Serial Napper

Serial Napper is the true crime podcast for naps, hosted by Nikki Young. Each episode of Serial Napper features a different true crime story, told succinctly the way it happened. Just the facts, ma‘am. Let Nikki guide you through some of the craziest true crime stories you‘ve never heard of, as you lull to sleep.

Sade Robinson: The Date From Hell

Mark Kilroy: Spring Break, Black Magic and Murder

The Banfields: A Deadly Affair

Virginia McCullough: The Diabolical Daughter

Kat Torres: From Instagram Influencer to Human Trafficker

Cimarron Thomas: Killed by the UK's Most Prolific Catfisher

Iyana Sawyer: Forever 16

Christina Boyer: The Columbus Poltergeist Kid Charged with Murder

Martha Moxley: The Night Before Halloween

Gloria Ramirez: Toxic Woman or Criminal Negligence?

Corpsewood Manor: Murder, Sex and Satan

Anneliese Michel: The Exorcism Tapes

Christine Falling: The Diabolical Babysitter

Kouri Richins: A Children's Book of Grief or Guilt?

Sarah and Jacob Hoggle: Lost in Psychosis

Leigh Ann Sabine: The Skeleton in the Garden

Phantom of Heilbronn: The Woman Without a Face

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Scott Watson: A Calculated Conviction?

Angelika Graswald: The Controversial Story of the Kayak Killer

Ramona Brown: The Night the Fire Took Her

Johnny Kitagawa: The J-Pop Predator

Aubrey Dameron: A Life Worth Finding

Noah Presgrove: A Small Town Secret

Sebastian Rogers is Missing: What Goes Bump in the Night?

Thad Phillips: The Lone Survivor of the Bonebreaker Killer

Teresita Basa: She Solved Her Own Murder From Beyond the Grave

Amy Mullis: The Corn Rake Murder

Kanika Powell: A Killer At Her Doorstep

John Christie: The Bad Neighbour/Sex Strangler of Notting Hill

Timothy Evans: A Damning Confession and the Bodies in The Wall

Lauren Hugelmaier: It Wasn't the Cough Medicine

Kenneth Parks: The Sleepwalking Murder

Reena Virk: Lured With the Promise of Friendship

Amanda Wienckowski: A Decades-Long Fight for Truth

Kenny Veach: The Unexplained Disappearance of an Area 51 Adventurer

Dan Saunders: The ATM Glitch That Made Him a Millionaire Overnight

Relisha Rudd: The Little Girl Who Was Let Down

Zohreh Sadeghi: A Podcaster's Parasocial Nightmare

Barbara Mackle: Buried Alive for 83 Hours

Cynthia Hoffman: A Heinous Catfish Murder-for-Hire Plot

Jack Barron: The Munchausen by Proxy Dad

Connor & Noah Barthe: Nothing Loved is Ever Lost

Nicola Furlong: A Life Worth More

Desmond Runstedler and Philip Fraser: Danger on the Highway

Peter Keller: The Family Annihilator Who Vlogged

Jamie Snow: A Story Recanted

Juan Corona: The Machete Murderer

Kenneth Law: The Poison Peddler

Daniel Robinson: The Missing Geologist

Erin Patterson: The Mushroom Chef

Steven Clark: Missing From the Public Toilets

Frauke Liebs: Seven Days Then Silence

The Springfield Three: An Empty Home on Delmar Street

Jelka Pesic: The Mother in Law From Hell

Linda Chen: A Wedding and a Funeral

Arpana Jinaga: The Last Halloween Party

McKamey Manor: Haunted House or Torture Chamber?

Radium Girls: The Dark History of a Deadly Glow

Mary Reeser: Spontaneous Combustion or Something Else?

Arne Johnson: The Devil Made Me Do It

Juandré Kidson: Spikings on the Highway From Hell

Christian Kazadi: The Bizarre Murder Of A Forbes Under 30 African Entrepreneur

Andrea Venter: Failed by the System Even in Death

Anika Smit: The Killer Took Her Hands

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

Ellis Brothers: Eliminating the Threat

Colleen Ritzer: Slain by Her Own Student

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

1 Million Downloads Special: Meet the Host, Nikki Young

Carly Ryan: Australia's First Teen Killed by an Online Predator

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

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

Andrew Gosden: A One Way Ticket to London

Michael Politte: Teen Killer or Wrongly Accused?

Jesse McFadden: The Sleepover From Hell

Blair Adams: A Bizarre Murder Far From Home

The Bluebelle Murders: The Duperrault Family Tragedy

Nathan Carman: Murder by Sea

Brandon Hole: Red Flags Ignored

Mekayla Bali: A Bizarre Disappearance Caught on Camera

Kathleen Folbigg: Australia's Worst Female Serial Killer or Grieving Mother?

