Little Miss Sociopath

Listen to this episode from Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime on Spotify. 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." **** 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). Want more on this case? Sociopath by Patric Gagne The Bad Seed (1956) Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher