RedHanded
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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.
Episode 97 - Bruce McArthur: The Gay Village Murders
In the late 2000s a spate of South Asian and Middle Eastern Men in Toronto's Gay Village vanished. The local community noticed almost immediately by the police seemed unable or unwilling to investigate the disappearances. By the time they realised that they had a serial killer on their hands the situation had escalated into horror movie proportions.
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Episode 96 - The Tuam 796
In 1975, two little boys, Frannie and Barry were playing on the site of an old Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, when they discovered a pit full of bones.
Later that same year, Mary Moriarty fell into a tunnel in the same spot, where she saw piles little bundles laid on top of each other like steps.
It would take the tireless research of Catherine Coreless to uncover the grim reality of what they actually saw. Catherine's discovery would shake Ireland and shed light on the Catholic Church's not so secret past.
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Episode 95 - Abraham Shakespeare: Lucky Numbers
In 2006 all of Abraham Shakespeares' dreams came true.
He won 30 million dollars on the lottery, it looked like all his troubles were over.
But within 3 years all of his money disappeared and soon after, Abraham disappeared too.
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Break-ins, Booby Traps, and the Eccentric Gynaecologist
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In 1947 the NYPD had to break down the door of the infamous Collyer Mansion in Harlem after the smell of death was reported by a neighbour. A rabbit warren of tunnels made from junk, lined with booby traps waited for them on the other side.
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Episode 94 - The Murder of Alesha McPhail
In 2018 on the tiny Scottish island of the Isle of Bute, 6 year old Alesha MacPhail vanished from her bed in the middle of the night. The community was left reeling when just a few hours later her body was found. The question that tore though the small town now was who could have done this? And when the truth was revealed it was more shocking than anyone could have imagined.
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Episode 93 - David Parker Ray: Part 2
This week, in the concluding part of the David Parker Ray series, the girls head into the infamous torture trailer - “The Toy Box”.
This episode is not for the faint-hearted as Suruthi and Hannah discuss the terrifying torture tactics Parker Ray used on his victims...
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Episode 92 - David Parker Ray: Scrap Metal Sex Toys
This week, the girls head to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, to cover arguably the most terrifying offender they have encountered: David Parker Ray aka The Toy-Box Killer.
In 1999 a 911 call alerted police to a naked woman, covered in blood, running down the dusty desert streets - she had a dog collar around her neck and a 6 foot metal chain trailing behind her. Upon investigation, this small-town police team uncovered the truly unbelievable horrors that had been unfolding right under their noses in an innocuous looking trailer behind 513 Bass Road...
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54:4402/05/2019
Director Joe Berlinger on Ted Bundy: Live
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is the new Ted Bundy film; in this very special episode of RedHanded Joe Berlinger, the director, joins the girls for an exclusive Q&A to delve into the psychology of Ted Bundy. On the panel is also Mary Fenwick, agony aunt for Psychologies magazine, who has her own take on what drives men like Bundy and the people who love them.
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We hope you enjoy this bonus episode to get you ready for the film’s release!
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Episode 91 - Raymond Buys: "Not Man Enough"
On April 20th 2011, 15 year old Raymond Buys was pronounced dead. Some of the doctors who treated him were so traumatised by the injuries sustained by the emaciated young boy that they needed counselling to cope. But what really happened to Raymond at the Echo Wild Game Rangers Camp that promised to "make men out of boys"
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Episode 90 - Strangers at the Door: The Murder of Kanika Powell
In 2008 28 year old Kanika Powell, an army veteran, experienced a series of odd encounters on her doorstep. Mysterious men in different guises were turning up at her home asking for her by name. Kanika, knowing that something about their behaviour was very wrong, never opened the door. Scared by the strangers she started to take precautions to stay safe, but one day when Kanika returned home she found a man waiting for her.
He killed Kanika and to this day no one has any idea who he was, or why he killed her.
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Episode 89 - Shafilea Ahmed: The Price of "Honour"
In 2003 16 year old Shafilea Ahmed disappeared from her family home in Warrington, she was presumed missing but the truth was much more horrific. She’d been killed by her own parents because the “dishonour” she was bringing to her family was just too high a price to pay for her to live. Join the girls this week as the delve into the infuriating and heartbreaking world of “honour” based violence and murder.
