and ad-free every Tuesday on Wondery+ through Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And depending on where you are in the world, ShortHand is included with your Prime Membership on Amazon Music. -- What happens when humanity’s mouthpiece of God, the holiest man on eart…
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In our second part of the Pre-Diddy saga, we take a closer look at the accusations you need to know about – and the 99 problems it could cause for some of his closest associates... With all the sensational stories swirling around this case, we separate fact from fiction, and find out that the truth is always wilder than the headlines: from ‘MVP bag…
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Diddy Part 1: Deal With the Devil | #397
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1:29:49As the trial we’ve all been waiting for finally approaches, we bring you the full rundown on the self-proclaimed “bad boy for life” – and the hundreds of accusations, from victims as young as nine years old, that threaten to jail the music mogul for the rest of his days. Before we find out which “well-known figures” are likely to be accused alongsi…
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Episode 396 - Lord Lucan: the Vanishing Earl
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1:35:18When the Countess of Lucan burst into a West London pub drenched head-to-toe in blood, it instantly sparked a national obsession. Lord Lucan – the suave, speedboat-racing, professional-gambling aristocrat – was wanted for the murder of their housekeeper, Sandra Rivett. And he had disappeared without a trace. This week, we sift through the theories …
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Episode 395 - Wallace Souza: Killing for Ratings
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1:09:14They say Brazil is not for amateurs. And that’s certainly true in the crime-stricken city of Manaus, where Wallace Souza – a charismatic TV host and congressman with a flair for the dramatic – built up an army of fans with his hard-hitting news coverage in the early 2000s. But was his bonkers daytime TV show, Canal Livre, just a smokescreen for his…
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Episode 394 - The Asunta Case: Adopted and Betrayed
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1:37:54The adopted princess of a wealthy Spanish family, 12-year-old Asunta Basterra Porto seemed destined to thrive under the devoted care of her parents Rosario and Alfonso. But beneath the surface, sinister secrets were taking root – including clandestine druggings, creepy family photos and one seriously twisted marriage. Had these callous parents cast…
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In one of our most horrifying episodes yet, we look at a man who clamped and amputated the genitals of potentially hundreds of men, and carried out unimaginable sexual torture – all from his basement flat in North London. But what makes this story truly unbelievable is that every one of those victims wanted for it to happen. They belonged to a secr…
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Episode 392 - The Menendez Brothers Part 2: The Sweater Defence
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1:22:55Continuing our filmed mega Menendez marathon, in this episode we dive into the sensational details of Lyle and Erik’s trial – where these Beverly Hills bad boys would need to convince the jury, and the world, of their story. We break down the explosive courtroom battles, shocking legal twists, and the media circus that turned the case into a specta…
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Episode 391 - The Menendez Brothers Part 1: Silver Spoon Killers
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1:20:27In this long-awaited episode, we dive into one of the most infamous true-crime cases in American history: the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez. The brutal 1989 slayings of their wealthy parents, José and Kitty Menendez, divided a nation: but where do we stand? In Part 1, we take you through the chilling night of the crime, the early investigations, …
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Episode 390 - Delia Balmer: Surviving a Serial Killer
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1:14:31Delia Balmer’s ex-boyfriend wasn’t just a scruffy stoner with a pet tarantula and a sketchbook full of gruesome drawings: he was a murderer. The infamous ‘Canal Killer’ John Sweeney told Delia he had killed before – but after the police ignored her repeated warnings, she ended up barely escaping with her life. This is the harrowing true story behin…
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Episode 389 - Babis Anagnostopoulos: High-Flying Homicide
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1:07:13When the body of 19-year-old Caroline Crouch was found in her attic room after an apparent home invasion – with her 11-month-old daughter crying next to her, and her puppy hanging from the bannister – the nation of Greece mourned with her widower, Babis Anagnostopoulos. A handsome helicopter pilot, Anagnostopoulos had led the tributes since her dea…
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FROM THE VAULT - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 2
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1:14:59This week, we were speechless to learn that Casey Anthony is now on TikTok (and Substack), trying to reposition herself as an online advocate and activist for those wronged by the justice system. And, so you can understand why this idea made our heads spin, we've rereleased this classic two-parter from 2021. So – enjoy, then come and join us on our…
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FROM THE VAULT - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 1
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1:38:24This week, we were speechless to learn that Casey Anthony is now on TikTok (and Substack), trying to reposition herself as an online advocate and activist for those wronged by the justice system. And, so you can understand why this idea made our heads spin, we've rereleased this classic two-parter from 2021. So – enjoy, then come and join us on our…
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Episode 388 - The House of Védrines & The “Guru” Who Stole it All
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1:26:35This story of how a rich, aristocratic French family lost their fortunes, and their minds, to a painter-and-decorator conman, unravels like Dan Brown mystery. Secret treasures, Masonic plots, kidnap and torture - the de Védrines family were desperate to hold onto their ancestral chateau; only to have everything ripped away from them by a Crowley-ob…
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FROM THE VAULT - Episode 293 - Gabby Petito: Isolated
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1:07:27In December 2020 Gabby Petito and her fiance Brian Laundrie set off on a once-in-a-lifetime journey across the USA in their tiny little van. The trip was set to be packed full of starry nights and stunning vistas for countless happy memories, and also all the beautiful views needed to kickstart Gabby’s dream career as a travel vlogger. But when Bri…
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Episode 387 - Janet Chandler: Murder at The Blue Mill Inn
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54:41The body of a woman – a hotel night clerk – is found frozen in the deep winter snow of Van Buren County, Michigan. A tragic discovery; but the tale it went on to tell revealed a series of ever more barbaric and gruesome details: of no-holds-barred sexual games, crises of faith, and utter betrayal. The web was so tangled that it took police more tha…
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