Serial Napper Episodes

In this crossover episode, Serial Napper and Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast join forces to dive deep into two of the most haunting and baffling true crime cases in recent memory. 🎙️ Nikki from Serial Napper takes a closer look at the heartbreaking case of Jelani Day, a graduate student whose body w...

She was just 14. A soft-spoken girl who loved her cat, sketched her dreams in notebooks, took guitar lessons, and had just begun to explore who she was—experimenting with makeup, thinking about high school, maybe even college. Her name was Emily Pike. She was a daughter. A sister. A beloved member ...

In the age of social media and online connections, it's easy to believe that relationships—no matter how far apart—can flourish, even across continents. But for one 19-year-old woman, an online romance with a charming young Englishman would take a dark and tragic turn. Ashley Wadsworth, a brigh...

The date is June 30, 1999. A body is discovered in a cornfield, about 20 miles outside of St. Louis, Missouri. The man, 41-year-old Ricky McCormick, is found dressed in nothing but dirty blue jeans and a stained white T-shirt. His body is badly decomposed, so much so that his cause of death is impo...

In the scorching summer of 1989, a mother’s worst nightmare began. Patricia Stallings, just 24 years old, rushed her critically ill baby, Ryan, to the hospital. What followed would send her into a heart-wrenching battle for her life and freedom. For months, little Ryan had been suffering from sever...

On January 13, 2014, just before 1:30 PM, moviegoers were settling in for an afternoon of entertainment. The lights dimmed, trailers played, and everything seemed normal—until the lives of two men, Chad Oulson, a U.S. Army veteran, and Curtis J. Reeves, a retired police captain and SWAT commander, ...

On July 28, 1986, 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh, a driven and confident real estate agent from London, England, went missing under bizarre and unsettling circumstances. Suzy, who had a promising career ahead of her, left her office that morning with a scheduled appointment to show a house to a client a...

Join me for a gripping episode that delves into one of the most infamous television shows in history—the  Jerry Springer Show —and its connection to a shocking tragedy. Meet Nancy Campbell-Panitz, a quiet single mother who found herself at the center of a sensationalized reunion with her ex-husband...

On December 14, 1981, in St. John's, Newfoundland, 14-year-old Dana Bradley vanished while hitchhiking home to celebrate her mother's birthday. Witnesses saw her get into a car with an unknown man, but she never arrived. Four days later, her body was found in a remote wooded area, brutally ...