RedHanded Wondery

Kidnapping might seem like an odd solution to low levels of education, but for The Democratic People's Republic of Korea it seemed like a perfect plan. Whisk away international intelligentsia to your hermit kingdom and reprogram them to become perfect North Korean citizens, capable of pushing forward your scientific endeavours – or more importantly, directing a cult classic knock-off Godzilla movie.

Unfortunately, it is a plan that hasn’t gone down overly well with the rest of the world. So how did it happen? And is it still going on today?

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When Christine Mackinday and her boyfriend were interrupted in bed by her ex-fiancé – a 200-pound ex-MMA fighter who had legally changed his name to War Machine – she had every reason to fear for her life.

This is the wild true story of Jonathan Koppenhaver: self-proclaimed “Alpha Male”, failed UFC fighter, wannabe pornstar and reality-show embarrassment – and his inevitable, tragic, violent revenge.

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In 2001 on a remote stretch of highway in Australia’s Northern Territory, British backpacker Peter Falconio vanished. His girlfriend, Joanne Lees, told police that they had been attacked by a strange man. The subsequent investigation saw local drug runner Bradley Murdoch jailed for life - but questions still linger, especially around the truthfulness of the story that Joanne told...

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The man who the BBC named the best ever Briton has been having something of a reputation change in the past few years. These days, only one in five young people have a positive view of Churchill.

From Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine – in which three million Indians starved to death on his watch – to some pretty intense white nationalism, Hannah and Suru look at the truth of one of the most chequered legacies around.

The state of Pamela Werner’s body alone would have been enough to send 1930s Peking into a frenzy. She’d been frantically stabbed, her chest cut wide open, and four of her internal organs had been precisely removed...

But Pamela was the daughter of a high-ranking British diplomat. And the death of a white girl in the ancient Chinese capital, in 1939 – when anti-foreigner revolts were bubbling and the entire country was under threat of invasion by Japan – rocked the city, in the last days of old China.

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When a SWAT team turned up at the front door of Wichita resident Andrew Finch, he only had seven seconds of confusion, before he was shot in the chest by an armed police officer. He couldn’t have ever guessed that the team of black-uniformed officers had been called as a prank – over a $1.50 bet on a game of Call of Duty.

Finch was a casualty of Swatting – a kind of real-world trolling where hoax bomb threats and homicides are called against gaming opponents. So how did it start? And what are the egotistical toerags who do it trying to prove?