Dark Deeds

A short true crime podcast detailing the stories of solved and unsolved cases for the true crime enthusiast to get a quick fix of true crime! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support .

Dark Deeds is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 91 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #31

  S03E31: The Price of Greed- The Cruel Death of Margaret Craig

  Aug 17, 202615 minS3

  44-year old Candace Craig, her 19-year-old daughter Salia Hardy, and Candace's boyfriend, Benny lived with Candace's mother, 71-year-old Margaret Craig in a Prince George's County Maryland home. Candace was unemployed and her mother's primary caregiver. While Candace was to be helping her mother as she lived in the house rent-free, she was actually taking every dime Margaret had behind her back and spending it on pointless material items. When Margaret discovered fraudulent charges on her bank card, she did not at first suspect her daughter, but when her new card never came in the mail, she did some investigating of her own and discovered Candace had stolen the card and had been making a significant amount of transactions, racking up her debt and leaving her unable to pay her own bills. On May 23, 2023, Margaret had enough and decided to confront Candace. When confronted, Candace did not deny it but became enraged, suffocating her mother with a trash bag and spending the next week attempting to dispose of her remains in various ways with the help of her daughter, Salia. Sources ABC 7 (2025) Fox 5 (2025) People (2025) Kark (2023) Docs Law & Crime Network|Daughter Kills Mother Then Burns Her on Grill| YouTube (2026) Oblivioius|Humanit's Worst (Vol. 5)|YouTube (2026) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support .

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  Episode #30

  S03E30: No Mercy in Madison: The Brutal Torture and Murder of Shanda Sharer

  Jul 4, 202622 minS3

  n January 1992, the small town of Madison, Indiana, was rocked by a crime so brutal, so unfathomable, it grabbed headlines across the globe. Shanda Sharer was only 12 years old—a bright, vibrant girl with her whole life ahead of her—when she became the target of a horrific plot orchestrated not by hardened criminals, but by four teenage girls. The catalyst for this unthinkable tragedy was a toxic web of teenage obsession, intense jealousy, and peer manipulation. 16-year-old Melinda Loveless became fiercely fixated on a 15-year-old girl named Amanda Heavrin. When 12-year-old Shanda Sharer briefly dated Amanda, Loveless’s jealousy spiraled into a dangerous obsession. Driven by a desire for revenge over what she perceived as a stolen relationship, Loveless convinced three other local teenagers—Laurie Tackett (17), Hope Rippey (15), and Toni Lawrence (15)—to help her exact a terrifying revenge. Tragically, Tackett, Rippey, and Lawrence had never even met Shanda before the night of the crime. On the night of January 10, 1992, the group lured Shanda from her father’s home in Jeffersonville, Indiana, by falsely claiming they were taking her to see Amanda. Once Shanda was inside the vehicle, the situation escalated into a nightmare. Loveless brandished a knife, and the group held Shanda captive as they drove to a remote, abandoned property known locally as "The Witch’s Castle" in Madison. Over the next twelve hours, Shanda was subjected to a horrific ordeal. She was severely beaten, choked, and stabbed by her captors. Despite Shanda's desperate pleas for her life, the teenagers locked her in the trunk of the car. The crime reached a final, incomprehensible level of brutality when they drove her to a secluded field, stabbed her again, doused her in gasoline, and burned her alive. Her body was discovered by hunters the following morning. Sources Los Angeles Times (1993) All That’s Interesting (2026) WDRB (2019) ThoughtCo (2019) Crime Library Docs Mean Girl Murders Season 2 Episode 3: Girls in the Hoods Deadly Women Season 2 Episode 4: Thrill Killers Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support .

