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RedHanded

RedHanded the podcast jumps head first into all manner of macabre madness.

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  1. 1. UPDATE: Will Bryan Kohberger Actually Get A Trial? · 31 Jul 2026
  2. 2. ShortHand: Kapustin Yar – Russia's Area 51 · 4 Aug 2026
  3. 3. The Golden State Killer - Part 3: The Dark Arts of DNA Databases | #462 · 6 Aug 2026
  • The Golden State Killer - Part 4: Joseph James DeAngelo | #463

    13 Aug 2026 · 1h 21m

    Joseph James DeAngelo is a burglar, a killer, and a rapist. A vile man with a proclivity for terrorising and sexually violating women. But that wasn’t everyone’s perception of the elderly man who was arrested in the yard of his suburban Sacramento home. To his

  • ShortHand: Cannibalism

    11 Aug 2026 · 23 min

    What could drive a person to eat another human being? Well, as it turns out, humankind has actually been surprisingly open to a little cannibalistic carpaccio.From funeral traditions where families gather to gobble up their loved one as a mark of respect; to a

  • ShortHand: Cursed Films

    7 Aug 2026 · 31 min

    For almost as long as we’ve made films, we’ve made horror films – but what happens when the terror isn’t just on screen? Movie-making lore is riddled with stories of bizarre accidents on set, creepy coincidences and even murders, all of which can give rise to

  • The Golden State Killer - Part 3: The Dark Arts of DNA Databases | #462

    6 Aug 2026 · 1h 4m

    To find the most prolific and violent serial rapist and killer the state of California had ever seen, took over fifty years, and some ethically questionable methods. Public DNA databases were trawled without their users consent, samples were entered under fals

  • ShortHand: Kapustin Yar – Russia's Area 51

    4 Aug 2026 · 20 min

    For decades, the Soviet Union’s top-secret testing site Kapustin Yar didn’t appear on any maps. It was so top-secret, the government relocated an entire town just to make sure none of its residents ever discovered it.But in the aftermath of the Cold War, stori

  • UPDATE: Will Bryan Kohberger Actually Get A Trial?

    31 Jul 2026 · 15 min

    Bryan Kohberger is now claiming his innocence in the Idaho Student Murders. And he wants a trial to prove it. A year after admitting to the horrific murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Gonçalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin back in

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