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).

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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

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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/

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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Kary Mullis autobiography

Kary Mullis and the OJ Simpson case.

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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

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

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

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

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.

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