Best Wondery RedHanded Podcasts (2025)

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Sid & Nancy: Punk Rock Homicide | #426 1:15:11

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When Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious woke up in a pool of his girlfriend’s blood, most people thought they knew the score. Sid & Nancy were famous across the world: the ultimate dysfunctional, smack-addicted punk power couple – and their reckless lifestyle was bound to end in tragedy. But they were far from the only people in Room 100 of the infamo…

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Robert Wone - Forensics, Fetishes and Fluids: Part Two | #425 1:30:46

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In our final episode on the murder of Robert Wone, we examine the most shocking autopsy we’ve ever come across. Complete with what they found on and inside Robert… Which together with the nightmarish sex toys discovered in the DC townhouse, painted a new and even more bizarre picture of what took place just before Robert’s death. And it’s time to l…

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Robert Wone - The Dead of Night: Part One | #424 1:39:30

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Just 79 minutes after Robert Wone arrived at the fancy Washington DC townhouse of his College pal, 911 received a call that he was dead. Was it a drug-fuelled gay orgy gone wrong? A horrific rape and murder? An opportunistic burglar? The scene, Robert’s injuries, the surviving residents’ stories – nothing added up… In part one, we introduce strait-…

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RedHaunted x I Could Murder A Podcast | #423 57:11

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For our second Halloween special we’ve teamed up with I Could Murder A Podcast for a super-spooky fancy dress edition of RedHaunted recorded in a magician’s house. So, join us by the hearth for tales of faceless ghosts, disappearing babies, and “wet maps of Africa” on the front of a man’s trousers. For the full spooktacular experience, head to yout…

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ShortHand: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe 28:53

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The great literary pantheon of horror would be nothing without the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. His life was every bit as dark and melancholy as all his best writing. And as for his death? Fittingly for the inventor of the mystery novel, it’s shrouded in secrets… Found in a Baltimore pub, wearing someone else’s clothes, Poe was rushed to…

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Exploring Britain’s Most Evil Church (ft. Ghost Huns) | #422 50:17

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For 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 Baraboo Bonebreaker | #421 1:08:20

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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 1:02:40

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*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 1:06:53

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One 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 1:00:51

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In 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 1:34:19

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Almost 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 1:19:18

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We’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 49:15

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Due 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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Sid & Nancy: Punk Rock Homicide | #426 1:15:11

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Robert Wone - Forensics, Fetishes and Fluids: Part Two | #425 1:30:46

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Robert Wone - The Dead of Night: Part One | #424 1:39:30

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RedHaunted x I Could Murder A Podcast | #423 57:11

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ShortHand: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe 28:53

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Exploring Britain’s Most Evil Church (ft. Ghost Huns) | #422 50:17

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The Baraboo Bonebreaker | #421 1:08:20

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FROM THE VAULT: Ian Watkins: Rock Star, Paedophile, Nepiophile 1:02:40

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Unit 731: Japan’s Secret Human Testing Program | #420 1:06:53

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Arne Cheyenne Johnson: The Devil Made Me Do It | #419 1:00:51

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Madeline Soto: Handed to a Monster | #418 1:34:19

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Ed Gein: America’s Real-Life Psycho | #417 1:19:18

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FROM THE VAULT - Thabo Bester: Twisted Firestarter 49:15