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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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31:52

S03E18: A Bed, a Meal, and a Shallow Grave: The...

Dark Deeds ·

2025/12/14

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

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18:25

S03E17: Recent Evils: The Murder of Rebecca Park and...

Dark Deeds ·

2025/12/07

Rebecca ParkOn 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

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19:47

S03E16: Blonde Fury: The Tormented Life of Ruth Ellis

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2025/11/30

In the glamorous, smoky underworld of 1950s London, Ruth Ellis was a platinum-blonde trailblazer: a young, ambitious nightclub manager who quickly became the star of her own complicated life. But her world of glitz and aspiration was violently shattered by a toxic, abusive affair with wealthy racing driver David Blakely. On Easter Sunday, 1955, Ruth stalked Blakely to a Hampstead pub and shot him. Her immediate, chilling confession—"It is obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him"—sealed

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31:48

S03E15: The Parasocial Paradox: Sana Yousaf and...

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2025/11/23

For millions, the screen is a window into a world of connection, entertainment, and shared experiences. These people are the content creators; artists, comedians, gamers, storytellers. But in today’s hyperconnected world of modern media, the line between admiration and obsession is becoming dangerously thin. On this episode, I use three cases to pull back the curtain on the chilling reality of the parasocial paradox- where a one sided relationship blooms into toxic fixation that ultimately

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28:13

S03E14: No Light on Light Street: The Jessica Rae...

Dark Deeds ·

2025/11/16

After returning to Urbana, Ohio, attempting to repair her relationship with her mother, and getting a small apartment on Light Street, 21-year-old Jessica Rae Sacco felt as though things may be looking up in her life, but she was missing one thing, companionship. She took to the internet to meet someone and it was here that she met 25-year-old fellow Juggalo, Matthew Puccio. In the Fall of 2011, Matthew came from Texas to Ohio to meet Jessica and ultimately moved into her small apartment with her

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32:48

S03E13: The Unsolved Horror in Cabin 28: The Keddie...

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2025/11/09

Glenna Susan "Sue" Sharp and her five children, Sheila, Greg, Richard, Tina, and John lived in Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort in Keddie, California. On the morning of April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp (who was staying with a nearby family, The Seabolts) returned home at 7:45 AM to find her brother, John, his friend, Dana Wingate, and her mother, Sue Sharp all murdered. Sue had been beaten and stabbed in the neck and chest, John had been beaten and his throat was slashed, and Dana was strangled. The other

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22:08

S03E12: A Life Lost in the Margins: The Murder of...

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2025/10/26

In late July of 2018, a 54-year-old Akron, Ohio woman named Martha Freitag called police to see if the restraining order she previously had on her on-again-off-again, live-in boyfriend, 53-year-old David Callaghan could be reinstated. Her pleas for help went ignored, as she had been struggling with paranoid Schizophrenia and often called police on her boyfriend. Little did police know, this would be the last time Martha was heard from or seen alive again. Later that year in September, Martha's

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42:07

S03E11: The Photographs on the Billboard: Searching...

Dark Deeds ·

2025/10/19

In the early morning hours of December 25, 1945, the Sodder family which included George and Jennie Sodder along with their 10 children (one of which was away in war) awoke to a house fire in their Fayetteville, West Virginia home. George, Jennie, and four of their children escaped. The other five children did not. After an investigation, it was determined that the other five children must have perished in the fire, despite their remains not being uncovered. For the next 20+ years for George and 40+

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S03E10: Buried Truths: Justice for Crystal McCrory Jones

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2025/09/25

On February 9, 2023, 43-year-old mother of 2, Crystal McCrory Jones was found deceased inside her Louisiana home with a pillow over her face and a gunshot wound to the head. Less than 2 hours later, her death was ruled a suicide even though circumstances were very shady and almost no investigation had been conducted. Her husband, Tony Jones, was an ex deputy for the police department in charge of investigating Crystal's death. Tony had a history of verbally abusing Crystal as well as cheating, but

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38:10

S03E09: Flesh for Sale- A Look into the Body Trade

Dark Deeds ·

2025/09/07

Many people are aware how organ transplantation is handled in the United States, but what most people aren't aware of is just how flawed the system is for handling body donation and brokerage. In this episode, a dive is taken into some of the commonly known and lesser known cases involving illegal body brokerage within the US. The Biological Resource Center was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 2003 by Stephen Gore and is responsible for the most widely known instance of illegal body brokerage. In the

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69:30

S03E08: Love, Lies, and Cyanide: The Death of Angela...

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2025/08/23

When Angela Craig, a devoted mother of six and wife to Colorado dentist James Craig, began experiencing mysterious symptoms after drinking her morning protein shakes, no one suspected the true horror unfolding behind closed doors. In a matter of 10 days in March of 2023, Angela had been hospitalized three times with no one able to figure out the case of her mysterious symptoms, that is until lethal amounts of Cyanide, Arsenic, and Tetrahydrozoline (eye drops) were found in her system. Tragically,

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00:17:26

S03E06: Taken Two Soon; The Tragic Cases of Marilyn...

