True crime with teeth and receipts.
RedHanded is a fast, irreverent true-crime and dark-history show built around detailed case storytelling and constant reactive banter. Recent episodes cover Michael X, celebrity image hacking, the Titanic, Helios 522, Nicholas Rossi, and Warren Jeffs with a blunt moral point of view.
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RedHanded is a fast, research-heavy true-crime and dark-history show that treats grim material with seriousness, but not solemnity. Its default setting is sharp narrative plus sharper reaction. The show can spend minutes laying out names, dates, social context, and procedural failures, then puncture the mood with a dry aside before heading straight back into the horror. That whiplash is central to its appeal. Recent episodes range from Michael X’s political reinventions and the murder of Gale Benson to the 2014 celebrity iCloud leaks, the Titanic, Helios 522, Nicholas Rossi, and Warren Jeffs’ FLDS regime. The subjects are broad, but the through-line is power. RedHanded keeps returning to people who exploit charisma, ideology, technology, class, religion, or institutional indifference to harm others. It is especially good at showing how a case becomes possible before the headline moment: the ignored warning signs, the social permissions, the bureaucratic shrug, the community that looks away. The Titanic episode frames survival through class, gender, geography, and access rather than romance or myth. The Helios 522 episode turns a technical aviation disaster into a tense chain of missed warnings. The iCloud leaks episode treats celebrity image abuse as a violation enabled by online communities, not as gossip. The Warren Jeffs episodes are grim, angry, and focused on coercive religious control. The Michael X two-parter gives the show room to mix politics, fraud, celebrity proximity, and murder into one slippery biography. RedHanded is not polished in the distant, museum-label sense. It leaves in personality: interruptions, disbelief, corrections, jokes that arrive because the alternative is just sitting in the ugliness. That makes the show feel less like a documentary product and more like two well-prepared people dragging a case into the light and refusing to pretend the facts are tidy. The humor is pointed, not cozy. The sympathy is reserved for victims, survivors, and the people who tried to get out.
Made for: For listeners who like detailed true crime, dark history, cult cases, disasters, and fraud stories told with speed, skepticism, and blunt humor. It best suits people comfortable with grim subject matter and an informal two-person rhythm.
What sets it apart: RedHanded stands out by pairing dense case research with an openly opinionated conversational style. It connects crimes to class, religion, politics, technology, and institutional failure without turning the delivery stiff or clinical.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
RedHanded makes tangled cases legible through detailed chronology, contextual reporting, and Hannah and Saruti's alert, darkly conversational scrutiny.
RedHanded turns complicated cases into direct, conversational narratives, with Hannah and Saruti regularly pausing to question a suspect's logic, motives, or sheer audacity.
Hannah and Saruti put a body beneath the lettuce, then make you laugh before the horror settles.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A celebrity-hack story that ends with a plain warning about passwords and two-factor authentication.
RedHanded takes the 2014 celebrity photo leaks and treats them as a sharp look at voyeurism, beginning with the day naked photos of Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence hit Reddit and widening out to the larger folder that later showed up on 4chan.
A grim Michael X story built on fire, rumor, and bodies, with sharp pacing and a skeptical tone.
It treats Michael X's Trinidad chapter as a grim slide into fire, rumor, and bodies, and it works best when it moves from big claims to the physical facts on the ground.
Michael X is a sharp study of charisma, politics, and self-invention.
Michael X - Part One sketches a man who keeps moving toward the next room, the next circle, the next scene. Red Handed tracks that motion from Trinidad into London's beatnik and literary worlds, where charm, opportunism, and politics keep crossing wires.
A sharp Titanic retelling that trades legend for class, logistics, and luck.
The episode treats the Titanic as a plain survival problem once the ship is clearly lost: too many people, too few lifeboats, and a lot of luck deciding who gets out.
A crash story where every warning light matters.
The episode hits hardest when it follows the small failures in order: a fast pressure loss, repeated work on the environmental control panel, a frozen door, a strange banging sound, and an engineer still trying to prove the aircraft was safe.
A grim, fast-moving fugitive story built on lies, reinventions, and a fake death.
