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Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps

Serial Napper is the perfect true crime podcast for those who love a good nap and the most intriguing true crime stories. Hosted by Nikki Young, each episode offers a comprehensive and thoughtful deep dive into an unsolved mystery or lesser-known case, told succinctly and with all the key facts, just the way it happened. Let Nikki lead you through some of the most fascinating, chilling, and puzzling true crime stories you"ve never heard of, all while you drift off to sleep. Follow Nikki on social

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37:33

Jack Barron: The Munchausen by Proxy Dad

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2024/02/13

Although the most well-known case of Munchausen syndrome involved a woman, according to webMD, it’s actually more common for men to have the disorder. Tonight we’re talking about Jack Barron, the first man recorded to be suffering from Munchausen by Proxy. Jack loved the attention he received after his wife mysteriously died so much so that he desperately needed more. When his four-year-old son died just a few months later, the community thought he must be the unluckiest man alive. They rallied

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39:12

Connor & Noah Barthe: Nothing Loved is Ever Lost

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2024/02/08

It was the summer of 2013 in Campbelltown, New Brunswick, Canada. Noah and Connor Barthe, who were 4 and 6 years old, had spent the day having a blast with family friends at a farm. That evening, they had a sleepover at their best friend's house, which was located just above an exotic pet store that his father owned. Not all of the animals were kept downstairs in the store. Jean-Claude Savoie owned a 12-foot-long African rock python which was kept in a glass enclosure in the apartment. Somehow,

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26:26

Nicola Furlong: A Life Worth More

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2024/02/01

Nicola Furlong was a 21-year-old Dublin City University student who was studying University in Japan as part of an exchange program. In May of 2012, she enjoyed a night out at a Nicki Minaj concert with one of her girlfriends. When the concert was over, they planned to continue their night barhopping until the first train arrived in the morning to take them home. While standing at the station, they encountered two American men and were happy to meet other foreigners who could speak English. They

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25:47

Desmond Runstedler and Philip Fraser: Danger on the...

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2024/01/26

There was a movement all across North America in the 60s and 70s that had people hitchhiking their way across the country. It was a way for young folks to get around economically while also being a bit rebellious. There was an element of adventure, as one never knew the stranger behind the wheel of the car they were getting into. But for much of Western Canada, hitchhiking was more than that - it was an act out of necessity. There are stretches of highway where public transportation just doesn’t

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26:07

Peter Keller: The Family Annihilator Who Vlogged

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2024/01/22

On April 22, 2012, several residents living in a quiet neighborhood located in North Bend, Washington, called 911 after seeing flames coming out of the windows of a neighboring home. Thankfully firefighters arrived on the scene and were able to put out the fire quickly. But when they took a closer look at the remnants of the house, they would make a gruesome discovery - two bodies, untouched by the fire but both shot in the head. They belonged to 41-year-old Lynnette Keller, and her 19-year-old

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27:06

Jamie Snow: A Story Recanted

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2024/01/14

On Easter Sunday, 1991, a gas station in Bloomington, Illinois would be robbed at gunpoint. Tragically, Billy Little, the attendant working that night, would be killed - shot to death for the money in his cash register. Investigators collected evidence from the crime scene including fingerprints, shoe prints and even a DNA sample, but they struggled for years to nail down who the armed robber was. It wasn’t until 8 years later that a witness would pick out a man named Jamie Snow from a lineup. Jamie

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20:46

Juan Corona: The Machete Murderer

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2024/01/07

The date was May 19, 1971. A Japanese peach farmer was perusing his orchard, located in Yuba City, California. Suddenly, he spotted something unusual. A large seven-foot-long hole, that was approximately half a foot deep, which looked like an improvised dug-out gravesite. His was private property, no one was supposed to be digging on his land.Without any witnesses to report the purpose of this large hole, he decided to return the following day to see if it was still there. When he returned to the

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26:21

Kenneth Law: The Poison Peddler

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2023/12/30

Tonight I’m talking about a 57-year-old Canadian man, named Kenneth Law. He stands accused and charged with 14 counts of second-degree murder for his plot to sell poison through the mail to individuals contemplating taking their own life. He may be linked to as many as over 100 deaths through his suicide-by-mail scheme.If he is found guilty, he will go down as one of the worst mass murderers in Canadian history, but nothing will take away the agonizing pain he has inflicted on the 100s of family

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21:50

Daniel Robinson: The Missing Geologist

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2023/12/21

On June 23rd, 2021, 24-year-old Daniel Robinson was enjoying his dream job working for an engineering company at a remote job site in an Arizona desert. It was raining that morning, so he and his co-worker would have to wait for the weather to clear up before they could start. For some unknown reason, Daniel decided not to wait. He got into his 2017 blue-grey Jeep Renegade and took off - never to be seen again.About a month later, his vehicle would be found wrecked in a ravine only a few miles away