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Episode 88 - The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
In March 2013 college student Elisa Lam checked into The Cecil Hotel on LA’s infamous skid row. Soon she started displaying some odd behaviour; some of which was caught on CCTV - this footage then went viral on the internet after Elisa’s body was found 3 weeks later in a water tank on the roof of the hotel. Forums still buzz with theories about what really happened to Elisa.
Was it murder? Suicide? An accident? The paranormal? Or a hit?
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Episode 87 - Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman to be Hanged in Britain
"Six revolver shots shattered the Easter Sunday calm of Hampstead, and a beautiful platinum blonde stood with her back to the wall. In her hand was a revolver." These were the headlines that the hit the nation after Ruth Ellis, a young, welsh-born hostess shot and killed her lover - David Blakely - in broad daylight. The pair had had a violent and tumultuous affair, and there was no doubt that it had been Ruth who had pulled the trigger, but had another one of her lovers primed her to kill? Join the girls this week as they delve into the story of the last woman to be executed in the UK, and understand why her story captured the public imagination like nothing before.
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Episode 86 - The Community of Christ: Kirtland Cult
The Kirtland Cult were an offshoot of an offshoot that broke away from the Reorganised Church of Latter Day Saints in 1987. Like most cults they were led by a single-minded, self-appointed, narcissistic leader - Jeff Lundgren - who demanded absolute control of his followers; exploiting them psychologically, sexually and financially. Soon after the group moved onto a remote compound in Kirtland, Ohio the stockpiling and the paranoia began - and it would end in the brutal murder of a family of 5.
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Episode 85 - The Central Park 5
In 1989 5 young black and Latino boys from Harlem were accused and convicted of the rape and assault of Trisha Meili, a young white woman. They spent between 5 and 13 years in prison until finally in 2003 their sentences were vacated. As we approach the 30th anniversary of this notorious case join the girls, and their special guest - Tracy Clayton - for an in depth look into a brutal crime, and racially charged social, political and media response that still resonates today.
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Episode 84 - Otto Warmbier: What Really Happened in North Korea?
This case starts with a pretty mundane crime; an accusation of poster theft. But it ends in the mysterious and tragic death of a 22 year old man - Otto Warmbier.
Otto died after he was arrested while on holiday in the secretive and mysterious nation of North Korea. But what really happened to Otto? The evidence is anything but clear cut...
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Episode 83 - Omaima Nelson: "Cannibal" Kitchen
At just 23 Omaima Nelson killed her 56 year old husband, Bill. 3 days after the murder police entered the Nelson home and found a nightmare scene; not only had Omaima killed and dismembered Bill, she'd also been cooking his remains...
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Episode 82 - Jenelle Potter: Catfish
Someone was cyberbullying Jenelle Potter; they 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 Jenelle's parents felt the only way to save their vulnerable daughter was to take matters into their own hands.
But once her "bullies" were dead questions quickly surfaced about Jenelle's behaviour...
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Episode 81 - Ian Watkins: Rock Star, Paedophile, Nepiophile
This week the girls delve into the all too common world of the celebrity paedophile and institutions who turn a blind eye.
Ian Watkins was the lead singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets. He toured all over the world, playing to sold out stadiums of adoring fans - so in 2012 when he was arrested and charged with 13 counts of child sex offences, including against a child as young as 11 months old, the world was shocked.
This is a particularly troubling case because it of course covers the abuse this depraved man doled out to incredibly young victims, but there are also deeply troubling questions raised about why authorities missed chance after chance to catch Watkins.
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01:03:5407/02/2019
Episode 80 - Ball Gags, BDSM & A Body in the Woods: The Murder of Elaine O'Hara
This week the girls head to Ireland to cover the "nearly perfect murder" of Elaine O'Hara. So called, because it was only a year after Elaine mysteriously vanished that police made a series of chance discoveries so unbelievable that they would make a CSI script writer squirm...
But these discoveries did go on to unmask a devious killer and rip him from his idyllic suburban life to pay for a brutal murder.
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Episode 79 - Incest, Murder, Suicide: Steven & Katie Pladl
To the outside world they looked like a normal couple, but they were anything but “normal”.
