• Vampire Girl
    Oct 28 2024

    It's Part 1 of a Halloween two-part special featuring a real-life "trauma vampire." In this story, we meet an ambitious Hollywood writer who parlays a cancer diagnosis into career-making TV writing job on Grey's Anatomy. But when she runs out of material from her own life, she's accused of stealing people's darkest secrets and most painful traumas and using them to gain fame and fortune. Just how far will Vampire Girl go to get ahead? Find out in Part 1 of this two-episode Halloween special with Ep 2 dropping this Thursday, October 31.


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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).


    Subscribe to Dead Sleep via Apple podcasts, Spotify and now on Patreon: Patreon.com/DeadSleep


    Questions? Suggestions? deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com


    Want to know more about this story?

    Scene Stealer by Evgenia Peretz, Vanity Fair

    https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/greys-anatomy-elisabeth-finch-truth-lies


    Anatomy of Lies

    https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/anatomy-of-lies/6024435431465947112


    Who Is the Bad Art Friend?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/podcasts/the-daily/bad-art-friend-dorland-v-larson.html
    Lost Girls by Robert Kolker http://lostgirlsbook.com/

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    49 mins
  • Chain Reaction
    Oct 21 2024

    A California scientist discovers a way to solve the toughest missing person and murder cases in the world, only to find his own life in jeopardy when he begins to behave so strangely, he appears to be suffering from a mysterious and rare illness.

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    Want to know more about this story?


    Kary Mullis autobiography

    Kary Mullis and the OJ Simpson case.


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    36 mins
  • October Bonus! Over the Edge [TEASER]
    Oct 14 2024

    PLEASE ENJOY THIS TEASER OF THE LATEST BONUS EPISODE! FOR THE ENTIRE EP, SEARCH FOR "DEAD SLEEP TRUE CRIME FOR BEDTIME" TO SUBSCRIBE TO DEAD SLEEP VIA SPOTIFY, PATREON, APPLE PODCASTS.

    Any questions / issues with your subscription? Email: deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com or DM @deadsleeppod on IG.


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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).


    Subscribe to Dead Sleep via Apple podcasts, Spotify and now on Patreon: Patreon.com/DeadSleep

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    32 mins
  • The Haunted Mind
    Sep 26 2024

    Nancy (sleep) walks you through some spooky true crime history with two chilling (and extra-cozy!) mysterious tales with a touch of soothing suspense.


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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).


    Subscribe to Dead Sleep via Apple podcasts, Spotify and now on Patreon: Patreon.com/DeadSleep

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    40 mins
  • She Never Lit Up The Room [Extended Insomniac's Cut]
    Sep 19 2024

    Deborah always worried her troubled daughter Nancy would die young. So when 20-year-old Nancy turns up dead in a New York City hotel, she's shocked to discover her daughter didn't O.D. She was murdered. Who killed her? And why? To get to the truth of Nancy's violent death, Deborah must first solve the mystery of her daughter's troubled life — and confront some dark secrets of her own.

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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).


    Subscribe to Dead Sleep via Apple podcasts, Spotify and now on Patreon: Patreon.com/DeadSleep

    To subscribe, search for "Dead Sleep True Crime for Bedtime" across all platforms.


    Want to know the full story?

    Read "And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder" by Deborah Spungen





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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • The Best and The Worst
    Sep 11 2024

    A man volunteers to clean up the most horrific crime scene in New York City history and makes a series of shocking discoveries that will change his life forever.



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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).


    Subscribe to Dead Sleep via Apple podcasts, Spotify and now on Patreon: Patreon.com/DeadSleep



    To subscribe, search for "Dead Sleep True Crime for Bedtime" across all platforms.


    For more about this story:

    https://voicescenter.org/living-memorial/911-stories/responders


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    30 mins
  • [TEASER] September Bonus: Trapped!
    Sep 5 2024

    PLEASE ENJOY THIS TEASER - FOR THE FULL EPISODE, SUBSCRIBE TO DEAD SLEEP via Spotify, Apple, or Patreon.

    Not an option? Email us: deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com

    When an anxious fortysomething suffers the tragic loss of his best friend, he decides to ease his grief with a party weekend away in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. But what was supposed to be a healing bro-down with his buddies turns into a hellish nightmare when he becomes convinced his friends are secretly plotting to kill him - and that's just Friday.

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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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    Subscribe to Dead Sleep via Apple podcasts, Spotify and now on Patreon: Patreon.com/DeadSleep

    To subscribe, search for "Dead Sleep True Crime for Bedtime" across all platforms.

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    20 mins
  • Forever 17
    Aug 27 2024

    A teenage girl wakes up in a hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with no idea how she got there — or what happened to her. Things turn even more terrifying when a strange older man appears out of nowhere, insisting this 17-year old high school student is actually his wife.


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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).


    Subscribe to Dead Sleep via Apple podcasts, Spotify and now on Patreon: Patreon.com/DeadSleep



    To subscribe, search for "Dead Sleep True Crime for Bedtime" across all platforms.


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    48 mins