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Do you enjoy falling asleep listening to true crime podcasts? Then you‘ll love, Serial Napper! Serial Napper is an international true crime podcast hosted by Canadian Nikki Young. Each episode features a different true crime story, told succinctly the way it happened. Just the facts, ma‘am. My focus is on unsolved crimes that need more attention and supporting victims +their families. Let me guide you through some of the craziest true crime stories you‘ve never heard of.

Serial Napper Nikki Young

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Do you enjoy falling asleep listening to true crime podcasts? Then you‘ll love, Serial Napper! Serial Napper is an international true crime podcast hosted by Canadian Nikki Young. Each episode features a different true crime story, told succinctly the way it happened. Just the facts, ma‘am. My focus is on unsolved crimes that need more attention and supporting victims +their families. Let me guide you through some of the craziest true crime stories you‘ve never heard of.

    Amanda Wienckowski: A Decades-Long Fight for Truth

    Amanda Wienckowski: A Decades-Long Fight for Truth

    Life was not always easy for 20-year-old Amanda Wienckowski. At one point, her friends and family had to watch her struggle with an addiction that had her spending time with undesirable people on the wrong side of town. But she was trying to get her life back on track, even enrolling in a criminal justice course at her local community college. However, on the evening of December 5, 2008, her life was cut short. According to Adam Patterson, Amanda was dropped off that night at Antoine Garner’s home, which was located in a dangerous neighborhood.
    When a few days passed and she failed to return home, her mother reported her missing to the police. They interviewed Adam Patterson, the man who allegedly dropped her off at Garner’s home and he said initially he was going to wait for her to return to the car, but she called and told him he could leave - so he did. However, Antoine Garner, the man Amanda was seeing that evening, claimed she only stayed for a few minutes and then left with Patterson. Their stories did not match up and investigators believed Amanda may have been a victim of foul play. 
    Then, approximately five weeks later, the police received an anonymous tip pointing them to a parking lot where they would find Amanda’s body in a garbage bin. She was found nude, face down, with her hair shaved off and covered in bruises. What looked like an apparent murder would be ruled an accidental opiate overdose, sparking a decades-long fight for truth.
    It has been over 15 years since Amanda’s battered body was found in that garbage bin and her family continues to push to have her manner of death changed to homicide. Many believe that there is police corruption and a cover-up at play, and once we go through the details - I think you’ll see why.
    Sources:
    https://gavinfish.com/cases/amanda-wienckowski/
    https://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/Stories/2015/SEP29/AmandasRole.html
    https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-courts/witness-comes-forward-on-7th-anniversary-of-amanda-wienckowski-s-mysterious-death/article_1e858a80-18b8-5794-aa66-26564632c1bc.html
    https://artvoice.net/issues/v10n5/amanda_wienckowski.html
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htMuLb6VpgY
    https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/ns9spr/amanda_wienckowski_was_a_heroin_addict_but_she/
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    • 24 min
    Kenny Veach: The Unexplained Disappearance of an Area 51 Adventurer

    Kenny Veach: The Unexplained Disappearance of an Area 51 Adventurer

    In 2014, YouTuber and experienced hiker, Kenny Veach, who went by the handle ‘snakebitmgee’ seemingly vanished while looking for a mysterious cave in the Mojave Dessert. The first time he discovered this cave, which was shaped like a perfect letter ‘M’, he said his whole body began to vibrate and the feeling only grew stronger as he got closer to the entrance. After commenting about this strange cave on a YouTube video, he received a slew of responses from people who thought he was lying. On November 10th, Kenny would set out to find the cave again - he was supposed to bring his video camera with him to document the whole thing. Only this time - Kenny would never return.
    It has been almost 10 years since Kenny Veach set out into the Mojave desert in search of the M cave never to be seen again and there is no shortage of theories as to what may have happened to him.
    Sources:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdrY-2sROQ
    https://www.historydefined.net/kenny-veach/
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ufos/article-12348223/Man-goes-missing-searching-Area-51-cave-vibrate.html?source=post_page-----882e48c77691--------------------------------
    https://www.8newsnow.com/mystery-wire/retired-intelligence-official-claims-to-know-where-an-alien-base-is-hidden-in-the-mojave-desert/
    https://www.youtube.com/live/VgIZJtJ3AjQ?si=7Yktohgbke_AW1b5

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

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

    One night, as he stumbled out of a bar with only $3 in his bank account, Dan Saunders made a simple decision that would change his luck and his life forever. He stopped at an ATM on his way home to try to withdraw cash from his nearly-maxed-out credit card and discovered a glitch in the system. Somehow, the bank machine allowed him to withdraw a lot more money than the balance in his account. He was planning to report it to the bank, but when he tried to withdraw even more cash, he realized he had uncovered a loophole that would allow him to withdraw an endless amount of cash forever - as long as he stopped on top of things. Why spoil a good thing? 
    So instead of calling the bank to let them know about the glitch, he spent the next four months living a life of total luxury, buying suits, gambling in Vegas and taking lavish vacations. However, as with most things - if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
    Sources:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2823199/ATM-conman-Dan-Saunders-spent-MILLION-dollars-withdrew-machines-loophole-arrested-facing-100-charges.html
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa5kgg/this-australian-bartender-dan-saunders-found-an-atm-bank-glitch-hack-and-blew-16-million-dollars
    https://www.businessinsider.com/australian-bartender-withdraws-over-million-dollars-atm-glitch-vice-podcast-2020-4
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    • 22 min
    Relisha Rudd: The Little Girl Who Was Let Down