Mo Wilson & Kaitlin Armstrong: When Two Worlds Collide

Kimberly Proctor: A Deadly Game of Instant Messaging

Joshua Maddux: The Boy in the Chimney

Ryan Waller: Suspected Killer Turned Victim

Lisa Marie Young: Missing After a Chilling Text for Help

Darren Kelly: Killed by Teenage "Vigilantes"

Shay Groves: When a True Crime Obsession Goes Too Far

Edward Gingerich: The First Amish Man Convicted of Murder

Rasheem Carter: A Death So Foul

Christa Pike: The Youngest Woman on Death Row

Marianne Bachmeier: A Mother's Revenge

Nicholas Rossi: Lies, Sinister Crimes and a Fake Death

Trailer: Serial Napper, an International True Crime Podcast 2023

Abby Choi: The Killing and Dismembering of a Hong Kong Socialite

Colleen Stan: The Girl in the Box

Todd Kendhammer: Freak Accident or Murder?

Warriena Wright: A Tragic Tinder Date and a Controversial Fall

Opal Jennings: The Unsolved Abduction and Murder of a Texas Darling

Andrea Knabel: She Used to Help Find Missing People…Until She Went Missing.

Amber Hilberling: What Happened to the Woman Who Pushed Her Husband Out of a Window?

Holly Piirainen: New Evidence Released in 30 Year Old Unsolved Murder

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

Elnaz Hajtamiri: Abducted From Her Home by Fake Police Officers

Nicole van den Hurk: A Heroic False Confession

The Halifax Valentine’s Day Massacre Plot

Marina Boelter: A Twisted New Year’s Eve Disappearance

Tommy Zeigler: A Christmas Eve Quadruple Murder. But Did He do it?

Angela Schultz Shiers Barrentine: Missing at the Bottom of the River

Darlie Routier: Did She Kill Her Children?

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

Reagan Hancock: A Mother and Baby Gone Too Soon

A Rebirthing Ceremony Gone Wrong: The Tragic Case of Candace Newmaker

Missing From His Playpen: Quinton Simon

He Was Inspired by Michael Myers: Jake Evans

Serial Nightmare: Cindy James - Murder Victim or Hoax?

The Legend and Truth of Cropsey, the Child Killler

The Omar Raddad Affair

They Killed Their Bully: The Murder of Bobby Kent

What Really Happened to 12-year-old Sean Daugherty?

Murder or Self Defence? The Case of Courtney Clenney

Elyse Pahler: Satanic Sacrifice or Something Else?

Mchale and Noah: Failed by the Sex Offender Registry

The Bathtub Sisters

The Tragic Story of Joe Pichler: The Beethoven Child Actor Who Vanished

Kabu Terauchi: A Kidnapping and Brainwashing Experiment

Stacey Castor: Black Widow Mommy Dearest

Jason Vukovich: The Alaskan Avenger

Mirna Salihin: Death by Iced Coffee

Samantha Josephson: The Uber Imposter

The Exorcism of Arely Naomi Proctor

Permission to Murder? The Twisted Death of Sharon Lopatka

The Disturbing Death of Baby Ezekiel Stephan

Lacey Fletcher: They Left Her to Rot to Death on the Couch

The Execution of Melissa Lucio: Innocent or Guilty of Killing Her Daughter?

Anatoly Moskvin: The Doll House of Human Corpses

Justin Bourque: Moncton's Mountie Killer

Nathan Maynard and David Leesley: Horror Fanatics Turned Evil

Alexa Negron Luciano: A Hate Crime or Murder?

Barbora Škrlová: The True Story of the Movie Orphan

Louise Ellis: Killed by the Criminal She Defended

Amy Bradley: Did She Fall Overboard?

Robert Leeming: Captured on Body Camera

Taylor McAllister: A Cruel Killing and a Cover Up

Leigh Leigh: The Brutal Assault and Murder on the Beach

Harmony Montgomery: Missing From Father's Custody

Ryan Shtuka: Missing in the Mountains

Ali Nasser Abulaban: From TikTok Star to Killer

The Suspicious Death of Breana Noojin Nix

Carrie Ann Jopek: Haunted to a Confession

Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner: Will Their Killer Ever Be Caught?

The Akihabara Massacre

The Disappearance of Baby Lisa Irwin

Rehtaeh Parsons: Bullied to Death Over the Photo of Her Trauma

Sabina and Ursula Eriksson: Shared Psychosis

Justine Gross: Did She Accidentally Fall Down Trash Chute?

