True crime, hauntings, and no indoor voices.
Handcuffs and Sage moves between serial-killer cases, haunted places, strange incidents, and personal paranormal accounts. Red, Timo, and Dre keep the mood loose and reactive, with laughter, side comments, and blunt warnings around material that can get dark.
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Handcuffs and Sage is a true crime and paranormal show with a deliberately unbuttoned feel. Red, Timo, and Dre appear as the recurring trio at the center of it. The show’s own rhythm is part case file, part spooky sleepover, part friend-group debrief after everyone has read too much about something awful. It can get dark fast. Recent episodes move through Ed Kemper, Israel Keyes, Robert K. Ressler, Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, Skinwalker Ranch, Stonehenge, the Fort Benning Incident, haunted hotels, sleep paralysis, Annabelle, and the Warren Occult Museum. That range says a lot about the show’s lane. It is not only murder and not only ghosts. It likes the overlap where fear, lore, crime, memory, rumor, and personal reaction all sit in the same room. The hosts do not keep a museum-glass distance from the material. They joke, interrupt, react, ask why something feels wrong, and sometimes say plainly that a story has stayed with them. That looseness gives the show its shape. The regular episodes can pair a true crime subject with a haunted or allegedly cursed location, while Down The Rabbit Hole episodes lean into odd incidents and speculative mystery. Spooky Ooky Stories brings in firsthand paranormal storytelling. Interview episodes add another channel, with guests including Rebecca, Paul Roberts, and Lynn. Lynn is described in the excerpt as a clinical psychologist and someone with a blog at Fangasm. Paul’s appearance brings discussion of paranormal investigation, Annabelle, and the Warren Occult Museum. Rebecca’s appearance centers personal eerie experiences and family memories around haunted spaces and frightening nighttime sensations. Across its episodes, the show repeatedly returns to women reacting together to disturbing stories without sanding off the mess. The result is informal, blunt, and highly social. It suits listeners who like true crime and paranormal material with obvious personality in the room. It also carries adult edges: murder cases, fear, intense descriptions, and language strong enough that the show itself warns kids away.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants serial-killer cases, haunted places, and strange incidents delivered with casual friend-group energy. It fits best for adults comfortable with dark subject matter and irreverent reactions.
What sets it apart: Handcuffs and Sage stands out by pairing grim true crime with paranormal lore while keeping Red, Timo, and Dre’s messy, funny, reactive conversation in the foreground. The show’s named lanes, including Down The Rabbit Hole and Spooky Ooky Stories, give it more shape than a single-track crime recap.
Handcuffs and Sage is a podcast written, edited, researched and hosted by us: Red and T-Mo, with a lot of help from our one and only, super fan turned co-host, Dre. We’re all working moms, getting together to tell our stories about all things true crime and paranormal. We tell these stories not only for our own enjoyment, but to entertain others like us. We built this podcast from scratch and have put blood, sweat and wine into the process. We are eternally grateful for all the love and support! Love, Red, T-Mo and Dre and “We Do What We Want," sit back and enjoy this crazy ride with us!!!
Ed Kemper, then a haunted amusement park: your tolerance for a left turn gets a workout.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A blunt, conversational third chapter on Kemper's apparent rehabilitation, later violence, and prison-interview menace.
Part three of Handcuffs and Sage's Ed Kemper series returns to the uneasy idea that Kemper had once appeared rehabilitated after killing his grandparents, then follows the account into the later killing of a 15-year-old girl and the grim detail of her remains being in his car…
A broken military morning turns a strange night into a tighter paranormal mystery.
The episode opens on a military morning that has slipped out of order. Personnel wake late, feel ill, and discover that no one is waiting to punish them for missing formation.
Rebecca's paranormal account turns grief, fear, and an uncertain haunted-hotel memory into an intimate, unresolved conversation.
Rebecca's story gives Handcuffs and Sage a close, emotionally grounded paranormal center. Her account moves from a stay at a historic haunted hotel with her grandmother to the more lasting feeling that loved ones can remain near after death.
Ed Kemper's ordinary social presence meets the haunted reputation of an abandoned West Virginia amusement park.
Part two of the show's Ed Kemper coverage centers on the disturbing gap between what he did and how ordinary he could seem in public. The episode returns to Kemper as a serial killer while also tracing the accounts of his gentle-giant presence, his friendships with police…
Paul Roberts brings haunted-object lore down to one strange detail: a case latch reportedly loose after Annabelle's outing.
Paul Roberts joins Handcuffs and Sage for a relaxed trip through paranormal lore, beginning with a chance meeting at a local metaphysical store and circling toward the Annabelle doll.
Crime, ghosts and conspiracies, one state at a time.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Handcuffs and Sage's '54: Ed Kemper (P3) and The Pope Lick Monster' covers Kemper's February 5 fight with Clarnell, the shootings of Rosalyn Thorpe and Alison Liu, and the phone-booth call that led police to Cynthia Shawl's buried head.
Handcuffs and Sage’s Down The Rabbit Hole episode centers on the 1977 Fort Benning incident in Georgia, with John Vasquez as the main witness.
Rebecca says her recurring childhood nightmare began on a sleeper sofa in an isolated ranch house near Aztec, New Mexico, where an army of skeletons with pickaxe-like weapons advanced toward the window.
Handcuffs and Sage Episode 53 pairs Ed Kemper Part 2 with Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, opening on the hosts' warning that the show is not for kids.
Handcuffs and Sage interviews Paul Roberts, founder of Ghost Watch Paranormal, after Timo says she met him at a local metaphysical store and invited him on the show.
Atlas told Erica he had been Jalen Robinson, whose mother was named Corrine Washington, and Erica found a matching 2005 obituary.
Red presents Ed Kemper's childhood in a family she describes as abusive, including his isolation in a basement and killing of animals.
The hosts connect Robert Curly’s death at 33 to thallium poisoning and hair testing that traced exposure back six months before his university job.
The hosts interview a clinical psychologist who is also a fan of the TV show Supernatural, blending true crime and paranormal discussion.
Three moms introduce their true crime and paranormal podcast, joking about recording via Zoom and technical issues.
Three moms discuss true crime and paranormal stories, starting with a casual chat about Halloween and a co-host's daughter returning home.
Three moms discuss personal anecdotes and introduce their true crime and paranormal podcast.
Three working moms discuss ancient aliens and conspiracy theories in a fun, conversational style.
Three moms host a true crime and paranormal podcast, opening with personal updates before diving into a beloved story.
Three moms discuss true crime and paranormal stories, with this episode opening with casual banter about hot weather and a family barbecue.