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Episode 106 - Train Tracks: The Murder of Vera Jo Reigle

RedHanded

RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Vera hadn't had it easy; she was a vulnerable woman who had coped with ADHD, serious learning difficulties and sexual abuse all her life. At the age of 22 she began dating a 16 year old boy named Zachary Brooks. And while this may sound predatory, it wasn't Vera who was the dangerous one. It was the matriarch of the Brooks family - Cheri Brooks aka "Sugar Babe". 

When Vera got pregnant, Cheri's determination to meet her grandchild created a horrifyingly dangerous situation for the young mother. 

 

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Iredhanders, quick tour chat before we get going with today's show, the London VIP tickets on the 21st of September have now sold out.

0:39.0

But, due to popular demand, we are going to be adding 10 more VIP tickets to the London show so get them while they're hot.

0:46.0

There are still tickets for every other show. Don't forget we are coming to Birmingham Manchester, Glasgow, London and Cardiff.

0:53.0

So go and get your tickets, we'll see you in September.

0:58.0

I'm Hannah, I'm Sarooty and welcome to Redhanded. Oh my god, I fucking, my brain is just, has given up.

1:09.0

It's because you know what's about to come, it's because you know what's about to come. And welcome to Redhanded.

1:15.0

We've got a listener request this week, so we are watching what you post in the group in case you think that we're not, I look at basically all of it.

1:23.0

But we'd actually never heard anything about this case until someone posted it in the Facebook group.

1:30.0

So before we get going, I am going to issue a warning, but like a sadness warning, a lot of vulnerable people get hurt this week.

1:39.0

If that's something you find particularly difficult, maybe this week is not for you.

1:42.0

Because this week we are dealing with incest, child abuse, torture, a miscarriage of justice,

1:48.0

piss poor child protection services, a pig living in a cupboard and a murder.

1:54.0

So you have been warned abandoned hope, or you who enter here, honestly, like it's going to get really bad.

1:59.0

And I really enjoyed when you were listing what's coming up in this episode where you really put the emphasis, a pig living in a cupboard.

2:06.0

The incest, the rape, the torture, but there's a pig living in a cupboard.

2:11.0

I think I'm developing quite an unhealthy obsession with pigs.

2:14.0

Like I've just been like reading all about pigs all day.

2:17.0

Good research, show research by a tour ticket.

2:19.0

And I watch loads of videos about Coco the Gorilla.

2:22.0

Whatever it takes, we've got to stay sane.

2:25.0

Yeah, exactly.

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