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This case takes the notion of life imitating art to a newly macabre extreme. In 2010, Blake Leibel released his graphic novel, Syndrome. Described as The Truman Show meets Se7en, the story follows a rogue neuropathologist as he attempts to find a cure for evil, using a condemned serial killer as his guinea pig.Initially met with a lukewarm response, the novel garnered international attention in 2015 after Leibel seemed to use its most violent scenes to commit what's been described as "the most brutal murder in LA's history".

In the early 1990s, Sture Bergwall, a patient at Säter mental institution in Sweden was undergoing the facility’s revolutionary memory-recovery therapy, when he revealed a shocking incident from his past: back in 1980, he had killed an 11-year-old boy. As the therapy continued, more and more brutal confessions came, until he was linked to 39 of Sweden’s most infamous murders, and became known as the nation’s answer to Hannibal Lecter – a sadistic, cannibalistic serial-killer paedophile. So strap in for shocking confessions, repressed memories, experimental psychotherapy, and a revelation that shook the Swedish justice system to its core…--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

The Burari Deaths – eleven members of the same family found dead in their Delhi home under deeply disturbing circumstances – still haunt the city today. In the early morning of 1 July 2018, Gurcharan Singh went to check on his neighbours in the Burari district of Delhi. When he got there, he found a scene of mass hanging so chilling that the whole city was thrown into a frenzy. Ten members of the Chundawat family were hanging from the ceiling. Another, the 80-year-old grandmother, was found strangled in the next room. And the police, the public, and the national media were stumped – it seemed too complex for suicide; too organised for murder. And then, they discovered a diary that changed everything…In the first case in five years of RedHanded to cause Suruthi to sleep with the lights on, we delve into the murky, ritualistic details of the Burari family deaths.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

With a 28-year-old Mormon mum Susan Cox Powell still missing – and her husband and father-in-law behaving increasingly erratically – police edged ever closer to finding their culprit.And a string of shocking discoveries, including hard drives full of hentai, a collection of tampons and a suspicious car accident, only helped their case. What they didn’t know was that before it was all over, in a shocking final act, another four people would end up dead. In the conclusion of our two-part episode, we wrap up the chaotic case of Susan Cox Powell.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

SURPRISE!!! We've got an exclusive sneak peek of a brand new show called Killers, Cults and Queens!From Audioboom Studios, Cheryl Hole and Nikki Druce are on a whistle stop tour of the weirdest corners of the universe. They’ll be stopping to learn about the craziest true crime cases in history, spooky paranormal activities, truly bonkers internet mythology, very convincing cults and much much more. So buckle in… it’s going to be a wild ride! Subscribe to Killers, Cults and Queens wherever you listen to podcasts!

On the 6th of December, 2009, when Susan Cox Powell disappeared while her husband Josh Powell was away on a “spontaneous camping trip”, their community was sent reeling. This Mormon family from West Valley City, Utah, had long had its issues, but with the revelation of major debts, rampant psychological abuse, child welfare failures, and an obsessive and disturbing father-in-law who filmed Susan’s every move, everyone suspected the worst. Yet a decade later, nobody is behind bars…--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

In the gruelling world of elite gymnastics, Larry Nassar was seen by a lot of young athletes as a friendly face in tough times. But the USA Gymnastics National Medical Coordinator sexually abused hundreds of girls as young as ten, under the guise of treatments, for almost 30 years – often with their parents sitting just metres away.After multiple investigations, including by his first hunting ground, Michigan State University, he seemed untouchable. But thanks to brave survivor testimony – and the discovery of three external hard drives – the world saw him for what he really was: a calculated predator, with more victims than Bill Cosby, Jerry Sandusky and Harvey Weinstein combined. Hannah and Suruthi chart the biggest sexual abuse scandal in sports history.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

In the second and final installment of our two-part episode, we enter the courtroom to hear some flimsy evidence, coerced confessions and absolutely bizarre testimony. Get ready for witchcraft, covens, and satanism that convicted three teenagers of triple child murder.Damien, Jessie, and Jason would spend the next 18 years in prison. And as the rusty cogs of the US justice system slowly turned, fear and bias led to one of America’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: a final bitter pill, forced upon the West Memphis 3.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

The infamous case of three teenagers, who were wrongfully convicted of murdering three children in Arkansas during the height of the 1990s satanic panic, is part Stranger Things, part courtroom drama. When the bodies of three young boys were found, battered, sexually mutilated and hogtied with their own shoelaces in a local creek, the finger was pointed in the most 80s direction of all… Satan.Or more specifically, at three teenagers accused of being in a witches’ coven, and in league with the devil himself...--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

What do Gordon Ramsey’s brother, drug traffickers, rapists, gangsters, terrorists, thieves, and some of the unluckiest tourists in the world have in common? They’ve all spent time in Bali’s infamous Kerobokan prison, otherwise known as Hotel K: the name that strikes fear into Australian travellers everywhere. Built around 40 years ago to house 300 inmates, Hotel K is now home to over 1400, over three-quarters of whom are in for drug charges, in a country with some of the most draconian drug laws on the planet. Welcome to Indonesia, where being caught with narcotics could end with you with your back against a wall, staring down the barrels of a firing squad.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon? Well, here's a tasty sample of just some of the content from the past month that your ear-holes have been missing out on. In this month's Patreon Round-Up we bring you clips from two episodes of our weekly Patreon show, Under the Duvet, and a snippet from this month's bonus episode: Lobotomies: Piece of Mind... If you like what you hear, head on over to Patreon.com/RedHanded for all the extra content you can handle!

