Dead Sleep True Crime for Bedtime True Crime Insomniacs

Fall asleep to Forensic Files? Check out this extra-sleepy homage to a classic FF case from 2004. A 35-year old nurse with a drinking problem is found dead at the bottom of an icy lake. Her husband says she was intoxicated when she took the wheel and nearly killed them both. Her death is ruled an accident. Then the coroner finds a bizarre clue - one that puts her grieving husband in a sticky situation.
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Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is created and narrated by award-winning journalist 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 Season 9, Ep 22: "Seeds for Doubt" (original version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6TQ-njaWgs

Peter Wlasiuk Overview:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/252524655/?match=1&terms=peter%20wlasiuk

Critical Speed Velocity Formula:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/critical-velocity-formula/

A little girl in San Francisco wonders why the other kids won't play with her. A trip to Florida to visit her grandmother offers a chilling explanation: she's not like other children. At age 8? She stabbed another girl with a pencil. By age 18? She's stealing cars, breaking into houses, and flirting with the idea of murder. What's wrong with her? She doesn't want to kill. She just wants to feel something. Can she stop herself before it's too late? Find out in this episode of Dead Sleep, a true crime for bedtime story drawn from Patric Gagne's disturbing new memoir: "Sociopath."

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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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Sociopath by Patric Gagne:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sociopath/Patric-Gagne/9781668003183

The Bad Seed (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7tVub29h_I

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
https://www.amazon.com/Reviving-Ophelia-Saving-Selves-Adolescent/dp/1594481881

A sexy social media star is rushed to the ER - the apparent victim of an overdose. But when the autopsy reveals the woman was poisoned with a mysterious toxic chemical, detectives must find out: was her death a terrible mistake or a reckless, ruthless 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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"Plastic and Lies" via Rolling Stone:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/murder-charge-cosmetic-butt-injection-karissa-rajpaul-1250033/

"The Hidden Anti-Black History of the BBL" via WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/08/01/hidden-anti-black-history-brazilian-butt-lifts/

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.

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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