It's Crime Time

About It's Crime Time

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 (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Publisher

Dark Deeds

Category

history · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Jul 2022

Latest episode

17 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

93 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Aug 2026

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

   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) (https://wjla.com/news/local/candace-craig-sentenced-life-without-parole-maryland-grilled-mother-elderly-prince-georges-county-murder-trial-stealing-pension-social-security-income-dismemberment-killing-bank-accounts-chainsaw-money-margaret-crime) Fox 5 (2025) (https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-woman-accused-killing-dismembering-mother-sentenced-life-prison) People (2025) (https://people.com/woman-burned-mom-cut-up-chainsaw-sentenced-maryland-11685479) Kark (2023)  (https://www.kark.com/news/woman-dismembered-and-grilled-court-documents-say-daughter-grandchild-charged/) Docs Law & Crime Network|Daughter Kills Mother Then Burns Her on Grill| YouTube (2026) (https://youtu.be/rj0QifztoVk?si=vk67KDPIkS98wbqX) Oblivioius|Humanit's Worst (Vol. 5)|YouTube (2026)  (https://youtu.be/Urs5nYoDGfE?si=kL0D1B_rnSS7RN6z) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

2. 

   4 Jul 2026

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

   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) (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-31-mn-1053-story.html) All That’s Interesting (2026) (https://allthatsinteresting.com/shanda-sharer) WDRB (2019) (https://www.wdrb.com/news/melinda-loveless-mastermind-of-1992-murder-of-shanda-sharer-released-from-prison/article_994b41c4-d00e-11e9-8e56-9b9b497efced.html) ThoughtCo (2019) (https://www.thoughtco.com/teen-killer-to-leave-prison-3969290) Crime Library (https://crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/young/shanda_sharer/) 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 (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

3. 

   25 May 2026

   S03E29: Broken Bloodlines: The Holston Family Massacre

   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) (https://www.fultonsun.com/news/2017/oct/15/Man-recounts-knife-attack-finding-bodies-of-wife-i/) WOWK13 (2019) (https://share.google/fVskW4KT7bPAyDO00) ABC6 (2017) (https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/lawrence-county-man-mourning-family-members-lost-in-quadruple-murder) Herald Dispatch (2019) (https://www.herald-dispatch.com/_recent_news/prosecutor-lays-out-grisly-details-of-quadruple-murder/article_1d66f6e8-363f-11e9-9084-637146d89135.html) Documentaries/Videos Serialously|YouTube| Infatuated with WHO?! Love & Sex Obsessed Cousin Does The Unthinkable (2026) (https://youtu.be/pimkw4pao3k?si=w6gAKZXHsivzMVCo) Cold Cases: True Crime Documentaries| YouTube| This Case Shocked the Whole Country. The Disturbing Story of Stacey Holston|True Crime Documentary (2026) (https://youtu.be/xdBI5X_StiU?si=c9npkELZlcZYyA47) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

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3.0 / 5

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