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Episode 94 - The Murder of Alesha McPhail

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In 2018 on the tiny Scottish island of the Isle of Bute, 6 year old Alesha MacPhail vanished from her bed in the middle of the night. The community was left reeling when just a few hours later her body was found. The question that tore though the small town now was who could have done this? And when the truth was revealed it was more shocking than anyone could have imagined.


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0:00.0

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0:23.0

I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.

0:27.0

Today is going to be rough. We are delving into one of the most horrific crimes in Scottish history.

0:32.0

And it could just last year in 2018.

0:35.0

We're headed to the Isle of Butte, a small island of the west coast of Scotland, with a population of just around 6000 people.

0:43.0

Specifically, we're headed to the town of Rothersee, which is the capital of the Isle of Butte,

0:49.0

an unlike elephant butte of David Parker Ray fame.

0:52.0

The Isle of Butte is actually, I think, quite a beautiful part of the world.

0:56.0

Did you read the Katie Moore-Agg books when you were a kid?

0:59.0

No, I've never heard of those.

1:01.0

Never heard of Katie Moore-Agg.

1:03.0

She's like this little Scottish girl and she's got curly ginger hair

1:07.0

and she lives on her island like this one.

1:09.0

And she delivers the post to all of the people on the island from her little, like, leather rucksack,

1:14.0

such a situation. And she's got a granny that lives on the mainland.

1:18.0

She's called Granny mainland and then she's got another one called Granny Island

1:21.0

who lives on the island and she gets the ferry to the mainland and sings a song about both grannies

1:25.0

that you can sing with your mum and the car.

1:27.0

And that is what I think about when I think about like tiny Scottish islands.

1:30.0

And I'm a girl at a party once who lived that life, like, one of the, like,

1:34.0

really tiny islands in the Hebrides.

1:36.0

And I was like, are you actually Katie Moore-Agg?

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