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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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 01/10/2018Missing From: Midland, TexasClassification: Endangered MissingSex: FemaleRace: WhiteDate of Birth: 08/07/1998 (27)Age when missing: 19 years oldHeight and Weight: 5'5, 120 poundsClothing/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.

Most of us have a sibling we’d do anything for. We grow up sharing toys, secrets, and eventually, the stresses of adulthood, but for Ken and Kari Allen, that bond took a sharp, lethal turn. It wasn't just 'us against the world'—it was 'us against anyone in our way.' Kenneth Allen, Jr. had spent most of his life away from his family, particularly his sister, Kari who was 11 years his junior, back in Indiana due to his parents, Sharon and Kenneth Allen, Sr divorcing when he was 14. Ken grew up in Florida while Kari lived with her mother in Noblesville, Indiana. After a life of counterfeiting, forgery, and theft, Ken decided to move home with his sister and mother at the age of 29 after doing a 14 month stint in prison in Arizona. He and 18-year-old Kari concocted a plan to kill their grandparents and take their money they had saved. Since their mother, Sharon, refused to help them, she had to die, too. After their killing spree, the pair buried the remains of all three victims under the basement floor at their grandparents' Indianapolis home and headed for Vegas, but a routine traffic stop uncovered their heinous crimes.  Sources Justia (2008) WTHR (2005) Los Angeles Times (2005) Sun Journal (2005) Find A Grave (2005) Find A Grave (2005) Find A Grave (2005) Audio/Docs Evil Kin Season 1 Episode 1 Thicker Than Blood Killer Kin Podcast Thicker Than Blood Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

In February 2010, the quiet town of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was shaken by a crime so senseless it defied logic. Jennifer Daugherty, a 30-year-old woman known for her kind heart and trusting nature, thought she was spending time with friends. Instead, she walked into a trap that would lead to one of the most harrowing cases of group-think and depravity in modern history.  A group of six people she met and befriended at a place called West Place Clubhouse held Jennifer hostage in an apartment they all shared on North Pennsylvania Avenue for almost 2 days while they brutally tortured and humiliated her due to one group member's jealousy. The group ultimately decided to kill Jennifer, dismember her, and place her remains in a trash can which they placed in the parking lot of a nearby middle school.  This case brought to light the frequent exploitation and abuse that individuals with intellectual disabilities often face and helped push a law into effect that allows witnesses of crimes to be charged if they don't report the crimes.  Sources Supremecourt.gov  PAcourts.us (2020) Pittsburgh Post Gazette (2022)  NBC News (2010)  r/TrueCrime (2022)  Audio/Docs  Very Local |YouTube| Hometown Tragedy: The Twisted Horror of the Greensburg 6 Cruel Intentions: Frenemies: Loyalty Turned Lethal (2013)  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

In 1997, a house fire in Oakland, California, captured the hearts of the community. Emerging from the smoke was Stevie Allman, a beloved alleged anti-drug activist who claimed local dealers had firebombed her home in retaliation for her neighborhood watch efforts. As she lay in the hospital with severe burns, the city rallied behind her, even receiving a sympathy letter from the White House.But as police looked closer at the woman in the hospital bed, the story began to fracture. Fingerprints revealed a horrifying truth: the woman being hailed as a hero wasn’t Stevie Allman at all—it was her sister, Sarah Mitchell. While Sarah Mitchell was being treated for her burns and basking in public sympathy, investigators returned to the charred remains of the Allman home. They weren't just looking for arson evidence anymore; they were looking for the real Stevie.The search ended at a large, chest freezer located in the basement. It was securely padlocked and wrapped in heavy chains. When investigators finally cut the locks, they made a discovery that halted the investigation in its tracks: the body of Stevie Allman, dismembered and frozen, hidden in plain sight while her sister lived just feet away.Forensic analysis later revealed a haunting timeline. Stevie hadn't died in the fire; she had been murdered earlier. Sarah had been living in the house with her sister’s body, cashing Stevie's checks and perfecting her impersonation, using the "firebombing" as a final, desperate act to cover her tracks and explain Stevie's permanent disappearance. Sources Luminol Pod (2022) SF Gate (1997) LA Times (1997) SF Gate (2000) Audio/Docs Oxygen- YouTube: Destroyed House Reveals Sister's Shocking Secret (2022)  Crime Zone-YouTube: They Called Her a Hero...UNTIL They Went Inside Her Home (2026)  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