Steven Pladl was not only his wife’s lover, but also her biological father - and needless to say this story doesn't end with a happily ever after. In April 2018, less than a year after they were married Pladl shot and killed his daughter/wife Katie, their 7 month old son and Katie's adoptive father - Tony Fusco.
Join the girls this week as they delve into the mysterious world of genetic sexual attraction and the tragedy it brought in this case.
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Episode 78 - Ariel Castro & The Horror at 2207 Seymour Avenue
Between 2002 and 2004 Ariel Castro abducted three young women and chained them up in his basement at 2207 Seymour Avenue. Over the course of the next decade he systematically broke them down, tortured them, raped them, brutalised them - until finally, and miraculously they escaped.
This week we cover the case of Ariel Castro and the three remarkable women who survived an unbelievable ordeal; Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.
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Episode 77 - Chris Watts: Family Annihilator
In August 2018 Shannan Watts’ body was found buried on a remote oil field in rural Weld County.
In a oil tank nearby were the bodies of her two young daughters; Bella and Celeste.
With only one real suspect who fit the crime, this case left the world asking - what makes a seemingly ordinary man, who appeared to have it all, kill his pregnant wife and children?
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Episode 76 - Sandy Charles: The Boy Who Wanted to Serve Satan
At just 14 Sandy Charles started hearing voices. He thought the voices were ghosts, and they were telling him to kill. On July 8 1995 Sandy obliged by luring 7 year old Johnathan Thimpsen out into the woods.
What Sandy did to Johnathan, in the hopes of "pleasing Satan", shocked the world.
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Episode 75 - William Melchert-Dinkel: "Webcam Suicide Nurse"
Celia Blay knew that William Melchert-Dinkel was a dangerous predator.
He had been lurking in internet forums for years, manipulating vulnerable people into disingenuous suicide pacts . This week Hannah and Suruthi follow the bizarre case of the so called "webcam suicide nurse" and the woman who wouldn't stop until justice was served, even after authorities told her to look the other way.
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44:2420/12/2018
Episode 74 - Tracie Andrews: The Road Rage Killer
On Dec 1 1996, Tracie Andrews and her fiancé Lee Harvey were driving home from an evening at the pub when they got caught up in a cat and mouse game with a couple of maniacs in another car. The road rage turned into a brutal attack and Lee Harvey died after being stabbed over 40 times; and despite also being attacked Tracie survived.
At least this was the story that Tracie told police, the press and anyone who would listen.
But it turned out that this hadn't been a random stranger attack at all, Tracie Andrews had killed her fiancé in cold blood. And the more she cried on TV, the more suspicious the nation became...
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Episode 73 - Mary Vincent: Survivor
Mary was just 15 and desperately looking for a way to get home to her family when she accepted a ride from a kindly old looking man. What transpired that night however is the stuff of nightmares. The man, Lawrence Singleton, abducted, raped and maimed Mary with an axe, leaving her for dead at the bottom of a 30ft ravine.
But Mary survived.
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Episode 72 - Darlie Routier: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
In 1997 Darlie Routier was convicted of murdering her 5 year old son, Damon, and sentenced to death. But for 21 years she has sat on death row protesting her innocence, claiming that the real killer was a stranger who broke into the house and attacked her and her sons.
Is she a lying cold-blooded killer, or a tragic victim of brutal injustice? The evidence seems to point in every direction.
Join the girls this week as they tackle one of their most frustratingly convoluted cases yet.
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01:08:2629/11/2018
Episode 71 - Satanic Panic: The Fall River Cult Murders
In the 1970s the US was in the throes of a unique cultural phenomenon - the ‘satanic panic’. The devil and devil worshipping cults were everywhere and they were coming to get you. This week Hannah and Suruthi follow the case of the Fall River cult murders, a brutal killing spree carried out by a group of self-proclaimed devil worshippers that saw 2 young women bound, raped and tortured to death, and a third missing with only skull fragments and a harrowing story left behind.
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01:06:3022/11/2018
Episode 70 - Dylann Roof & The Charleston Church Shootings
On June 17 2015, 13 people sat down for bible study at the historically black Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston. But one of them was a stranger - and by the end of the night, in a brutal attack, 9 of the congregants would be viciously murdered. When the killer, Dylann Roof, was captured it became clear that he was driven by a racist ideology of white supremacy and the dream of sparking a violent race war.
