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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"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

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.

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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).

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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).

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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

In the follow-up to our Nordic Noir special, a Finnish woman convicted of killing her husband fights for justice. But here's the thing about this twisted saga: the devil is in the details. (Part 2 of 2)

It's a real-life tale of Nordic noir when a Finnish woman's idyllic life is shattered by the violent death of her husband at the hands of a masked intruder. The murder? It happened in minutes. The mystery? It spans 20 years...and counting. (Part 1 of 2)

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⁠The Finnish Guide to Happiness by Melanie Dower

The Truth Behind the Emergency Call by Nina Berg

Annali Auer website: https://anneliauer.com

All Points North podcast

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It's the fourth and final installment of Dead Sleep's Month o' Morrison - a tribute to the TC GOAT Keith Morrison. The July bonus finds our True Crime Dad and two Dateline all-stars - that's D.A. John Lewin and Detective Jimmy Wallace - tackle a 35-year-old cold case that hits Keith close to home. The victim is an ambitious Canadian nurse who moved to L.A. for love and adventure - only to meet a brutal end instead. But with no evidence and a suspect still at large, solving this ice cold murder case would come down to the wire.

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).

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Two different women. Two split-second decisions. Two darkly different outcomes. One compulsive killer. Thirty years of "Dateline" and there are still some murder mysteries our man Keith Morrison will never forget - this is one of them.

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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).

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It's week 2 of Morrison Month! When a rich lawyer named "Big Daddy" disappears, it’s up to "Grandaddy of True Crime" Keith Morrison to reveal what happened— while facing a shocking tragedy of his own.

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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).

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