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Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime

Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime

By: Nancy Miller
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 Gripping, not graphic. Suspenseful yet soothing. Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is a mindful mystery show made for nighttime listening. No gore. No 911 calls. No ads. Created by award-winning journalist Nancy Miller from HBO Max "Love & Death" "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "The Staircase" ) * Subscribe on Spotify, Patreon, and Apple for uninterrupted listening and monthly bonus episodes! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deadsleeppod/subscribe Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deadsleep Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-sleep-true-crime-for-bedtime/id1587064706Nancy Miller True Crime
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  • Not a Fan of JoAnne

    Not a Fan of JoAnne
    Sep 18 2025

    Everybody in town loved sweet and soft-spoken schoolteacher JoAnne Chambers. Or so it seemed...until she started receiving bizarre letters, twisted "gifts" and death threats. So who could have it out for a woman everybody loved? Find out in this Dead Sleep adaptation of one of the best (and most fatiguing) "Forensic Files" episodes of all time in Dead Sleep's recurring Forensic Files Flashback series.

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    Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for sleeping. It's created and narrated by award-winning editor and writer Nancy Miller (host of HBO Max's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "The Staircase" and "Love & Death" podcasts).


    Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com


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    Want to know more about this case?

    "Sealed with a Kiss" Season 2, Episode 10, Forensic Files:


    Unsolved Murder of Bob Crane (via LAT)


    JoAnne Chambers Obituary (via Scranton Times Tribune)


    Paula Nawrocki Case via US Court of Appeals (2002)


    Overview of Episode via Forensic Files Now
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    1 hr
  • Pretty Little Liars

    Pretty Little Liars
    Sep 11 2025

    When a woman goes to a fancy medical spa to enhance her looks, she accidentally uncovers the ugly truth about a multi-billion dollar industry filled with shady grifters.


    * Want to know more about this story? Start here:

    Counterfeit Med Spa Investigation via Elle Magazine



    Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for sleeping. It's created and narrated by award-winning editor and writer Nancy Miller (host of HBO Max's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "The Staircase" and "Love & Death" podcasts).


    Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com
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    38 mins
  • The Gilded Rage

    The Gilded Rage
    Sep 4 2025

    It's a Gilded Age murder mystery when the death of a prominent entrepreneur shocks all of Newport, Rhode Island. The coroner declares it a suicide, until a strange clue found inside the man's mouth suggests something far more sinister.



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    Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for sleeping. It's created and narrated by award-winning editor and writer Nancy Miller (host of HBO Max's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "The Staircase" and "Love & Death" podcasts).


    Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com


    Want to know more about this case?

    Start here:

    The Gilded Age Tale of Murder and Madness via Narratively

    Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite 1880-1920

    Newspaper story on Benjamin J Burton's funeral from 1885
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    44 mins
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Love love love this. The voice modulation, the pace, the pausing, the background sounds… well choreographed to put you to sleep in the best way. If I don’t listen to it every night I struggle getting to sleep. If I wake through the night I put it on and back to sleep I go.

Insomnia be gone

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The reader is so painfully slow & the contents so dull & drawn out. Better suited to a cemetery audience.

Dead Boring

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