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Boring Crime For Sleep

Boring Crime For Sleep

Written by: Sleepless Detective
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Cozy true crime stories narrated in a calm, soothing voice to help you drift off to sleep. Mysterious cases and unsolved crimes told like bedtime stories for the morbidly curious.Sleepless Detective True Crime
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  • Boring Crime For Sleep | What DETECTIVE Work Was Like in Prohibition-Era Chicago and more
    Feb 19 2026

    Slip into a calm, slow paced journey through Prohibition era Chicago, where detectives tracked bootleggers, speakeasies, and quiet street corner rumors with notebooks, patience, and long nights. In true Sleepless Detective style, this is a soothing, detail rich bedtime story about real investigative routines, surveillance habits, interviews, and the small paperwork moments that made cases move.

    You will hear about how police work functioned during the 1920s and 1930s, the tools and methods detectives relied on, and what daily life looked like behind the badge when organized crime and corruption blurred the lines. Perfect for sleep, relaxation, and background listening, with gentle narration and just enough history to keep your mind comfortably occupied.

    📚 Chapters:
    0:00:00 Cold Streetlights, Warm Coffee
    0:15:01 The Daily Rhythm of a Prohibition Detective
    0:30:02 Speakeasies Without the Glamour
    0:45:04 How You Actually Find People
    1:00:05 Interviews: Soft Voices, Hard Lies
    1:15:07 The Quiet Evidence of Everyday Life
    1:30:08 Paperwork, Maps, and Patient Bureaucracy
    1:45:09 Beyond Chicago: Other Places, Same Human Patterns
    2:00:11 How Cases End (Or Don’t)

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    2 hrs and 15 mins
  • Boring Crime For Sleep | The UNSOLVED Mystery of The Springfield Three Disappearance and more
    Feb 18 2026

    Settle in for a calm, sleepy deep dive into true crime as Sleepless Detective explores the unsolved mystery of The Springfield Three disappearance. On a quiet summer night in 1992, Suzie Streeter, Stacy McCall, and Sherrill Levitt vanished from a Springfield, Missouri home with no signs of a struggle, leaving behind a case that still baffles investigators.

    In this “boring crime for sleep” style episode, you will get a clear, soothing breakdown of the timeline, key evidence, theories, and lingering questions, plus more low key mysteries to keep your mind occupied while you drift off. If you enjoy relaxing narration, unsolved disappearances, and gentle investigative storytelling, this is the perfect video to fall asleep to.

    📚 Chapters:
    0:00:00 Rain-Quiet Streets, A Case File Opens
    0:12:09 A Normal Home, Left Mid-Sentence
    0:24:19 The Last Evening, Told in Soft Edges
    0:36:29 Morning Calls and the Thin Sound of Worry
    0:48:39 Little Clues That Don’t Turn Into Answers
    1:00:48 Springfield at Night: Familiar Places, Unfamiliar Intentions
    1:12:58 How a Case Stays Alive (Even When It Won’t Move)
    1:25:08 More Boring Mysteries: The Ones That Slip Through Cracks
    1:37:18 The Gentle Patterns: What Disappearances Often Share
    1:49:27 Unsettled, But Quiet: Letting the File Close for Tonight

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    2 hrs and 1 min
  • Boring Crime For Sleep | The UNSOLVED Mystery of The Somerton Man Case and more
    Feb 17 2026

    Drift off to a calm, slow paced retelling of one of Australia’s most baffling true crime mysteries, the Somerton Man case. In classic Sleepless Detective style, this is a soft spoken deep dive into the clues, the theories, and the eerie unanswered questions behind the man found on Somerton Beach.

    Perfect for sleep, relaxation, or late night listening, you will get a clear, no rush breakdown of the investigation and the strange details that keep this case unsolved in so many minds. Settle in for boring crime, gentle narration, and mysterious stories designed to quiet your thoughts while keeping your curiosity just awake enough.

    📚 Chapters:
    0:00:00 A Quiet Beach, A Body That Doesn’t Belong
    0:12:36 The Pockets: What’s There, What’s Gone
    0:25:12 A Calm Timeline and a Few Uncomfortable Options
    0:37:48 The Slip of Words: “Tamám Shud”
    0:50:25 A Book, a Back Seat, and a Handful of Marks
    1:03:01 A Nurse, a Neighborhood, and a Softly Closed Door
    1:15:37 The Long Middle: Paperwork, Dead Ends, and Waiting
    1:28:14 Another Unsolved Night: The Isdal Woman
    1:40:50 A Locked Room Feeling: The Hinterkaifeck Farm
    1:53:26 The Gentle Unfinished: An Anonymous Letter, A Vanishing P...
    2:06:03 Closing the File Without Closing the Case

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    2 hrs and 19 mins
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