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Hello and welcome to True Crime Sleep Stories, where you can settle in with a good true crime tale while drifting off into a safe sleepy slumber. Maybe you want to sip on a cup of hot tea, grab a warm fleece blanket, or cozy up by the fire.
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80: A Handle Worn Smooth: Haunting Axe Murders | True Crime Sleep Stories (opens the original)
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Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, we follow a tool (the axe) instead of a single town or a single crime. In the late 1800s & early 1900s, an axe hung in nearly every woodshed. It split kindling to keep the stove roaring. Because it already belonged to the house, it sometimes became the last object a household ever used. This episode visits Fall River in 1892, Colorado Springs in 1911, a Bavarian farm in 1922, and a few other haunting cases... Settle in and sleep well, if you can. Patreon Excl
79: The Red Barn Murder | True Crime Sleep Stories (opens the original)
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Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, a young woman leaves her father’s cottage on a May afternoon and does not come home. The last place she was seen was a barn on a Suffolk hill. Months of letters follow. Then, strange dreams plague her stepmother. Tonight we walk the lanes of Polstead... ponds, cherry blossoms, a molecatcher’s iron, and a meeting that became one of England’s most remembered crimes. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support ke
78: The Lady of the Dunes: The Woman Behind the Mystery | True Crime Sleep Stories (opens the original)
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For nearly 50 years, the identity of a woman found murdered in the dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts, remained a mystery. Known only as the “Lady of the Dunes,” investigators searched for decades to discover who she was, & who was responsible for her death. In 2022, advances in genetic genealogy finally gave her back her name: Ruth Marie Terry . Tonight, we explore Ruth’s life, the decades-long investigation, and the discovery that finally brought one of Cape Cod’s biggest mysteries to a clos
77: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders | True Crime Sleep Stories (opens the original)
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Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, we travel back to 1920s Southern California to explore the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, the strange and conflicting evidence surrounding the case, and the families left searching for answers. In 1928, a quiet chicken ranch in Wineville, California, became the center of one of the era’s most disturbing criminal investigations. After a frightened teenage boy revealed what he had witnessed at his uncle Gordon Stewart Northcott’s ranch, authorities began uncov
76: Starvation Heights | True Crime Sleep Stories (opens the original)
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Tonight, on True Crime Sleep Stories... In the rainy woods of Olalla on Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, Linda Burfield Hazzard ran the Institute of Natural Therapeutics. Neighbors called the hill "Starvation Heights". In 1911, British sisters Claire and Dora Williamson crossed Puget Sound for healing country air and vegetable broth. Tonight, we explore this strange case, quietly. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming
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