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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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21:55

Arne Johnson: The Devil Made Me Do It

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/10/08

This is the story of the Glatzel family, whose youngest son, 11-year-old David, was allegedly possessed by multiple demons. With the assistance of infamous paranormal investigators and demonologists, Lorrain and Ed Warren, he would endure several exorcisms to relieve him of the spirits and demons fighting over his soul. During one of these exorcisms, it is alleged that the demons left David, freeing him from their grip - however, finding a new host, in 18-year-old Arne Johnson.According to those

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18:43

Juandré Kidson: Spikings on the Highway From Hell

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/10/04

Picture this: you’re in the car with your family coming home from a nice night out. You’re driving down the highway, when suddenly you feel the vehicle drive over something and the tire goes flat. You have to pull over to the side of the highway to investigate the damage and change the tire. It’s dark out, so you want to get this done as quickly as possible, but the moment you step outside of the car, there is a gun shoved in your face. They want everything you have and they’re more than happy to

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20:03

Christian Kazadi: The Bizarre Murder Of A Forbes...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/09/26

It was supposed to be a rags-to-riches story. Christian Kazadi was a 29-year-old budding entrepreneur and the founder of a start-up digital marketing agency called Click Media. He started this company with the last $30 in his bank account and was really beginning to make waves in South Africa, where digital marketing was in its infancy. In April of 2022, Christian was honoured with an invitation to attend the inaugural Forbes Under 30 Africa summit in Botswana. On the final day of the summit,

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19:33

Andrea Venter: Failed by the System Even in Death

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2023/09/14

This is the heartbreaking case of Andrea Venter, a young South African woman who suffered years of horrible domestic abuse at the hands of her boyfriend, Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren.Like many young romances, the beginning of the relationship was perfect - everything she dreamed of. However, as time passed, he became emotionally and physically abusive to Andrea, while isolating her from all of her friends and family.Eventually, she found the strength to serve Gerhard with a restraining order and

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26:33

Anika Smit: The Killer Took Her Hands

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2023/09/08

Anika Smit was 17 years old on March 10, 2010, when she stayed home from school with a nasty throat infection. Her father would return home from work later that day to find the front gate unlocked, guard dogs corralled in the side yard, and two cups of undrunk coffee on the kitchen table. The house looked chaotic as if there had been a struggle, and when he walked into his teenage daughter’s bedroom, he would find out why. Anika had been stabbed to death and then had her hands cut off. It was the

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24:48

Daisy De Melker: South Africa's First Female Serial...

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2023/09/03

Daisy De Melker, a young woman from Grahamstown, South Africa, came from dirt and decided she wanted more out of life. She was willing to do whatever it took to ensure she lived a pampered, cushy life far from the poverty-stricken home she grew up in - this meant crushing anything and anyone who stood in her way. Daisy was a mother and a wife - and she would become one of South Africa’s most prolific female serial killers.

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19:36

Ellis Brothers: Eliminating the Threat

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2023/08/29

Neil Tulley was a 54-year-old stepfather to two older children, 23-year-old Joshua Ellis and his little brother, 14-year-old Jerome Ellis, who he didn’t get along with. Both had a dysfunctional childhood, which would only get worse when they moved into their mother’s home, where she lived with Neil. Neil was known to be a violent drunk with a criminal history filled with abuse. One night, as he slept on the living room sofa, the two boys decided they had enough, and attacked him with two kitchen

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22:11

Colleen Ritzer: Slain by Her Own Student

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2023/08/22

Colleen Ritzer was a 24-year-old math teacher at Danvers High School, in Danvers MA. After spending the afternoon of October 22nd, 2013, helping several students requiring assistance with their algebra, she would be seen on school surveillance video being followed to the bathroom by 14-year-old, Philip Chism. He had his hood up in an attempt to hide his identity, gloves on his hands and a box cutter in his pocket. What he would do to Colleen in the girl’s bathroom of that high school has been

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26:20

Lauren Agee: 'We’re Going Into a Death Trap'

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2023/08/17

When 21-year-old Lauren Agee told her mother she had plans with her best friend to go to a three-day event called Wakefest, she immediately had a bad feeling about it. Call it mother’s intuition, but she was incredibly anxious about her beautiful and very trusting daughter going to this alcohol-fueled festival. And unfortunately, that gut feeling was right - because just a few days after Lauren left for Wakefest, she would get that dreaded phone call that her daughter was found dead. She had

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23:25

1 Million Downloads Special: Meet the Host, Nikki Young

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/08/05

On tonight’s episode, I’m pausing the true crime stories to bring you a special 1 million downloads celebration episode! Meet Serial Napper host, Nikki Young, and hear about the most memorable cases covered and more. Support the showFollow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/► Twitter - https://twitter.com/serial_napper► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik

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23:41

Carly Ryan: Australia's First Teen Killed by an...