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  Episode #29

  S03E29: Broken Bloodlines: The Holston Family Massacre

  May 25, 202622 minS3

  In 2017, the Holston family who consisted of 25-year-old Stacey Holston, her husband Todd Holston, and their two sons, 8 year-old Devon and 2 year-old Braxton lived in a home on State route 93 in Pedro, Ohio. The family moved to this neighborhood to be closer to Stacey's family since most of them lived in this neighborhood or close by. It was here that Stacey struck up a romantic affair with her first cousin, 24-year-old Arron Lawson who also lived nearby. On October 6, 2017, however, Stacey broke off the affair with Arron because she did not want Todd to find out from anyone else but her, and she wanted her normal home life back. Arron was devastated by this and concocted a plan to kill Stacey and her family. On October 11th, Arron snuck into the Holston home after Todd left for work and waited for four hours until Stacey sent Devon off to school and entered the back bedroom. There he shot and killed Stacey with a shotgun, and did the same to Devon when he returned home from school. Since Todd had not heard from his wife all day, he phoned her parents, Tammie and Donald McGuire to check on her, but unfortunately, when Tammie entered the home, she was met by Arron and was shot and killed, as well. Then, Donald was sent to check and met the same fate. When Todd arrived home that night, he was also met by Arron and brutally stabbed in the head, neck, and chest but survived the attack and was able to call for help. Arron was apprehended 2 days later and has been sentenced to four death sentences plus an additional 59 years. Sources Fulton Sun (2017) WOWK13 (2019) ABC6 (2017) Herald Dispatch (2019) Documentaries/Videos Serialously|YouTube| Infatuated with WHO?! Love & Sex Obsessed Cousin Does The Unthinkable (2026) Cold Cases: True Crime Documentaries| YouTube| This Case Shocked the Whole Country. The Disturbing Story of Stacey Holston|True Crime Documentary (2026) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support .

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  Episode #28

  S03E28: The Secret Cooler-The Suffering of Kelly-Jien Warner

  Apr 20, 202621 minS3

  On the night of May 22, 2019, police were alerted to an apartment lived in by 35-year-old Wade Allen on North Maple Street in Sturgis, Michigan. A report came in about Wade storing his girlfriend's body in his apartment. As police searched the apartment, Wade grew increasingly uncooperative, especially when officers asked to look inside a large cooler sitting in his living room. When officers finally gained access, they discovered the dismembered remains of 42-year-old Kelly Jein "KJ" Warner. Wade asserted Kelly had died after a brain injury she sustained while making cereal and fainting in the kitchen, but the truth of KJ's brutal torture and murder came out when Wade bragged to his cellmates in prison about what he actually did to KJ. Sources A&E (2026) State of Michigan-Court of Appeals (2021) WSBT (2019) Law & Crime (2023) Docs Wade Allen's Chilling Crime, Told Through Body Cam Footage| Crime in Progress | A&E YouTube (2026) Cops Make the Worst Discovery of Their Lives | Explore With Us | YouTube (2025) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support .

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  Episode #27

  S03E27: Vanished in Midland: The 2018 Disappearance of Caitlin Denison

  Mar 23, 202615 minS3

  In January 2018, 19-year-old Caitlin Denison boarded a plane from Reno, Nevada, to Midland, Texas, accompanying a man she had only recently met. She was bright, tattooed, and full of life—but within 24 hours of landing in the Permian Basin, that life was shrouded in a terrifying mystery. Before her phone went dark, Caitlin sent a series of desperate messages to her family, stating she was "afraid for her life" and was with a person who would get angry when trying to force himself on her and she rejected. She was last seen at a Midland Walmart, and despite sightings of a specific Ford F-250 and a mysterious RV, the trail has remained cold for over 8 years. Missing Since: 01/10/2018 Missing From : Midland, Texas Classification: Endangered Missing Sex: Female Race: White Date of Birth : 08/07/1998 (27) Age when missing : 19 years old Height and Weight: 5'5, 120 pounds Clothing/Jewelry Description: A fur vest, a black shirt, black leggings with braid down the sides, and fuzzy boots. Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Denison's nose is pierced on both sides, her ears are pierced three to four times each, and her lower lip, upper lip, and tongue are pierced. She has scars on her arms and legs from self-inflicted cuts, a tattoo of the Libra scales on her right forearm, an alien head and the letter M on one of her left fingers, and a symbol on one of her right fingers. Denison's hair had been bleached light blonde prior to her disappearance and was growing out, with light ends and darker roots. Sources Charley Project Texas Department of Public Safety Your Basin (2025) News West 9 (2024) nfound.org (2025) News West 9 (2022) Audio/Docs Dark Case Documentaries|YouTube|CAUTION: Disturbing Final Phone Call Leaks Twisted Secret - True Crime Documentary Kendall Rae|YouTube|The Very Suspicious Disappearance of Caitlin Denison - Feat. Her Sister Tik Tok|@findCaitlinDenison Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support .

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