Deep in the woods of North Georgia, Dr. Charles Scudder and his partner, Joseph "Joey" Odom sought a peaceful, off-grid life in a hand-built brick mansion they called Corpsewood Manor.  Rumors always swirled about the lovers and their quaint handbuilt home in the woods. The fact that they were "homosexual devil worshippers" was often the talk of the area, but these men were kind, welcoming, and enjoyed the simple life with the occassional wild party.      But in 1982, their castle became the site of a grisly double homicide that shocked the nation when two young men devised a plot to rob the men, thinking they must be millionaires due to their extravagant home. Dr. Scudder and Joey invited a 17-year-old hunter in the area, Avery Brock to parties at their home when he stumbled upon it while hunting, asking if he could hunt on the property. Avery then discussed the men and their "so-called fortune" with his troubled roommate, 30-year-old Tony West.       On the night of December 12, 1982, Avery and Tony decided to put their robbery plan in motion by attending a party at Corpsewood Manor. They brought along two unsuspecting friends, as well, Tony's nephew, Joey Wells, and his friend, Teresa Hudgins. The pair weren't aware of the robbery plan. At the party, Avery shot and killed Joey Odom in his kitchen along with their two English Mastiffs when he tried to explain to them that there was no large fortune hidden in the home. Avery and Tony then tied up and tormented Dr. Scudder, and when he also gave them no fortune, the men shot him 5 times in the head before fleeing the scene with only silver jewelry and Dr. Scudder's black jeep.      To this day, Corpsewood Manor sits in ruins after a fire destroyed everything but the bricks. Many say it still has an eerie and sad air about it, with people claiming to hear the dogs barking, gunshots, and other unsettling noises.  Sources Abandoned Georgia (2023)  Abandoned Southeast  Atlanta Magazine (2022) Oxford American (2024)  Atlas Obscura  Church of Satan  Justia Law- Supreme Court of Mississippi (1985) Books/Documentaries The Corpsewood Manor Murders In North Georgia by Amy Petulla Dead Silent S01E2: Welcome to the Devil House Podcast by ID: Deadly Nightmares: Welcome to the Devil House Mystery Archives YouTube: The Untold Story of Corpsewood Manor-Georgia (2025) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

On a crisp Halloween morning in 1999, Dr. Dirk Greineder—a world-renowned allergist and pillar of the elite Wellesley community in Massachusetts—placed a frantic 911 call from the banks of Morses Pond. His wife of 31 years, Mabel "May" Greineder, had been brutally beaten, stabbed, and almost decapitated during their morning walk. Dirk told investigators that May had stopped to rest and he went on ahead, but when he returned to her, he found she had been attacked. As investigators looked past the doctor’s grief, they discovered a tangled web of secret identities, sex addiction, digital obsessions, and a "perfect" marriage that was anything but. Dirk has been incarcerated for almost 26 years and still maintains his innocence to this day. Sources History (2009) Justia (2009) Vance Holmes (2010) Cape Cod Times (2001) Metro West Daily News (2010) Medium (2025) Audio/Documentaries CBS Boston YouTube- I-Team: Dirk Greineder in Wife's Murder After 20 Years (2021) Court TV YouTube- 'The Good Doctor' Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall (2024) Prisoners' Legal Services YouTube- Dirk Greineder Testimony (2024) Dateline on ID- Season 2 Episode 14: Murder at Morses Pond Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

For over two decades, a shadow loomed over West Germany, Joachim Kroll, from 1955 to 1976, children and young women vanished without a trace, leaving a trail of terror that spanned cities, but the monster wasn’t hiding in the woods—he was living in a cramped apartment in Duisburg, working as a restroom attendant and living a life of quiet, dull routine. Children in Duisburg loved visiting Joachim as he often gave them candy and toys. He was known by neighbors to be a polite, pleasant guy to everyone, although a bit odd. How could a man dismissed by society as "dim-witted" manage to outsmart the police for 21 years until the gruesome discovery involving a neighbor's plumbing?  Sources The Serial Killer Magazine  Murderpedia  All That's Interesting (2020) Utterly Interesting  Documentaries Real Crime-YouTube-Joachim Kroll: Serial Killer Who Owned a Manor | World's Most Evil Killers (2021)  Bizarre Bazaar- YouTube- He MURDERED Them Because MEAT WAS EXPENSIVE (2024) Evil Among Us-YouTube-The Horrific Crimes of Joachim Kroll [True Crime Documentary] (2024)  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

In October 2012, 58-year-old Gail Spencer arrived at her office in Macon, Gerogia expecting another routine day as a legal secretary and office manager at Calder Pinkston & Associates Law Firm. At this time, she had no idea that a coworker had already set a lethal plan in motion to embezzle funds from the firm using her to obtain them.       On October 5, 2012, 38-year-old Tracy Jones (Gail's coworker), Tracy's 18-year-old boyfriend, Michael Brett Kelly, and their friend, 23-year-old Keith Anthony Dozier entered the home of Gail Spencer after Tracy lured her to the front door by knocking and asking to use her phone saying her car broke down nearby. When Gail let Tracy into her home, the two men entered behind her where they went into Gail's bedroom as she was getting ready for work, held a gun to Gail, tied her up, and took her work credentials that would allow Tracy to access the law firm's financial accounts.       The two men held Gail hostage while Tracy and Michael's sister, Courtney Kelly returned to the law firm so Tracy could transfer just under $1.3 million to accounts Courtney had opened at various banks. While this was happening, Michael assaulted and strangled Gail Spencer and took off in her car, leaving her body lying across her bed with a black trash bag over her face.        Gail's body was discovered the next morning when her neighbors who had asked her to let their dog out came home to find their dog in their yard and Gail not answering the door. All four perpetrators in the crime were given life sentences, with Courtney being the only one to have a chance at parole. Sources FindLaw (2019) 13WMAZ (2019)  41NBC (2013) Justia (2020)  Documentaries and Audio Crime Circus YouTube - Confessions of a Monster in Macon, Georgia- police INTERROGATION of Keith Dozier- MUST SEE VIDEO 2 (2022) BamaMike YouTube- The Full Interrogation of Michael Brett Kelly, The Grandma Killer (2022) Crime Circus Cult YouTube- Tracy Jones 1st Police Interrogation in Macon, Georgia- Interview with a Criminal Mastermind- USA (2022)  The Killer Beside Me Season 3 Episode 2: Hostage to Greed (2020) Your Worst Nightmare Season 4 Episode 9: Twisted Plan (2018)  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

