• [TEASER] January Bonus! Ghost Writer
    Jan 13 2025

    PLEASE ENJOY THIS FREE *TEASER* OF THE LATEST BONUS EPISODE. YOU CAN ENJOY THE FULL EPISODE BY BECOMING A PAID SUBSCRIBER VIA APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY AND PATREON (patreon.com/deadsleep)

    A young Utah widow who wrote a book about grief becomes the prime suspect in her husband's suspicious death. Are the murder accusations against her fact...or fiction?


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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.com


    You can also search for Dead Sleep on Spotify and Apple podcasts.


    Issues with your subscription? Story ideas? deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com

    IG / Threads: @deadsleeppod

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    17 mins
  • Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime - Trailer
    Jan 10 2025

    Classic crime made for nighttime. Gripping - not graphic. Narrated by award-winning journalist Nancy Miller ("I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "Love & Death" "The Staircase") Out Weekly.

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    Less than 1 minute
  • Pleas, Pleas, Pleas
    Jan 1 2025

    Guilty is one thing. Confession another. Here's a Dead Sleepy history of pleas, true crime lovers!

    Want to know more about this case?

    American Bar Association Recommendation here

    Tituba's accurate historical account here and here.


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    28 mins
  • Death Actually
    Dec 24 2024

    When a New York-based CEO is found dead in his country home, it seems obvious he suffered a fatal heart attack — until his niece notices his longtime secretary behaving strangely and she begins to wonder: Was his death actually calculated, cold-blooded murder?


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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.com


    You can also search for Dead Sleep on Spotify and Apple podcasts.


    Issues with your subscription? Story ideas? deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com


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    Want to know more about this story?


    Start here: Pamela Carvel's 1993 lawsuit: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/19/nyregion/the-fight-over-the-carvel-foundation.html


    Listen here: https://shows.acast.com/cold-storage-the-life-and-death-of-tom-carvel/episodes/the-death-of-tom-carvel

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    37 mins
  • Beautiful Dreamer
    Dec 16 2024

    When a wealthy widow disappears sometime before Christmas, nobody in her small East Texas town thinks much of it. But when a popular local man is accused of killing her, authorities are shocked to discover the entire community is on the side of the suspect - not the victim. What would make an entire town root for a cold-blooded killer? A deep dive into the dark dynamic between the perp and the victim might hold the key.


    Want to know more? Start here.

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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: www.patreon.com/deadsleep.com


    You can also search for Dead Sleep on Spotify and Apple podcasts.


    Issues with your subscription? Story ideas? deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com

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    48 mins
  • [TEASER] December Bonus! You Better Take Care
    Dec 9 2024

    PLEASE ENJOY THIS *TEASER* OF THE LATEST DECEMBER BONUS EPISODE. YOU CAN ENJOY THE FULL EPISODE BY BECOMING A SUBSCRIBER VIA APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY AND PATREON.



    A Pulitzer-prize winning political reporter confronts the brutal highs and lows of Hollywood fame when he reinvestigates the suspicious and scandalous death of a beloved comedian.


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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


    You can also search for Dead Sleep on Spotify and Apple podcasts.


    Issues with your subscription? Story ideas? deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com

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    16 mins
  • Left Behind
    Nov 29 2024

    The unsolved murder of a popular teenage girl just days before Christmas pushes Seattle's Homicide Unit to their absolute limit— while driving a local crime reporter to the brink of a nervous breakdown. What was so maddening about this young woman's murder? So many clues. So many suspects. Yet nothing adds up.


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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


    You can also search for Dead Sleep on Spotify and Apple podcasts.


    Issues with your subscription? Story ideas? deadsleeppodcast@gmail.com


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

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    For more on this story:

    Kiss Me, Kill Me by Ann Rule

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    50 mins
  • If Anything Ever Happens to Me
    Nov 21 2024

    For years, a young wife and mother in San Antonio, Texas believed she was destined for a violent, early death. When her chilling prediction comes true, her younger sister must fulfill this murder victim's unusual last request: that a famous true crime writer will investigate her case and reveal what really happened.


    Want to know more about this story?

    Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

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    1 hr