Dead Sleep True Crime for Bedtime True Crime Insomniacs

A bestselling author risks everything - her mind, her money, and her marriage - to help a man convicted of murder.

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Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is 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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Abbott Kahler's piece in NY Mag:

https://www.vulture.com/article/sara-gruen-charles-murdoch.html

Charles Murdoch FAQ:

https://thepeoplescommissionforintegrityincriminaljustice.org/chuck-murdoch

People v. Murdoch Court Documents:

https://casetext.com/case/people-v-murdoch-1

After a creepy encounter with an obsessed fan, a rich and famous novelist gets caught up with a convicted killer.

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Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is 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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Water for Elephants:
www.strandbooks.com/product/9781565125605?title=water_for_elephants

Feature by Abbott Kahler (via the Marshall Project): https://shorturl.at/lqrFJ

Stats on incarcerated mortality rates: https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh236/files/media/document/sljsfp0019st.pdf

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A billionaire buys the world's most precious bottle of wine. But things turn sour when he discovers he's been conned.

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⁠The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/185056/the-billionaires-vinegar-by-benjamin-wallace/

⁠Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe⁠:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704363/rogues-by-patrick-radden-keefe/

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A billionaire buys the world's most expensive bottle of wine. But things turn sour when he discovers he's been conned. Uncork a paid subscription and enjoy this perfectly balanced episode of true crime and a restful night's sleep.

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⁠The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/185056/the-billionaires-vinegar-by-benjamin-wallace/

⁠Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe⁠:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704363/rogues-by-patrick-radden-keefe/

A case of mistaken identity threatens to send a young mother to prison for the rest of her life.
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Dead Sleep is hosted and narrated by award-winning editor and writer Nancy Miller from HBO Max's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "The Staircase" and "Love & Death" podcasts.



Want to know more about this case?

Profile in D Magazine, August 1989:
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1989/august/cry-of-innocence/

Joyce Ann Brown's Memoir "Justice Denied":
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/546791

Centurion Ministries:
https://centurion.org/black-history-month-2023/

Northwestern School of Law Case Review:
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/tx/joyce-ann-brown.html

Joyce Ann Brown in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us/joyce-ann-brown-shackled-by-her-name-to-anothers-crime-dies-at-68.html