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Episode 197 - Ezra McCandless: Killer Girlfriend

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On 22 March 2018, 19 year old Ezra McCandless stood barefoot, covered in blood banging on the door of a remote Wisconsin farmhouse. She was hysterical and claimed that she’d been attacked by her ex-boyfriend, but the scene police found in the woods told a very different story...


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0:14.8

I'm Hannah. I'm Surytee. And welcome to episode who the fuck knows of Redhanded. I can't keep up. I'm no idea.

0:22.5

Well, almost 200, because in like two, three weeks time, it's a 200 episode.

0:27.0

Very good maths from you. Well done. So that's all I know. You guys work it out. But yeah, welcome. Welcome. Welcome.

0:34.0

If you listened last week, you'll know we have a new segment called the Red Hot Minute on the Redhanded Book. So it's my turn.

0:40.0

And I'm going to tell you about chapter one. So you have to time me. I'm excited. Wait, let me put my coffee down and get my timer out.

0:47.0

I wish I was like not so toned off that I could like hum countdown theme tune, but I can't. I won't. I'll just quietly get my timer out.

0:55.0

Okay, okay. Okay. You can count me in. Oh, I can't you. I can't you. Okay. That's the rule. One, two, three.

1:06.0

Okay. So I'm telling you all about chapter one, which is all about genetics. And it's all about brain science unsurprisingly.

1:11.0

But it's not scary and unintelligible. It's really informative and funny. Also, do you know what your amygdala does? Probably not.

1:16.0

Do you know what your prefrontal cortex looks? Probably not. And neither do we until we wrote the book. But now we do. And we're ready to implant it into your brains like aliens laying edge.

1:24.0

So chapter one looks at how and if genetics can turn someone into a killer. There's actually a gene that's been specifically linked to aggression, but it turns out it isn't actually that significant because loads of people have it. You're halfway. Oh, no, okay. I can do it. But that hasn't stopped a guy called Bradley Wardrup literally getting away with murder because of his genome gaps.

1:38.0

But it turns out the psychopathy is understood by some experts to be almost entirely hereditary. Our psychopath really what we think they are. How can you spot a psychopath? A US psychopath is your boss a psychopath turns out fucking probably. 10 seconds. Can you stop a cyber weapon being a really horrible bastard?

1:52.0

No, but can you make them less likely to be criminals by being really nice to them? Yes. Also, we talked about that guy who had a giant metal rod five through his brain and his personality to change his all connects to make a sense.

2:00.0

Really funny.

2:03.0

Well done. Well done. I feel like I just relived that chapter through your one minute.

2:09.0

The condition of it. So congratulations.

2:12.0

Yeah, please pre-order the book. It will make a big difference to our lives and yours.

2:17.0

Yeah, so pre-order links are in the episode description below. They're also literally all over social media. So you have absolutely no excuse. Please go and pre-order the book.

2:25.0

We'd love you forever for doing so. And we'll be back with another red hot minute on the red-handed book next week when we'll be talking about childhood and other lessons.

2:33.0

But enough book chat. Let's talk about something else. Let's talk about a killer. This one is absolutely bloody everywhere.

2:39.0

It's one of those ones where like what happens quite a lot in the true crime space as a true crime professional. It's like a lot of like, especially recent cases. Sometimes it will feel like there's loads of coverage on a thing.

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