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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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24:21

Andrea Knabel: She Used to Help Find Missing...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/02/14

*This is a Patreon-exclusive from January 2022. Andrea Knable is still missing and her family continues to look for her*Andrea Knabel is a single mother of two, who worked as a private investigator as a member of Missing in America, a volunteer organization that devoted its time to finding missing adults and children. In a cruel twist of fate, Andrea herself would become a missing person. It has been two years since she seemingly vanished without a trace — are we any closer to finding the truth of

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34:13

Amber Hilberling: What Happened to the Woman Who...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/02/10

The case of Amber Hilberling is much different than any other I’ve covered on the show. It’s one that is both incredibly tragic and complicated. It will make you question the way that women are perceived by the media, treated in the court of the public and failed behind the walls of female prisons. The name Amber Hilberling first hit headlines when she was accused and convicted of murdering her air-force veteran husband, Josh Hilberling, by pushing him out of a high-rise window. Amber, who was very

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21:06

Holly Piirainen: New Evidence Released in 30 Year Old...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/02/04

This is the unsolved murder of 10-year-old Holly Piirainen, who would be abducted and murdered during a week-long summer vacation at her grandparent's home in Sturbridge, MA. In August of 1993, she was taken from the small rural community while she was waiting near a neighbour’s home to see the puppies she was promised. Only one of Holly's shoes would be found by the side of a road - but no sign of Holly. There would be a massive search launched to try and find the little girl - and 79 days

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24:54

Daniel LaPlante: The Boy in the Walls Who Liked to Kill

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/01/28

This is another one of those true crime cases where if it played out on the big screen, you would think the storyline was far too wild to ever be true. Unfortunately, what 17-year-old Daniel LaPlante did to the pregnant mother of two, Priscilla Gustafson, was very real. It’s unimaginable that a young man at his age could do something so sickening, but Daniel wasn’t new to causing people terrible pain. He had worked his way up to a triple homicide by stalking a young woman, even going as far as to

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22:15

Elnaz Hajtamiri: Abducted From Her Home by Fake...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/01/20

It has been one year since 37-year-old Elnaz Hajtamiri was taken from a home in Wasaga Beach by three armed masked men who were dressed in police gear. She has not been seen or heard from since January 12, 2022, and the police are now offering a $100,000 reward for any information leading to finding Elnaz. Her abduction is made even more by the fact that less than a month prior to this incident, two men had attempted to pull Elnaz into their vehicle. She fought like hell and managed to escape with

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22:18

Nicole van den Hurk: A Heroic False Confession

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2023/01/13

We’ve been talking a lot lately about DNA evidence and how genealogy is breaking cold cases wide open these days. Tonight’s case is a great example of how it might be used to rule a specific suspect out. The story of the murder of Nicole van den Hurk is one that is both tragic and heroic. She was only 15 years old when she was murdered in 1995 in the Netherlands. Initially, the spotlight was put on her brother and her stepfather, who had been raising her since her mother had taken her own life.After

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23:00

The Halifax Valentine’s Day Massacre Plot

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/01/10

Now that Christmas and New Year’s are out of the way, Valentine's Day is next on the list. Sometimes Valentine's Day means chocolate, teddy bears and roses - and sometimes it means a plot to massacre hundreds of innocent people at a Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, shopping mall. Lindsay Souvannarath would cross the border into Canada to meet up with her online boyfriend on Valentine's Day in 2015. Not for a romantic date, but to enact a plan they had been working on for the last few weeks

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22:52

Marina Boelter: A Twisted New Year’s Eve Disappearance

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2023/01/03

For 18-year-old Marina Boelter, New Year's Eve of 2014 would be the last day she was seen. After clocking out at her shift at a local grocery store, she headed home to get ready for a new year's party. She was last seen getting into the vehicle of an unidentified man who was waiting for her at a gas station across from the store she worked at. While this is an unsolved case and Marina has never been seen again since this day, it is assumed by law enforcement that she is no longer with us

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25:40

Tommy Zeigler: A Christmas Eve Quadruple Murder. But...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/12/24

There would be a quadruple homicide on Christmas Eve in Winter Garden, Florida. A young woman, her parents and another individual would be found murdered in a local furniture store. The young woman’s husband, Tommy Zeigler, would be arrested and charged with all four murders and sentenced to death. However, as Tommy still sits behind bars today awaiting his execution date, many people believe he is an innocent man and this may be his very last chance at freedom and life. We’re going to dig into the

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18:04

Angela Schultz Shiers Barrentine: Missing at the...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/12/15

27-year-old Angela Schultz Shiers Barrentine was supposed to attend Thanksgiving dinner at her grandparents’ home that evening. She had promised them just the day prior and assured them that she would be there. When she didn’t show up to dinner and no one could reach her, her family decided it was time to file a missing person’s report. Months would go by with no sightings of Angela until her body was discovered in her truck, upside down in a river in west-central Mississippi. Her death was deemed

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30:45

Darlie Routier: Did She Kill Her Children?

