Episode 179 - The Reykjavík Confessions: Memories of Murder
RedHanded
Wondery | RedHanded
4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This is the bizarre story of 2 mysterious disappearances, 1 strange dream and 6 people who ended up confessing to murders they couldn't even remember...What happened on the treacherous lava fields of Iceland back in 1974 that ruined the lives of so many, and crept its way so deep into the Icelandic culture, that this story still makes headlines today?
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| 0:00.0 | Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Sruti. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Hannah. |
| 0:21.0 | And welcome to your very first episode of Redhanded in 2021. |
| 0:28.0 | The mythical year? Can we call it that now? |
| 0:31.0 | I'm too scared after what I said about 2020. You know what? Maybe I'll be like 2021 is going to be the most outrageous year that ever happened and everything's going to be awful and maybe the opposite will happen and we'll all have a lovely time and get married. |
| 0:44.0 | That's what I'm hoping. I think if the past year's record is anything to go by, I think that's it. Or you guys are listening to this in 2021 because we're still recording this in December 2020. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, we're in the past. |
| 0:58.0 | And the aliens are here and then are the kings and all hail the aliens. |
| 1:05.0 | All hail Zeno. It's now law that you have to be a Scientologist. |
| 1:08.0 | The murder hornets have taken over the aliens are here and we are all Scientologists. Who knows? |
| 1:13.0 | Tom Cruise is the king of Earth. |
| 1:16.0 | Could him pick a better man. Could him pick a better man. But yes, who knows what the hell is going on in 2021. |
| 1:23.0 | We are still in the confines of 2020 coming to you as Hannah said from the past, but it doesn't matter because we've got quite the case for you to kick things off over here at Redhanded HQ. |
| 1:37.0 | We really have. You know that we like to cover things that you might not have heard about and take you to places you may never have been. |
| 1:44.0 | And we're certainly doing that this week with Iceland somewhere we've never been before on the show, despite my obsession with CrossFit stars who are all Iceland it. |
| 1:54.0 | Why is that Iceland Icelanders get let me know why you know CrossFit Reykjavik is the second most requested taxi destination at the airport. |
| 2:03.0 | What? |
| 2:04.0 | What Iceland? |
| 2:06.0 | What does that mean? I'm confused by you. You confuse me. |
| 2:10.0 | I was going to say at Reykjavik airport right obviously not at Heathrow airport they're just like Reykjavik CrossFit please. |
| 2:18.0 | Check me too Reykjavik. No like when you get to Reykjavik airport apparently second most popular I don't know what the most popular is. |
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