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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 loud ads. Narrated by award-winning journalist Nancy Miller ("Love & Death" "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "The Staircase" podcasts)
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"The Nerd"
Vicious gossip. Bomb threats. Poison pens. 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 -
MAY BONUS: Dead Sleep Meditation Mixtape!
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 -
The Possibility of Evil
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 Friday: A Bitter Pill (SUBSCRIBER BONUS)
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"
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The Nightcap
When an eccentric Hollywood actress appears to vanish from her Beverly Hills home, a neighbor reluctantly steps up to solve the mystery.
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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).
Dead Sleep is now on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/deadsleep
Want to know more about this case?
Read Left Behind by Steve Mikulan via Los Angeles Magazine
https://lamag.com/news/left-behind1 -
Man vs Bear
Man or Bear? The question has sparked a wild controversy online. It's also the source of inspiration for this episode about a chilling mystery that happened back in 2003, when a strange man and a grizzly bear crossed paths - and two people turned up dead. Was it a force of nature? Or cold-blooded 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).
Dead Sleep is now on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/deadsleep
Want to know more about this story?
Grizzly Man, a film by Werner Herzog
https://www.amazon.com/Grizzly-Man-Werner-Herzog/dp/B007FNZW6W
The Grizzly Maze, by Nick Jans
https://nickjans.com/shop/the-grizzly-maze-2005/
Timothy Treadwell Obit in the LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-dec-14-tm-treadwell50-story.html