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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.

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00:17:35

S01E26: The Now-Solved Cold Case of Krystal Beslanowitch

Dark Deeds ·

2022/07/18

On December 14, 1995, 17-year-old Krystal Beslanowitch set off on foot to go to a convenience store in Salt Lake City, Utah at 8:45 PM, but never returned to the motel her and her boyfriend, Chris were living in. Chris walked to the convenience store to search for Krystal, but the employees say they never saw her there. Two days later, the nude, battered body of a teenage female was found on the bank of the Provo River. She had been beaten to death with granite rocks. Her boyfriend phoned the police

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00:19:05

S01E25: The Gustaf-Adolph Lutheran Church Poisoning

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2022/07/18

On April 27, 2003, 27 members of a 50 member church congregation at the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine gathered for a meeting to discuss the purchase of a new furnace for the church. While at the meeting, 16 members drank coffee from one of two urns holding coffee for the congregation. These 16 members ended up being treated for severe vomiting at two hospitals, one member, named Walter Reid Morrill passed away at the age of 78 due to this illness. Upon investigation, police

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00:25:47

S01E24: The Murder of Tia Rigg

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2022/07/18

On April 3, 2010 in Manchester, England, 12-year-old, Tia Rigg's uncle, John Maden phoned her mother, Lynne, to ask if Tia could come over to babysit his young daughter. Lynne agreed, and Tia went to John's home, hoping to catch some of the football game that day, as her favorite team, Manchester United, was playing but she had no idea what awaited her at her uncle's home. John drugged Tia before raping her, committing a variety of sexual acts on her, and then stabbing and strangling her to death

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00:25:47

S01E23: A Girl Held Hostage by Munchausen-by-Proxy:...

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2022/07/18

On the night of June 14, 2015 in Missouri, police entered the Blanchard residence after receiving a call to do a welfare check on a disabled girl named Gypsy Rose and her mother, Claudette "Dee Dee" Blanchard. They found the body of Dee Dee lying face down, stabbed to death. Gypsy was nowhere to be found. Everyone thought this girl would never be able to survive without her mother's care, as she suffered from muscular dystrophy, leukemia, sleep apnea, a chromosomal disorder, and was confined to a

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00:38:12

S01E22: The Hinterkaifeck and Setagaya Murders

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2022/07/18

This episode features two cases that occurred 78 years apart, yet are eerily similar and both remain unsolved. First, the tale of the Hinterkaifeck murders which occurred on March 31, 1922. Five members of the Gruber family along with their maid, Maria Baumgartner, were brutally slain with a Mattock. Before this, strange happenings began occurring on the Hinterkaifeck farm even as far back as six months before the murders. Investigators believe the murderer may have been living in the family's home

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00:23:46

S01E21: The Disappearance and Death of Madelyn Rae...

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2022/07/12

On November 3, 1998, Maddie Clifton went outside to play and encountered a 14 year old neighbor boy, Joshua Phillips. The two began hitting a baseball back and forth when he suddenly hit the ball and struck her in the eye. Claiming he was fearing he would be in trouble with his parents, especially his abusive father, as he was not to have friends over when they weren't home and he had hurt Maddie, he took her into his house, strangled her for 15 minutes with a phone cord, but when this did not quiet

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00:20:22

S01E20: The Murders of Channon Christian and...

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2022/07/11

On the night of January 6, 2007, couple, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were saying goodbye to one another as they left a friend's apartment when they were approached by a few individuals planning to steal Channon's vehicle. The carjacking then turned fatal when Christopher was tortured, raped, and shot, his body then left to burn near the railroad tracks. Channon was kept in the home of the ringleader, LeMaricus, where she was brutally raped and tortured, bleach poured down her throat and

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00:29:16

S01E19: The Girl in the Closet- Lauren Kavanaugh

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2022/07/11

On June 11, 2001 police entered the mobile home of Barbie and Ken Atkinson after Ken showed a neighbor that they had been keeping their 8 year old daughter, Lauren Kavanaugh, in a 4x9 closet for 5 years. When police saw Lauren, she was severely malnourished, only weighing 25.6 pounds, the size of a toddler, with matted, lice-filled hair and obvious signs of severe abuse. It was a shock that she even survived, but she lives with the constant trauma of the abuse, and her case is one of the most severe

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00:16:56

S01E18: The Icebox Murders

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2022/07/11

On June 23, 1965, police were called to do a welfare check on an elderly couple Fred and Edwina Rogers in their Texas home, and when police arrived to view the home, they found a chilling discovery. Edwina and Fred had been dismembered and placed onto the shelves in the icebox after being beaten. Edwina had been beaten and shot execution style while Fred was beaten with a claw hammer, his eyes gouged out and genitals mutilated. Evidence has pointed to their reclusive son who was 43 years old and

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00:21:07

S01E17: The Most Prolific Serial Killer in the U.S.-...

