A little girl wonders why other kids won't play with her. A trip to Florida to visit her grandmother offers a chilling explanation: she's not like other children. At age 8? She stabbed another girl with a pencil. By age 18? She's stealing cars, breaking into houses, and flirting with the idea of murder. What's wrong with her? She doesn't want to kill. She just wants to feel something. Can she stop herself before it's too late? Find out in this episode of Dead Sleep, a true crime for bedtime story drawn from Patric Gagne's disturbing new memoir: "Sociopath."

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Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime is created and narrated by award-winning editor and writer Nancy Miller (host of HBO Max's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" "The Staircase" and "Love & Death" podcasts).

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Sociopath by Patric Gagne

The Bad Seed (1956)

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher

A sexy social media star is rushed to the ER - the apparent victim of a drug overdose. But when the autopsy reveals the young woman was poisoned by a mysterious toxic chemical, detectives must find out: was this all a terrible mistake or a reckless, ruthless murder?

Plastic and Lies via Rolling Stone

BBL article in WaPo

A man accused of murder swears he didn't do it. But as the evidence grows against him, including damning DNA, he begins to wonder....maybe he did kill someone.

Want to dig deeper into this case?

The Marshall Project:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna

Wired:

https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/

PBS Frontline:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna/