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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
Episodes
  • Mystery at Manly Cove

    Mystery at Manly Cove
    Nov 21 2025

    When a 27-year old man named Scott Johnson was found amongst the rocks in a place called Manly Cove, authorities believed Scott jumped from some nearby cliffs and ruled his death a suicide. But his older brother Steve refused to believe it. Scott was a brilliant and admired math genius with everything to live for. Steve soon grows suspicious of those closest to Scott and becomes determined to prove Scott might've been a victim of foul play. But how to prove a murder that police say never happened? [PART 1 of 2]

    This is part one of a two-part series drawn from Steve Johnson's recent memoir "A Thousand Miles to Care" and an October 13, 2025 New Yorker feature by writer Eren Arbey "Letters from Australia."




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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


    Music Cue Sheet for YouTube: VVWWGQN57JDTECKW, EUBETM6MJGNNCJBZ, HLLHCNCUTFJBOZVEby


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    43 mins
  • The Dirty Duchess

    The Dirty Duchess
    Nov 12 2025

    Sarah Ferguson, the disgraced Duchess of York, claimed to be an advocate for girls everywhere. So how did Fergie go from vivacious, redheaded royal to a calculating co-conspirator for predators like Jeffrey Epstein and her own ex-husband (and ex-prince) Andrew? As Fergie's fate unfolds in the news, dive into this exhaustive saga of Sarah, Andrew, and their ill-fated fairytale.

    Want to know the full story? Check out Andrew Lownie's extraordinary biography Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York


    Sarah's many memoirs - with another reportedly in the works.



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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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    1 hr
  • FREE TEASER: A Face in the Crowd

    FREE TEASER: A Face in the Crowd
    Oct 31 2025

    Please enjoy this free teaser for Dead Sleep's October bonus subscriber episode. If you would like to listen to the full ep, feel free to subscribe. Search for "Dead Sleep" on Patreon, Spotify or Apple podcasts.

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    Dead Sleep is an ad-free, listener supported true crime podcast made for nighttime listening. Created and narrated by award-winning podcast host and journalist Nancy Miller.

    Issues? Questions? Email Nancy: deadsleepodcast@gmail.com

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    When an L.A. homicide detective lies to a suspect to get a confession, his deception inadvertently leads to the death of a teenage girl and an innocent man accused of her murder.



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    20 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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