4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
In 2003, 14 year old Charlene Downes disappeared. Rumours quickly spread that she had been murdered, dismembered and her remains had been sold as kebab meat in local takeaway shops. Her story brought to light a dark secret that had lay hidden for years under the illuminations and arcade noises of the English seaside town of Blackpool.
Support the show and get access to weekly bonus content at patreon.com/redhanded
Sources:
The Murder of Charlene Downes documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_obctJ9eA
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/may/30/ukcrime.childprotection
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zmpqvx/murder-charlene-downes-blackpool
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
0:16.5 | I'm Suryte. I'm Hannah. |
0:19.7 | And welcome to Redhanded. |
0:21.5 | Slash. Corona. Cost. |
0:24.2 | No, no, we have a rule on the main episodes. |
0:27.3 | There will be absolutely no mention of the coronavirus or that I'm going to like install some |
0:31.6 | sort of like, swedge or where every time one of us mentions coronavirus, we have to put a |
0:36.2 | quid in it and then we'll donate it to women's aid or something. Let's do it. Someone keep Tally |
0:40.5 | are counting times in the main episode. Hannah or I mentioned anything to do with coronavirus. |
0:45.5 | And we will donate that to a wonderful domestic violence charity. So yeah, there we go. Done. |
0:52.1 | That's our pledge. Problem solved. |
0:54.8 | Redhanded, single handedly solving the domestic violence abuse violence. |
0:59.2 | Inability to stop talking about coronavirus. Being that's a quid for you. |
1:05.9 | So let's move on swiftly to somewhere we cannot go this Easter weekend because yes, |
1:10.7 | we are recording Easter Saturday. What is Saturday? Because it's good Friday. It's like Easter Sunday |
1:16.5 | and then something Monday. What's the Saturday? Nothing. |
1:20.4 | So Easter Saturday you don't really do anything because Jesus is dead. He's not back yet. |
1:25.6 | Rest day. Yeah. You just hang out, go to do the big shop for your roast dinner on the Sunday. |
1:32.0 | I don't think you have to go to church, but you have to go to church so fucking much over like the |
1:35.6 | whole Easter weekend. You've got to go good Friday. You've got to go on Easter Sunday. And it's |
1:39.2 | like a way longer mass than it usually is so fucking boring. My housemate, we were telling him, |
1:44.2 | he was asking me similar questions about like how Easter works. He's Jewish but not practicing. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery | RedHanded, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery | RedHanded and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.