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A notorious party crasher shocks New York society when she suddenly claims she's the descendent of a legendary jewelry family. The plot thickens when she turns up with her new "old money" boyfriend: a man who swears he's a long lost Rockefeller. But who were they really? And what happens when a grifter goes from ludicrous to dangerous? *** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for "Outstanding Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] Want to know more? Start here: The Fake Cartier and the Fake Rockefeller https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fake-rockefeller-fake-cartier-party-crashers.html

How did a woman steal over $50 million dollars and nobody noticed? Nancy revisits the longest, slowest financial scam so brazen it shocked the FBI and made American history. *** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for "Outstanding Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] Want to know more about this case? Check out: "Fraud In Dixon, Illinois: Who's to Blame" via Auburn University https://harbert.auburn.edu/binaries/documents/center-for-ethical-organizational-cultures/cases/dixon-fraud.pdf "All the Queen's Horses" via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXSZhKEddxI "Scam Goddess with Laci Mosley"via ABC News https://abcnews.com/Entertainment/scam-goddess-explores-city-workers-22-year-deception/story?id=116448975

This is a free teaser of the September 2026 bonus episode of Dead Sleep. If you would like the full episode, please subscribe via Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Patreon: patreon.com/deadsleep ********* A Toronto homicide detective wrote a book about the six cases he can’t forget. This is one of his final cases about the mysterious disappearance of a popular doctor. Want to know more? Check out "The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective" by Steve Ryan To subscribe for bonus content, please search for "Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime" on ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ or go to ⁠Patreon⁠: www.patreon.com/deadsleep Questions? Email Nancy directly! [email protected]

A Toronto homicide detective wrote a book about the six cases he can’t forget. This is one of his final cases about the mysterious disappearance of a popular doctor. Want to know more? Check out "The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective" by Steve Ryan ****** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for Best Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] ****************

In 2022, Detective Steve Ryan published a book The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective featuring the six murder cases he can't forget. This is one of those cases. In this episode, we revisit his investigation into the shocking case of a teenage girl who becomes the unwitting target of a stranger's deadly obsession. Want to know more? Check out "The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective" by Steve Ryan

A retired Toronto homicide detective struggling with PTSD wrote a book about the six murder cases that still haunt him. This episode features one of those stories; a hotel murder mystery with three victims, one room, and a phantom suspect who appeared to disappear from a locked room without a trace. *** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for "Outstanding Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] Want to know more? Read Detective Steve Ryan's fascinating autobiography: The Ghosts That Haunt Me [2022] via GoodReads.

When her younger sister Annie doesn't show for dinner, older sister Kathleen instantly knows something is wrong. But when she goes to Annie's apartment in search of clues, a strange letter from a secret admirer only adds to the mystery. It's an eerie tale of obsession, seduction and murder first featured in the Ann Rule true crime classic: "And Never Let Her Go." To subscribe for bonus content, please search for "Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime" on ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ or go to ⁠Patreon⁠: www.patreon.com/deadsleep Enjoy a free month on Apple podcasts - join now and start listening tonight! ****** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for Best Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] ****************

This is a free teaser of the August 2026 bonus episode of Dead Sleep. If you would like the full episode, please subscribe via Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Patreon: patreon.com/deadsleep Queestions? Email Nancy directly! [email protected]

In this mindful murder mystery, a Phoenix man calls 911 swearing he just watched his neighbor kill someone. When police rush to the scene, they are shocked to see their "killer" all cozy in his pajamas. He claims he was fast asleep. You can't commit murder while you're sleeping *insert Keith Morrison voice* OR CAN YOU??? *** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for "Outstanding Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] Want to know more? Start here: ⁠They're All Swimming in the Backyard!⁠ via NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1956/08/12/archives/theyre-all-swimming-in-the-backyard-the-private-swimming-pool-is.html ⁠Forgive Me for Killing You ⁠by Marcy Blau: https://www.amazon.com/Forgive-Me-Killing-You-Yarmila/dp/B0C5P35Y19 Other Famous⁠ Sleepwalking Defense⁠ Cases:https://sleepforensicmedicine.org/case-studies/sleep-walking/

In this meandering yet mindful mystery, young man's first-ever road trip turns into an unsolved missing persons case when he disappears down a dirt road in rural Maine. **** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for "Outstanding Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] Want to know more? Start here: The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

There was the Little House on the Prairie...then there was that murder house with a family of serial killers that Half-Pint didn't tell us about. Want to know more? Start here: Hell's Half-Acre by Susan Jonusas Bloody Benders: Homestead of Horror via Library of Congress: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/10/bloody-benders/ “Little Serial Killers on the Prairie” via Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/story/true-story-little-house-on-the-prairie?srsltid=AfmBOopeRBzw-RFzFSwe-wVHX804S0mG8yUh8rabpFLzZDv2WhGsDSQC

This is a 20-minute teaser of the July 2026 bonus episode of Dead Sleep. If you would like the full episode, please subscribe via Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Patreon: patreon.com/deadsleep Queestions? Email Nancy directly! [email protected]

It's all downhill for a popular French singer when she falls for an irresistible alpine racer — then accused of his murder. **** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for "Outstanding Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] Want to know more about this story? Start here: Claudine Longet ⁠Obituary ⁠via the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/claudine-longet-dead.html Brief ⁠synopsis⁠ of Claudine Longet and Spider Sabich saga: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/actor-claudine-longet-kills-ski-champion-vladimir-sabich Supreme Court ⁠decision ⁠on 1991 overturning of New York's Son of Sam law: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1105-first-amendment-problems-son-sam-laws Brief Synopsis of Claudine Longet / Spider Sabich saga: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/actor-claudine-longet-kills-ski-champion-vladimir-sabich ⁠ Change.org⁠ Petition to update Son of Sam law in Ohio: change.org/domanddamian "Son of Sam" Supreme Court 1991 Decision: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1105-first-amendment-problems-son-sam-laws

When a young mother is accused of a heinous crime, her fate will be in the hands of an unlikely hero, a complete stranger, who goes above and beyond to prove her innocence. **** Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is an independent, ad-free, listener supported true crime show made for nighttime listening. 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). *Dead Sleep is a 2025 Clue Award finalist for "Outstanding Episodic True Crime Podcast* Subscription issues? Questions? Email Nancy [email protected] Want to know more about the episode? Start here: Carmen Mejia via Travis County Press Office: https://districtattorney.traviscountytx.gov/travis-county-judge-signs-order-dismiss-carmen-mejia-indictment-basis-actual-innocence/ Innocence Project: https://innocenceproject.org/news/carmen-mejia-exonerated-texas-22-years/ Rosa Jimenez story: https://innocenceproject.org/news/rosa-jimenez-is-exonerated-of-a-crime-that-never-took-place-after-20-years/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/rosa-jimenez-texas-exoneration-kidney-donation/

Please enjoy this free 20 minute teaser of the latest bonus episode of Dead Sleep. If you would like to enjoy the full episode, along with other bonus content, please consider becoming a subscriber on Patreon, Spotify or Apple podcasts. You can enjoy a free 7-day trial on⁠ Patreon⁠ and start listening tonight! Go to ⁠www.patreon.com/deadsleep⁠ If you need help subscribing, please email Nancy directly and she'll help you: ⁠[email protected]⁠