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2022/07/11

Samuel Little is a serial killer who traveled the United States, beating and strangling an upwards of 93 women between the years 1970-2005. He is known for his 700 hour long confession that included colored chalk drawings of his victims and vivid descriptions that most would find difficult to remember. He has been matched to 50 cases, convicted of 8 of the murders, and an additional 40 remain pending. He went unnoticed for so long due to his choice of victims, often African American females who were

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00:29:05

S01E16: The Slenderman Stabbing (Payton Leutner)

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2022/07/11

OG Release Date: 03/16/ 2020 On May 30, 2014, three twelve year old girls, Morgan Geyser, Anissa Weier, and Payton Leutner, decided to have a sleepover for Morgan’s birthday. The next morning, Anissa and Morgan tricked Payton into going with them to David’s park to bird watch and play hide-and-seek where the two girls attacked their friend, Payton, stabbing her 19 times. They believed if they didn’t kill her, Slenderman would kill their families, and if they did kill her, they could live with

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00:24:33

S01E15: The Disappearance and Deaths of the McStay...

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2022/07/07

On February 4, 2010, Joseph and Summer McStay, as well as their two toddler sons, Joseph, Jr. and Gianni vanished from their home. Nine days after they went missing, it was reported to police, as people realized that they had not simply went on vacation. Joseph's vehicle was found left at the United States Mexico border, and the scene in their home looked as if they were taken in the middle of a normal day as popcorn had been spilled on the couch, and a carton of raw eggs had been left on the

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00:17:52

S01E14: The Murder of America's Child, Polly Klaas

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2022/07/06

On October 1,1993, 12 year old Polly Klaas and two friends were excited to have a sleepover at Polly’s home where they would eat ice cream, try on Halloween Costumes, and play board games. The sleepover did not go as planned when at 10:30 PM, Polly went to get supplies for the party and came face to face with a bearded man standing in her doorway. He tied up the other two girls and took Polly away into the night. Her body was found 9 weeks after her kidnapping when the man who had been arrested in

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00:12:00

S01E13: The Death of Aniah Haley Blanchard

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2022/07/06

On October 24, 2019, the step-daughter of heavyweight UFC fighter, Walt Harris was reported missing. Aniah Haley Blanchard’s body was found 5 weeks after being reported missing and 3 men are being charged in her kidnapping and murder. The story is recent, so the men have not received official sentences as of right now. OG Release Date: -2/08/2020 Sources: AL (2019, November 15). AL (2019, November 27). USA Today (2019, November 14). USA Today (2019, December 4). Globe intel (2019, October

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00:31:06

S01E12: Conrad Henri Roy III and Michelle Carter

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2022/07/06

Conrad Henri Roy III committed suicide on July 12, 2014 by carbon monoxide poisoning after parking his truck at a Kmart parking lot and placing a gas powered water pump in the back, turning it on, and rolling up his windows. His girlfriend, Michelle Carter had been assisting him in researching the best method to do it, encouraging him to just do it already, and told him to re-enter his truck when he became scared. This episode delves into the troubled minds of both parties involved, and this is a

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00:27:23

S01E11: The Disappearance of the Murray O' Hairs

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2022/07/05

Madalyn Murray O' Hair was a controversial "celebrity" throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. She was the founder of the American Atheists Organization, responsible for getting mandatory prayer removed from schools, and deemed "The Most Hated Woman in America". On August 27, 1995, her and her granddaughter, Robin Murray, and son, Jon Garth Murray suddenly vanished, a note found on their office stating: "The Murray O’ Hair family has been called out of town on an emergency basis. We do not know how long

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00:24:24

S01E10: The Cheshire Home Invasion Murders

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2022/07/04

On July 23, 2007 in Cheshire, Connecticut, two friends who met in a halfway house during drug rehabilitation classes, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Joseph Hayes, entered the home of the Petit family. They beat Dr. Petit over the head with a baseball bat and tied him to a pipe in the basement, claiming no one else was going to get hurt and they only wanted money.... This would turn out to be the worst lie Dr. Petit had ever heard when the rest of his family is brutally slain in the burglary. OG

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00:23:38

S01E09: David Parker Ray and His Toy Box of Horrors

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2022/07/04

David Parker Ray is a serial killer known for a 25 foot windowless trailer on his property known as the Toy Box or Satan’s Den where he performed torturous sadomasochistic acts on an upwards of 60 victims, he claims. It is said he murdered the majority of his victims but no bodies were ever found. He committed his crimes throughout the 80s and 90s with the help of accomplices which included his daughter. Sorry for the background noise and barks, my dogs decided to play in the next room 😂 OG

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00:18:04

S01E08: The Kansas City Butcher-Robert Burdella, Jr.

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2022/07/04

Robert Berdella, Jr. is a notorious serial killer whose reign of terror spanned the mid and late 1980's in which he raped, tortured, and murdered men in their 20s using extreme methods of torture in an attempt to make the men slaves who were submissive to him. He is known by his nicknames the Kansas City Butcher, The Collecter (based on a movie he loved), and even Bizarre Bob Berdella (named for his shop "Bob's Bizarre Bazaar). Police were able to end his years of crime when his final victim jumped

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00:13:51

S01E07: The Rape and Murder of Angela Samota

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2022/07/04

On October 12, 1984, Angela "Angie" Marie Samota was a vibrant, outgoing, and beautiful 20 year old college student obtaining her degree in computer science and electrical engineering, something women did not typically study at this time, when police found her sexually assaulted and slain in her condo near campus after a night of partying with two friends. Her case went cold and was solved 24 years later due to the perseverance of her friend, Sheila after a supernatural occurrence. Her killer is not

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