    Relisha Rudd: The Little Girl Who Was Let Down

    The story of the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Relisha Rudd is particularly tragic because, in her short life, she had already survived so much: Neglect, poverty, homelessness and a cycle of trauma within her family. Her mother, Shamika Young, grew up in foster care, struggled with behavioural issues and at one point even had to be placed in a mental facility. 
    Now, Relisha was living with her mom, stepdad Antonio, and little brothers in an overcapacity homeless shelter. It was here that her mother would entrust her to the care of a shelter worker, a janitor named Kahlil Tatum, who had taken a special interest in the little girl. After Shamika handed her precious daughter Relisha over to this practical stranger, 30 days would pass before anyone noticed she was missing. It was the staff at her school who felt something was amiss when they were given a note from her mother stating she was absent due to health issues. Authorities would learn that the note signed by a “Doctor Tatum,” was actually written up by the shelter the janitor, Kahlil Tatum.
    An investigation into her whereabouts would reveal two sightings of Relisha had hotels in the area, where she was seen walking down the hallway with Tatum. On the same day an Amber Alert was put out for Relisha, Tatum’s wife would be found shot dead. Shortly after that, Tatum himself would be discovered deceased from an apparent suicide - leaving everyone to ask the question, where was Relisha Rudd?
    10 years have passed since Relisha vanished. Her family remains hopeful that she is alive while police have stated this is now a recovery mission. In any case, it is time she is found and brought home. We’re going to talk about the incredible little girl known as Relisha Rudd, the ways she was let down by basically everyone in her life, the details surrounding her disappearance and where the case is at today in 2024.
    Sources:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/03/relisha-rudd-missing-decade-dc-homeless/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4MenKD07QA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmAplZuIKQ8
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-family-homeless-shelter-beset-by-dysfunction-decay/2014/07/12/3bbb7f50-f739-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
    https://medium.com/@themissingfound/case-7-the-disappearance-of-relisha-rudd-d42a2c98379d
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    • 27 min
    Zohreh Sadeghi: A Podcaster's Parasocial Nightmare

    Zohreh Sadeghi: A Podcaster's Parasocial Nightmare

    Zohreh Sadeghi was a 33-year-old young woman living in Redmond, Washington. She was an immigrant from Iran, a successful software engineer and a podcaster, who shared her lived experiences talking about how to find a job in the tech industry as a newcomer. In the summer of 2022, she would have the chance to meet one of her listeners, another Iranian immigrant, 38-year-old Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, who seemed to be enamored with her. At first, Zohreh was flattered, but when he began harassing her, calling her from different numbers, and even showing up at her home with gifts, she became terrified and filed an order of protection against him. 
    Sadly, as we have seen time and again, orders of protection are pieces of paper that often do not protect victims against their stalkers. Just one week after the order was filed, Zohreh’s stalker would break into the home where she lived with her husband and shoot them in cold blood, before taking his own life.
    There is an important lesson to be learned here regarding the toxic parasocial relationships some people have with their favourite content creators and the lack of protection available to victims of stalking and harassment.
    Sources:
    https://komonews.com/news/local/redmond-stalker-ramin-khodakaramrezaei-violent-no-contact-protection-restraining-order-couple-shot-killed-inside-home-invasion-northeast-89th-street-king-county-texas-washington-state-gun-crime-domestic-violence
    https://www.stalkingawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SPARC_StalkngFactSheet_2018_FINAL.pdf
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11847291/Seattle-podcaster-ex-Google-engineer-husband-killed-1-6m-home-crazed-Texas-trucker.html
    https://twitter.com/RyanTVnews/status/1634267875975512064/photo/1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4hxzZIKmeQ
    https://www.crcvc.ca/docs/crimharass.pdf
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    • 23 min
    Barbara Mackle: Buried Alive for 83 Hours

    Barbara Mackle: Buried Alive for 83 Hours

    Barbara Mackle would regret answering the door in the early morning hours of Dec. 17, 1968. On the other side was a masked man, 23-year-old Gary Stephen Krist, who had been researching all of the intricate details of Babara’s life for the last several months. He forced her into the back of a car he had waiting around the corner and drove her out to a remote forested destination where he instructed her to climb into a fibreglass box at the bottom of a pit that had previously been dug. 
    The box was expertly built to house a person for some time without them perishing and was fitted with an air pump, food, water laced with a sedative and a lamp. After Barbara climbed inside the box, she was buried alive, where she would remain for three days before being found. 
    Miraculously, she survived the shocking kidnapping and burial underground, but the only thing more shocking was what would become of her captor.
    Sources:
    Gary Krist: The Einstein of Crime, By David Krajicek - TruTV.com
    https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/krist-gary-steven.htm
    https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/20/kidnapping-with-deltona-ties-gripped-nation-50-years-ago/16772134007/
    The full ransom letter: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/a-real-3-page-ransom-note.25145/




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    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
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127 Ratings

Hayhayrayjay193842 ,

I’m a napper

A serial napper. I can’t relate. Great show. Recommended!

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John Jay is a school of criminal justice; not a man.

Ehhhh… John Jay College is a highly regarded school of criminal justice in New York City; not a medical examiner. I say this to you not to criticize you. I commend you for your commitment to creating and producing content. I applaud you for your attempted professionalism. You work hard. You want people to take you seriously. Vet your sources and verify your source credibility. If you are reporting on true crime, you must know important information including the existence of John Jay.

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