RedHanded tracks a strange chain of events that begins with a Rhode Island memorial mass for Nicholas Aliverdian and ends with the shock that he was alive, and wanted in five states for sexual assaults and large-scale fraud.
A blunt, tightly reported look at coercion, escape, and Warren Jeffs' hold on the FLDS.
RedHanded stays with Warren Jeffs and the FLDS long enough to show how control works after the headlines fade: the closed ranks, the women pushing back, and the money that kept it all moving.
A sharp, angry tour from Mormon origins to Warren Jeffs' rule.
Red Handed takes on Warren Jeffs and the Mormon history around plural marriage by following the story of a 12-year-old girl whose marriage is arranged by a prophet said to have a direct line to God.
True stories of scams, aliases, frauds, and lives built on lies.
Payne Lindsey and Tenderfoot TV revisit the Atlanta Child Murders and the wider Monster franchise.
iO Tillett Wright investigates her mother's boyfriend's unsolved 1982 East Village murder.
A hometown hoax, revisited by someone who grew up there.
August 31, 2014 started with two naked photos on Reddit: Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence.
Michael X has run out of myth.
RedHanded’s Michael X - Part One: British Black Power | #445 follows Michael De Freitas from Trinidad and Cardiff to Notting Hill, where he builds a public persona around the British Black Power movement.
Everyone knows the Titanic story.
Bad day to trust a switch.
Rhode Island begins with a memorial mass.
One host calls Mormons her favourite topic, then the episode heads straight into Marianne Jessop, a 12-year-old whose marriage is handed down by a prophet said to speak directly to God.
Warren Jeffs is back.
This episode details the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, exploring the engineering risks of deep-sea drilling, corporate negligence by BP and Transocean, and the catastrophic environmental and human costs.
The Holy Grail gets a festive grilling.
Part two gets messy quickly.
A discussion questioning the historical existence of Jesus Christ and examining evidence for and against his life.
This episode begins with sponsor advertisements before presumably delving into a true crime case analysis.
The episode investigates the suspicious death of Eric Richens and the subsequent murder case involving his wife Corrie.
This episode explores the abdication of King Edward VIII and the controversial life of Wallis Simpson, examining whether their story was a romantic love affair or a royal scandal.
This episode discusses the history of human sexuality and the groundbreaking research of a former zoologist who studied sexual behavior in 1940s America.
This episode examines the controversial case of Chloe Ayling's kidnapping, exploring whether she was a victim of sex trafficking or involved in a scam.
Two hosts engage in lighthearted, crude banter while trying to recall Spanish words, leading to a joke about a huge penis.
This episode explores the life and death of Aleister Crowley, the infamous occultist known as the wickedest man in the world.
The hosts discuss the McStay family murder case, focusing on suspect Chase Merritt's interview and timeline of events.
RedHanded's ShortHand on River Phoenix centers on the 30 October 1993 collapse outside Johnny Depp's Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard.
This episode explores the mysterious case of Princess Anastasia, a Russian royal imposter, through a crime-focused lens that examines the details and impact of such disappearances.
This episode explores the mysterious disappearance and subsequent murder investigation of the McStay family, a case that captivated media and online sleuths for years.
The hosts explore the deeper meanings of alchemy beyond gold-making, discussing its philosophical and spiritual aspects.
This episode explores historical UFO sightings, focusing on the 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg and modern explanations like sun dogs.
Kiki Camarena had two weeks left.
This episode explores a little-known group of people who fought for the future during the darkest hours of World War II.
Lake Nyos does not need extra drama.
The hosts discuss the 2006 Ipswich serial murders, introducing the case and its recent relevance.
A special Valentine's Day episode of a true crime podcast featuring a comedian guest, discussing crushes and lighthearted banter.
The hosts discuss the OJ Simpson case in a comedic style, analyzing the prosecution's arguments.
A glamorous woman is found stabbed to death on a Paris metro train in 1937, leading investigators into a web of espionage and far-right terrorism.
The hosts discuss the murder of Nancy Spungen and the death of Sid Vicious, focusing on the infamous punk couple's tragic story.