Lisa Solomon,a 22-year-old newlywed living in Huntington, New York had a beautiful dinner planned for her and her husband, Matthew Solomon on Christmas Eve 1987, but the dinner did not go according to plan. After dinner, the two got into an argument ending with Lisa being murdered. The next morning, on Christmas day, Matthew contacted relatives to start a search, maintaining that Lisa had gotten upset and went for a walk, never returning home. For 6 days, Matthew played the concerned, distraught husband, lying and tricking everyone until her body was found dumped in garbage bags in a field just a mile from their home on December 30th. Matthew eventually cracked and admitted to strangling Lisa during their Christmas Eve argument. He served 31 years in prison before being released at age 55 in 2019, much to the disagreement and dismay of Lisa's family.  Sources Long Islander News (2019) US District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Justia)(1992) NY Senate (2019) New York Times (1988) News 12 (2017) Audio and Docs  FilmRise True Crime: Missing on Christmas Eve: Lisa Solomon's Story | The Christmas Killings Hosted by Nancy Grace (Youtube) (2025)   (Original Release Date: February 2024) Twisted Tales (YouTube, 2024): Bloody Christmas- The Brutal Kidnapping of Lisa Solomon | Happily Never After: Ice Cold Heart (Original Release Date: 2012) The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade- The Newlywed Murder (2017) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

From the outside, 1426 F Street in Sacramento, California, looked like a respectable Victorian boarding house run by a kind, grandmotherly woman with a reputation for helping the community's most vulnerable. But beneath Dorothea Puente's sweet facade lay a cold, calculating killer with a lifetime of deceit and fraud.This episode delves into the chilling story of the "Death House Landlady." Tracing Dorothea's decades-long criminal history—from check forgery and running a brothel to eventually targeting her own tenants: the elderly, the disabled, and those with no one to look after them.The motive was not pleasure, but profit. She would drug her boarders, steal their government benefit and Social Security checks, and when they disappeared, she would simply tell concerned parties that they had moved on. Her deadly operation only came to light when an investigation into a missing tenant led police to an unthinkable discovery: seven bodies buried in shallow graves right in the backyard. Sources Worst Roomate Ever Season 1: Call Me Grandma ID Crimefeed  Sactown Magazine (2009) OAC (1982-1992) All that's Interesting (2024) Los Angeles Times (2011) Audio Mass Murderabilia YouTube- Police interview with Dorothea Puente (Part 01) Mass Murderabilia YouTube- Police Interview with Dorothea Puente (Part 02) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.

Rebecca Park On the night of November 3, 2025, 22-year-old Rebecca Park's biological mother, Cortney Bartholomew, and her step-father, Bradley Bartholomew lured her to their home. Since Rebecca was due to give birth soon, it was assumed they lured her there on the premise of having a baby shower for her, but they threw her in a car where they took her to the Manistee National Forest in Michigan. It is here that they brutally tortured and stabbed Rebecca, even cutting her baby from her womb. Rebecca was considered a missing person until November 25, when her body was found. Her baby has still yet to be found, and this case is still ongoing.  Oninda Romelus Oninda Romelus, a 31-year-old mother of 4 living in the Porter area of Texas put her 4 children into her vehicle on the early morning hours of October 4, 2025 and took them to a location near a gas station in Angleton, Brazoria County where she then pulled a weapon and shot all of them. She then drove to the gas station and called 911, stating that her children were going to kill her so she had to "do it to them" first. She told police at the scene that her children were "dead to her" and "with the devil." Two of her children passed away and two of them were flown by helicopter and are still recovering. This case is currently still ongoing.            O'Karreo Covington: A 13-year-old boy who died from a gunshot wound to the head.            Amourra Chapell: A 3-year-old girl who died in the backseat of the car.            Kylee Romelus: A 9-year-old girl who was shot in the side and arm and survived.            Traviel Downer: An 8-year-old boy who was shot in the arm and survived Sources People (2025) Fox 26 Houston (2025) ABC 13 (2025) Click2Houston (2025) Michigan Department of Attorney General (2025) 9 & 10 News (2025) News Nation (2025) Audio UpNorthLive YouTube: Court hears details in murder and torture of pregnant Rebecca Park in Wexford County (2025) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.