Serial Napper is true crime for the chronically tired. Hosted by Canadian podcaster Nikki Young, Serial Napper explores crimes, disappearances and mysteries …
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Guest: Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty: Carl Tanzler | The Dead Woman He Called His Bride In 1940, a woman in Key West, Florida, made a horrifying discovery. Her sister, Elena, had been dead for nine years, but her body wasn't where the family believed it had been buried. It was inside the home of Carl Tanzler, a man who claimed he'd been destined to love her.
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The House of Leaves: Matthew Hoffman’s Real-Life Horror Story In November 2010, a mother, her two children and a family friend seemingly vanished from a home in Apple Valley, Ohio. The investigation would lead police from an abandoned pickup truck to a stranger in a parking lot, a trail of unusual purchases, and eventually a small house in Mount Vernon, unlike anything they expected to find.
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They Were Told the Paint Was Safe | The Deadly Truth of the Radium Girls What if the miracle everyone wanted came with a price no one bothered to tell you about? At the beginning of the twentieth century, radium seemed almost magical. It was rare, extraordinarily valuable and celebrated as a scientific breakthrough that could transform medicine, consumer products and even something as ordinary as a watch.
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Guest: Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood: The Lin Family | The Wolf Was Already Inside In July 2009, fifteen-year-old Brenda Lin left her home in Sydney, Australia, for a school trip to New Caledonia. When she returned, her entire immediate family was gone.
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Guest: Sophie Lionnet
Cinderella: Sophie Lionnet | The Nanny Trapped Inside a Deadly Delusion When 20-year-old Sophie Lionnet left France for London, she hoped working as an au pair would give her a little independence, help her improve her English, and allow her to build a future working with children. Instead, she found herself inside a home increasingly consumed by suspicion.
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Snow White: Alexandra Pesic | And Her Wicked Mother-in-Law Alexandra Pesic knew something was wrong. The former beauty queen and young mother had begun noticing a white car appearing around her. Then a disturbing package arrived in the mail: a true-crime book about a woman who had reported years of stalking and terror before her mysterious death. Certain passages had been deliberately marked.
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Guest: Colleen Stan
Beauty and the Beast: The Girl in the Box | Colleen Stan In May of 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking through California when a young couple stopped to offer her a ride. With a woman and a baby inside the vehicle, Colleen believed she had found a safe way to finish her journey. She was wrong.
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Guest: Daniel LaPlante
Goldilocks: The Boy Behind the Wall | Daniel LaPlante This October, Serial Napper is opening the storybook for another season of Serial Nightmare. This year, we're taking familiar fairy tales and looking at the very real cases that echo their darkest themes.
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Inside the Disturbing World of the “Vampire King of Fresno” On March 12, 2004, two women arrived at a converted commercial building in Fresno, California, with one goal: they wanted their children back. Inside was their extended family, led by 57-year-old Marcus Wesson.
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He Woke Up to His Mother on Fire: The Michael Politte Case Fourteen-year-old Michael Politte woke to smoke filling his bedroom. His friend Josh was asleep on the floor nearby, and an orange glow was coming from underneath his mother's bedroom door.
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A Chance Encounter: Henry Nowak Should Have Made It Home Eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak had only recently started his first semester at the University of Southampton. He was studying accounting and finance, playing football, making new friends and building a life away from home for the first time.
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We’re Here for the Party: Yoshihiro Hattori's First American Halloween On October 17th, 1992, 16-year-old Yoshihiro “Yoshi” Hattori was getting ready for his first real American Halloween party. Yoshi had recently arrived in Louisiana from Japan as an exchange student. He was outgoing, adventurous and determined to experience everything his year abroad had to offer.
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