Richard Huckle's grooming, exploitation and sexual abuse against some of the world's poorest children were posted on the dark web all to see. From Malaysia, Britain's "Gap Year Paedophile" conducted a nine-year-long, systematic campaign of abuse, authored a how-to-guide for paedophiles, and contributed to one of the largest child sexual abuse networks ever discovered.Then, in October of 2019, prison officers at HMP Full Sutton in West Yorkshire discovered Huckle's body, after being subjected to 89 minutes of torture and strangled to death by another inmate. This is the story of the incredible officers who brought him down, how online anonymity and safeguarding failures enabled his abuse, and what this case reveals about international child exploitation.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

Alex Skeel's torture, imprisonment, isolation and starvation at the hands of his girlfriend, Jordan Worth, is one of the UK's worst cases of domestic abuse against a male victim.Described by the first officer to arrive as “the worst domestic scene” they’d ever witnessed, the brutality of what Alex Skeel endured was shocking. Alex had deep gashes on his arms, burns upon burns, and according to his family, he smelt like he was dead. But his years of isolation and abuse weren’t the work of a kidnapper – they came from the woman he loved.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

The theory “1 sudden infant death is a tragedy, 2 is suspicious and 3 is murder” has pervaded criminal investigations for decades – so when Kathleen Folbigg’s daughter, Laura, became her fourth to die mysteriously, Kathleen found herself labeled “Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer”. Today the girls delve into two unbelievable miscarrriages of justice – mothers wrongfully convicted of killing their children – which highlight the immense challenges of the intersection between science and justice in the courtroom. And discover how a series of bizarre circumstances and medical anomalies could have led to the deaths of 5 babies and the imprisonment of two women.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

The notorious Norwegian black metal scene of the early 90s – driven by Per Olin, aka 'Dead', and his band of teenage outcasts, Mayhem – started with pigs’ heads impaled on spikes, buried clothes wrapped around dead birds, and other notorious onstage antics. In three years, it spiralled into dozens of church burnings around Norway, violent bigotry – and the gruesome deaths of three people.In this week’s episode, the girls chart the bloody origins of Mayhem; its central figures Dead, Euronymous, Varg Vikernes and more; and how they fostered the most feared music scene in history…--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

In 2013, when paramedics found the strangled body of 40-year-old Caleb Harrison lying in his bed in Mississauga, Ontario, there was an eerie sense of familiarity. Because this wasn’t the first time that the paramedics had found a dead body at the Harrison family home.In fact, in the space of just five years, three members of the Harrison family had died in separate and bizarre incidents in the same house… Was the house haunted by a murderous ghost, or was the family being preyed upon by a calculated and patient killer?--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

When three masked men entered Jennifer Pan's family home in Markham, Ontario, it seemed like an opportunistic home break-in. But on closer inspection, all the clues pointed back inside the house – and a family murder beyond all comprehension.After all, why would the would-be robbers shoot Hann and Bich Pan in cold blood, but leave their 24-year-old daughter Jennifer Pan relatively unharmed? Why didn’t they drive off in the expensive Lexus that was parked in the drive? And why would Hann Pan run from the house, leaving his daughter tied to a bannister?--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

When police discovered that ex-soldier Victoria Cilliers' parachute had been sabotaged – it could only have been one thing: murder at 10,000 feet.Speeding towards the ground at over 60 miles per hour, former soldier and parachute instructor Victoria Cilliers was about to make history. She would be the first person in over a decade to experience a double parachute failure. Miraculously, she survived the impact. But when Victoria’s equipment was examined, it became clear there was more to this “freak accident” than met the eye. There were gas leaks, gaslights and grounds to divorce.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram

Hello beautiful listeners!  Have you been considering becoming an official Spooky Bitch and joining RedHanded's Patreon? Well, here's a tasty sample of just some of the content from the past month that your ear-holes have been missing out on. In this month's Patreon Round-Up we bring you clips from our weekly Patreon show, Under the Duvet, and a snippet from this month's bonus episode: Martin MacNeill: Botox in the Bathtub... If you like what you hear, head on over to Patreon.com/RedHanded for all the extra content you can handle!

Sophie Lionnet was a 21-year-old French au pair, murdered in London after months of psychological abuse and coercive control.Boyzone obsessions and black magic paedophile rings consumed the mind of Sabrina Koudier. But her neighbours turned a blind eye to the strange woman's violent outbursts, and vile treatment of her French au pair, Sophie. It wasn't their place to get involved.But even the well-to-do residents of Southfields couldn't ignore the billowing plume of black smoke and the unmistakable smell of burning hair and flesh...--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / Instagram