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2023/08/01

In 2007, 15-year-old Australian Carly Ryan was lovesick over her Texas-born musician boyfriend, Brandon. Carly was a scene kid who enjoyed MySpace, so it wasn’t surprising for her to fall in love with this 18-year-old young man who listened to the same bands as she did. She had no idea that the hours upon hours of chatting online and on the phone weren’t with Brandon, but with a 50-year-old balding predator who had his eyes set on her. This monster was bold, travelling to her hometown to attend her

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27:39

Mindy Tran: Did a Child Killer Get Away with Murder?

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2023/07/27

Mindy Tran was a little girl from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, who went missing on August 17th, 1994, while riding her pink bicycle to her friend’s house to play. Her body would be discovered six weeks later in a shallow grave only a few blocks away from her house, hidden amongst the brush. Witnesses reported seeing a man in the area carrying a large, heavy suitcase. The belief was this man had killed Mindy and transported her body to the woods in this suitcase. A suspect was identified as

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31:55

Dana Laskowski: ‘Kill Someone + Get Away With It’

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2023/07/20

Dana Laskowski was a 36-year-old single mother of 9-year-old triplets. Despite having a massive amount of responsibility on her plate, she was the kind of person who always had her door open if you needed a bite to eat, a place to crash or just someone to talk to. This is why it was shocking to everyone who knew her, when she was discovered on her couch, twisted and contorted in a strange position, strangled to death. When you open your heart to everyone, you risk allowing some bad seeds in, which,

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19:58

Andrew Gosden: A One Way Ticket to London

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2023/07/15

It has been 16 years since 14-year-old Andrew Gosden skipped school, withdrew all of his savings from his bank account and purchased a one-way train ticket to London - never to be heard from again. The quiet, introverted young man typically enjoyed staying at home playing on his Xbox, so this sudden trip to the city was completely out of character. Over the years there have been multiple reported sightings of Andrew, though none have been confirmed. And just last year, two unnamed men were arrested

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30:04

Michael Politte: Teen Killer or Wrongly Accused?

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/07/12

In December of 1998, 14-year-old Michael Politte was enjoying a sleepover at his home with one of his best friends. He was awoken in the middle of the night to a haze in his room and the smell of smoke. He woke his friend up so that they could go investigate what was happening. As they walked from his bedroom toward his mother’s room, they saw a glow emanating from underneath her door. When they opened it, they were horrified to find 40-year-old Rita, Michael’s mother, on fire from the waist up

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23:47

Jesse McFadden: The Sleepover From Hell

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2023/07/06

Teenage girls, 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer had plans to go to a sleepover at the home of their best friend, 13-year-old Tiffany Guess. The two girls had gone to her home many times in the past and nothing seemed out of the ordinary on this occasion.However, when the girls did not return home the following morning and were unreachable by phone, a police search of the home they were staying at would reveal one of the most horrific crime scenes local officers had ever

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23:14

Blair Adams: A Bizarre Murder Far From Home

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2023/07/02

Blair Adams was a 31-year-old man from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, who fully believed that someone was after him, following him, trying to kill him. His friends and family thought that the historically cheerful Blair must be suffering from some sort of mental illness, so they didn’t take what he was saying seriously. Until, July 5, 1996, when Blair decided to quit his job, empty his bank account and flee across the American border. While there, several witnesses reported seeing him acting

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20:11

The Bluebelle Murders: The Duperrault Family Tragedy

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2023/06/26

Back in 1961, an 11-year-old little girl by the name of Tere Jo Duperrault would be found floating in the middle of the ocean near the Bahamas on a small life raft.According to the story, she had been on a vacation aboard a sailboat, called the Bluebelle, with her mom, dad, siblings - and another family, when everything went wrong. With the boat quickly filling up with water and beginning to sink, Tere Jo barely managed to jump into a life raft at the last minute. She had been left to survive in the

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30:59

Nathan Carman: Murder by Sea

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/06/23

Money makes people do crazy things. But how many people could possibly be so money-hungry that they would kill their own grandfather and mother over a span of several years, in order to keep their bank account stocked? That is exactly what it is alleged Nathan Carman did. Nathan came from a very wealthy family and inherited half a million dollars after his grandfather was murdered, and shot to death in his own mansion. There was a suspicion that Nathan would be involved, though no one has ever been

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25:37

Brandon Hole: Red Flags Ignored

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/06/17

Brandon Hole was a very troubled teenager from Indianapolis. His mother, Sheila, had spent basically her son’s whole life trying to get him help, while also trying to keep herself safe from his violent abuse. I’m talking about a ton of therapy that seemed to go nowhere, police intervention and even an investigation by the FBI. There were so many warning signs over the years that he was just one bad day away from completely exploding, and possibly inflicting mass violence on others. But in April of

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