Join the girls this week as they navigate the terrifying world of online hate groups and a senseless mass murder that shook the US.
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Episode 69 - The Vampire of Bucharest
In 1970 a serial killer stalked the streets of Romania's capital, assaulting over twenty young women and brutally murdering at least four. He was quickly dubbed "the vampire of Bucharest" after his victims were found with chunks of their flesh missing and holes poked in their necks, as if someone had been feeding on them.
When the killer was eventually captured further twists surfaced as authorities began to wonder if vampirism and serial killing ran in this man's family...
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Episode 68 - Halloween Special Part 2: There's Someone in the Attic with Incest
Halloween continues at RedHanded this week as Hannah and Suruthi bring you two more disturbing cases to keep you up all night. So, if you're not up for hearing about a murderous man secretly living in a family's attic, or about a stomach churning incestuous relationship between a mother and her adult son; I'd give this one a miss...
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41:3631/10/2018
Episode 67 - Halloween Special Part 1: Scary Tupperware & Drywall Knives
It's Halloween, so in RedHanded tradition, the girls switch up the format and pull together the most disturbing and little known cases they can find to freak everyone the F out. This week's episode features a rather grim serial killer with some serious Ed Gein vibes, and a woman who will go to any grisly lengths to get what she wants. So curl up, hit play and prepare for scares.
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44:5025/10/2018
Episode 66 - Little Boy Pot Pie: The Depraved Mind of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah was a terrifyingly single-minded man; his only focus in life was to hunt, rape, torture and kill children. His depravity became clear in early childhood, and due in part to a lack of consequences for his dangerous behaviour, things only escalated. Eventually Bar-Jonah was arrested and what police officers found in his house led to one of the most stomach churning investigations in US history. It appeared that Bar-Jonah had not only been eating his victims but also feeding them to his unsuspecting neighbours.
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01:04:4818/10/2018
Episode 65 - Witchcraft, “Muti” & Murder: The Case of Victoria Climbié
The murder of Victoria Climbié was the first case to drag the horrors of witchcraft ritual abuse in Britain into the public consciousness. In this week's episode the girls follow the story of 8 year old Victoria's journey to London from the Ivory Coast and how she met her end at the hands of an abusive man who claimed that she was possessed by the devil. In this disturbing episode Suruthi and Hannah also explore other notorious cases of ‘Muti murder’ right here in the UK - like that of the little boy “Adam” and the torso in the Thames...
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01:01:2911/10/2018
Episode 64 - A Modern Maori Exorcism: The Death of Janet Moses
On the 12th of October 2007, 22 year old mother of two, Janet Moses drowned...in the middle of her family's living room.
Janet's family had become troubled by her increasingly odd behaviour in the days preceding her death. After consulting with a Maori priest they believed that she had been possessed by a demon; water, chanting and eye gouging became their only weapons in their desperate fight against the "Makutu" devouring Janet's soul. Join the girls this week as they ask; when a young woman is killed by her own family - claiming pure intentions - what does justice look like?
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01:08:2904/10/2018
Episode 63 - An Imperfect Witness: The Story of Kevin Green
Kevin Green called 911 claiming that he had come home to find his pregnant wife, Dianna, had been brutally attacked. The beating was so vicious that Dianna lost her unborn baby, she lost her ability to speak and she completely lost her memory surrounding the attack. That was until a few weeks later when she pointed the finger at her seemingly grieving husband. But with a serial killer also on the loose at the time, who was the real attacker?
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51:4727/09/2018
Episode 62 - The Sims Family Murders
In 1966 Robert, Helen and Joy Sims were murdered in a grim “Strangers” style slaying in their home in Tallahassee, Florida. Nothing was taken from the house, nothing was left behind, there was no sign of forced entry and no one reported seeing anyone suspicious in the area - police were stumped.
But massive overkill on 12 year old Joy Sims suggests that not only was she the intended target, but that this was personal. Join the girls this week as the delve into the coldest of cold cases with a little help from a former attorney closely connected with the Sims case...
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01:13:1320/09/2018
Episode 61 - Marc Dutroux: The Beast of Belgium
Over the course of two summers across Belgium six young girls went missing - their captor, Marc Dutroux, seemed untouchable as he brazenly abducted, imprisoned, raped and murdered his young victims.