Dark Deeds ·

2025/05/03

In March 2006 in the Bronx, New York, three children watched in horror as their pregnant mother, 37-year-old Marilyn Ginel was brutally beaten and stabbed to death by her ex boyfriend, Robert Coakley and his wife, Maria Coakley. 12 years later in 2018, Marilyn's eldest daughter, 25-year-old Lisa Marie Velasquez would meet a similar fate when she was brutally beaten to death with a hammer by 34-year-old Daquan Wheeler as she tried to help her friend, Ciara Martinez after she stated that Daquan

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00:20:00

S03E04: Voices That Echo: The Tragedy and Triumph of...

Dark Deeds ·

2025/03/23

This episode honors the life and legacy of Judy Malinowski, a courageous woman whose voice transcended unimaginable pain to ignite change. After surviving a horrific act of domestic violence that left her with life-threatening burns, on June 2, 2015 by her estranged boyfriend, Michael Slager, Judy became a beacon of resilience, fighting for justice until her final moments. Her groundbreaking 3- hour testimony from her hospital bed led to the conviction of her attacker and inspired legislative reform

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00:18:17

S03E02: The Fisher Family Murders

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2025/02/14

On the night of April 9, 2001, a loud argument could be heard coming from the Fisher family home in Scottsdale, Arizona between Robert Fisher and his wife, Mary Fisher. The next morning at around 8:42 AM, an explosion could be heard coming from the home which then erupted into flames. Upon investigation, the bodies found in the home were that of 37-year-old Mary Fisher, and the Fisher children, Brittney (10) and Robert, Jr. (Bobby, 12). The children's' throats had been slashed, and Mary

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00:22:34

S03E01: McKamey Manor: America's most "Extreme...

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2024/10/31

McKamey Manor, an extreme haunted house attraction that features survival horror-style events was founded by Russell McKamey and ran on his property in San Diego until it was moved to Tennessee in 2017. McKamey Manor has been the center of much controversy over the years due to how extreme the tours are for participants which often involves various styles of torture such as waterboarding, binding and gagging, force feeding them various unknown substances, and much much more. Participants have to

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00:28:17

S02E31: Fed to the Pigs--The Susan Monica Story

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2024/08/31

On January 20, 2014, Police brought 65-year-old pig farmer Susan Monica from Wimer, Oregon in for questioning after 56-year-old Robert Haney's family reported him missing. Police had discovered that Susan used Robert's EBT card in December at a local Walmart. Robert's family had not heard from him for several months before going to visit Susan's farm to see where there father was, as he had been working for her since the summer of 2013. He was nowhere to be found but his items and

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00:19:28

S02E30: The Case of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo

Dark Deeds ·

2024/07/20

On the night of October 3, 2002, Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, a transgender teen from California attended a party at a home rented by Jose and Paul Merel. Michael Magidson, Jason Nabors, Jason Cazares, Emmanuel Merel, and Nicole Brown were all present at the party. Upon learning that Gwen was biologically born a male, the men became irate that they had engaged in sexual acts with her previously. This led to a brutal attack on Gwen which ultimately caused her death. Gwen's case paved the way for

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00:17:13

S02E29: A Woman Scorned- The Case of Al Benitez and...

Dark Deeds ·

2024/06/22

Just before 7 AM on August 9, 2003, the Kleberg County Sheriff's office in Texas received a 9-1-1 from a man saying he had been shot. When police arrived at the scene of the man's home, they realized the victim was one of their own, Albert Benitez, a former police officer and border patrol officer who now spent his time training young police officers. He had been shot six times and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Reynolds had been kidnapped and taken away in Al's stolen car by the perpetrator. As

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00:36:39

S02E28: The Disappearance and Murder of Evelyn Boswell

Dark Deeds ·

2024/05/19

15-month-old Evelyn Boswell was reported missing by her maternal grandfather, Tommy Boswell, Sr. in February of 2020. He stated he had not seen Evelyn since November of 2019. An Amber alert was issued on February 19, 2020. Other accounts say she had been missing since December 10-11 of 2019 which is the last time her babysitter had seen her. Her mother, 18-year-old, Megan Boswell had made a series of contradictory statements to police and the media regarding the whereabouts of her daughter. Megan

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00:28:08

S02E27: Marlene Warren and the Florida Killer Clown

Dark Deeds ·

2024/03/02

On the morning of May 26, 1990, 40-year-old Marlene Warren was preparing breakfast for her son and his friends when she heard the door bell ring. Upon answering the door, she was greeted by a person dressed in a clown costume holding two foil balloons and a basket of carnations for her. When she reached for the gifts, the clown shot Marlene in the face and fled in their white Chrysler LeBaron. For 27 years, Marlene's case remained unsolved, despite having obvious suspects. With the advancements

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