No politics. Just pancakes. Nancy reveals a sleep trick that's even weirder than true crime - for those times when you just want sweet dreams, fluffy flapjacks, and no drama.

[Note: This podcast is NOT affiliated with Trader Joe's or any ad sponsorship - this is truly Nancy's deepest, desperate sleep hack for stressful, anxious nights.]

In this follow-up to "Vampire Girl," a mother of five from Topeka, Kansas loses custody of her children after a dangerous mental breakdown. To get them back, she must "prove" her own sanity by getting treatment at an Arizona rehab facility. She desperately needs a friend. Instead, she meets a serial liar who deceives everyone to get what she wants. And what does she want now? Her next victim. [For Part 1, please listen to "Vampire Girl."]

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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

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Scene Stealer by Evgenia Peretz, Vanity Fair

Anatomy of Lies via Peacock

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/