But this is much more than a sad story about a sick, sadistic pedophile; how Dutroux evaded arrest time and time again raises serious questions as to whether he was just a small part of a powerful pedophile network stretching to the highest levels of Belgian society...
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01:01:2113/09/2018
Episode 60 - Ken McElroy: The Town That Got Away With Murder
In 1981 Ken McElroy was shot dead in front of at least 30 people in his hometown. Not one person called for help, not one person came forward to give evidence and to this day his murder remains unsolved. But people weren't afraid of Ken's killers, this was vigilante street justice exacted against a violent bully and pedophile, who had raped, abused, assaulted - and generally terrorised the people of Skidmore, Missouri. Finally the terrified residents had taken matters into their own hands.
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53:2206/09/2018
Episode 59 - Danny Casolaro: The Man Who Knew Too Much
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 unbelievable crimes. 2 days after meeting his final source, Danny was found dead, could he have been onto something?
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01:07:1530/08/2018
Episode 58 - Sharon Lopatka: The Woman Who Dreamt of Being Tortured to Death
This week Hannah and Suruthi delve into the dawn of the web, following the case of Sharon Lopatka, a woman who fantasised about being tortured to death. One day Sharon had enough and decided to make her fantasy a reality; she met her dream man online - a man who dreamt of torturing women.
Eventually Sharon was found buried in a shallow grave, but the state of her remains left many unanswered questions about what really happened to her...
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Episode 57 - House of Horrors: The Murder of Tia Sharp
12 year old Tia Sharp adored her Grandmother’s partner, Stuart Hazell. He'd been in Tia’s life since she was a baby, and he'd always been her loving “Grandad”. But unbeknownst to anyone in the family Hazell, a man with a dark past, was starting to have sick sexual fantasies about Tia...
One day, out of the blue she vanished and her panic stricken family had no idea that they would eventually find her closer to home than they could ever have imagined.
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Episode 56 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 2
This week in the concluding episode of the harrowing Snowtown saga; John Bunting and Robert Wagner start to spiral. As they killed with increasing impunity, the net began to close - and their eventual capture led to a trial so gruesome members of jury walked out in disgust.
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Episode 55 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 1
On the 21st of May 1999 police in South Australia went to investigate the contents of a derelict bank in the small town of Snowtown. Inside, they found 6 large barrels full to brim with decomposing human remains. Little did they know, this was just the beginning of what would become one of Australia’s most unrelenting and harrowing cases.
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Episode 54 - Charlie Brandt & His Demons
Charlie Brandt was a happily married family man, until September 2004 when he was found hanging in his niece's garage. The scene he left behind was brutal beyond belief, and no one could make sense of what had happened - until his sister Angela turned up to reveal Charlie's dark childhood secret.
All families have secrets, but none quite so dark as the one the Brandts had kept hidden for almost 30 years.
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Episode 53 - Crocodile Tears, Sex Caravans & Arson: The Mick Philpott Story
In the early hours of May 11, 2010 a fire tore through 81 Victory Road; inside 6 children were trapped, outside stood their parents.Tragically all 6 of the Philpott children died and the nation mourned for a grieving Mick and Mairead Philpott. But as the days passed, their behaviour, and their stories about what had happened that night started to raise serious suspicion...
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Episode 52 - Cruise Crime: The Disappearance of Amy Bradley
One morning 23 year old Amy Bradley got up, got dressed, grabbed her cigarettes - seemingly went for a walk - and vanished. And what makes this case even stranger is that Amy was on a ship, out at sea on a Caribbean cruise with her family. How does one just disappear from a ship, never to be seen again?
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Episode 51 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 2
In this week's episode Myra Hindley and Ian Brady escalate; abducting, torturing, raping and murdering four more children. In their arrogance and hedonistic pursuit of violent pleasure, they make the grave mistake of trying to involve a new accomplice - one who would ultimately reveal their evil to the world.
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Episode 50 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 1
Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - a seemingly ordinary pair of twenty-somethings abducted, tortured and killed 5 children in North West England. The Moors Murders, so named because the victims' bodies were found on the barren and remote Saddleworth Moor, still remain Britain's most infamous case half a century later.
But what drove these two to commit crimes so heinous that they scarred the psyche of a generation?
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