Episode 69 - The Vampire of Bucharest

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4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In 1970 a serial killer stalked the streets of Romania's capital, assaulting over twenty young women and brutally murdering at least four. He was quickly dubbed "the vampire of Bucharest" after his victims were found with chunks of their flesh missing and holes poked in their necks, as if someone had been feeding on them.

When the killer was eventually captured further twists surfaced as authorities began to wonder if vampirism and serial killing ran in this man's family...

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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.
0:21.0	I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti and welcome to Redhanded where Halloween is finally over.
0:27.0	I feel like we've been doing Halloween for my entire life. I feel that my entire life has been one long Halloween.
0:32.0	Not that I'm complaining, it was fun.
0:34.0	And also you say Halloween is over but this episode is literally about a vampire from Transylvania.
0:39.0	It is, yeah, how funny. Obviously we drove around Transylvania last week.
0:44.0	So I thought it would be a good, the perfect opportunity to do a Transylvania vampire.
0:50.0	Exactly. Because there is one, a real one.
0:52.0	And there isn't the one that everyone's probably thinking, which is what's her name, Elizabeth Baltary.
0:57.0	Do you think so? I would have gone Vlad the Impaler for the most famous Transylvania vampire.
1:02.0	Just got so much choice for you to pick.
1:05.0	The problem was choice.
1:06.0	And we went to Vlad's house.
1:08.0	We did. We did go to Vlad's house.
1:10.0	It was a good day. It was on my birthday, wasn't it?
1:12.0	Oh yeah, of course. I thought it looked really cool from the outside and we tried so desperately hard to find a good view to take a photo of it.
1:19.0	But like all of my photos from that just don't like I'm standing in a car park.
1:23.0	You can't see the car park.
1:25.0	We were standing in a car park.
1:27.0	We were standing in a field that had some cars in it.
1:30.0	Driving all over.
1:31.0	It just still ended up taking pictures of the car park.
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