Dead Sleep True Crime for Bedtime True Crime Insomniacs

A man accused of murder swears he didn't do it. But as the evidence stacks up against him, including some damning DNA, he begins to wonder....maybe he really did kill someone.

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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).

Want to dig deeper into this case?

The Marshall Project:
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna

Wired:
https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/

PBS Frontline:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna/

Dear true crime history fans..in this special Sunday Q&A, host Nancy Miller speaks with Dr. Emily Cockayne, author of “Penning Poison: The History of the Anonymous Letter” and expert consultant for the new film “Wicked Little Letters” (starring Olivia Colman and Jesse Buckley) on why poison pen letters were considered a “female crime,” how the public became obsessed with women and poison pen letters, and how 100-year old poison pen letters still reflect today’s online culture.

Want to know more about this case?
Check out this link to Emily Cockayne's Penning Poison: The History of Anonymous Letters
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/penning-poison-9780198795056?cc=us&lang=en&

More on the new film "Wicked Little Letters" here: https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/wickedlittleletters

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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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A tight-knit English town is torn apart when someone in their midst, known only as "The Nerd," begins writing horrible letters that are too twisted to be true. What does "The Nerd" want? Find out in the latest episode - a cozy real-life mystery made for nighttime listening.

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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).

Want to know more about this case?

Penning Poison: The History of Anonymous Letters by Dr Emily Cockayne
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/penning-poison-9780198795056?cc=us&lang=en&

James Forster FAQ:
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7101936.unmasking-villages-author-evil/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1478005.stm
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15508016.poison-pen-letter-writer-manfield-died/

"Three Insane Women" via NYT in 1915
https://www.nytimes.com/1915/12/02/archives/poisoned-pen-traced-to-3-insane-women-letters-to-girls-about-to-be.html?searchResultPosition=1

Exclusive for Subscribers! It's the monthly Dead Sleep Meditation Mixtape! No talking. Just soothing sounds. Fall asleep to the music and sound design used in the latest Dead Sleep episodes in this special May mixtape made just for subscribers. You can listen to it before or after the latest episodes...or anytime you want to relax, focus, or unwind. It's meditation - Dead Sleep style.

Track List (via Artlist.io)

Want to Dance? by Maya Selsitzman & Matan Ephrat

Forensic Files Freaks by Robots in the Sun

Summer by Vivaldi, John Harrison / Violin / Orchestra (Creative Commons)

Sacred Descent by Lost Ghosts

Depth of Loss by Cody Martin

Dark Bells by Jesse Gillis

Starbound by Afternoonz

Bossanova from My Dream by Marek Jakubowicz

All Relative by Solitude

Open Focus (174 Hz Meditation) by Outside the Sky

Mind Over Matter by Chelsea McGough

Lullaby No. 3 by Ran Raiten

Calm Forest by Ivo Vicic

In this chilling (yet cozy) episode, Nancy shares the dark and disturbing short story by OG goth queen Shirley Jackson about an elderly woman whose perfect façade hides a twisted and sickening secret.


Want to know more about this story?
The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
https://blogs.ubc.ca/lled4492016/files/2016/04/PossibilityofEvil.pdf

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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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Forensic Files fans unite. In this special subscriber episode, host Nancy Miller takes us through the dark tunnel of the Lifetime to True Crime Pipeline and transforms a classic Forensic Files episode into a suspenseful and soothing Dead Sleep bedtime story. You won't want to miss this strange saga about a gorgeous young firefighter who thinks she's found the love of her life with a handsome young doctor...only to see it all go up in flames when she suspects he might be trying to poison her. How fast will you fall asleep? Faster than you can say... GAS CHROMATOGRAPH MASS SPECTROMETER? Let's find out in this subscriber bonus episode.

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Want to know more about this case?

The original Forensic Files episode "A Bitter Pill to Swallow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aKYVFb5ugM