Dylan Ehler: The Unusual Disappearance of a Three Year Old

Jennifer Teague: Abducted Walking Home From Work

Randy Stair: The Mass Shooter Who Plotted on YouTube

The Shafia Family ”Honor” Murders

Cindy Song: An Unsolved Halloween Disappearance

Ronald O‘Bryan: The Candyman Killer

Yoshi Hattori: Killed While Looking for a Halloween Party

Grace Sherwood: The Witch of Pungo

Skye Lynn Budnick: A One-Way Ticket to Japan

The Stockdale Family: The Wife Swap Murders

The Unsolved Disappearance of Johnny Gosch

Ashley Reeves: A Survival Story

Justin Evans: Ruled NOT a Suicide

The Missing Sodder Children

Dylan Redwine: Killed Over a Humiliating Photo

The Cursed Kleenex Commercial from Japan

Chelsea Small: A Murder Caught on Camera

The Vampires of New England

The Pollock Twins

Trey Zwicker: Who Really Killed Trey?

Diane Augat: A Bizarre Phone Call and Severed Finger

Matthew Milat: The Killer Nephew of Murderer Ivan Milat

Ivan Milat: The Backpack Murderer, Part 2

Ivan Milat: The Backpack Murderer, Part 1

Sophie Lionnet: The Brutal Killing of an Au Pair

The Pike County Massacre: A Family Slaughtered

Sherri Papini: Victim or Hoax?

Amber Tuccaro: She Caught Her Killer's Voice on Recording

Kayo Matsuzawa: Murdered on Vacation in New Zealand

Mary Bell: The Story of Child Murderer

Etta Smith: The Psychic who Helped Police Find Melanie Uribe

Missy Bevers: Murdered in a Church

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: The Miranda Murders

Sheila Keen: The Other Killer Clown

Kendrick Johnson: Found Rolled in a Gym Mat, But Was it Murder?

Sarah Everard: Killed by an Officer

Christine Paolilla: The Clear Lake Murderer

Becky Watts: A Predator at Home

The Goler Clan: "The Hillbilly Sex Ring"

Paulette Gebara Farah: The Girl in the Bed

The Lin Family: A Killer Too Close to Home

The McDonald's Murders: A Plan Gone Horribly Wrong

Alicia Kozakiewicz: The Danger of Online Predators

Betty Broderick: A Woman Scorned

Amber Hagerman: The Story Behind the Amber Alert

Tanner Ward: Suicide or Murder?

Sydney Sutherland: Killed While Jogging

Molly Bish: The UNSOLVED Murder of a Lifeguard

Gregory Green: The Man Who Killed His Family Twice

Leonarda Cianciulli: The Human Soap Maker

Takahiro Shiraishi: The Japanese Twitter Killer

The Heaven's Gate Cult: The Largest Mass Suicide

Daisy Coleman: A Tragic Life and Death

Jessie and Austin: The TikTok Murders

Marcus Wesson: The Vampire King of Fresno

Nick Cordova: Killed While on FaceTime

Katherine Knight: Australia's Killler Cannibal

The Body Under the Mattress: An Urban Legend

Carl Tanzler: His REAL Corpse Bride

Matthew DeGrood: The Brentwood Five

Miyuki Ishikawa: the Demon Midwife

The Yogurt Shop Murders: Over 30 Years and Still Unsolved

Matthew Hoffman: The Hollow Tree Murders

Michel Fourniret: The 'Ogre of the Ardennes'

Robert Pickton: The Serial Killing Pig Farmer Part 2

Robert Pickton: The Serial Killing Pig Farmer Part 1

Allan Legere: the Monster of the Miramichi

The Hart Children: A Heartbreaking Tale of Abuse and Murder

Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky: The BC Teen Killers

The Pickering Ontario Lost Boys: Vanished Without a Trace

Evelyn Dick: the Torso Murder

Issei Sagawa: Japan's Real Life Cannibal

The Hat Man: My Own Personal Experience

Mary Day: Murdered Child or Missing Woman?

Harold Shipman: the Doctor of Death

Karissa Boudreau: Mommy, Don't.

The Paraquat Killer: The Story of the Vending Machine Murders

Loretta Saunders: Murdered Over Rent Money

Catherine Campbell: The Killing of a Halifax Police Officer

Shane Schindler: The Mannequin Killer

Junko Furuta: A Kidnapping and Horrific Killing

Jason and Brandi Worley: The Reddit Murders

Fan Man-yee: The Hello Kitty Murder

Bruce McArthur: The Serial Killer Shopping Mall Santa

The Suicide Forest: The Mystery Behind Aokigahara

Gretchen Anthony: The Covid-19 Cover Up Murder

Lindsay Hawker: She Tried to Teach Him English Lessons in Japan

Christian Andreacchio: Was it Really a Suicide or Was He Murdered?

Lucie Blackman: The British Hostess Who Disappeared in Tokyo, Japan