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26:28

Erin Patterson: The Mushroom Chef

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2023/12/15

49-year-old Erin Patterson is many things. She’s a divorced mother of two, the heiress to a multimillion-dollar property portfolio, and a deadly chef. She now stands accused of feeding her ex-husband’s parents and his aunt one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world as part of a fatal Beef Wellington lunch. Her ex-in-laws, 70-year-old Don and Gail Patterson, and her ex’s 66-year-old aunt Heather Wilkinson, 66, would die in the hospital shortly after consuming the mushrooms that Erin claims she

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19:21

Mary Boyle: Truth Taken to the Grave

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2023/12/09

Most people are familiar with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the little girl who went missing from her hotel room while enjoying a vacation with her family in Portugal - however, fewer know of Mary Boyle, a 6-year-old little girl who vanished while visiting her grandparents home in Ireland. She had been playing outside with her twin sister, brother and cousin when she began to follow her uncle over to the neighbour's house - however, when they reached a patch of field that was

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19:41

Steven Clark: Missing From the Public Toilets

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2023/12/04

Steven Clark was a 23-year-old young man from Colchester, Essex, in England. When he was just three years old, he had been hit by a truck, rendering him permanently disabled.On December 28, 1992, Steven spent the afternoon with his mother walking on the beach near their home in Saltburn, England. At around 3 pm, they used the public toilets, each entering a separate stall. Steven’s mother finished up and waited around for her son, but when he didn’t come out, she assumed he must have finished before

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22:35

Frauke Liebs: Seven Days Then Silence

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2023/11/27

On June 20, 2006, nursing student, 21-year-old Frauke Liebs, was enjoying a night out pup hopping watching the football world cup, which just so happened to be taking place in Germany that year. At around 11 pm, she began to walk back to the apartment that she shared with a longtime friend, however, she would never make it back. When she didn’t show up for work the next morning, her friends and family became worried and her mother reported her to the police as missing.However, Frauke hadn’t

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25:29

The Springfield Three: An Empty Home on Delmar Street

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2023/11/20

It was the summer of 1992. Teenagers Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall had just graduated from high school, spent the evening celebrating with friends and were gearing up for an incredible summer before their adult lives began. Stacy was going to be sleeping over at Suzie’s mother’s home that night - and then they had plans to go to a water amusement park in the morning.However, the following day, Stacy, Suzie, and her mother Sherrill Levitt, were nowhere to be found in the empty house. While there

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30:30

Jelka Pesic: The Mother in Law From Hell

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2023/11/14

When 25-year-old Alexandra Pesic married her husband, Joe, she believed she had found the man of her dreams - that the couple would live out the rest of their years in blissful matrimony. What she didn’t realize at the time, was that she was getting much more than a life partner. She was also getting a meddling mother-in-law, named Jelka Pesic.While Alexandra believed that Jelka’s controlling and nitpicking behaviour was irritating and fully embodied the traits of a monster-in-law, she had no idea

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26:04

Linda Chen: A Wedding and a Funeral

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2023/11/07

Linda Chen was a 32-year-old mother of one with a history of dating terrible, abusive men. She thought her luck had finally changed when she met her fiance Mats Alm. The couple lived together in an apartment in Sweden and were just a week away from their wedding when tragedy struck.Linda was last seen on a grocery store surveillance camera with her fiancee, Mats. All of the events that happened after that are unclear. Mats took the role of devastated fiancee very seriously during the two months

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29:07

Arpana Jinaga: The Last Halloween Party

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2023/11/02

The date was October 31st, 2008 - Halloween night. A young Seattle woman, 24-year-old Arpana Jinaga had plans that evening to participate in a Halloween party at her apartment complex. Several of her neighbours and Arpana would decorate their apartments and open their doors to guests who would pop in and out over the course of the evening.She was spotted in the early morning hours, around 3 a.m., returning to her own unit to get some sleep after a night of socializing - and this would be the last

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24:01

McKamey Manor: Haunted House or Torture Chamber?

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2023/10/26

Tonight we’re talking about McKamey Manor, which is said to be an "Extreme Haunted Attraction," and "Survival Horror Challenge", according to their website - but some believe it is actually just a straight-up modern-day torture chamber.Guests who meet seven basic requirements can expect to experience up to eight hours of extreme horror that may include being waterboarded, buried alive or having their heads wrapped in duct tape. With two locations in Tennessee and Alabama and a low

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22:24

Radium Girls: The Dark History of a Deadly Glow

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2023/10/19

Tonight I’m talking about the experience of hundreds of girls who innocently signed up to work in clock factories hoping to generate money to feed their families and help on the homefront during World War I. They used luminous paint made of radium on the clocks and dials, getting it onto their clothing, skin and even in their mouths. Yet, they had no idea that radium was toxic and the substance they worked with every day was literally eating them alive from the inside out - not until it was far too

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20:20

Mary Reeser: Spontaneous Combustion or Something Else?

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2023/10/14

There have been a few hundred cases of spontaneous human combustion reported, with some reported instances from as early as the 17th century. They were highly debated as to whether they were truly a case of spontaneous combustion or something else - and the vast majority went ignored, written off as nothing more than an urban legend. However, when 67-year-old Mary Hardy Reeser was discovered completely reduced to a pile of burnt debris and ashes, law enforcement stepped in to investigate what had

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