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/12/06

Mother of three, Darlie Routier, would call 911 in the early morning hours of June 6th, 1996, to report that an intruder had stabbed her two young sons to death in her home. Darlie had also been stabbed but would recover from her injuries. Her behavior after her boys were laid to rest made many people wonder if she was really the grieving mother she was supposed to be. After the scene was processed, the witnesses were interviewed, and the evidence collected - everything pointed in one direction

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18:25

Delimar Vera: Lost in a Fire or Abducted From the Crib?

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/11/28

In the last episode, I covered the case of Reagan Hancock, who was murdered and had her baby cut out of her stomach by an acquaintance. In that case, both the mother and the baby died from the attack. But what would have happened if the baby lived and was raised by their kidnapper and the mother survived the attack?Tonight we’re going to talk about a case where that is nearly what happened. A mother’s intuition is real - and Luz Cuevas is living proof of that. Authorities and fire experts would tell

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27:26

Reagan Hancock: A Mother and Baby Gone Too Soon

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2022/11/21

You never truly know who a person is or what they’re capable of. Trust no one. I wish it didn’t have to be this way. I wish that all people on this Earth were good people. But there are so many bad people out there and they’re often disguised as friends. Tonight we’re talking about the ultimate betrayal between a young pregnant woman and her jealous so-called friend. 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was pregnant with her 2nd baby girl until 27-year-old Taylor Parker decided to take it all away

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23:08

A Rebirthing Ceremony Gone Wrong: The Tragic Case of...

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/11/11

Beautiful little 10-year-old Candace Elizabeth Newmaker had a difficult childhood right from the beginning. She came from a family that not only struggled with poverty but she and her siblings would be taken away from their parents due to neglect. Everything was supposed to get better when she was adopted by a woman named Jeane Elizabeth Newmaker. But according to Jeane, Candace wasn’t the child she thought she was adopting. She claimed Candace was defiant mischievous and completely distant from

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21:50

Missing From His Playpen: Quinton Simon

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/11/04

Tonight I am covering a high-profile active investigation into the disappearance of 20-month-old toddler Quinton Simon, who went missing on October 5th of this year, just three weeks ago. He was last seen at his home in Savannah, Georgia in the care of his mother’s boyfriend, Danny Youngkin. At this point in time, Quinton is presumed dead but his body has not been located. His mother, Leilani Simon, is the one who reported him missing - however, she is also the primary suspect, and she’s not

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20:46

He Was Inspired by Michael Myers: Jake Evans

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/11/01

Tonight we’re talking about the case of 17-year-old Jake Evans, who would commit atrocious crimes against his family after watching the movie, Halloween. The teen claimed it was the horror flick that would inspire his actions - but can a fake movie really push someone to kill another person? Let’s dig into the details of what really happened when Jake Evans took Halloween too far.Support the showFollow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/► Twitter -

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33:36

Serial Nightmare: Cindy James - Murder Victim or Hoax?

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/10/19

Cindy James was a 44-year-old woman from the Vancouver, B.C. area. She lived a distraught and difficult life - and, allegedly she was plagued most of her life by a stalker who simply would not leave her alone. Over a 7-year period, she would be harassed by an unknown individual, leading to more than 100 police reports of stalking. They would call her to threaten her or breathe into the phone until she hung up in a panic. They would lurk around her home at night, even going as far as to cut her phone

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24:21

The Legend and Truth of Cropsey, the Child Killler

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/10/10

The urban legend of Cropsey was created as a result of the very real disappearances and murders of young children. The stories of this truly horrifying mythical killer are even scarier once you learn about the real events that created

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31:03

The Omar Raddad Affair

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/10/02

Wealthy socialite Ghislaine Marchal was discovered murdered in the cellar of her beautiful mansion. In what was a very violent attack, she had been stabbed 20 times. Yet somehow, she apparently managed to write the name of her killer on the cellar wall in her own blood.Police had their perpetrator. Case closed, right? Wrong. There would be several inconsistencies with this theory, including a grammatical error in her bloody message that many thought the victim would never make, as she was an avid

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31:27

They Killed Their Bully: The Murder of Bobby Kent

Serial Napper | True Crime Stories for Naps ·

2022/09/22

We’re talking about the murder of Bobby Kent, a 20-year-old alleged bully. He was violently murdered by a group of young adults who said they had finally had enough of the terrible treatment they received from Bobby. But were they telling the truth? Did Bobby torment them relentlessly until the point they snapped? Or was it all just an excuse for them to lash out and kill someone? Maybe it’s something in between - I’ll let you

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